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A10094	The doctrine of the Sabbath· Delivered in the Act at Oxon. anno, 1622. By Dr. Prideaux his Majesties professour for divinity in that Vniversity. And now translated into English for the benefit of the common people.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1634 (1634)	STC 20348; ESTC S115223	22,039	62

the practice of the Apostles not on the fourth Commandement which he calls a scandalous Doctrine Sect. 7. nor any other expresse authoritie in holy Scripture Sect. 6. 7. Then fourthly that the Church hath still authoritie to change the day though such authoritie be not fit to be put in practise Sect. 7. Fifthly that in the celebration of it there is no such cessation from the workes of labour required from us as was exacted of the Iewes but that we lawfully may dresse Meat proportionable unto every mans estate and doe such other things as be no hinderance to the publike Service appointed for the day Sect. 8. Sixtly that on the Lords day all Recreations whatsoever are to be allowed which honestly may refresh the spirits and encrease mutuall love and neighbourhood amongst us and that the names whereby the Iewes did use to call their Festivals whereof the Sabbath was the chiefe were borrowed from an Hebrew word which signifieth to dance and to be merry or make glad the countenance If so if all such Recreations as encrease good neighbourhood then Wakes and Feasts and other Meetings of that nature If such as honestly may refresh the spirits then Dancing Shooting Wrastling and all other Pastimes not by Law prohibited which either exercise the body or revive the minds And lastly that it appertaines to the Christian Magistrate to order and appoint what Pastimes are to be permitted and what are not obedience unto whose commands is better farre than sacrifice to any of the Idols of our owne inventions not unto every private person or as the Doctors owne words are not unto every mans rash zeale who out of a Schismaticall Stoicisme debarring men from lawfull Pastimes doth incline to Iudaisme Sect. 8. Adde for the close of all how doubtingly our Author speakes of the name of Sabbath which now is growne so rife amongst us Sect. 8. Concerning which take here that notable Dilemma of Iohn Barklay the better to incounter those who stil retaine the name and impose the rigour Cur perro illum diem plerique Sectariorum Sabbatum appellaetis c. What is the cause saith hee that many of our Sectaries call this day the Sabbath If they observe it as a Sabbath they must observe it because God rested on that day and then they ought to keepe that day whereon God rested and not the first as now they doe whereon the Lord began his labours If they observe it as the day of our Saviours resurrection why doe they call it still the Sabbath seeing especially that Christ did not altogether rest that day but valiantly overcame the powers of death This is the summe of all and this is all I have to say unto thee Good Christian Reader in this present businesse God give thee a right understanding in all things and a good will to doe thereafter THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH OR A Speech delivered in the Act at OXON at the proceeding Doctors Of CHRIST GREENE IO. TOLSON THO. IACKSON THO. BINSON IO. HARRIS In the yeere of CHRIST 1622. touching the Sabbath LEVIT 9.30 Yee shall keepe my Sabbath and reverence my Sanctuarie I am the Lord. OF THE SABBATH SECT I. MY annuall taske learned and courteous Auditors is as you see returned againe whereto being bound as I may say like Titius unto Caucasus I must of necessitie expose my selfe to so many Vultures Divinitie tossed with so many stormes and by her owne unworthily handled hath not which was much feared as yet miscarried Behold I and the sonnes which God hath given mee And though shee doe not glory as before shee hath done of a numerous issue yet shee is comforted with these few whose modestie doth promise to supply that want and hide her nakednesse It is my Office as you know according to the custome of this place honestly to dismisse them hence being now furnished and provided after all their labours And being it is the seventh yeere since I first attained unto this place and that there want not some litigious differences about the Sabbath which have of late disturbed the quiet of the Church I hope it will not seeme unseasonable Fathers and Brethren to speake unto you somewhat of this argument and therein rather to explode their errors who either seeme to tend on the one side to Atheisme or on the other side to Iudaisme than any way to brand their persons And that our following discourse may issue from the purer Fountaine we will derive it from the 19. of Levit. v. 30. which doubtlesse for the greater certaintie thereof is againe repeated cap. 26. v. 2. Yee shall keepe my Sabbaths Now for the first word Sabbath the learned in the Hebrew Language derive it not from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which being interpreted is Seven but from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to cease leave off or rest from labour and seemes to have affinitie with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to set downe and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to adore and praise all which doe intimate unto us as well the use of the Sabbath as the duties also of all those who are bound to keepe it It is not my intent to lay before you such further Etymologies as either are afforded us from Plutarch and the rest of Greece who fetch it from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to triumph dance or make glad the countenance or from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sirname of Bacchus or at the least some sonne of his in Coelius Rhodiginus whence Bacchus Priests are frequently called Sabbi Moenades or Saliares in ancient Authors nor from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Spleene from the distempers of the which as Giraldus thinkes the Iewes though very much thereunto inclined were that day released nor last of all from any foule disease in the privie parts by the Aegyptians called Sabba which Fl. Iosephus worthily derides in his second booke against Appion It is well knowne from what corrupt Channell these derivations have beene drawne by the elder Iewes who by their Bacchanalian Rites gave the World just occasion to suspect that they did consecrate their Sabbath unto Revels rather than Gods service As for these Sabbaths they either were the Weekely Sabbaths or those which in the Scripture are called Sabbaths of yeeres and these againe either each seventh yeere in the which the Earth lay fallow or every fiftieth yeere called otherwise the Yeere of Iubile wherein each man returned againe to his owne Possession and Inheritance as the Law appointed There were at least five other meanings of this word in holy Scripture of which consult Hospinian in his booke de festis Iudaeorum But for the Weekely Sabbath mentioned in the Decalogue being it is become to many a Rocke of offence it will not happily be unwelcome to the wavering mind so to determine of the Point that they may have something whereupon to fasten There is not any thing now more frequent in some Zelots