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B00106	A short treatise, agaynst the prophanation of the Lord's day, especiallie by salmond-fishing thereon, in tyme of divine service. / By William Guild, D.D. minister in Aberdene, and chaplane to his Majestie..	Guild, William, 1586-1657.; Johnstoun, Arthur, 1587-1641. Epitaphium piscatoris.	1637 (1637)	STC 12491; ESTC S92781	21,843	84

saying That vpon Sundaye Iustin Martyr Apol. 2. pro Christianis in sine when Christians both in the Town Country do assemble together after the reading of the word publicke exhortation by the Pastor after Prayer and celebration of the Sacrament of Christ's Bodie and Blood then those who are able pro sua quisque voluntate conferunt sayeth hee collecta deponuntur apud praepositum isque subvenit pupillis viduis propter morbum aliamve necessitatem egentibus that is Then everie one as he pleaseth contributeth and what is collected is layd down beside him who hath the charge thereof who helpeth the Orphanes and Widowes and others who by sicknesse or anie other necessitie are poore and indigent And hee subjoyneth saying Conventus autem bos die Solis facimus quoniam hac die primum DEVS depulsis tenebris formataque materia mundum creavit IESVS CHRISTVS quoque noster Servator eadem die resurrexit à mortuis that is These Assemblies we make them on Sunday because on that day the Lord driving away darknesse having formed a matter He created the world as also our Saviour IESVS CHRIST on that same daye arose from the dead So that wee see our Christian or Lord's Day abrogateth not the memorie of the Creation but beeing the first of the Creation and the day of CHRIST'S Resurrection it putteth vs in mynde both of the making of the Worlde and the redeeming of the same Iustin Martyr Apol. 2. Aug. de tempor serm 251. or of a visible olde creation and an invisible newe one as witnesseth both Iustine Martyr as also holie Augustine The same observation of the day of the Lord's Resurrection wee may see also to haue beene the constant and catholicke practise of all Christian Churches after the Apostolicke tymes by the witnessing of other ancient Fathers Therefore sayeth Clemens Romanus Clem. Rom. Co●stit Ap. l. 2. c. 63. Wee Christians assemble our selues together with great diligence vpon the LORD'S Day to prayse Him c. And Tertullian Tertull. apol c. 39. 16. c. 14. de Idolo●atr●a Vpon that day sayeth hee wee who are Christians meete together carefullie in the holie Assemblies And agayne in his Apologeticke hee showeth That the honouring of this day beeing called after the Heathnish denomination Dies Solis and assembling together for publicke worship thereon was the occasion why the Paganes gaue it out That Christians did worship the Sunne So lykewyse sayeth Basil and Isichius Basil de Sp. Sancto c. 27 Et Isichius in Levit. cap. 9. See Aug. de tempore serm 151. That following the doctrine and direction of the Apostles the Christians everie where did sequester the LORD'S Day for their holie Assemblies Those therefore who contrarie to Apostolicall observation and direction and contrarie also to the constant practise of the whole Christian Church ever there-after will so boldlie irreligiouslie contemne such Authoritie and holie examples and prophane the Lord's day for their filthie lucre as they depart heerein from so holie a practise heere so they may justlie feare except they repent and amende a dreadfull departure from Him who is Lord of that day and a separation from the societie of those Saynctes heere-after CHAP. V. The holie speaches and religious exhortations of the ancient Fathers both Greeke and Latine or of the Easterne Westerne Church for the due keeping holie of the LORD'S Day FIrst then to begin with the Grecian Fathers and intending for brevities cause to bring but a few Ignatius Martyr who lived in the Apostles owne tyme adjureth everie one Ignatius 〈◊〉 Magnes by the loue of CHRIST to halow that day saying Let everie one who loveth CHRIST keepe holie the LORD'S Day renowned by His Resurrection which is the Queene of dayes So that the prophanation of this daye and the loue of CHRIST can not consist together and are alwayes incompatible Next Saynct Chrysostome a most famous and holie Bishop Chrysost hom 10. in Genes 2. showeth That from the verie beginning the LORD hath requyred that one day in everie weeke constantlie and whollie should bee set a-part by His Church to bee entierlie appropriated applyed for Spirituall exercyses tending to the good of the soules as the rest of the dayes of the weeke are applyed by vs for corporall and servile labour tending to the good of the bodie and mayntaynance of the naturall lyfe Saynct AUGUSTINE also that great Light of the Westerne Church Aug. serm 215. vrgeth the religious and entiere observation of the Christian Sabbath by comparing the same with the observation of the Jewish Sabbath saying If the vnhappie Iewes doe with so great devotion celebrate their Sabbath so that vpon the same they will doe no earthlie worke how much more should Christians vpon the LORD'S Daye much more attende His Worship and for the salvation of their soules assemble themselues together in the Church of GOD GREGORIE the Great also wryting to the Citizens of ROME Greg. l. 11. epist. 