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A69197	The white wolfe, or, A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Feb. 11 being the last Sonday in Hillarie tearme, anno 1627, and printed somewhat more largely then the time would permit at that present to deliuer wherein faction is vnmasked, and iustly taxed without malice, for the safetie of weake Christians : especially, the Hetheringtonian faction growne very impudent in this citie of late yeeres, is here confuted / by Stephen Denison...	Denison, Stephen, d. 1649 or 50.	1627 (1627)	STC 6607.5; ESTC S109591	56,251	87

in resting vpon the seauenth day from all his workes of Creation binde the Iewes and not vs Gentiles are not wee bound to be imitators of God as deare children as well as they or any other Ephes 5. 1. Fourthly shall it be an argument to perswade the Iewes to keepe the Sabbath because God hath blessed and sanctified it that is hath ordained it to be a day of blessing to the conscionable obseruers of it and hath set it apart from common labour to holy vse and shall it not be an argument to perswade vs haue not we as much neede of Gods blessing as the Iewes haue not wee cause to feare to deuoure that which is sanctified as well as the Iewes Thus we see all the reasons in the fourth Commandement are morall which doe plainly demonstrate the Commandement it selfe to be morall Now if any shall obiect that in Deut. 5. 15. where God presseth the obseruation of the Sabbath with a reason seeming to be peculiar to the Hebrewes namely because he had brought them out of Aegypt I answer that doth no more infringe the moralitie of the fourth Commandement then the generall Praeface praefixed before the ten Commandements I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Aegypt and out of the house of seruants doth infringe the moralitie of the rest of the morall Law Secondly there was something also signified in this reason I brought thee out of the land of Aegypt to wit the great benefit of redemption which bindes the Gentiles as well as the Iewes in way of thankfulnesse to celebrate the Sabbath day to Gods glory Reasons prouing against Hetherington and other Familists that the Lords day ought to be kept for the Christian Sabbath THat the Lords day ought to be celebrated for the Christians Sabbath and that by vertue of the moralitie of the fourth Commandement it is apparent by diuers Arguments First because the morall Law is not abrogated by the Gospell but established Rom 3. 31. which proues that tenet of Hetherington to be false to wit that the Lords day since the Apostles time was of no force Secondly because it is written in the very hearts of men that they ought to celebrate that day as appeares by the secret checkes that they finde in their consciences when they doe prophane it and by the sweet comforts which they feele when they keepe it in an holy manner Thirdly this blessed day hath bin obserued by all Christian Churches it was kept at Hierusalem Act. 2. 1. it was kept at Troas Act. 20. 7. it was kept in Patmos Reuel 1. 10. it was kept in the regions of Galatia 1 Cor 16. 1. 2. Fourthly the ancient Fathers haue pressed the obseruation of the Lords day vpon the Church in their seuerall ages c Epist ad magnesi●s Ignatius saith let euery one which loueth Christ celebrate the Lords day e Ser. 251. de tempor Saint Augustine doth greatly presse the strict obseruation of the Lords day that men should vpon that day be separated from worldly businesses and that they should attend vpon Gods publike worship that they should not sit idling at home when others goe to Church that they should not giue themselues to hunting vpon that day or to loud laughters c. c In 1. cap. Isaiae Saint Basil saith when as almost all dayes prescribed by the Law are abolished yet there remaineth one great day of the Lord which shall neuer be abolished but shall remaine to the end of the world e Lib. 7. de diuin offic Rupertus saith the Lord hath made this day to be the solemnitie of Solemnities because the noblenesse of this solemnitie excelleth all other solemnities g Lib. 4. aduers Marcion Tertullian saith that Christ hath made the Sabbath more holy by his benefaction it being holy from the beginning by his fathers benediction i Hom. 7. in 15. c. exod Saint Origen doth in like manner not onely equalize but also farre preferre the Christians Lords day before the Iewes Sabbath n Enchir. Luther blesseth God for setting apart a peculiar day for the vse of his ordinances yea o Lib. 2. instit c. 8. Sect. 32. Caluin himselfe saith vnlesse a certaine time were set apart for the worship of God all would