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A73399	An examination and confutation of a lawlesse pamphlet, intituled, A briefe answer to a late treatise of the Sabbath-day: digested dialogue-wise betweene two divines, A and B. By Dr. Fr. White, L. Bishop of Ely	White, Francis, 1564?-1638.; White, Francis, 1564?-1638. Treatise of the Sabbath-day.	1637 (1637)	STC 25379.5; ESTC S124620	96,141	174

Verball discourse it is answered that the Bishop hath already received approbation of his worke from his sacred Majesty and as much thankes and respect from the Lord's Grace of Canterbury as a faithfull person can expect or desire from a Superior and continuing as he hath begun he is in no danger to lose either his Majesties or the Arch-Bishops or any other worthy Persons lawfull favour 2 The Author with thankfulnesse to God protesteth that He having bestowed above two hundred of his bookes upon Persons among which many were of great worth and quality hath never as yet received so much as one check or affront from any one since a three fold impression of the Book And the Dialogue deviser is the first Satan so far as the Bishop is hitherto informed who hath fomed out his gall and venome against it Sed quamvis libraverit accusationis suae hastas totis adversus nos viribus interserit credimus in Deo salvatore quod scuto circumdabit veritas ejus cum Psalmista cantare poterimus Sagittae parvulorum facta sunt sagittae eorum although he hath with all his might bent his Speare and darted his Weapons against us yet wee trust in God our Saviour that the shield of veri y shall protect us so that we may say with the Psalmist Their arrowes shall be as the arrowes of children Hier. adv Ruffin lib. 1. 3 The Treatise is so farre from distracting the Kings loving Subjects which are of a loyall and peaceable disposition that many intelligent persons who have diligently read and examined the same having in former time been doubtfull are now setled in a firme resolution never to bee distracted with Sabbatarian fancies any more A. You know what is said in a late book allowed by Authority Communion Booke Catec expounded by Reve. That the holy Fathers in God the Bishops are to be guides in Divinity to the whole Clergie of inferiour Order So as all Priests are to submit to their godly judgements in all matters appertaining to Religion And the reason is given because the Fathers of the Church now and alwayes do in the great mystery of godlinesse comprehend many things which the common people doe not Yea also some things which Ministers of the inferiour Order doe not apprehend So as it is expected of those Holy Prelates that we must lay our hand on our mouth when they speake and be altogether regulated by their profound dictats B. I remember well the Booke and I cannot but wonder that those passages were not expunged with many others when the Book was called in and then the second time published You know we live in a learned age a One of whom it may truly be spoken None so bold as blinde Bayard may live in a learned age and we deny the Popes infallibility or that it can convey it selfe as from the head and so confine it selfe within the Veines of the body of the Prelacy Or that a Rotchet can confer this grace Ex opere operato And beleeve me Brother when we see such a Papall spirit begin to perk up in this our Church is it not high time trow you to look about us Shall we stumble at the Noone day and in the Meridian of the Gospell close our eyes and become the sworne Vassals of blinde Obedience b Cusan Exercitat l. 6. Obedienti● irrationalis est consummata obedientia scilicet quando obeditur sine inquisitione rationis sicut jumentū obedit domino suo No no In this case therefore were Goliah himselfe the Champion I would by Gods grace try a fall with him Answ If bold Bayard were armed with Davids spirit and fortitude what Gyant were able to stand before him But if his whole strength consisteth in wording and facing onely Quid prodest Simiae si videatur esse Leo c Greg. Nazian in sentent What can it availe an Ape to conceive himselfe to bee as strong as a Lion But passing by this vaine ostentation let us take the matter delivered by him into examination 1 He censureth a moderne Writer for affirming that the Bishops of the Church are Guides to the inferiour Clergy to direct them in matters of Religion 2 He disputeth against this Position in manner following The Pope is not infallible Ergo the Bishops being Veines of the Body whereof the Pope is Head cannot be Iudges or Guides to instruct the inferiour Clergy 3 He saith that the Author whom he opposeth is guided with a Papall spirit Now