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A09813	Sunday no Sabbath A sermon preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincolne, at his Lordships visitation at Ampthill in the county of Bedford, Aug. 17. 1635. By John Pocklington Doctor of Divinitie, late fellow and president both of Pembroke Hall and Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplaine to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne.	Pocklington, John.	1636 (1636)	STC 20077; ESTC S114780	31,029	56

Ob. Secondly if the Lords day was appointed and kept by the Apostles what shall we say to those turbulent spirits as master Calvin calls them qui tumultuantur ob diem Dominicum Calv. i●s●● ● c. 8 S. 33. 〈◊〉 3● that are all up in a hurly-burly for being abridged of their Christian libertie and made to observe dayes and Feasts and particularly the Lords day Whereupon it was sadly demurr'd upon even in Genevah Barcl●i● paroen l. 1 c. 13. to have that day altered to Thursday and himselfe holds it alterable What shall wee thinke also of the Centurists Cent. 1. l. 2. c. 6. de fe●●● that not onely say there is no place of Scripture to command the observation of the Lords day Cent. 2. c. 6. pag. 11 ● but that the contentions raised by Anicetus and Victor Popes of Rome touching the observation of Easter on the Lords day doe sufficiently declare that for two hundred yeares after Christ some kept the Sabbath holy some the Lords day and that they were false Apostles that attempted at first to bind the Church to the observation of Feasts as of the Lords day and for this cause they sticke the mysterie of iniquitie on the foreheads of those two blessed Martyrs Sol. To that part of the objection which is framed out of the Centurists some perhaps would answer that the guise of the Centurists is to use the Catholike Fathers and holy Martyrs as Balaam used his Asse For if they wil not go that way that they would have them though Gods Angel suffer them not so to doe but the Spirit of truth lead them quite otherwise they fall upon them and use them as rudely as he did the Asse A wrong which cannot but bee highly displeasing to that good God who was so moved upon the sight of the injury done the poore beast that hee was upon the point to have taken a sharpe revenge upon the false hypocrite in habit of a Prophet for the same But with cruell Balaam I will not compare them because he wisht for a sword to be avenged of the poore Asse whereas these like diligent Schoolemasters examine the exercises of the ancient Fathers shew them their errours tell them of the many spots and blots they finde in them and let them see how they are put to the trouble to correct them at every turne whereupon their patience is so moved that they rebuke them sometime with very sharpe language and when all is done they are so ashamed of divers things they heare from them that they set them to schoole againe to learne their lessons backward This their diligence and paines in correcting and wiping the Fathers as one wipes a dish that turneth it upside downe is not well accepted on all hands for some passionate men thinke they whip the Fathers without cause and for not running the way of their errours which these Auditors account to be so many and so costly too that the Merchant payes more for them than for all the truths 〈…〉 morall naturall supernaturall that are in Aristotle Plato or the blessed Bible though you give the Apocrypha leave to be bound up with it I would be loath to say as Saint Paul doth of the testimonie of Epimenides This witnesse is true But be it truth or some counterfeit like Jeroboams wife their credit is eclipsed and their testimonie abated by their doings So I leave them till anon Secondly I answer true it is that Saint Paul and other Apostles preached to the Jewes in the Synagogue on the Sabbath day because they would meet upon no other but it is untrue that they set that day apart to preach unto the Gentiles or the Jews either They were false Apostles that laboured to lay that yoak on the Disciples neckes whom Saint Paul opposed with all his might Col. 2.16 Gal. 4.10 and did utterly reject their Sabbath and appointed no day of publick meetings but the first day of the weeke when their collections were ever made 1 Cor. 16.1 and so continued to be made on that day and on no day else in all succeeding ages And because Saint Paul did keepe the first day of the weeke and opposed the observation of the Jewish Sabbath therefore the Ebionites say St. Irenaeus and Epiphanius rejected his writings Apostatam legis dicentes S. Irer