3. showeth both where-from wee should rest and howe wee should whollie employ our selues on the Lord's day laying Vpon the LORD'S Day a cessation should bee altogether from earthlie labour and men should whollie giue themselues to insist in Prayer that what by negligence the sixe dayes of the weeke hath beene committed by Prayer vpon the LORD'S Day the same may hee expiated Seeing therefore this day so manie wayes hath beene honoured by Christ stamped with His Name celebrated by His Apostles observed by the Church and recommended vnto vs by the Fathers whosoever with an high hand of rebellion agaynst God and His Church will wilfullie prophane the same hee sinneth grievouslie agaynst his own soule and the soules of others and as learned Hooker sayeth The voluntarie scandalous contempt of resting from labour on that Day whereon the LORD is publicklie served can not bee too severelie brydled and corrected CHAP. VI. The Decrees of Councels as also of Godlie Emperours and Princes for the due observation of the Lord's Daye FIrst then wee will set downe those Canons of ancient and famous Councels which declare what is forbidden on the Lord's daye and next those which showe what is commanded Synod 6. c●p 8 The sixt Generall Councell then forbiddeth all bodilie worke except that which is for the refreshment of nature that day Thus also sayeth the Councell of Rhemes holden in the 8●3 yeare of CHRIST Concil Rhemens can 35. and tyme of LEO the third Vpon the LORD'S Daye secundùm DOMINI Praeceptum that is according to the LORD' 's owne commandement let no man doe anie servile worke Next the Councell of Cabilon holden in the 653 yeare of CHRIST and tyme of Eugenius more particularlie speaketh of such works as having but a short season and are subject to sundrie dangers both of wnde rayne and are for the sustentation of the whole Countrey yet say the Fathers of this Councell Concil Cabilen

Servantes detayned by that servile employment from GOD'S Holie Worship but lykewyse manie others are everie LORD'S DAY of all sortes of people with-drawne from the same going thither to bee spectators of those Fishinges in the verie tyme of GOD'S publicke Servic and assemblie of His people and who in respect of their multitude can not bee gotten curbed As those then are happie who stirre vp people saying as DAVID professeth Let vs goe vp to the House of the LORD and as the Disciples did one the other who drawe Men to GOD Iohn 1. 41. So vnhappie maye they justlie judge themselues vvho giue such an occasion for their private gayne of hindering people and drawing so manie from GOD. 6. What Scandall 〈◊〉 and grievous offence is given to all good Christians heere where this prophanation is committed Ierem. 9. their querimonies which wee often heare beare sufficient witnessing and what griefe of heart they giue to vs their Pastours as the stubbornnesse of the Iewes gaue to their Prophets HEE that knoweth the heart can beare vs record So that with Ieremie Wee wish our head were waters and our Eyes a Fountayne of Teares that wee might weepe day and night for the gransgression of our people How-so-ever with open impietie they joyne not onelie impenitencie but impudencie in sinning 7. A great stumbling blocke lykewyse they are to the weake who by their example thinke it no transgression to violate and prophane the LORD'S DAY manie wayes in the Countrey especiallie and are so hardened in their sinne that when their Pastours accuse or rebuke them for the same and command Abstinencie they strayght-way replye Let the Salmond Fishing bee as well discharged then on the Sundaye and then they shall cease 8. If also the Angels rejoyce at the conversion of a Sinner howe then are they contristated as it were and zealouslie incensed at such a peart and publicke practise of sinne in prophaning that Holie Daye of their LORD'S Worship whereof by those so vngratelie and sacrilegiouslie Hee is robbed 9. But moste and worst of all Amongst other crying sinnes of the Land which incense the wrath of the LORD agaynst the same this as one of the greatest doeth kindle the Fyre of His indignation procureth His judgement and His hand to bee stretched out still For as Hee for the prophanation of His Sabbath threatned the Iewes before by His Prophet IEREMIE That Hee should kindle a Fyre in the gates of their chiefe Citie Hierusalem Ierem. 17 2● which should consume the Palaces thereof and it should not bee quenched And as good NEHEMIAH declared to the Princes of IVDAH seeing for this transgression and guiltinesse the LORD had performed and put the same to execution agaynst them in wasting of their Land destroying of their Citie and killing and captivating the persons All which as to one mayne cause hee attributeth to the prophaning of the LORD'S SABBATH saying What evill thing is this that yee doe Nehem. 