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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

thereof not by the workmanship of the Stuffe but the glosse and colour In which it is most strange to see how suddainly men were induced not onely to give way unto it but without more adoe to abett the same till in the end and that in very little time it grew the most bewitching Errour the most popular Deceit that ever had beene set on foot in the Church of England And verily I perswade my selfe that many an honest and well-meaning man both of the Clergie and the Laitie either because of the appearance of the thing it selfe or out of some opinion of those men who first endevoured to promote it became exceedingly affected towards the same as taking it to be a Doctrine sent downe from Heaven for encrease of Pietie So easily did they beleeve it and grew at last so strongly possessed therewith that in the end they would not willingly be perswaded to conceive otherwise thereof than at first they did or thinke they swallowed downe the Hooke when they tooke the Bait. An Hooke indeed which had so fastned them to those men who love to fish in troubled waters that by this artifice there was no small hope conceived amongst them to fortifie their side and make good that cause which till this trimme Deceit was thought of was almost growne desperate Once I am sure that by this meanes the Brethren who before endeavoured to bring all Christian Kings and Princes under the yoke of their Presbyteries made little doubt to bring them under the command of their Sabbath Doctrines And though they failed of that applauded paritie which they so much aimed at in the advancing of their Elderships yet hoped they without more adoe to bring all higher Powers what ever into an equall ranke with the common people in the observance of their Iewish Sabbatarian rigours So Doctor Bound declares himselfe p. 171. The Magistrate saith hee and Governour in authoritie how high soever cannot take any priviledge to himselfe whereby he might be occupied about worldly businesse when other men should rest from labour It seemes they hoped to see the greatest Kings and Princes make suit unto their Consistorie for a Dispensation as often as the great Affaires of State or what cause soever induced them otherwise to spend that Day or any part or parcell of it than by the new Sabbath Doctrine had beene permitted For the endeering of the which as formerly to endeere their Elderships they spared no place or Text of Scripture where the word Elder did occurre and without going to the Heralds had framed a Pedigree thereof from ●ethro from Noahs Arke and from Adam finally so did these men proceed in their new Devices publishing out of holy Writ both the antiquitie and authoritie of their Sabbath day No passage of Gods Booke unransacked where there was mention of a Sabbath whether the legall Sabbath charged the Iewes or the spirituall Sabbath of the Soule from si●ne which was not fitted and applyed to the present purpose though if examined as it ought with no better reason than Paveant illi non paveam ego was by an ignorant Priest alledged from Scripture to prove that his Parishioners ought to pave the Chancell Yet upon confidence of these proofes they did alreadie begin to sing Victoria especially by reason of the entertainment which the said Doctrines found with the common people For thus the Doctor boasts himselfe in his second Edition anno 606. as before was said Many godly learned both in their Preachings Writings and Disputations did concurre with him in that argument and that the lives of many Christians in many places of the Kingdome were framed according to his Doctrine p. 61. Particularly in the Epistle to the Reader that within few yeeres three severall profitable Treatises successively were written by three godly learned Preachers Greenehams was one whose ever were the other two that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the doctrine of the Sabbath might bee established Egregiam verò laudem spolia ampla 8 But whatsoever cause hee had thus to boast himselfe in the successe of his new doctrines the Church I am sure had little cause to rejoyce thereat For what did follow hereupon but such monstrous paradoxes and those delivered in the pulpit as would make every good man tremble at the hearing of them First as my Author tells mee it was preached at a market towne in Oxfordshire that to doe any servile worke or businesse on the Lords day was as great a sinne as to kill a man or commit adultery Secondly preached in Somerset-shire t●at to throw a bowle on the Lords day was as great a sinne as to kill a man Thirdly in Norfolke that to make a feast or dresse a wedding dinner on the Lords day was as great a sinne as for a Father to take a knife and cut his childes throate Fourthly in Suffolke that to ring more bells then one on the Lords day was as great a sinne as to commit murder I adde what once I heard my selfe at Sergean●● Inne in Fleet-streete about five yeeres since that temporall death was at this day to be inflicted by the Law of God on the Sabbath-breaker on him that on the Lords day did the works of his daily calling with a grave application unto my masters of the Law that if they did their ordinary workes on the Sabbath day in taking fees and giving Counsell they should consider what they did deserve by the Law of God And certainely these and the like conclusions cannot but ●ollow most directly on the former principles For that the fourth Commandement bee plainely morall obliging us as straitely as it did the Iewes and that the Lords day bee to bee observed according to the prescript of that Commandment it must needs bee that every willfull breach thereof is of no lower nature then Idolatrie or blaspheming of the Name of GOD or any other deadly sinne against the first table and therefore questionlesse as great as murder or adultery or any sin against the second But to goe forwards where I left my Author whome before I spake of being present when the Suffolke Minister was convented for his so lewd and impious doctrine was the occasion that those Sabbatarian errours and impieties were first brought to light and to the knowledge of the state On which discovery as hee tells us this good ensued that the said bookes of the Sabbath were called in and forbidden to bee printed and made common Archbishop Whitguift by his letters and visitations did the one Ann● 1599. and Sir Iohn Popham Lord Chiefe Iustice did the other Ann● 1600 at Burie in Suffolke Good remedies indeed had they beene soone inough applied yet not so good as those which formerly were applied to Thacker and his fellow in the aforesaid towne of Burie for publishing the bookes of Br●wn● against the service of the Church Nor was this all the fruite of so bad a doctrine For by inculcating to the people these new

