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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29935	A perswasive to the stricter observation of the Lords day in pursuance of His Majesties pious order and directions to preachers particularly about the observation of the Lord's day, &c. / by Matthew Bryan.	Bryan, Matthew, d. 1699.	1686 (1686)	Wing B5247; ESTC R19898	22,342	36

at all First Those who keep the Jewish but not the Christian Sabbath which is the Errour of those Christians who mistake the ceremonial for the moral Obligation of the Fourth Commandement Supposing the Morality of the Commandment to consist in keeping the Seventh day which God enjoyn'd the Jews whereas that is the positive and ceremonial part of the Commandment accommodated to the Oeconomy and political State of the Jews binding them only and not the Gentiles and no longer neither then till the entrance and settling of the Gospel State by Christ and the Holy Ghost And now for any Christian whether Jew or Gentile to keep the ceremonial Law is in effect to deny Christ and to expect a Messiah yet to come to keep the shadow and reject the substance the Ceremonial Law being but the shadow of good things to come but the body is of Christ Secondly they likewise are to be blamed who keep both days the Jewish and the Christian too Thus the Ebionites of old who being Apes of others would keep the Sabbath with the Jews and Sunday with the Christians But truely I think our Charity ought to be extended to these as the more harmlesly erroneous and more pardonable Offenders in regard partly through mistake and weakness partly out of a scrupulous and tender Conscience they keep both days probably with an honest design and desire and not out of peevish obstinacy that they may be in the right But though they are excusable à tanto yet not à toto 't is plainly an Errour and inconsistent with our duty enjoyn'd in the Fourth Commandment which requires but one day in seven as God's peculiar and allows the other six for our own labours and to keep two Sabbaths in a Week seems to be wise above what is written and to do more than is our duty And though the Apostles and the Christians with them did for a time keep both days that is the Jewish and the Christian Sabbath yet that was for the same reason that Circumcision was for a while kept a foot viz. to comply with the weakness and prejudice of the Jews to whom St. Paul says he became as a Jew that that he might gain the Jews and to give the abolish'd Ceremonies which were dead with Christ an honourable burial but 3dly And especially they are worthy of reproof who keep no Sabbath at all or at least in such a manner as is equivalent to the not keeping of it First Some there are that keep no Sabbath at all as the Atheist and prophane Worldling There are a sort of men who sufficiently declare themselves to be Atheists and Mammonists who fear not to deny God his due who have no manner of sense of duty which they owe to the Lords day but purposely and designedly oppose and slight and prophane it If they have any business to do any visit to make not out of Charity but complement any journey to go any Accounts to make up any Letters to write or the like God's day must be the time for 't tho it might be confessedly as well done on any other day of the week no necessity compelling Yea when no business offers they will frame excuses to keep 'em from God's house either they must sleep or play or drink or talk or walk away the time which others devoutly spend in the publick Service of God and preparing themselves for another World Nothing so irksome and tiresome as what God Commands no time so lies upon hand as on that day they know not what to do they are weary of themselves and of the time and study for some diversion or other and blame the lingring time and wish and say with those in the Prophet When will the Sabbath be over that we may set forth Corn that we may be at our traffick and Trades again And if they are prevail'd with by some devouter Neighbour or an argument ab inutili damno which the Law presents them upon total neglect to go to the house of God how tedious and burdensome is the time there What an insipid tasteless thing is the Service of God How do they tacitely chide the slow-pac'd sands in the Preachers Glass and grow angry with him if he exceeds his hour when the time spent on sports and pleasures and business of the World is thought too swift of foot An hour spent at a Sermon yea and upon God's day too is thought too long when a play of three or four hours is done too soon If this is not an evidence of an Atheistical and worldly spirit I know not what is Is this the Character of a man that fears and loves the honour of God What and delight in nothing less shun his company and fly from his presence and avoid Communion with him and break his Laws and sacrilegiously rob him of his just dues which the Prophet Malachy wonders at Mal. 3.8 Will aman rob God Will he rob God that made him and governs him and that has power to bless or to curse him to save or to destroy him This is a thing was never heard of amongst the most barbarous and Idolatrous whomsoever they rob they will not rob their God The primitive Christians I am sure abhor'd such sacriledge But O how unlike the Primitive sanctity is the practice of this sacrilegious Age this perverse and adulterous generation They made it their meat and drink to do the Will of God they would not be absent for a World from the publick Assemblies of the Saints on the Lords day unless invincible necessity did hinder and would not depart thence without the Christian viaticum without the heavenly Repast and Banquet the Communion of the Body and Blood of their dear Lord. Thus they kept the Sabbath indeed not doing their own but the Work of God and call'd and accounted the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and did honour him not doing their own ways nor finding their own pleasures nor speaking their own Words But at what lame and deficient and preposterous rate do the generality of Christians now keep the day They keep it very well if to keep it be to break it if to sanctifie it be to prophane it if to observe and honour it be to slight and pollute it They keep it very well who seldome or never attend the publick Worship and are as careless of private Duties they keep it very well indeed who never receiv'd the Sacrament in their lives or at least observe it as a Passeover Feast in the truest Notion of it as to the time i. e. once in a year and that to still the clamours of the Law and their Consciences not being mov'd from a principle of Love to their Redeemer to do this in remembrance of him not at all affected with what St. Paul insinuates and recommends in these VVords as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lords Death till he come but Secondly There