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A77209	An answer to M. Cawdry's two books of the Sabbath, lately come forth Wherein the author doth two things: 1. He vindicates himselfe from Mr Cawdrie's unfriendly abuse of him, in fathering upon him three texts of scripture, and three arguments deduced from them, to prove the perpetuity of the antient Sabbath, ... Wherein the author hath 1. Answered and confuted all that Mr. Cawdry hath wrote to corrupt the sense and meaning of the Commandement. 2. He hath restored the antient, genuine, and proper sense of the Commandement: and confirmed it by sundry undeniable arguments. By Theophilus Brabourne.	Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4088; ESTC R229562	39,309	117

in my other booke but cannot find any where that I alledged this text to prove the perpetuity of the seventh day-Saturday-Sabbath wherefore I disclaime this text also as none of mine but of Mr Cawdry's own devising As for his answer to it doth Mr Cawdry thinke Mr Brabourne so rash in choosing a Text to prove the Sabbaths perpetuity as to make choice of this text where the Sabbath is not preferred above the New Moons for perpetuity But Mr Cawdry it seems knew no better way to bring Mr Brabourne into contempt with his Reader than to forge such shallow-brain'd things as this is and then to father them upon Mr Brabourne Having spoken of the three texts severally now I shall speake of them joyntly Mr Cawdry placeth these his and not mine three texts in the front before my two texts which I owne of which too by and by here I note his sophistry and carnall policy hoping by the weaknesse of these three Texts and my arguing so weakely from them to bring me and my two texts following into a weake estimation with his Reader that so he may thinke there is no more strength of Argument in my two following texts than is in the three texts going before The fourth and fifth Texts S●e Mr Cawdry in page 431. thus writing Objection the fourth The fourth is taken out of the New Testament Mat. 5.17 18. where our Saviour ratifies the morall Law the Decalogue till the end of the world whence thus he argueth If every jot and tittle of the Law be in force untill the worlds end then these letters and words the seventh day is the Sabbath are in force untill the worlds end But the former is true by the Text alledged Mat. 5.17 18. Ergo c. Objection the fifth The last Text is Mat. 24.20 whence thus he argues Their destruction was forty yeares after Christs death yet he bids them pray that their flight might not be in the winter nor on the Sabbath day and therefore Christ foresaw that the Sabbath day should be in force still and kept after his death These two texts indeed I own for mine and the substance of the two Arguments deduced from them though but unhandsomly laid down by Mr Cawdry now let the Reader judge whether there be not better force of proofe in these two texts than there was in the three texts set before them in the front on purpose to disgrace me and these two texts As for the Text Mat. 5.17 18. I allow it as Mr Cawdry hath laid it downe As for the other text Mat 24.20 Pray that your flight be not on the Sabbath day this flight was to be at the destruction of Jerusalem about fifty years after Christs death whence I thus argue that Chr●st allowed of the antient Sabbath as a Christian Ordinance in the Church all times of the Gospell after his death and had it been a dying Ceremony as many fancy Christ would not have bidden Christians to pray to God to prevent their profanation of it for this had been a profanation of the sacred duty of Prayer as if a Papist should pray not to travell on Christmas day Having by these two Texts proved the perpetuity of the antient seventh day and Saturday-Sabbath it will be expected by my Reader that I should confute Mr Cawdry's answers to them which thing I professe I can easily doe without much study but no provocations shall make me go beyond the bounds I have set to my selfe I have resolved to handle but two things the one is to vindicate my selfe from the abuse of the three forged Texts the other is to vindicate God's fourth Commandement from Mr Cawdry's false glosses and corrupt Expositions of it saying God commanded not the seventh day in order but one day in the seven without order and by this false Exposition he makes his answer to many of my twenty foure Arguments My hope is that as our State do allow liberty of Conscience to some in some cases so they will allow me a liberty in these two things first to vindicate my selfe from slanders Secondly to vindicate Gods fourth Commandement from false Expositions I dare not go farther lest I should offend the State and have my books burnt one Mr Ockford about two yeares past wrote a booke in defence of my way against the Lords day and for the old day the seventh day but as saith Mr Cawdry it was answered by fire being ordered to be burnt as I remember Mr Tyndals Translation of the New Testament long since was ordered to be burnt too and was not Pa●eus on the Romans burnt also in King James his daies And I feare me so it would be with this my book if I should exceed my bounds Let not therefore Mr Cawdry thinke that I do not reply to his answers because I cannot but because I dare not if I durst and had but this faire dealing to have the Presse as open to me as it is to him he should soone see that I would make his weaknesse in arguing to appeare unto all men I had rather be engaged in this quarrell than go to my dinner or supper When two Souldiers are to fight the odds is too great to give al encouragements and conveniences to the one and bind the hands of the other behind him or hold a cudgell over his head if he strikes a blow it is my unhappy condition to suffer this odds to have the fire prepared for my books and the benefit of the Presse denied me unlesse I Print by stealth So far for vindication of my selfe and now for the vindication of the fourth Commandement Of the vindication of Gods fourth Commandement Before I fall close upon this point I shall premise five things tending to the vindication of this Commandement 1. What may be the reason of Mr Cawdry's wresting these words in the fourth Commandement The seventh day is the Sabbath from the proper sense of the ordinall number seventh which signifies not only one of seven but more as the l●st of seven and that single one which followes the sixe d●ies labour and why would he instead of this bring in one day of seven indefinitely His tacite reason I beleeve is this that having no precept for the Lords day in the New Testament and none but poore probable reasons ab exemplo therefore he would faine incorporate the Lords day into the fourth Commandement to strengthen it so it having no legs of its own to stand on he would be so friendly to it as to borrow a paire of legs from the fourth Commandement and then it shall be able to stand in the opinion of the deluded multitude As for his Arguments ab exemplo from example as is the supposed practice of the Apostles however it go current in the Pulpit yet Sir if you know it not let me informe you that an Argument ab exemplo in Disputation is next unto nothing try it when you will For my part if it could be proved

