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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82315	The doctrine of the Sabbath, as it hath been believed and taught, by ancient and eminent Christians, collected word for word out of their own writings, and now tendred to the consideration of all the godly, especially to direct them to the Parliament, to direct them in their intended Act, for the due and strict observation of the Lords Day. / By a friend to truth, and to the present powers of this Common-wealth, in the way of truth.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing D922; Thomason E597_14; ESTC R206297	5,538	8

THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH As it hath been believed and taught by ancient and eminent Christians Collected word for word out of their own writings AND Now Tendred to the Consideration of all the Godly especially TO THE PARLIAMENT To direct them in their intended Act for the due and strict observation Of the Lords Day By a friend to Truth and to the present powers of this Common-wealth in the way of Truth London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop the Sign of the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1650. The Doctrine of the Sabbath c. THere is nothing more dangerous and yet more common among Professors then Zeal without Knowledge for by this men have many times run headlong against the power of godliness pretending the Form and against the Truth and Spirit of the Word pretending the Letter of it yea through this they have killed the Prophets and Apostles and Christ himself thinking thereby they did God good service And even godly men themselves having in some things more Zeal then Knowledge have grosly erred and mistaken in very weighty matters Peter of a good mind as they say rebuked Christ for saying he must go to Jerusalem and there suffer death and the sons of Zebedee out of the like blind zeal would have had fire to have come from Heaven to destroy the Samaritans c. And I doubt not but the Parliament out of a great Zeal are providing for the strict Observation of the Lords Day Wherefore that they may take Knowledge along with their Zeal or rather in the head of it as its guide and Leader I have thought good to admonish them that they search the Word of God in this matter and that without the Word they presume to do nothing though it seem never so glorious seeing whatever is done without the Word though it seem never so holy and good yet is nothing else but plain Idolatry And because none should say that I had perverted the Word and given a false sense of it and am come forth to trouble the Church with new Light and Notions I have therefore produced in this matter only the Testimonies of Others yet such whose names are pretious in the Church for their Wisdom and spirituall understanding in the Word as well as for their Faith and Love who though dead yet speak to this matter in these following Quotations Testimonies gathered together by that pretious Martyr Doctor Barnes which are extant in his Works to be read pag. 367. That the true Observation of the Sabbath consisteth not only in abstaining from bodily labors And that to a Christian man every day is the Sabbath and not only the Seventh day HIerome saith Therefore be certain dayes assigned that we should come together not that that day in the which we come together is holyer then another but all dayes be alike and equall And Christ is not alonely crucified in Parasceden and risen only on the Sonday but the day of Resurrection is alwayes and alwayes may we eat of the Lords Flesh c. Augustine saith We must observe the Sabbath day not that we should reckon our selves not to labor but that all things that we do work well must have an intention to the everlasting rest Wherefore we must observe the holy day not by corporall idleness and unto the Letter but spiritually must we rest from vices and concupiscences Wherefore among all the ten Commandements that of the Sabbath day is alonely commanded to be figuratively observed c. Tertullian saith The carnall Circumcision is put away and extincted at his time So likewise the observation of the Sabbath day is declared to be for a time for we must keep the Sabbath day not alonely the Seventh day but at all times as Isai. saith c. Augustine saith It is come unto me that certain men which be of an evill mind have sowen certain evill things among you and contrary to the holy Faith so that they do forbid that men should work on the Sabbath day The which men what other thing shall we call them but the Preachers of Antichrist the which Antichrist shall make the Sabbath day and the Sonday be kept from all manner of work c. Testimonies proving the same Article Translated out of his Book De Doctorum Sententiis AND it shall come to pass from Moon to his Moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath all Flesh shall come to worship before me saith the Lord For the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in part of an holy day or of the new Moon or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ After ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage Ye observe Dayes and Moneths and Times and Years I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain The Jews were commanded to celebrate the holy Sabbath one day in the week that they should be subject to no burden but they being loosed from worldly business I would they had so passed that they had carryed with them no burden of grievous sins unto the everlasting Sabbath of the world to come Let the Synagogue of the Jews observe the day let the Church observe it to Immortality In the Law therefore was a portion in the Gospel is the perfection c. Whosoever observeth that day hitherunto as the Letter soundeth judgeth carnally For if Christ hath taken from us that grievous yoke of many Observances that we should not be carnally Circumcised that we should not offer Sacrifice for our sins that on the Sabbath of the Seventh day we should not abstain from necessary business and other such like if we observe them being spiritually understood and setting aside all shadows signifying the true light of those things Let us take heed whether we shall therefore say that it pertaineth not to us which is written that whatsoever one findeth of another mans he restore again to him that lost it and many other precepts whereby we learn to live well and godly and especially that Decalogue which is contained in the two Tables of stone the carnall observation of the Sabbath only excepted which signifieth a spirituall sanctification and rest c. First must a man know that the works of the Law be of two sorts for they partly consist in Sacraments and partly in morall precepts Unto the Sacraments are referred the Circumcision of the flesh the temporal Sabbath the new Moon the Sacrifices and all such like innumerable observances Unto moral precepts are referred these Thou shalt not slay c. The Testimony of others in this matter TIndal the Martyr saith And to speak of the Sabbath which was ordained to be