l. 1. c. 26. S. Ep●ph●h●e 31. rating him for an Apostata So likewise the blessed Martyrs in the Primitive Church Euseb l. 3. c. 24. S. Ignatap 3. ad M●g by the doctrine and example of Saint Paul and the Apostles so unfeignedly abhorred the observation of the Jewish Sabbath that they esteemed the observers thereof and the contemners of the Lords day the very sonnes of perdition enemies of our Saviour and sellers of Christ and as Saint Justin Martyrtells Trypho S. Just 〈◊〉 Triph. Tom. 2. they gladly endured the most horrible torments that men and divels could devise to inflict upon them rather than yeeld Sabbatha vestra solennes dies observare to keepe your Sabbaths and dayes of solemne assemblies which saith he could not hurt us were they not forbidden us by the doctrine and practice of the Apostles and Christ himselfe S. Just ad Anton But the observation of Sunday was so generally and religiously observed of all Christians that then was the common meeting of all qui vel in oppidis vel rure degunt both Citizens and Country men All sorts of Christians met on Sundayes and none on the Sabbath day but Jewes onely With what face then dare the Centurists vent such untruths that the keeping of the Lords day was a thing indifferent for two hundred yeeres And with what conscience dare they forge those to be false Apostles that were the bringers in of the observation of Feasts and particularly of the Lords day Or with what conscience dare they use the Martyrs of God members of Christs body so unworthily as to make the blessed Saints in heaven fellow heires with Christ Jesus meet vessels for the mysterie of iniquitie to begin to worke in who did no more than either was appointed by the Apostles and Apostolike men before themselves or was afterward confirmed by the Councell of Nice the Edicts of Constantine and his successours the Decrees of the Councell of Constantinople and other Synods as well in the Greeke as Latine Church in all succeeding ages Ob. But they say there is no place of Scripture to command the observation of the Lords day but onely the Tradition from the Apostles therefore the day may be altered Sol. Be it so yet as Chemnitius excellently saies though we be not bound by any necessity of law in Novo Testamento C●em Exam. de ●est 4. pars in the New Testament to observe the Lords day for solemne assemblies barbarica tamen petulantia yet were it barbarous saucinesse to refuse to observe the custome of the Apostles and Primitive Church For as Saint Augustine saies wherein the

solemne service of God because our Redeemer arose on that day and therefore it is called ever since dies Dominicus the Lords day ex illo caepit habere festivitatem and from the very Apostles time and from their constitution it began to be kept as a festivall day A festivall day what meane you by that Why à sanctis patribus constitutum mandatum saies the same Father it is a constitution and command received from our holy Fathers S. Aug serm 251. de temp that men should leave all worldly businesse on Saints daves maximè diebus Dominicis and especially on the Lords day that they may betake themselves wholly to the Lords service The first day of the week then is the Lords day appointed to be kept as a holy feast for the Lords service by the Apostles themselves in their owne time And this day which the Apostles call the Lords day S. Justin ora● ad Anton St. Justine Martyr an Apostolike man calls Sunday Solis autem die communiter omnes conventum agimus ad preces supplicationes on Sunday we all meet together to prayers and supplications because that is primus dies the first day on which our Saviour arose For he was crucified pridiè Saturni diei the day before Saturday and the next day after Saturday qui sc Solis est dies which is Sunday Apostolis Discipulis suis apparuit he appeared to his Apostles and Disciples And hereupon his Apostles and Disciples thought fit to appoint and command this day to be kept holy The Lords day then is by the Apostles so called and by this Apostolike man named Sunday and may fitly so be called because saies Saint Ambrose in eo ortus Sol justitiae illuminat S. Amb ser 61. the Sun of righteousnesse then arose that enlightneth every one of us The first day of the weeke then is the Lords day and Sunday And the Lords day was by the Apostles themselves in their owne time appointed for holy assemblies to meet on as on a feast day dedicated to the Lords service And so hath that day beene called and used ever since in the true Catholike Church of God for 1554. yeares together without interruption both in the