the Law on the Sabbath dayes 1 WE left this people in the Wildernes where ●he Law was given them and whether this Commandement were there kept or not hath been made a question and that both by the Iewish Doctours and by the Christian. Some have resolved it negatively that it was not kept in all that time which was forty yeares and others that it was at some times omitted according to the stations or removes of Israel or other great and weighty businesses which might intermit it It is affirmed by Rabbi Solomon that there was onely one Passeover observed whiles they continued in the Deserts notwithstanding that it was the principall solemnity of all the yeare Et si illud fuit omissum multo fortius alia minus principalia If that saith he then by an argument à majore ad minus much rather were the lesser Festivals omitted also Ap. Galatin l. 11. c. 10. More punctually Rabbi Eleazar who on those words of Exodus and the people rested the s●venth day Chap. 16. 30. gives us to understand that for the space of forty yeares whilest they were in the Wildernesse non fecerunt nisi duntaxat primum sabbatum they kept no more then that first Sabbath According unto that of the Prophet Amos Have yee offered unto mee sacrifices and offerings in the wildernesse forty yeares O house of Israel Chap. 5. 25. On which authority Ar●tius for the Christian Doctors doth affirme the same Sabbata per annos 40. n●n observavit in deserto populus Dei Amos 5. 25. Probl. loc 35. The argument may be yet inforced by one more particular that Circum●ision was omitted for all that while and yet it had precedency of the Sabbath both in the institution for the times before and in the observation for the times that followed If therefore neither Circumcision nor the daily sacrifices nor the Feast of Passeover being the principall of the Annuall Sabbaths were observed by them till they came to the land of Canaan why may not one conclude the same of the weekly Sabbaths Others conceive not so directly but that it was omitted at ●ometimes and on some occasions Omitted at some times as when the people journied in the Wildernesse many dayes together In Exod. 12 nulla requi●●liquorum dierum habita without rest or ceasing and this the Hebrew Doctours willingly confesse as Tostatus tels us Omitted too on some occasions as when the spi●s were sent to discover the Land what was the strength thereof and what the riches in which discovery they spent fo●ty dayes it is not to be thought that they kept the Sabbath It was a perillous work that they went about not to be discontinued and layed by so often as there were Sabbaths in that time But not to stand upon conjectures the Iewish Doctors say expresly that they did not keepe it Lib. 11. c. 10. So Galatine reports from their owne records that in their latter exposition on the Book of Numbers upon those words Chap. 13. 2. send men that they may search the land of Canaan they thus resolue it Nuncio praecepti licitum est c. A Messenger that goes upon Command may travaile any day at what time hee will And why because he is a Messenger upon command Nuncius autem praecepti excludit sabbatu● The phrase is somewhat darke but the meaning plaine that those which went upon that errand did not keepe the Sabbath Certaine it also is that for all that time no nor for any part thereof the people did not keepe the Sabbath completely as the Law appointed For where there were two things concurring to make up the Sabbath fir●t rest from labour and secondly the sacrifices destinate unto the day however they might rest some Sabbaths from their daily labours yet sacrifices they had none untill they came into the land of Canaan 2 Now that they rested sometimes on the Sabbath day and perhaps did so generally in those forty yeares is manifest by that great and memorable businesse touching the man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath The case is briefly this Numb 15. Vers. 32. ad 37. the people being in the wildernes found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day and brought him presently unto Moses Moses consulted with the Lord and it was resolued that the offender should be stoned to death which was done accordingly The Law before had ordered it that he who so offended should be put to death but the particular manner of his death was not knowne till now The more remarkable is this case because it was the onely time that wee can heare of that execution had been done upon any one according as the Law enacted and thereupon the Fathers have took some pains De vit Mos. l. 3 to search into the reasons of so great severity Philo accuseth him of a double crime in one whereof hee wa● the principall and an Accessar● onely in the other For where it was before commanded that there should be no fire kindled on the Sabbath day this party did not onely labour on the day of rest but also laboured in the gathering of such materials 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which might administer fuell to prohibited fire Saint Basil seemes a little to bemoan the man De judicio D●i in that hee smarted so for his first offence not having otherwise offended either God or Man and makes the motive of his death neither to consist in the multitude of his sinnes or the greatnesse of them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but onely in his disobedience to the will of God But we must have a more particular motive yet then this And first Rupertus tels us In locum per superbiam illud quod videbatur exiguum commisit that he did sinne presumptuously with an high hand against the Lord and therefore God decreed he should die the death God not regarding either what or how great it was sed qua mente fecerat but with what minde it was committed But this is more I think then Rupertus knew being no searcher of the heart Rather I shall subscribe herein unto Saint Chrysostome Hom. 39. in Math. 12. Who makes this Quaere first seeing the Sabbath as Christ saith was made for man why was he put to death that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath And then returns this answere to his owne demand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. because in case God had permitted that the Law should have been slighted in the first beginning none would have kept it for the future Qu 31. ●n Num. Theodoret to that purpose also ne autor fieret leges transgrediendi lest oth●r men encouraged by his example should have done the like the punishment of this one man striking a terrour unto all No question but it made the people farre more observant of the Sabbath then they would have beene who were at first but backwards in the keeping of it as is apparant by that passage