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A64661	The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1658 (1658)	Wing U188; ESTC R24649	53,942	189

of the Pagans put together did come short of fifty Ethnicis semel annuus dies quisque festus est tibi octavo quoque die Excerpe singulas solemnitates nationum in ordinem texe Pentecosten implere non potuerunt And yet as I said that they accounted Satturday more holy and requiring more respect from them than the other ordinary dayes of the week may be seen by that of Tibullus Eleg. 3. lib. 1. Aut ego sum causatus aves aut omina dira Saturni SACRA me tenuisse die And that of Lucian in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of boyes getting leave to play 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that of Aelius Lampridius touching Alexander Severus using to go unto the Capitols and other Temples upon the seventh day Whereunto we may adde those verses of the ancient Greek Poets alleadged by Clemens Alexandrinus lib. 5. Stromat and Eusebius lib. 13. Praeparat Evangelic which plainly shew that they were not ignorant that the works of Creation were finished on the seventh day for so much doth that verse of Linus intimate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And that of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And that of Callimachus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Israelites by the Law of Moses were not only to observe their weekly Sabbath every seventh day but also their feast of weekes once in the year Which although by the vulgar use of the Jewish nation it may now fall upon any day of the week yet do the Samaritans untill this day constantly observe it on the first day of the week which is our Sunday For which they produce the Letter of the Law Levit. 23. 15 16. where the feast of the first fruits otherwise called Pentecost or the feast of weeks is prescribed to be kept the morrow after the seventh Sabbath which not they onely but also amongst our Christian Interpreters Isychius and Rupertus do interpret to be the first day of the week Planiùs saith Isychius Legislator intentionem suam demonstrate volens ab altero die Sabbati memor ari praecepit quinquaginta dies Dominicum diem proculdubiò volens intelligi Hic enim est altera dies Sabbati in hâc enim resurrectio facta est qua hebdomadae numerantur septem usque ad alterum diem expletionis hebdomadae Dominicâ rursus die Pentecostes celebramus festivitatem in quâ Sancti Spiritus adventum meruimus Where you may observe by the way that although this Authour made a little bold to strain the signification of altera dies Sabbati which in Moses denoteth no more than the morrow after the Sabbath yet he maketh no scruple to call the day of Christs Resurrection another Sabbath day as in the Councel of Friuli also If I greatly mistake not the matter you shall find Satturday called by the name of Sabbatum ultimum and the Lords day of Sabbatum primum with some allusion perhaps to that of St. Ambrose in Psal. 47. Ubi Dominica dies caepit praecellere quâ Dominus resurrexit Sabbatum quod primum erat secundum haberi caepit à primo not much unlike unto that which Dr. Heylin himself noteth out of Scaliger of the Aethiopian Christians that they call both of them by the name of Sabbaths the one the first the other the latter Sabbath or in their own Language the one Sanbath Sachristos i. e. Christs Sabbath the other Sanbath Judi or the Jews Sabbath But touching the old Pentecost it is very considerable that it is no where in Moses affixed unto any one certain day of the moneth as all the rest of the feasts are which is a very great presumption that it was a moveable feast and so varied that it might alwayes fall upon the day immediately following the ordinary Sabbath And if God so order the matter that in the celebration of the feast of weeks the seventh should purposely be passed over and that solemnity should be kept upon the first what other thing may we imagine could be praesignified thereby but that under the State of the Gospel the solemnity of the weekly service should be celebrated upon that day That on that day the famous Pentecost in the 2. of the Acts was observed is in a manner generally acknowledged by all wherein the truth of all those that went before being accomplished we may observe the type and the verity concurring together in a wonderfull manner At the time of the Passeover Christ our Passeover was slain for us the whole Sabboth following he rested in the grave The next day after that Sabbath the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or sheaf of the first fruits of the first or barly Harvest was offered unto God and Christ rose from the dead and became the first fruits of them that slept many bodies of the Saints that slept arising likewise after him From thence was the count taken of the seven Sabbaths and upon the more after the seventh Sabbath which was our Lords day was celebrated the feast of weeks the day of the first fruits of the second or wheat Harvest upon which day the Apostles having themselves received the first fruits of the spirit begat three thousand Soules with the word of truth and presented them as the first fruits of the Christian Church unto God and unto the Lamb. And from that time forward doth Waldensis note that the Lords day was observed in the Christian Church in the place of the Sabbath Quia inter legalia saith he tunc sublata Sabbati castodia fuit unum planum est tunc intrâsse Dominicam loco ejus sicut Baptisma statim loco Circumcisionis Adhuc enim superstes erat sanctus Johannes qui diceret Et fui in spiritu die Dominicâ Apocal. 1. cùm de Dominicâ die ante Christi Resurrection nulla prorsùs mentio haberetur Sed statim post missionem Spiritus sancti lege novâ fulgente in humano cultu sublatum est Sabbatum dies Dominicae Resurrectionis clarescebat Dominica The Revelation exhibited unto St. John upon the Lords day is by Irenaeus in his fifth book referred unto the Empire of Domitian or as S. Hierome in his Catalogue more particularly doth expresse it to the fourth yeare of his Reigne Which answereth partly to the forty ninth and partly to the ninty fifth year of our Lord according to our vulgar computation and was but eleven or twelve yeares before the time when Ignatius did write his Epistles Of whom then should we more certainly learn what the Apostle meant by the Lords day then from Ignatius who was by the Apostles themselves ordained Bishop of that Church wherein the Disciples were first called Christians and in his Epistle to the Magnesians clearly maketh the Lords day to be a weekly holy day observed by Christians in the room of the abrogated Sabbath of the Jews than which can we desire more But here you are to know beside the common edition wherein