The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

M'Cheyne on the Lord's Day

R  M M'Cheyne wrote

“A well-spent Sabbath we feel to be a day of heaven upon earth. For this reason we wish our Sabbaths to be wholly given to God. We love to spend the whole time in the public and private exercises of God’s worship, except so much as is taken up in the works of necessity and mercy. We love to rise early on that morning, and to sit up late, that we may have a long day with God.”
It was M‘Cheyne’s usual practice to rise at 6 am on the Lord’s Day, and not to go to bed until midnight, so that he might spend as much time with God on His day as possible. I know he was a single man but that is the spirit we ought to have.

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