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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85827	A discours apologetical; wherein Lilies lewd and lowd lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open; his shameful desertion of his own cause is further discovered; his shameless slanders fullie refuted; and his malicious and murtherous mind, inciting to a general massacre of Gods ministers, from his own pen, evidentlie evinced. Together with an advertisement concerning two allegations produced in the close of his postscript. And a postscript concerning an epistle dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie. By Tho. Gataker B.D. autor [sic] of the annotations on Jer. 10.2 and of the vindication of them.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing G319; Thomason E731_1; ESTC R202124	96,485	112

and the close answerable to either But Mr. G. saith he formerly a stiff Prelate I might demand of him if Mr. G. were ever a Prelate stiff or slack how or when was he deposed or by what means came he to be beref● of his Prelacy for now sure it is wel known he is none But to let that pass When he was such an one what then did he Why When he was such a Prelate he then impudentlie preached for the libertie of Sabbath sports Verie tru indeed if you take it in sensu composito it is a most certain and undeniable truth when he was the one he did the other But take it in sensu diviso as he intends here and doth that I was once a Prelate and that I did sometime so preach and the one is as tru as the other either of them a most shameful or shameless lie rather both as fals as God is tru But as he sometime said Qi semel verecundia fines transierit eum ben● gnaviter impudentem esse oportet When a man hath once gone beyond the bounds of truth and modestie it stands him upon then to break further out to grow impudent to the purpose and to lie beyond measure For what proof can he produce of Mr. G. so preaching or who ever heard him preach for Libertie of Sports on the Lords day or for Libertie to profane the Lords day in one kind or other Nor let anie take exception as some have done that I style it the Lords day rather then the Sabbath I remember a Speech of Dr. Oldisworth my worthie Friend living then in mine Honorable Patron the Lord Hobarts house as eager an urger of the strict observance of that day as the most upon occasion of discours of some debate then about it The day said he hath three Names in common use given it the Sunday the Sabbath day the Lords day The first an Heathenish name the second a Jewish the third a Christian and why should not said ●e this last be preferred before either of the former And the first indeed is a name that came at first from the Heathen yet is it found used by Justine Martyr in his Apologie to the Roman Emperor in behalf of the Christians mentioning it as the day of their meeting no● dare I utterlie condemn the use of it The Sunday for the name of a day the first day of the week as it is termed Acts 20. 7. anie more then Bethshemesh tho from an idolatrous or superstitious at least original the Suns house or place for the name of a Citie 1 Sam. 6. 12 13. The second may be termed Jewish because a term peculiar to them in times past but common to us now with them tho differing in the day and supposed by some to be by the Evangelist Matth 24. 20. used of our day which tho it seem not so probable yet may qestionless not unfitlie be used of it seeing it is and ought to be a day of holie rest unto us as was their Sabbath then to them Isa 58. 13. The third and last is the name peculiar to Christians not common either to Heathen or Jews with them that which the Lords beloved Disciple gives it the Lords Day Revel 1. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords day fanctified and set apart for the Lords service as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Table 1 Cor. 10. 21. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Supper consecrated and set apart for the memorial of Christ and by his Institution which to me therefore seems the fittest term for it But cal the day by which or whether term of them you please I have wheresoever I exercised my Ministerie as occasion was offered been a constant pleader for and ins●ant presser of the du observation of the day as that which I ever esteemed to be a main pillar and support of the practise yea a principal means both of the maintenance and advancement of the power of Pietie among Gods people It is a Rule prescribed by some of the great Masters of Physick Medicus m●rbos observet epidemios That a Physitian shoul observ what diseases ar rifest in the t●mes or places he lives in and applie his studies and courses princ pallie to the cure of them And according to that direction appliable to our Function considering the freqencie of abuses among people in mispending a great part of that day in most places where I came I did the rather usuallie bend my self in my teaching to disswade and deter those that I spake to from those abusive courses whereby I perceived the day or any part of it to be commonlie profaned by them To this purpose before I came to Lincolns Inn while I lodged in the House of that Religious Knight my worthy Friend and Kinsman Sir William Cook neer to Charing-Cross being reqested to Preach now and then at Martins in the Fields and having taken notice how the Gentrie manie of them thereabout spent much of the Lords day in Complemental Visitations I took occasion one day out of Isa 58. 13. to handle the Doctrine of the Sabbath or Lords day and among other things endeavored to shew That it was not to be spent in such Civil Complements but in Religious Imployments And this I remember the rather by a good token which it wil not be amiss to relate It fel out the Lords day next ensuing that an ancient Gentlewoman one of that Congregation being returned home from the Afternoon Exercise while she sat in an upper Room ripping off some Lace from an old Garment which she intended to make use of otherwise heard a Coach to make stay on the other side of the street and looking out at the Window to see whose it was when she espied a Ladie her Neece whom it staid for entring it to go abroad in it for such purpose Oh qoth she to her waiting Maid then attending upon her did not my Neece N. hear Mr. G. the last Lords day and is she now going out to visit again Whereupon one of that Familie afterward occasionallie meeting me thus merrilie saluted me Sir when you Preach next of the Sabbath be pleased to tel our Gentlewomen that they must not ●it ripping Gold-lace off their old Peticoats upon the Lords day and withal told me the storie But for which I should not in likelihood have called to mind again that Sermon being preached so long since At my coming to Lincolns Inn there was on the Lords day one Lecture onelie at seven in the morning nor had there been anie other before There being setled some space of time when I observed that divers of the great practisers spent a great if not the greatest part of the day the Afternoon especiallie in entertaining of their Clients I took occasion in my teaching to step a little aside out of the road I was then in to speak somewhat of that subject endeavoring to shew them That it was as lawful for

