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A77209	An answer to M. Cawdry's two books of the Sabbath, lately come forth Wherein the author doth two things: 1. He vindicates himselfe from Mr Cawdrie's unfriendly abuse of him, in fathering upon him three texts of scripture, and three arguments deduced from them, to prove the perpetuity of the antient Sabbath, ... Wherein the author hath 1. Answered and confuted all that Mr. Cawdry hath wrote to corrupt the sense and meaning of the Commandement. 2. He hath restored the antient, genuine, and proper sense of the Commandement: and confirmed it by sundry undeniable arguments. By Theophilus Brabourne.	Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4088; ESTC R229562	39,309	117

time for Ecclesiasticall H●storians antiently used the name Sabbath day for Saturday the Latines do so to this day and in England as in the case of a Writ we do the same as I have shew● before wherefore since there never was nor is known in the Churches any weekly day named Sabbath day but one namely Saturday therefore the fourth Commandement must be expounded of this one day Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke and not of a Sabbath day indefinitely as uncertaine which day it is thus you have seene this Argument proved But it will be said Is not our Lords day commonly called Sabbath day in all Pulpits and in all Books I answer yea it is so called by such as love to miscall things and to nick-name daies so they may call if they please every Fast day every Thanksgiving day every Christmas day But sure I am this is but a novelty of yesterdaies standing and as the name is novell so is the observation of the Lords day as or for a Sabbath novell also as by and by you shall see For 1. The Lords day was never called Sabbath day in any Scripture of the New Testament let them shew us a Text for it if they can 2. These Authors before mentioned St Augustine Peter Martyr Calvin Zanchie Vrsinus Paraeus Chemnitius Melanchion with many others all these wrote of the Lords day that it is but an indifferent thing and of the same authority with Good Friday the Passion day Christmas day and o her holy daies of the Church and therefore these men could not think in their times the Lords day was a Sabbath or call the Lords day Sabbath day as we do in reference to the fourth Commandement 3. In the fifth yeare of Edward the sixth an Act was made for the keeping of Holy daies as Sunday St Matthews day St Marks day and the other holy daies In which Act both the King the Lords spirituall the Bishops the Lords Temporall and the House of Commons expressely confessed that they knew no Scripture for Sunday or the other Holy daies and therefore they could not call Sunday or St Matthews day Sabbath daies and therefore this nicknaming of daies as to call the Sunday and Lords day Sabbath day and to keepe it as a Sabbath is but a novelty and sprang up but since Edward the sixth his daies 4. I am sixty foure yeares of Age and so cannot remember much above fifty yeares yet I do remember such works commonly done on the Lords day as I am sure are no Sabbath days works For in the City of Norwich about fifty yeares ago the City Waits or Musitians were wont for divers weekes in the yeare to play upon the Market Crosse on the latter pa●t of the Lords day thousands of people there assembled to heare them At the new elected Majors gate they played at Wasters or Cudgels on the latter part of the Lords day with hundreds of people looking on And the Sealing Office was open and Weavers carrying and recarrying their S●uffs to be sealed The Merchants bought their S●uff on the Lords day and packed them in great packs the same day and the Carts loaded the Stuffs the same day at night and went towards London by foure a clock the next morning these things were done with the knowledge of all the Magistrates and without contradiction of the most godly Ministers I have been credibly informed that about ten yeares before my time a religious Grocer in the City did open his shop ordinarily on the Lords day and Mr Moore the most religious Minister then in the City hath come into the Shop seeing them buying and selling Grocery wares and did never rebuke them for it or say why do you so And another antient and religious man a Shooemaker told me this day that in his younger time Shooemakers sold shooes on the Lords day ordinarily wherefore the observation of the Lords day as a Sabbath day is but a novel●y and they that thus kept it could not thinke it was a Sabbath day or call it a Sabbath day so far of my fifth Argument Argument the sixth If the fourth Commandement was expounded by Moses and the Prophets for Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke and not for Sunday the first day of the weeke or any one day of the seven then the fourth Commandement is now to be expounded for Saturday the seventh and last day of the we●ke and not for Sunday the first day of the weeke or for any one day of the seven But the fourth Commandement was expounded by Moses and the Prophets for Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke and not for Sunday ●he first day of the weeke or for one da● of seven Therefore the fourth Commandement ought in our times to be expounded for Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke not for Sunday the first day of the weeke or for any one day of the seven As for the fi●st proposition it stands firme by this reason Looke what was once the true sense and meaning of Gods Laws the same is the sense and meaning of it for ever after for the sense and meaning of Scripture do not vary and change with the change of time● as if Scripture had one exposition and meaning to day and another to morrow we can find no better rule for the expounding of any Text of Scripture in the Old Testament than to expound it as Moses and the Prophets did antiently If therefore the fourth Commandement was antiently expounded for Saturday it must be so expounded still and in our times Take a ceremoniall Law as that of Circumcision or the Passeover and if you will expound and open the sense of it now you must render the same sense of it now which Moses and the Prophets gave of it antiently or else your exposition is false I do not say a ceremoniall Law binds now as it did antiently but yet I say the exposition of it is the same now which it was antiently as if you fall upon exposition of the time and day of Circumcision or the Passover you must expound it now of the eighth day not of the seventh or ninth day and of the foureteenth day of the month not of the foureteenth day of the yeare and so you must deale with every of the ten morall Commandements or else you deale falsely with them As for the second Preposition it is cleare that Moses and the Prophets did expound the fourth Commandement to their people the Jews for Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke not for Sunday the first day of the weeke or for any one day of the seven because the Church of the Jews who were taught and instructed by Moses and the Prophets kept the Saturday and not the Sunday by the fourth Commandement yea this Mr Cawdry confesseth saying The seventh and last day of the weeke was appointed to the old world that is to the Jews so far of

