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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17292	A brief answer to a late Treatise of the Sabbath day digested dialogue-wise between two divines, A. and B.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1635 (1635)	STC 4137.7; ESTC S4551	27,721	34

A brief ANSWER to a late Treatise OF THE SABBATH DAY Digested Dialogue-wise between two Divines A. and B. A. BRother you are happily mett B. And you Brother also A. I would I might spend an houre or two with you in private conference in a point wherein I have of late been not a little perplexed B. Why what is the matter Brother A. Have you not seene a late Treatise of the Sabbath Day pubished by an eminent Antistes in this Church B. Yes I have both seene and perused it A. I pray you what thinke you of it B. I thinke it is a very dangerous Booke A. What meane you by that B. I 〈…〉 to the Author if it were well examined before 〈…〉 A. How so I pray you B. Because it overthrowes the doctrine of the Church of England in the point of the Sabbath A. Pardon mee that seemes to mee impossible B. VVhy A. Because hee sayth expresly in the very title page of his booke that it contayneth A Defence of the Orthodox all Doctrine of the Church of England against Sabbatarian novelty And therefore I am confident hee will looke to make that good B. But be not too confident you know the Proverbe Fronti rara fides The fowlest causes may have the fairest pretences A. That is true you say But yet I cannot be perswaded that so great a Personage would so farre overshoot as to give that advantage to those whom hee makes his adversaries Nay you know his Booke is dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury by whose direction and that according to his sacred Majesties command hee was set upon this worke both for the preventing of mischief as himself sayth in his Epistle dedicatory to the sayd Archbishop and to settle the Kings good subjects who have long time been distracted about Sabbatarian questions Now if hee mayntaine not but as you say overthrow the doctrine of the Church of England hee will have small thanks from his sacred Majestie for his paines who is the Defender of the Faith of the Church of England and hath often solemnely protested and that in his publike Declarations in print that hee will never suffer therein the least innovation And what thanks then can hee expect from the Archbishop trow you And in stead of preventing hee will pull on greater mischiefs and in stead of setling the Kings good subjects hee will fill their minds with greater distractions And therefore Brother in so saying you lay a heavy charge upon him It s dangerous so to charge a person of that dignity and esteeme in the world Take heed therefore what you say You know also that hee is a great Scholar deeply learned a reverend Father of the Church so as his judgment is taken almost for an Oracle And you know also what is sayd in a late Booke allowed by authority that the holy Fathers in God the Bishops are to be guides in Divinity unto the whole Clergy of inferior order so as all Priests are to submit unto their Godly iudgements in all matters pertayning unto Religion And the reason is given because the Fathers of the Church now and alwayes doe in the great mystery of Godlinesse comprehend many things which the common people doe not yea also some things which Ministers of the inferior order doe not apprehend So as it is expected of those holy Prelates that wee must lay our hand on our mouth when they speake and be altogether regulated by their profound Dictates B. I remember well the booke And I cannot but wonder that those passages were not expunged with many others when the booke was called in and then the second time published You know wee live in a learned age and wee deny the Popes infallibility or that it can convey it self as from the head and so confine it self within the veines of the bodie of the Prelacy or that a Rotchet can conferre this grace ex opere operato And beleeve mee Brother when wee see such a Papall spirit begin to perke up in this our Church is it not high time trow you to looke about us Shall wee stumble at noone day and in this Meridian of the Gospell close up our eyes and become the sworne vasalls of blind obedience No no. In this case therefore were Goliah himself the Champion I would by Gods grace try a fall with him A. Brother such a resolution had need have a good ground to stand upon And being a matter of such moment it requires our best zeale and strength especially to vindicate the doctrine of our reverend Mother the Church of England which wee have sucked from her purer breasts Nor onely so but to vindicate her name from reproach For if it be so as you have sayd that the doctrine of our Church is by that booke overthrowne then consequently as I conceive shee must deeply suffer and be wounded through the sides of those whom hee so often in his booke brandeth with the odious name of Novell Sabbatarians B. Brother you conceite a right For in truth all those calumnious and odious termes which hee gives to those whose opinions except Brabournes onely hee impugneth in his Treatise as venimous serpents noysome Tares pestilent weeds and uncleane beasts termes to be abhorred of all true Christians and in a word Novell Sabbatarians they all result upon our deare Mother the Church of England For who are the most of those or rather all whom hee thus stigmatizeth Are they not or were they not in their time the true bred children of the Church of England all unanimously professing and maintayning her Orthodox doctrines Can therefore the mother be free when her pious sonnes are so traduced and reproached and that for defending those very doctrines which by her meanes they sucked from the breasts of both the Testaments A. That must needs follow I confesse Now then I pray you satisfy my earnest desire in this by declaring how hee overthrowes the doctrine of the Church of England in this point of the Sabbath B. I will make it most cleare unto you Now the doctrine of the Church of England concerning the Sabbath is most clearely and fully set forth in the Booke of Homilies which Booke the 35 Article to which all wee Ministers doe subscribe doth commend as contayning a Godly and whole some doctrine and necessary for these times and therefore judged to be read in Churches by the Ministers diligently and distinctly that they may be understanded of the people Now the Homilie of the time and place of prayer part 1. sheweth that our Lords Day is grounded upon the fourth Commandement in the Decalogue in these words Whatsoever is found in the Commandement appertaining to the Law of nature as a thing most Godly most just and needfull for the setting forth of Gods glory it ought to be retained and kept of all good Christian people And therefore by this Commandement wee ought to have a time as one day in the weeke wherein wee ought to