Lord’s Day 4 (2019). Market Day of the Soul. #2. “Such is the perverseness of our nature, when God saith labour, we rest; when He saith rest, we labour; yea, we will make it a policy to find labour upon that day which He hath denied us to labour in.... 1. Exod. xvi. 6, ‘cease from gathering manna for this day’; it is mercatura animae, the market day for the soul, wherein are better things than manna to be gathered. John vi. 58, ‘the bread which came down from heaven; he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever’; 1 Pet. ii.2, 3, ‘desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby; if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.’” (Lancelot Andrewes, c.1578, Cambridge lectures on the commandments). “Christ is born, is circumcised, dies, rises again for us every day in the preaching of the Gospel” (Danæu). “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).
