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A91155	A briefe polemicall dissertation, concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lordsday-Sabbath. Wherein is clearly and irrefragably manifested by Scripture, reason, authorities, in all ages till this present: that the Lordsday begins and ends at evening; and ought to be solemnized from evening to evening: against the novel errours, mistakes of such, who groundlesly assert; that it begins and ends at midnight, or day-breaking; and ought to be sanctified from midnight to midnight, or morning to morning: whose arguments are here examined, refuted as unsound, absurd, frivolous. Compiled in the Tower of London, and now published, for the information, reformation of all contrary judgment or practise. By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq;.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P3916; Thomason E814_11	82,955	107

A BRIEFE POLEMICALL DISSERTATION concerning the true Time of the INCHOATION and DETERMINATION OF THE LORDS DAY-SABBATH Wherein is clearly and irrefragably manifested by Scripture Reason Authorities in all Ages till this present that the Lordsday begins and ends at Evening and ought to be solemnized from Evening to Evening against the Novel Errours Mistakes of such who groundlesly assert that it begins and ends at Midnight or day-breaking and ought to be sanctified from Midnight to Midnight or Morning to Morning whose Arguments are here examined refuted as unsound absurd frivolous Compiled in the Tower of London and now Published for the Information Reformation of all contrary Judgment or Practise By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esq. Levit. 22. 32. From Even to Even shall yee rest or Celebrate your Sabbath Capitula Caroli Ludovici Imperatorum lib. 6. cap. 186. 202. Diem Dominicum secundum Reverentiam colite Opus servile id est Agrum pratum viniam vel si qua graviora sunt in eo non faciatis nec causas nec calumnias inter vos ditatis sed tantum divinis cultibus serviatis a vespera ad vesperā dies Dominicus servetur Placuit ut fideles Diem Dominicum in quo Dominus resurrexit omnes venerabiliter colant Nam si Pagani ob memoriam Reverentiam Deorum suorum quosdam dies colunt Judaei more carnali Sabbatum carnaliter observant quanto magis iste dies à Christianis honorifice colendus est ne in illo sancto die vanis fabulis aut locutionibus sive cantationibus vel Saltationibus aut divisionibus stando in biviis plateis ut solet in serviant sed ad Sacerdotem aut ad aliquom Sapientem hominem veniant eorum praedicationibus bonis locutionibus quae ad animam pertinent utantur illo die seu Sabbato ad Vesperas ad Matutinas sive ad Missam cum eorum oblationibus si fieri potest omnes cavendo Kyrie eleision decantent Similiter Pastores pecorum eundo redeundo in campum ad domum faciant ut omnes eos verè Christianos devotes cognostant LONDON Printed by T. Mabb for Edward Thomas dwelling in Green Arbour 1655. To the Christian Reader KInde Reader Give me leave to inform thee of the true Original cause impelling me to compile this Dissertation at least 20 years since whiles a Prisoner in the Tower of London When I was a Student and Puny Barrester in Lincolns Inne it was the constant custome of that House and all other Inns of Court from All-Saints Eve to Candlemas night to keep open Revels Dancing Dicing and Musick in their Hals ever Saturday night as we usually call it till eleven or twelve of the clock and many times till 4. in the morning or later by reason of which abuse the Lordsday was much prophaned and God publike Ordinances on the Lordsday morning neglected by the Revellers Students Officers Gamesters Musicians and Spectators who slept out the Forenoon Sermons and other divine Exercises for the most part either in their Beds or at Church if they resorted to it Which being a great corasive to my Spirit grief to my heart and scandall to many Religious Lawyers Students and our Lecturers I used my best endeavours to reform this long continued abuse and by my interest in some pious Benchers of Lincolns Inne procured them by an Order of Counsel to suppresse all publique Gaming and Dicing in the Hall with all Grand Christmasses and disorders on that abused Season and likewise to restrain the length of their Revels on Saturday nights by confining them to a certain houre though they could not totally suppresse them as they and I desired being over ruled therein by the majority of the Benchers pleading long prescription custome and unwillingness to displease the Revellers and young Students for their continuance Whereupon I did in my Histriomastix printed 1632. Dedicated to the * Benchers of Lincolns Inne produce the Decrees Laws Statutes Canons of many Christian Emperours Kings States Councils and Resolutions of Fathers Casuists Schoolmen and Protestant Divines Forraign and Domestick to prove the unlawfulnesse of Stage Plays Revels Dancing Gaming Sports and Pastimes on the Lordsday and on Saturday nights as we usually stiled them proving at large page 638. to 647. by sundry Reasons and Authorities in all ages there cited and likewise in the Table That the Lordsday begins Saturday Evening not at Morning or Midnight following that so I might in point of Conscience suppresse all Revels Gaming and disorders used in our Innes of Court and elsewhere throughout the Realm on Saturday nights being part of the Lords own dayes fit to be spent in better exercises of Piety and devotion This Assertion of the Lordsdayes inception at Evening being contrary to the received Opinion of most of our Modern Writers and Divines was looked upon as a strange novelty by many as well as my Histriom●stix and censure of Stage Playes as unlawfull unchristian Pastimes for which though licensed by Archbishop Abhots Chaplain I was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London by the Lords of the Councill Febr. 1. 1632. and afterwards severely censured in the Starre Chamber for it as scandalous to the King Queen Court State through Lawds and others malice and prevailing Power which Sentence was since reversed by the unanimous Vote of both Houses of Parliament as illegal and given without any cause at all Hereupon for the satisfaction of some Christian Friends as well Lawyers as Divines who scrupelled this Opinion of the Lordsday●s Evening Inchoa●ion though they could not answer nor deny the Reasons and Authorities there produced by me for its justification I did in the year 1633. compile this Dissertation in the Tower●which I communicated to my learned friends of the Law and Ministery who professed themselves aboundantly satisfied with it some of them transcribing Copies thereof for their private use After which to passe my Solitary Prison houres with as much publike benefit as I could I went through all the Controversies touching the Sabboath Lordsday and more especially concerning the use of Pastimes on it which the Kings or rather Lawds Declaration for Sports occasioned and Bishop White Dr. Heylin Dr. Pocklington and others had then raised debated in their Discours●s and Histories of the Sabbath with an intention to have published them at that Season But the Printing Presses being locked up and strictly watched by Lawd and the Bishops then swaying against all Treatises of this Subject in opposition to the Anti-Sabbatarian Pamphlets I was necessitated to lay them by for that season and to communicate some of them to such friends who made use of them in some of their printed Discourses of the Sabboath and Lordsday since the Prelates power was Ecclipsed Onely I then contenting my selfe with a Preface to my brother Burtons Divine Tragedy or Examples of Gods Judgments upon Sabbath-breakers and some necessary Additions to