Greeke and Latine Church What shall we thinke then of Knox and Whittingham Troubles at 〈◊〉 pag. 30. and their fellowes that in their letter to Calvin depart from the constitution ordinance and practice of the Apostles and Apostolike men and call not this day the Lords day or Sunday but with the pietie of Jeroboam make such a day of it as they have devised in their owne hearts to serve their owne turne and anabaptizing of it after the mind of some Jew hired to be the god-father thereof call it the Sabbath and so disguised with that name become both the first that so called it and the Testators that have so bequeathed it to their Disciples and Proselites to be observed accordingly It was full thirtie yeares before their children could turne their tongues from Sunday to hit on Sabbath and if the Gileadites that met with the Ephraimites before they could frame to pronounce Shibboleth had snapt these too before they had got their Sabbath by the end their counsell had brought much peace to the Church For this name Sabbath is not a bare name like a spot in their foreheads to know Labans sheepe from Jacobs but indeed it is a mysterie of iniquitie intended against the Church For allow them but their Sabbath and you must allow them the service that belongs to their Sabbath Then must you have no Letanie for that is no service for their Sabbath containing suffrages devised by Pope Gregory but for Sundayes nay Troubles at Frankf pag. 30. for Wednesdayes and Fridayes which must not so be used for sixe dayes thou must labour nay you must have no part of the Service in the Communion booke used for that is Service also for holy dayes Welph detemp● l. 2. c. 4. which are abominated as idolatricall being dedicated to Saints Well then the Sabbath must be yeelded them otherwise there will be no day left for God to be served on What Service then must you allow them for their Sabbath Why nothing but preaching How shall that be knowne Why out of their owne mouthes Thus soone after the Conventicle in London in 84. about the 31th yeare of the Sabbaths nativitie writeth one of them in his letter to some Superintendent amongst them to whom he gives an account of his Sabbaths exercise Ego singulis Sabbath is si non alius adveniens locum suppleat cum praescriptà Leiturgeias formulâ nihil habens commercit in caetu concionem habeo idque reverendorum fratrum consilio I preach every Sabbath in the congregation having nothing at all to doe with the order prescribed in the booke of Common Prayer and this he does not of his owne head but by the counsell of the reverend brethren delivered doubtlesse in that late Synode Now you see the Common Prayer booke which the Kings Majesties authority in causes Ecclesiasticall with the Convocation house have appointed and the Parliament the reunto assented is clean cast out of their Sabbath and no service allowed or used but preaching Marvaile not then at the casting out of lawfull sports their zeale could and did dispence with them well enough for a long time together as they of Genevah and the Low-countries even sitting the Synode of Dort did and still doe But the plot with us will not beare them for they must gaine elbow roome for their Sabbaths exercise or preaching falsely so called being for the most part as their hearers will justifie but violent discourses and personall invectives against the present State and settled lawes of the Land with the Governours thereby to get themselves magnified for the great power of God with Simon that having cryed downe all Lawes Ecclesiasticall and Temporall too in time that sute not with their Sabbath doctrine they may be able making their reliance on their inveigled thousands whereof they bragge to put their hands to their mouthes Mar. ju epiles and to say with him in the story Petition to his Majestie in 1603. Richard 2● Behold the fountaine from whence all lawes for governement of Church and Common wealth must shortly spring You see then what the plot was that bred and still keepes the name of Sabbath on foot that if St. John or the Apostles that first called and appointed the Lords day should come amongst them and happen to call it the Lords day they would quickly finde him to be none of their Tribe nor for their turne being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without his watch word of the Sabbath But if Justin that blessed Martyr should be so profane as to call it Sunday he would be in danger under their discipline to be martyred the second time for not adoring their idoll Sabbath as he was under Antonius for not worshipping Jupiter