this as I conceive is the Summe and marrow of the Dialogaster his argumentation In answer hereunto the Bishop saith that if this Objecter had intended to proceed in a right method of Disputation he must first of all have stated the Question and considered what Iudiciall power the Bishops of the Church of England challenge concerning regulating and deciding matters of Controversie in Religion and then he might have framed Arguments made Inferences and used his Invectives and Declamations and not before But being bold and blinde and not regarding and considering the Churches Tenet concerning Episcopall power he disputeth in a rude and deriding manner rather venting his malice against the Order of Bishops as Hereticks c Cyprian l 3. Ep. 9. Haec sunt initia Haereticorum ortus atque conatus Schismaticorū male cogitantium ut sibi placeant praepositum superbo tumore contēnant in ancient times were wont to do than delivering any thing true substantiall or to the purpose 1 The Question is whether Bishops lawfully called and qualified according to the Apostles rule 1 Tim. 3. have any power of judicature in matters belonging to Religion or in questions Theologicall 2 Whether they bee Veines of the Pope and guided by a Papall spirit if they challenge or exercise any such power 3 Whether they can have no such power unlesse they be endued with Divine Grace Ex opere operato Now to these Questions our Answer is 1 That Bishops lawfully called and qualified according to the Apostles Rule have a ministeriall and subordinate power and authority to determine Theologicall Controversies by the Rule of holy Scripture and by the consentient Tradition and testimony of the ancient and orthodoxall Catholike Church For Timothy and Titus being Bishops lawfully ordained b Euseb hist Eccl. l. 3. c 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exercised such power in the Church c Habiles idonei ad ecclesias quas ●●i Apostoli fundaveran● pascend●s regend●sque estim●ti fuerint c Hieron c. Ruffin li. 2. Vtrum recipi debet Episcoporū relinquitur judicio Iren. lib. 4. cap. 43. lis qui in Ecclesus sunt Presbyteris oportet obaudire quicunque cum Episcopatus successione charisma veritatis acceperunt The Bishops and Fathers in the foure first generall Councels d Euseb vit Const l. 3. c. 18. Quicquid in sanctis Episcoporū Conciliis decernitur id universum divinae voluntati debet attribui did the like

the former Principles stiled the Lord's Day an Idoll and a Superstitious Tradition The Bishop thought it his duty to vindicate the honour of that Day and to deliver the true grounds upon which the Christian Church observeth it also to declare the Antiquity of the Observation thereof and the more to advance the honour of the Day he collected out of the Primitive Fathers Ecclesiasticall Histories and Ancient Records sundry remarkeable observations concerning the Religious use and sanctification of this Day Page 196. c. Lastly because some Novell Teachers here in England had wronged this Day by converting it into a Legall Sabbath and likewise they had presumed without any lawfull authority to lay heavy and unreasonable burdens upon God's people Affirming that all bodily exercise and all civill passe-time and Recreation although the same be sober and honest is simply unlawfull upon all houres of the Lord's Day and not only unlawfull but a mortall and enormious crime of the same quality and iniquity with Murder Adulterie Theft c. The Bishop had just reason to discover the error and falsi●ie of such principles and arguments upon which these presumptuous Dogmatizers grounded their rigid edicts pag. 235. unto pag. 250. Now after all this the Bishop himselfe is perswaded and so likewise are his Honourable and Religious Superiours that he hath performed faithfull profitable and necessary service to the Church whereof he is a member in composing and publishing his Treatise of the Sabbath And likewise his confidence is that those honourable and Reverend Commanders who imployed him in this religious service will ever protect him a Aug. de Doctr. Christ Sic Doctor bonam eligat vitam ut etiam bonam non negligat famam against base envious and scurrilous abuses and detractions such as hee is rudely and injustly loaded withall by this unmannerly and foule-mouth'd Dialogue-Broacher Neverthelesse if any learned judicious and modest Reader shall at any time note or observe any passages in his Treatise seeming to th●●epugnant to Orthodoxall Verity b Aug. de Trin. li. 3. In omnibus literis meis non solum pium lectorem sed etiam liberu● correctorem desidero let 〈◊〉 proceed soberly substantially and modestly in