13.17 and prophane the SABBATH DAY Did not your Fathers thus And did not our GOD bring all this evill vpon vs and vpon this Citie And yet ye would bring more wrath vpon Israell by prophaning the SABBATH DAYE Much more then maye Christians See Theatre of GOD'S Judgements Tom 3. of the Generall Councils 2. part p. 669. and Practise of Pietie 368. who liue in a cleare Light and haue no lesse obligation to sanctifie the LORD'S DAY expect for the prophanation thereof temporall punishmentes heere as sundrie haue found inflicted and eternall punishmentes heere-after which are most justlie threatned CHAP. XI The CONCLUSION by way of a faythfull Warning from the head of the Watch-Towre for exoneration at least of our owne Soules whom GOD hath set over them who so prophane the LORD'S DAYE AS Reuben said therefore to his Brethren Gen. 42.2 Did not I fore-warne you saying Doe not sinne agaynst the Chylde and yee would not heare Therefore beholde his blood is requyred So wee may saye whom the LORD hath set over you who are guiltie of this Sinne Haue not wee fore-warned you both by word and nowe by writ That yee sinne not agaynst your owne Soules and the Soules of others whom yee impede and with-drawe from the LORD'S Worship and Meanes of their Salvation on the LORD'S DAY And if ye will not heare as IOSEPH'S Brethren would not REVBEN'S advise beholde assuredly your blood and the blood of those that perish thorowe your default the LORD shall requyre at your handes True it is that wee would often tymes haue taken IEREMIE'S Resolution Ierem. 20.9 Not to speake anie more of this sinne of yours in the LORD'S Name vnto you perceaving sundrie of you to bee so incorrigible were not that His Word was within vs as a burning fyre shut vp in our bones we were wearie with forbearing and could not stay except wee would haue beene treacherous both to GOD who had entrusted vs and you whom we should haue fore-warned But seeing wee that are PASTORS haue so frequentlie shotte IONATHAN'S Arrowes to fore-warne you to escape from the wrath to come wee are free from your Blood if yee perish thorowe your rebellion and shall finde our owne Approbation wee hope in the DAY of the LORD And if with SAMVELL wee can not mende you wee shall moane at least as hee did for rebellious Saul in RAMAH and mourne for you in secret and with IEREMIE lament That our Mother hath borne vs men of stryfe and contention with those for whose good wee powre out our verie Soules in secret before the LORD in our daylie Prayers That To the Glorie of HIS NAME the joye of our Heartes and Salvation of your Soules wee may yet see the Happie Daye of your Conversion and Amendement heere-in That so yee may bee in the daye of our Common Compearance before the LORD our Crowne and our joye and attayne with vs to the happie Rest of that ETERNALL SABBATH in the HEAVENS conquessed to vs by the Bloode of CHRIST To Whom bee ever all Prayse and Glorie AMEN Epitaphium Piscatoris HIc recubat dominus vicini gurgitis auras Dum traheret dominus nō tamē ipse sui Non sibi sed soboli vixit labor improbus omnis Nullaque lux vivo festa vel hora fuit Venturi securus erat coelique penates Infernasque domos credidit esse pares Sunt coelo pisces sunt orco flumina praedae Materiem functo spondet vterque locus Arth. Ionstonus M. R.

MACHABEES did 1. Machab. 2.41 when they were set vpon on the Sabbath Daye to entrinch and fortifie themselues also vpon the approach of the Enemie stell their Pieces cut Bridges or doe the lyke all which is lawfull Because as SVAREZ sayeth Necessitas Reipublicae conservationis suae hoc exigit Suarez loco quo supra And the Lawe is Quod non est licitum in Lege necessitas facit licitum that is The necessitie of the Common-wealth and of their owne preservation requyreth this and what is not lawfull in lawe necessitie maketh lawfull otherwise Some actions also which tende not to the preservation of liues in evident danger otherwyse but to the preservation also of such thinges as tende to the necessitie of lyfe and good of the whole Common-wealth beeing in imminent and evident danger otherwyse are lawfull and thought permissible vpon the LORD'S Daye As the keeping of Cole-heughes dry which might otherwyse fill with water and perish to the detriment of a whole Countrey The sloaking or quenching of Mosses that haue taken fyre in droughtie weather and are in perill to bee consumed themselues and to consume the Cornes neare vnto them both which are workes of necessitie not for acquisition of new gayne for Servants work not in Cole-heughes on the LORD'S Daye nor in Peat-mosses but for preservation of that which is ours alreadie beeing in evident danger and the losse whereof would import great prejudice to the Common-wealth and whole Countrey As for keeping in of fyre onelie in Glasse-Fornaces but not making anie Glasses on the LORD'S DAY and also in Salt-pannes it is accounted by sundrie a necessarie preservation onlie neyther is it a toylsome worke nor Labor multorum to avocate manie from divine Worship And of such SVAREZ sayeth this is