therefore evil or to be condemned because there is a Lot in them Yea but tho I did not preach for Morrice dances and May-games yet I did impudentlie Preach for Carding and Dicing on the Lords day For so much do this calumniaters words import That I preached impudentlie for Sabbath sports as Cards and Dice c. So by his Et Caetera indeed shewing himself not unwilling to have those other also understood I need say no more here but sit liber judex Let my Book decide it that my Treatise of Lots I mean wherein that may be found which I shal here thence transcribe directlie opposite to either Chap. 9. where I give Cautions for Game in general Sect. 4. p. 293. 295. Pag. 293. Recreations are to be used as soberlie so seasonablie Recreation is good when it is seasonable when it comes in his du time els as it is with fish and fowl when they come out of season that is evil that is good otherwise Now then do men use Game and Recreation unseasonablie when they should and ought to be otherwise employed either in the works of their special Callings or about the holy things of God to wit as it foloweth more particularlie and fullie Pag. 295. when they should be tending the holie things of God either in publick or in private And thus it is a sin to follow game on the Sabbath as the Jews used to do and do yet to this day and as the Popish sort ar noted ordinarilie to solemnize their Festivals For this is not to sanctifie or consecrate the Sabbath as holie to the Lord. The Sabbath indeed is a day of rest but of holie rest of rest not to worldlie recreations but to heavenlie meditations of rest to religious and spiritual employments It is sacriledge therefore to folow game on the Sabbath at such time as we 〈…〉 ould be plying the service and worship of God it is time stoln from God that we spend so on our sports Which it were less sin therefore for us to spend on some serious affairs according to that which one of the Ancients wel saith Melius est Die Sabbati arare qam saltare Melius totâ die foderent qam totâ die luderent It were better for a man in such manner on the Sabbath to plough then to play and to dig and delv then to dance all day For the lighter the occasion of sinning is where all other things are eq●l the greater the sin is Where I cite also among others in the Margin the words of Robert Grosthed ancientlie Bishop of Lincoln on the Decalog Dies t 〈…〉 à Christiano expendi debet in operibus sanctis The whole Lords day Christian people ought to spend in holie employments And this as it was at first both preached Anno 1618. and printed Anno 1619. which was not long after that Book of Libertie or Licentiousness rather came abroad so it was in the yeer 1627. reprinted in a second Edition with Addition and Emendation of some things but without anie Retractation Subtraction Qalification or Alteration of ought in this point And let this therefore remain as an impudent calumnie of a shameless Sycophant upon record That Mr. G. Preached impudentlie for Libertie of Sabbath Sports But this saith he Mr. G. did formerlie when he was a Prelate Of some Province it may be in Sir Thomas Mores Vtopia where Mr. L. in a trance be-like being there one of his Auditors heard him preach thus But afterwards to wit since he either left or lost his Prelates place in hope of Bishops Deans or Chapters Lands he became a pretended Presbyterian He would at least have men believ that I was sometime Prelatical but have of late turned my coat or my copie and gaping after some fat gobbets of the Bishops or Deans Lands pretended to be a Presbyterian A calumnie as fals as its Father is or as his former Brat hath been convinced to be And such as he shall never be able to make good tho his Master that sets him on work joyn with him in it For my judgment concerning Church-Government it is the same stil that ever it was since I first began to enqire into matters of that nature A dulie bounded and wel regulated Prelacie joined with a Presbyterie wherein one as President Superintendent or Moderator term him what you please whether annual or occasional or more constant and continual either in regard of yeers or parts or both joyntlie hath some preeminence above the rest yet so as that he doth nothing without joint consent of the rest a module or patern whereof I am enformed to have been sometime represented unto the late King by two worthy persons men of eminent parts and moderate mindes the one a Prelate the other in some kind Prelatical which had it been accepted and established how advantagious it might have proved it is not for me to define but as is reported was then disallowed and rejected by some great Prelates and others by whom the King was most swayed Such a manner of Prelacie I say I never durst nor yet dare condemn But such a Prelatical power as was here constituted and exercised among us wherein Bishops and Arch-deacons were enabled and ordinarilie used by their Chancellors Officials and Surrogates mostlie meer Civilians assuming to them anie sorie felow in Orders to fit by as a cipher or a shadow to pass the highest and heaviest of all Church-Censures besides Civil Penalties in their Purses on the Persons both of Pastors and People and for trifles and trivial things meer matters of Ceremonie oft-times silence suspend and deprive while scandalous idle or insufficient ones were little regarded or looked after Visitations being by either usuallie held once onelie in a yeer and then rather of Cours and Custom or to receiv Procurations then to anie effectual Reformation of ought Such a Prelatical power so constituted and so executed I never could effect or approv and trulie much less when I came to see the manner of it which I had heard too much of before when living so long in a Pastoral Charge I never in all my time saw the face of a Bishop personallie present in Court or Arch-deacon but once tho both constantlie exacting Fees of us And observed how things were shuffled up when Presentments were made and in that manner managed without anie cours taken to bring anie Delinqent to a serious sight of or sincere sorow for his sin that their Visitations might wel be deemed to be held as one ancientlie complained Non tam morum qam nummorum gratiâ Rather to emptie mens Purses then to mend their manners And my judgment thus formed I accordinglie passed my vote and gave my consent with others for the removal of that Bodie of Government that was then established with us Yet which I then also did not forbear to profess as wel in deliverie of mine own sense as in endeavor to give satisfaction to others seeking to me for