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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07972	An ample declaration of the Christian doctrine. Composed in Italian by the renowned Cardinal: Card. Bellarmine. Translated into English by Richard Hadock D. of Diuinitie	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Hadock, Richard.	1604 (1604)	STC 1834; ESTC S112872	82,203	278

that go before and the seauen which follow are wholy natural and bind not only Christians but Iewes and Gentils also but this third is in part natural and bindeth all men in part is not natural neither bindeth it al for that to sanctifie the feasts that is to haue some daies for holie to be spent in holie works chiefly in the seruice of God is a naturall precept for that natural reason teacheth it to al men and so in al partes of the world some day is obserued festiual But the ordaining of such a day that is that it should be one rather then an other is not natural And therefore with the Iewes the principal feast was Saturdaye with Christians it is the Sunday S For what cause did God command that the Iewes should obserue the Saturday rather then anie other day M There are two principal reasons The first is because on the Saturday God finished the frame of the world and therefore he would that day should be sāctified in memory of this great benefite of the creation of the world Which serued also to conuince the error of certaine Philosophers who said that the world had alwaies bene for that celebrating the feast in memorie of the creation of the world it must needs be confessed that the worlde had a beginning The second reason is because a man hauing caused his seruants and hand-maides and his cattle to worke and wearie themselues sixe daies of the weeke God would that the seauenth daye which is the Saturday the same seruants maides yea his Oxealso and Asse should repose and that masters should learne to bee pittifull towardes their laborers and not to bee cruell but to haue compassion also of their very bruit beastes S What is the cause that we Christians do not obserue the Saturday as the Iewes doe seeing there is so good reason to obserue it M With great reasō god hath changed the Saterday into the Sunday as hee hath also done Circumcision into Baptisme the Paschal lambe into the blessed Sacrament al other good thinges of the old Testament into better thinges in the new Testament Wherefore if the Saturday was celebrated in memorie of the creation of the worlde because in that day the worke of the creation was ended with more reason the Sunday is celebrated in memorie of the same creation for that in the sunday the said creation was begune and if the Iewes did geue to God the last day of the weeke then Christians do better who geue him the first Moreouer vpon the Sunday memorie is made of three principal benefites of our Redemption For Christ was borne on the sunday on sunday he rose and vpon Sunday he sent the Holie Ghost to his Apostles Finally the Saturday did signifie the repose which the holie soules had in Limbo the Sunday signifieth the glorie which the holie souls haue now and the bodies shal haue hereafter in heauen And therefore the Iewes did celebrate the Saterday because when they died they went to repose in Limbo but christians celebrate the sunday because when they dye they go vnto the glorious blisse of heauen which yet is vnderstood if they haue done wel according to the holie Law which God hath geuen them S Is it necessarie to obserue other feastes besides the Sunday M It is necessarie to obserue manie other feasts as well of our Lord as of our Ladie and of other Sainctes to wit al those which are commanded by holie Church But we haue spoken in particular of the Sunday because it is the most ancient and oftner celebrared then anie other As amongst the Iewes there were also manie feaste● but the most ancient most frequent and the greatest of al was the Sabboth And therefore in the ten commādements there is not expresse mention made of anie but of the Sabbaoth to which as we haue said the Sunday hath succeeded S What ought to be done to obserue the feastes M Two things are necessarie the first is to bstaine from seruil works which are those that seruants and artificers are accustomed to do who labour most specially with their bodies For those workes in which the vnderstanding doth principally labour cannot be called seruil though for helpe of the vnderstanding the tongue the hand or anie other corporal member be vsed The second thing is that in the commanded feastes we are bound to be present at the holie Sacrifice of Masse And albeit holie Church bindeth vs to no more yet is it conuenient that we spend the whole day of the feast or the greatest part thereof in prayer and spiritual reading in visiting Churches in hearing sermons and in doing like holie exercises for this is the end for which feastes were instituted S If seruil workes may not be done on the festiual dayes thē belles may not be rongue the table may not be made readie much lesse meate be dressed for al these are seruil workes M The commandement of not doing seruile works is vnderstood with two conditions The first that they bee not necessary to mans life and therefore it is permitted to dresse meate to make ready the table and such like that can not bee done the day before The second that they be not necessary for the seruice of God for which it is allowed to ring the Bels and to doe other workes in the Church that cānot be done another day And besides these conditions it is also lawfull to do seruile workes vpon the holie day when licence is granted by the Prelate for reasonable cause Of the fourth Commandement S THe fourth Commandement followeth which is of honoring our father and mother I desire to know wherefore the commandement of honoring our father mother is the first in the second table M The commandements of the second table belong to our neighbour as those of the first belong to God And because amongst all neighbours our father and mother are most neere to vs to whom wee are moste bounde as of whom wee haue our being and our life which is the foundation of all our temporall good thinges therefore with great reason the second table beginneth with the honour of our father and mother S What is vnderstood by this honour which is due to our father and mother M Three thinges are vnderstood helpe obedience reuerence First wee are bound to helpe assist our father mother in their necessities And this helpe in holy Scriptures is called honour And it is great reasō that children hauing receiued life of their father mother should procure to preserue vnto them the same life Further wee are bounde to obey our father mother as S. Paul saith in all things in our Lorde that is in all things which are conformable to the will of our Lord for that when our father or mother commandeth vs any thing which is contrary to the wil of God then we must according to the commaundemente of Christ hate our father and mother that is not