is the true exposition sense and meaning of the fourth Commandement but never did Jesuite more shamefully corrupt the second Commandement about Images or any other Scripture than Mr Cawdry hath corrupted Gods fourth Commandement as appeares by my severall answers to his sixe Arguments He hath done good service to Almighty God to use his wits to overthrow his Sabbaths and corrupt one of his Ten Commandements wherefore he may expect his reward when God shall come to give every one according as his own works have beene Having vindicated the fourth Commandement from Mr Cawdry's corrupt glosses and false Exposition of it now in the last place I shall prove against Mr Cawdry that one day of seven is not the sense and meaning of the fourth Commandement but the seventh and last day of the week which fals upon our Saturday in my proofe whereof Mr Cawdry shall see that we have many more Arguments out of the fourth Commandement to prove this point than the ordinall number seventh By the great paines Mr Cawdry hath taken to draw the fourth Commandement to the exposition of one day in seven and also for that by this Exposition he hath made answer to many of my twenty foure Arguments hereby you may perceive that the maine and chiefe controversie about the Sabbath will be determined by his or n y Exposition of the fourth Commandement wherefore I shall be the larger in proving my Exposition for the seventh and last day of the weeke and so I come to prove this point That the fourth Commandement ought not to be expounded for one day of seven but of the seventh and last day of seven definitely Argument the first My first Argument shall be taken out of the first words of the fourth Commandement Remember the Sabbath day This word Sabbath I confesse signifies Rest but there is more in it than so for it is also a proper name for one of the daies of the weeke as for the seventh and last day which is our Saturday like as Lords day is a proper name for the first day of the weeke which is our Sunday and thus I prove it 1. Wheresoever in the Old or New Testaments you read the word Sabbath it being spoken of a weekly day it is never used but for a proper name for one of the weeke daies as for Saturday the Seventh and last day of the weeke no instance can be given to the contrary 2. The Jews did antiently reckon their daies of the weeke thus Satu●day they called Sabbathum Sabbath day Sunday they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Joh. 20.1 the first day of the Sabbath Munday the second of the S●bbath c. yea the Jews now at Amsterdam call Saturday the Sabbath day so still it is used for a proper name for our Saturday 3. The Latines call our Saturday Sabbatum the Sabbath day as is to be seene in all Latine Dictionaries yea it is so in England for when a Writ comes downe from the Superiour Courts for a mans appearance if it be for his appearance on Saturday it is written Sabbatum and die Sabbati 4. I appeale to all Scholars if the word Sabbatum be not used in the antient Histories of the Church for Saturday the seventh and last day of the weeke Thus you see that Sabbath day is a proper name for our Saturday the seventh day now proper names of things are definite not indefinite they do limit the thing named to one certaine individuall thing and leave it not at rovers and uncertainties as unto any one thing or as unto any one day ●f the seven as Mr. Cawdry's idle fancy is I cannot spare a man so grossely absurd in expounding Gods fourth Commandement But against this it is objected that Sabbath day is no proper name but a common name for the yearely festivals were also called Sabbaths Levit. 23.24 To this I answer 1. We speake of weekely dayes and in relation to the fourth Commandement not of yearely daies in reference to ceremoniall Laws 2. It will no more hinder the Sabbath day to be a proper name for one of the week daies than it will hinder the names of Peter and John for proper names of two Apostles because other men then living and no Apostles have the same names so far of my first Argument Argument the second My second Argument shall be taken out of the middle part of the fourth Commandement saying But the seventh day is the Sabbath c. for the right understanding and exposition of this word seventh we must know there are two sorts of numbers a Cardinall and an O dinal the Cardinall numbers are these one two three foure five sixe seven c. now these comprize all the the things numbred without difference the Ordinall numbers are these first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh c. now these notifie not all but one of the things numbred and considers that one in a due order for the last of the things numbred as for the seventh which follows the sixth going in order before it not any one of them without difference as when we say the seventh day of the month we meane not as Mr Cawdry would any one of the seven daies but the last of the seven daies which follow the sixe daies in order before it And by the seventh yeare of the K●ngs Reigne is not understood one of the seven yeares indefinitely but the last yeare of the seven definitely and precisely So this word seventh in the fourth Commandement is not a cardinall but an ordinall number notifying not any one of the seven daies but the seventh and last day of the seven which is our Saturday Our Sunday or Lords day is often in Scripture called the first day of the weeke Mat. 28.1 Mar. 16.2 9. Luk. 24.1 Joh. 20.1 19. Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 now then reckon onwards and Saturday will be the seventh and last day of the weeke As there is but one Lords day or one first day of the weeke so reckoning onward there can be but one Saturday or one seventh day of the weeke which must needs be a definite and certain day now Saturday is no uncertaine day at rovers or any one of the seven daies uncertaine which day it is so the fourth Commandement is to be expounded of Saturday and the seventh day or last day of the seven definitely not of any day of the seven I know they use to object a tenth deale of flower and a fourth part of an hin of oyle but this will not make the seventh yeare of the Kings Reigne to be any one of the seven yeares nor will it make the Lords day which is the first day of the weeke to be any one day of the weeke uncertaine which day it is but to this I have answered fully before in my answer to his third instance and shall not here repeat it so far of my second Argument wherein the point is proved both by the ordinall seventh in the fourth