runne to ruine and confusion speedily and ineuitably Here I am as the learned know in a large field I might be very copious in quotations both out of the ancient Fathers and moderne writers but I must be briefe for diuers reasons Fiftly the r Homilie of the place and time of prayer Church of England hath these words in one of the Homilies God hath giuen expresse charge to all men that vpon the Sabbath day which is now our Sunday they cease from all weekely and work-day labour to the intent that like as God himselfe wrought six dayes and rested the seauenth and blessed and sanctified it and consecrated it to quietnesse and rest from labour euen so Gods obedient people should vse the Sunday holily and rest from their common and daily businesse and also giue themselues wholly to heauenly exercises of Gods true religion and seruice So that God doth not onely command the obseruation of this holy day but also by his owne example doth stirre and prouoke to diligent keeping of the same The which I haue noted first because the Hetheringtonians hold as it is well knowne that the Christians Sabbath is grounded vpon no precept in all Gods word whereas the Homily saith that God hath commanded the obseruation of this holy day Secondly because some not well affected would cry downe all stricktnesse in obseruing this day as Iewish wherein they doe not symphonize with their mother for what obseruation of the Sabbath can be more holily strict then that which is prescribed in the Homily to wit that we should cease from all weekely labour and giue our selues wholly to heauenly exercises of Gods true religion and seruice We are prone by corruption of nature to take libertie of our selues Si non satis insa●iat instiges eum apud Terent. we neede not be taught it non opus est calcaribus sed frano Sixtly God hath shewed fearfull iudgements vpon prophaners of the Lords day as you may read in the Practice of Pietie a certaine husbandman grinding Corne vpon the Lords day had all his meale burned to ashes another carrying Corne vpon the same day had his Barne and all his Corne the next night burned A couetous Flaxwoman at Kingstat in France in the yeere 1559. vsing with her maidens to worke in her trade vpon the Lords day her flax in an extraordinary manner tooke fire the same day burnt her house and so scorched her selfe and two of her children that they all of them dyed the next day Stratford vpon Auon was twise almost consumed with fire in one yeere and the like iudgement was shewed vpon Teuerton in Deuonshire both which townes were knowne to suffer

much prophanation of the Sabbath In the yeere 1582. Ian. 13. being the Lords day the scaffolds in Parisgarden fell vnder the people at a Bearebaiting so that eight were sodainly slaine and many others hurt and maimed Also a certain Nobleman vsually prophaning the Sabbath by hunting had a childe by his Lady which had an head like a dogs head with eares and iawes answerable making also a noise when it cried like an Hound In like manner a woman as I am informed preparing a paire of stockings for the market vpon the Lords day with a pan of coales at Parshore in the Countie of Worcester her house was burnt and two and twenty more vpon the same day It is certaine there were so many houses burnt and that vpon the Lords day for that appeares by the Briefe which was gathered at the Churches And that the fire came by this meanes some that then dwelt in the towne said vnto mee that they would be deposed of the truth of it All which may be faire warnings to forewarne not onely prophaners of the Sabbath but also all such as by their pernicious doctrine teach men to prophane it Seauenthly there is infinite necessitie of a Lords day or Sabbath First for the rest of poore Seruants and Cattell which otherwise might sinke vnder the burden of vncessant labour Secondly for the sanctification of euery one of vs how worldly minded should the best of vs grow if we had not the Sabbath to take of our hearts from the world Thirdly for the instruction of the ignorant what instruction haue many thousands in this Kingdome and elsewhere but onely that which they receiue vpon the Sabbath day Fourthly for Gods worship and publike seruice when is God publikely worshipped in the Countrey ordinarily but vpon the Sabbath Obiections against the Sabbath answered HAuing thus proued the Moralitie of the Sabbath come we now to answer the Obiections which the Familists and their adherents bring to infringe the same First 1. Obiection you keepe not say they the same day which the Iewes kept and therefore you grant by your owne practise that the Law of the Sabbath is not Morall I answer they might as truely say our practise in receiuing the Lords Supper in the morning doth proue that that blessed Sacrament is abolished because wee obserue not the same circumstance of time We keepe not indeede the Iewish Saturday as the Thraskites but we celebrate the Lords day the Sabbath being not abolished but altered from the Saturday to the Sonday and that by order from Christ himselfe who immediately before his ascension instructed his Apostles in things belonging to the Kingdome of God Acts 1. 