Lord’s Day 50 (2018). “A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content, and strength for the toil of the morrow, but a Sabbath profaned, whate’er be gained, is a certain forerunner of sorrow." Now a commonplace saying. Poetical summary of Matthew Hale’s advice (see Lord’s Day 49). Appears unattributed in The Churchman's Sunday companion, August 1844, p. 90 and appears in the Christian Knowledge Society's Almanack for 1844 paired with the Hale (according to John Wood Warter, Plain Pratical Sermons (1844), 2.32. From there simply attributed Hale. The lines "are often erroneously attributed to Sir Matthew Hale and have been printed as leaflets by more than one society under the heading 'Sir Matthew Hale's Golden Maxim;' but they are not to be found in any of his works. They would seem to be a poetical rendering by some one of Hale's letter to his children on keeping the Lord's Day.” William White, Notes and Queries, Aug. 4, 1906, p. 89 “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).