to sanctifie it the first day of the weeke is the Lords day in it thou shalt do no worke for the Lord Christ re●●ed or rose from the dead on the first day of the weeke and therefore the Lord Christ blessed the Lords day and sanctified it If now Mr Brabourne should preach on this Commandement or write a book for the true Exposition of it and instruct the people of the Land saying 1. By the Lords day you are to understand a Lords day but not the Lords day for every day of the weeke is the Lord Christs day in some sense 2. By the first day of the weeke you may understand some one day of the weeke or other 3. We may imitate Christs resting or rising from death on the first day of the weeke if we Christians rest upon some one or other day of the weeke as on Saturday the last day of the weeke 4. The Lords day was appointed to the Grecians in the first Age of the Church but Saturday the seventh day to us Christians 5. The Lords day and first day of the weeke are not the substance of Christs Commandement but Saturday the last of the weeke 6 The Lords day and first day of the weeke are indirectly commanded by Christ but Saturday the seventh day of the weeke are directly commanded Should I thus expound this Commandement of Christ oh how would the Patrons of the Lords day rage stampe and storme at me Saying how shamefully doth this Brabourne corrupt Christ his Law for the Lords day How abominably doth he abuse Gods people by his false Expositions Never did Jesuite so abuse and corrupt any Texts of Scripture as this man hath abused our Lord Christ his Commandement the Devils themselves did never so abuse the Scriptures it is pitty the man is suffered to live any longer hanging is too good for him burne him like an Heretick I cannot expresse the one halfe of their zeale in this kind and I confesse all this were worthily spoken against me if I had so done but now I pray compare my supposed Exposition of Christs supposed Commandement with Mr Cawdrie's reall Exposition of Gods reall fourth Commandement in the sixe particulars mentioned and behold how paralell and alike they are one to the other point by point now if my Exposition be abominably absurd what then is theirs and if Jesuits yea and the Devill never did the like what may too many of our most zealous Ministers thinke of themselves who do the same d●yly and are the most forward and stirring in this kind of exposition so far of the Absurdities and now I come to my Conclusion The Conclusion HAving vindicated God's fourth Commandement from Mr Cawdrie's false Expositions of it now it will be expected that I should proceed in answer to other passages of his Books and in particular to confute his answers made unto divers of my twenty foure Arguments for the antient Sabbath and to answer or confute his Texts alleaged by him in maintenance of the Lords-day-Sabbath as it is called now adaies touching these two I shall give this account First concerning the antient Sabbath if I should maintaine my twenty foure Arguments Mr Cawdry or some of his friends for him might complaine to the State and procure my book to be answered by fire as Jewish for so was Mr Ockfords book of like kind but I am resolved that no provocations shall force me to proceed so far againe having vindicated the fourth Commandement from this false exposition of one day in seven I have confuted the most of his Answers given by him to many of my 24 Arguments so as it is needlesse for me to proceed any further Now as touching Mr Cawdrie's Texts alledged by him to prove the Lords day to be kept for a Sabbath if I should answer them as nothing is more facile and easie to be done I might so also run the hazzard of having my books burnt with fire but I will not offend the State so far I shall therefore satisfie my selfe with this that I have many yeares since discharged my conscience by writing of two severall books wherein I have made answers plentifully to every one of their Texts of Scripture and given not one but many answers unto every one of their Texts of Scripture the which answers were never yet confuted by any man and yet it is about twenty sixe yeares since I wrote my first book and about twenty two yeares since I wrote my second booke nor hath Mr Cawdry now confuted those answers albeit he hath made a great flourish with three great books saying he will confute all gainsayers but it is very false for he hath not confuted Mr Brabourne I observe that albeit M. Cawdry is larger upon the Sabbath than any man yet hath he nothing new or more for matter than others have wrote many yeares agone new books but old matter more words but no more matter the Practice of Piety in a few leaves is as large for matter as M. Cawdries three large books of twelve shillings price now since Mr Cawdry hath brought no new Texts of Scripture to light or new Arguments for the Lords day wherefore should I blot paper and spend inke to answer that in him which I have fully answered long since to others who have wrote the same things before him Whilest I was in writing of my first booke of the Sabbath and in answering the Texts of Scripture alledged for the Lords day me thought they were such simple and silly things for that purpose as my thoughts often checked me for vouchsafing an answer to them fearing understanding Divines would secretly thinke that Brabourne was some Ignoramus or some vainglorious man labouring to gaine credit by fighting with a shaddow and confuting what no judicious Schollar would ●aintaine I remember that divers times I tooke off my Pen to pause whether I should go on or not and doubtlesse I had then broke off but that I saw so many of our most zealous Ministers so far from being ashamed of it as they with a deale of not zeale maintained it but I may say of them as once Saint Paul said of those superstitious Jews They have the zeale of God but not according to knowledge Rom. 10.2 And as Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees Woe be unto you blind guides for misleading the devout people of the Land Mat. 23. and so I end FINIS