3. and the Sabbath I hope is one speciall thing belonging to Gods kingdome yea our Sauiour taught vs by his owne example to celebrate this day appearing to his Disciples after his resurrection especially vpon it Iohn 20. 19. 26. Moreouer the example of the Apostles themselues which celebrated this day Iohn 20. 19. 26. should be a forcible motiue vnto vs to doe the like for wee are bound to follow them as they follow Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. and the occasion of the alteration of the Sabbath was extraordinary namely the resurrection of our Lord which fel out not vpon the Iewish Saturday but vpon our Sonday Mat. 28. 1. an occasion which may very well deserue the honor of the day before that of Gods resting frō the works of creation although both the occasiōs are very renowned Secondly 2. Obiection whereas they obiect that in Exod. 31. 13 14 15 16. and Ezek 20. 12. where the Sabbath is tearmed a signe I answer euery caeremonie is a signe but euery signe is not a caeremonie The Sacraments are signes Rom. 4. 11. and yet not fading caeremonies Thirdly whereas they obiect that in Col. 2. 16. Let no man iudge you in respect of Sabbaths 3. Obiect and that in Gal. 4. 10 11. Ye obserue dayes and times and moneths and yeares I am in feare of you I answer by Sabbaths in those places are meant certaine caeremoniall dayes amongst the Iews viz. their feast of Tabernacles their new Moones and the like for these are tearmed Sabbaths Leuit. 23. 24. and the Apostle doth sufficiently expresse himselfe to intend such dayes and not the morall Sabbath naming new Moones and other caeremoniall times The like may be answered vnto that in Rom. 14. 5. one man esteemeth one day aboue another another man esteemeth euery day alike c. It is not meant that the Church made no difference in those times between the Lords day and any other day as the Familists would peruert it but that they which were better informed then others made no difference betweene the ancient Caeremoniall dayes which were now abolished and other common dayes Fourthly 4. Obiect whereas they alleadge that in Mat. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. and Mar. 2. 23. as though our Sauiour had defended the breach of the Sabbath so by consequence had abrogated it I answer it is the scope of our Sauiour in those places to defend the lawfulnesse of works of mercy and works of necessitie and not in any sort to plead for the abrogation of the Sabbath much lesse of the Lords day Fiftly 5. Obiect whereas they obiect that in Iohn 5. 8. where our Sauiour commands a manifest seruile worke to be done vpon the Sabbath namely the carrying of a Bed I answer the carrying of the Bed in that place is not commanded as a seruile worke but to confirme the truth of a Miracle tending greatly to Gods glory euen as our Sauiour commanded to giue meat to the Damosell whom he raised from death Luk. 8. 55. not so much for necessity as for the confirmatiō of the truth of the Miracle wrought vpon her Sixtly 6. Obiect whereas they obiect that in Heb. 4. 3. 9. we that haue beleeued doe enter into rest whereby it might seeme that the Sabbath of Christians or their rest is meerely mysticall I answer that place of Scripture doth not treat of the morall Sabbath as though that were mysticall but of our eternal rest in heauen whereinto we enter at our death by faith in Christ Iesus Seauenthly 7. Obiect whereas they obiect that in Luke 24. 13. 23. 33. where Cleophas and the other Disciple went to Emmaus which was sixtie surlongs from Hierusalem that is about seauen miles a mile consisting of eight furlongs and returned againe the same day which was vpon that day which we call the Lords day and therefore that they made no such scruple of working or trauelling vpon the Lords day as we doe I answer it was not knowne to all the Disciples this being the very day of Christ his resurrection that they ought to celebrate the first day of the weeke and therefore it was no maruell if they trauelled vpon that day The good women which made scruple to annoint the body of Christ vpon the Sabbath made no