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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	continual_a	day_n	feast_n	1,032	5	9.4110	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03146	The history of the Sabbath In two bookes. By Pet. Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1636 (1636)	STC 13274; ESTC S104023	323,918	504

abuse this Scripture in the times before and made it an unlawfull matter for any man to walke into the fields or to see his gardens on the sabbath day either to marke what things they wanted or how well they prospered because this was to do his owne pleasure and so forbidden by the Prophet But those that understand the true Christian sabbath apply them to a better purpose as was shewed before And for the Christian sabbath what it is and in what things it doth consist besides what hath beene said already wee shall adde something more from the ancient Fathers If any man saith Iustin Martyr that hath beene formerly a perjured person Dial. ●um T●yphon a deceiver of his Neighbours an incontinent liver repents him of his sinnes and amends his life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that man doth keepe a true and holy Sabbath to the Lord his God See to this purpose also Clemens of Alexandria Strom. l. 4. So Origen Tr●ct 19 in Math. Omnis qui vivit in Christo semper in sabbatis vivit That man whose life is hid with Christ in God keeps a daily Sabbath See to that purpose Hom. 23. in Numbers H●m ●5 Macarius tells us also that the Sabbath given from God by Moses was a Type onely and a shadow of that reall Sabbath Hom. 39. in Math. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 given by the Lord unto the soule More fully Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. What use saith hee is there of a Sabbath to him whose conscience is a continuall feast to him whose conversation is in Heaven For now we feast it every day doing no manner of wickednesse but keeping a spirituall rest holding our hands from covetousnesse our bodies from uncleannesse What need we more The Law of righteousnesse containes ten Commandements The first to know one God the second to abstaine from Idols the third not to prophane Gods Name Hom 49. in Ma●h 24. the fourth Sabbatum celebrare spirituale to keepe the true spirituall Sabbath c. So hee that made the Opus imperfectum on Saint Matthews Gospell Saint Augustine finally makes the fourth Commandement De conven 10. p●aec 10. p●a●arum so farre as it concernes us Christians to be no more then requies cordis tranquillitas mentis quam facit bona conscientia the quiet of the heart and the peace of minde occasioned by a good conscience Of any other Sabbath to bee looked for now the Fathers utterly are silent and therefore we may well resolue there is no such thing 10 Yet notwithstanding this the Iewes still dote upon their Sabbath and that more sottishly and with more superstition farre then they ever did A view wherof I shall present and so conclude the first part of this present argument And first for the Parasceves or their Eues Buxdorfius thus informes us of their vaine behaviour Die Veneris singuli ungues de digitis abscindunt c. On Friday in the afternoone they pare their nailes and whet their knives Synag Iu●● c. 10 and lay their holyday-clothes in readinesse for the reception of Queen Sabbath for so they call it and after lay the cloth and set on their meat that nothing be to be done upon the morrow About the evening goes the Sexton from door to door cōmanding all the people to abstain from work and to make ready for the Sabbath That done they take no worke in hand Onely the women when the Sunne is neere its setting light up their Sabbath-lamps in their dining roomes and stretching out their hands towards them give them their blessing and depart To morrow they beginne their Sabbath very early and for entrance thereunto array themselues in their best clothes and their ri●hest jewels it being the conceit of Rabbi Solomon that th● memento in the front of the fourth Commandement was placed there especially to put the Iewes in minde of their holy-day Garments Nay so precise they are in these preparations and the following rest that if a Iew go forth on Friday and on the night falls short of home more then is lawfull to be travailed on the Sabbath day there must he set him down and there keepe his Sabbath though in a Wood or in the Field or the high-way side without all feare of winde or weather of Theeves or Robbers without all care also of meat and drinke Periculo la●ronum praedonumque omni penuria item omni cibi potusque neglectis as that Authour hath it For their behaviour on the Sabbath and the strange niceties where with they abuse themselues he describes it thus Id. cap. 11. Equus aut asinus Domini ipsius stabulo exiens froenum aut capistrum non aliud quicquam portabit c. An horse may have a bridle or an halter to leade not a saddle to lead him and hee that leadeth him must not let it hang so loose that it may seeme hee rather carrieth the bridle then leads the Horse An Henne must not weare her hose sowed about her legge They may not milke their Kine nor eat any of the milke though they have procured some Christian to doe that worke unlesse they buy it A Taylour may not weare his Needle sticking on his sleeve The lame may use a staffe but the blinde may not They may not burthen themselues with Clogges or Pattens to keepe their feet out of the durt nor rub their Shooes if foule against the ground but against a wall nor wipe their durtie hands with a cloth or Towell but with a Cowes or Horses tayle they may do it lawfully A wounded man may weare a plaster on his sore that formerly was applyed unto it but if it fall off hee may not lay it on anew or binde up any wound that day nor carry money in their purses or about their clothes They may not carry a fanne or flap to drive away the Flies If a Flea bite they may remoove it but not kill it but a Lowse they may yet Rabbi Eliezer thinkes one may as lawfully kill a Camell They must not fling more Corne unto their Poultry then will serve that day lest it may grow by lying still and they be said to sowe their Corne upon the Sabbath To whistle a tune with ones mouth or play it on an instrument is unlawfull utterly as also to knocke with the ring or hammer of a doore or knocke ones hand upon a table though it be onely to still a childe So likewise to draw letters either in dust or ashes or on a wet board is prohibited but not to fancie them in the aire With many other infinite absurdities of the like poore nature wherewith the Rabbins have beene pleased to afflict their brethren and make good sport to all the World which are not either Iewes or Iewis●ly affected Nay to despight our Saviour as Buxdorfius tells us they have determined since that it is unlawfull to lift the Oxe or Asse out of the ditch which in the