the Rule Quando inchoatum opus non potest intermitti sine dispendio personae Communitatis in die Festo Suarez lib. 2 de Fest dicb cap. 32. licitum putatur that is When a begun worke can not be left off without the hurt of the person and of a whole Communitie such a worke is thought lawfull vpon the Holie Day But of Salmond-Fishing vpon the LORD'S DAY hee sayeth expresslie Piscatio in die Festo propter lucrum lib. 2. de fest dies cap. 19. pag. 209. est opus servile prohibitum that is But fishing for gayne vpon the Holie Day is a servile worke and altogether forbidden Neyther can it bee anie wayes accounted a worke of Necessitie 1. Beeing onelie for making worldlie gayne and acquisition by servile and laborious toyle of thinges to bee theirs which before the employment in the sayde servile worke was not theirs 2. If the pretence of making gayne or acquyring were a necessitie on the LORD'S DAY then no Aartizane especiallie of the poerer sort but might alleadge also his working on the LORD'S DAY to bee a worke of necessitie And those in lyke manner who are Whyte-Fishers might justlie alleadge their Fishing on the LORD'S DAY to bee a worke of necessiitie because of their povertie for the moste parte and That they haue not always Fishing-weather on the Sea and What they slipped that daye they would not attayne agayne Others lykewyse might pretende Their severall necessities and so in ende cast all Religion loose 3. But the trueth is Without anie necessitie it hindereth and with-draweth men from a worke which is indeede of the greatest necessicie that can bee which is The Worship of GOD and Salvation of their owne Soules So that I may say justlie in the wordes of the PROPHET IEREMIE Ierem. 2.34 That In their Skirts is found the verie Blood of the Soules of men Which cannot but crye lowder agaynst them than the blood of ABELL did agaynst CAIN And which beeing bought by so precious a pryce as the Blood of the Sonne of GOD What may they expect as their judgement who make their gayne thereby and their Houses an Aceldama or a Field of Blood CHAP. X. What are the manie and great evills which the prophaning of the LORD'S DAY by Salmond-Fishing produceth HAving now looked vpon this forbidden Tree let vs consider what Fruite it bringeth foorth Surelie nothing but lyke the Prophet's wilde gourdes 2. King 4.40 which made Death to bee in the Potte or such whereof the LORD complayneth ISAIAH 5. That His Vine-yarde brought foorth even sowre Grapes vvhich will once set their teeth on edge For 1. This prophanation of the LORD'S DAY robbeth the LORD of His due Worship which those should giue vnto Him who are employed in place of GOD'S Service to serue man and according to NATHAN'S parable When wee haue manie dayes of the weeke as ours or for our service and will not be contented there-with but will robbe GOD of that one day which He hath for His Service and Worship vvhat fearfull Sentence can such expect That their owne mouth lyke DAVID'S shall bee made one daye to pronounce agaynst themselues 2. Their Servantes who thus prophane the LORD'S DAY by their servile employment are wofullie defrauded of their Soules Foode and Spirituall Edification So that whyles themselues should bee caught by the Nette of the Gospell to bee brought vnto CHRIST they are catching vnlawfull Gayne to bring vnto their Masters Lyke that Damosell in the ACTS possessed with a spirit of Divination which brought her Masters also much Gayne by Sooth-saying Act. 16.16 before her dispossession Whose case as it was moste wofull whyle shee was doing so So is theirs in lyke manner whyle as sterving in their Soules and gayning earthlie thinges to others they become a prey to that craftie Fisher Satan and lose heavenlie thinges which they should gayne to themselues 3. Whereas the LORD hath appoynted a bodilie rest to bee vpon the seaventh day from all servile work for refreshing of Man who hath beene labouring the sixe dayes of the weeke as Hee hath lykewyse pittie and willeth vs to haue on the verie beast yet cruellie contrarie to GOD'S appoyntment the bodies of their Servantes are toylsomlie wrought and wearied vpon the LORD'S DAY as well as the rest of the dayes of the weeke without anie intermission or cessation whatsoever and so are made altogether vnfit all that Season for GOD'S Worship publicke or private 4. Thorow the long dissuetude of resorte to GOD'S Service and prophanation of the LORD'S DAY those Servantes of theirs as wee finde by wofull experience become altogether neglectiue of the LORDS DAY at all other tymes of the yeare when Salmond-Fishing is not and can neyther by Admonition nor Discipline be made to halowe the same And so being indured thorowe their fore-named custome they remayne altogether ignorant in mynde most prophane in lyfe and vtterlie carelesse of their souls as if they had none at al. Of which induration ignorance and prophanitie howe fearfull a thing it is to bee the cause and drawe vpon them such guiltinesse let anie sensible Christian seriouslie consider 5. Not onelie are those their