propounding their exceptions c Ib. Noli meas literas ex tua opinione vel contentione sed ex divina lectione vel inconcussa ratione corrigere The Bishop is and ever will bee ready without giving the least offence to yeeld them a just and reasonable satisfaction But rude envious and clamorous Carpers such as this Dialogue-Broacher is and hath ever bin c Hieron ad Iulian. Gloriae animal popularis aurae vile mancipium are incompetent Iudges in Questions and Controversies of this quality for such Mens Tractats and Pamphlets containe nothing but only that which is Verball Illiterate and no wayes sufficient to discover or settle Truth The end also of their writing is not Verity but they study onely to flatter an irregular Multitude which is adverse to Ecclesiasticall Regiment setled in our Church and the Leaders of this Anarchicall Sect by applying themselves to the humour of these Proselytes gaine popular applause d Greg. Nazian Orat. 8. de pace Ex rebus novis claritatem famae venantur Chrys In Ioh. He. 65. Prava doctrina nihil aliud est quam inanis gloriae silia and likewise authority to make their own fancies and traditions to be no lesse esteemed than Divine Oracles For being wily as Serpents they have by long and subtill experience observed that impetuous speaking clamorous inveighing virulent declaming prevaile more with that generation than solid materiall and substantiall disputing e Hieron ad Nepotian Nihil tam facile quam vilem plebeculam indoctam concionem linguae volubilitate decipere ● quicquid non intelligit plus miratur Id. c. Ruffin li. 1. Quotidie in plateis sictus hariolus stultorum nares verberat obtorto scorpione dentes mordenti●m quatit miramur si imperitorum libri lectorem inveniant Now this verball forme hath the worthlesse penner of this Dialogue observed both in this and in all other his unlicensed Pamphlets The Bishop of Ely his Positions concerning the Old Sabbath Day and the Lord's-Day which are opposed by the Dialogue-Broacher Thesis 1a. The Law of the fourth Commandement concerning the religious observation of the Seventh Day Sabbath of every weeke was not purely morall or of the Law of Nature like as were the other nine Commandements of the Decalogue This Position is confirmed by Demonstrative arguments in the Bishops Treatise of the Sabbath pag. 26. unto pag. 37. Thesis 2a. The Law of the fourth Commandement concerning the Seventh Day Sabbath was Legall in respect of the speciall Day designed by the letter of that Commandement The same Law in respect of the literall Object thereof is ceased under the Gospell and obligeth not Christians to the religious observation thereof as it did the Iewes in time of the Old Law This Position is confirmed by many weighty arguments and by the Vnanimous testimony of the Ancient Fathers Page 6. 7. 8. 148. 161. 276. Thesis 3a. The Christian Church in the New Testament hath received no speciall or expresse divine precept in holy Scripture commanding the same to observe any one particular or individuall day of every weeke rather than another for their Sabbath Neither hath the Christian Church received any Divine mandate to observe any day of the weeke according to the rule of the fourth Commandement pag. 189. 239. Thesis 4a. The observation of the LORD'S-day is not grounded upon the particular Law of the fourth Commandement But onely upon the Equity of that Commandement and upon the practice and example of the holy Apostles and of the Primitive Church And after such time as the Persecutions of the Christian Church by Infidels ceased Then godly Lawes and Canons were framed by Constantine the great and by other succeeding Emperors Theodosius Valentinian Archadius Leo and Antoninus and by Bishops in their Synods for the religious observance of the LORD'S-day pag. 109 110. 135. 143. 189. 211. Thesis 5a. The Sabbath day of the fourth Commandement and the LORD'S-day both in holy Scripture and in the writings of the godly Fathers are made two distinct dayes of the weeke Neither was it the ordinary stile of the Fathers and Primitive Church to name the LORD'S-day the Sabbath-day in a proper and literall sense to wit in such a sense as the Iewes stiled their Seventh day the Sabbath day pag. 201 202. Thesis 6a. There is no Divine Law extant in the old or in the New Testament prohibiting all secular labour and all bodily exercise and honest recreation upon some part of the LORD'S-day namely at such time of the day as the religious offices thereof are ended much lesse is there found any divine Law which maketh honest and sober recreation in manner aforesaid an enormous crime equall to Murder and to Adultery pag. 229.