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A96264	A sermon touching the divine right and due observation of the Lords day Preached before the Lord Deputy, and the Lords Spiritual & Temporal of the kingdom of Ireland; in time of Parliament. At Christ-Church Dublin. On Sunday the 6th. of October, 1695. With a preface humbly address'd to the whole body of English Protestants: especially those inhabiting the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1520A; ESTC R229732	26,838	68

breaking it and his Grace for inclining our hearts to keep it What to keep a Jewish abrogate Ceremony No no It s moral obligation is by our Church and us before God solemnly acknowledged in these very Prayers as oft as we make them and further as before hinted in the Homily of the time and place of Prayer to which I refer my self it is more at large asserted Now sure our holy Mother never intended both her self to falsify with God and Man and to breed her Children too to so hopeful a practice A hopeful practice I say to falsify with God in her Prayers even in her most solemn Office the Communion Service and with Man in her form of Doctrine or Homilies both which she does if this be not her sence It is then the Judgment of our Church what we have otherwise proved that by the eldest positive Law of God a Seventh day is holy to him Sect. XII And this Seventh day is now the Lords day or First day of the Week The Reasonableness of Christian Peoples observing the Lords day instead of the Jewish Sabbath by the Law Christian Here also the evidence is too long to give it in in full at present But. First a word or two for the reasonableness of the First day of the Week under the Christian state The very self same reasons with which God of old bound the Seventh day-Sabbath on Adam and on the Jews bind the observation of the First day of the Week upon us Christians The reason to Adam was on the Sixth day God ended his works that he had Created and Rested the Seventh In like manner the Seventh day of the Week being ended our Lord Jesus had finisht his work of the new Creation in that thereon by his resurrection he made Man again the second time happily immortal and having wrested from Death its Sting from the Grave its Victory opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers entred into it himself and began the everlasting Sabbatism of the new World Which work had he not finisht what had it advantaged poor mankind to have been Created once Alas had not the work of Redemption been compleated Mans first Creation had only capacitated him to have been eternally miserable This reason therefore from the Divine Rest thereon holds to us Christians much stronger for this Christian Sabbath The Reason to the Jews in speciall was because the Lord thy God brought thee out of the Land of Egypt through a mighty hand and an out-stretched arm therefore the Lord thy Deut v. 15. God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day On the Sabbath or Seventh day say the Jewish Doctors their Forefathers sung their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triumphal Hymne to God at the Red Sea over the drowned Egyptians And on the first day of the Week while it was yet early Our Lord rose from the dead as out of a Red Sea of Bloud and brought with him the raised Bodies of many Saints which slept the Bodies of our first Parents saith an old tradition and having thus rescued mankind from under the bonds of Sin and Death and of him that had the power of Death the Devil he made a shew of them triumphing over them openly Thus also there is the like reason for the First day of the Week to be a Christian Sabbath as there was for the Seventh day to be the Jewish Sect. XIII But where have we any Institution for this day in the Records of the Of the Institution of the Lords Day 1. By Christ himself New Testament I answer our Lord Instituted it the most effectual way imaginable namely by his own practice His frequent if not constant shewing himself to his Disciples on this day during the Forty days after his Resurrection his meeting them in their Assemblies sometimes with some of them breaking bread with all of them always speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God was as solemn a dedication of this day to the Christian worship as well can be conceived John XX. 19. The same day which was ver 1. the first day of the week at evening the doors being shut for fear of the Jews came Jesus where the Disciples were assembled and stood in the midst of them and said Peace be unto you and shewed them his hands and his feet And on the Eighth day which reckoning after the Jewish use inclusively was the next Lords day they are met again ver 26. and now Thomas was with them for the course of Sunday-Assemblies was begun and Jesus came again the Doors being shut and said Peace be unto you Then addressing himself more particularly to Thomas for the satisfying his doubts and thereby confirming the Faith of them all he pronounces a Blessing not only on them but on all that should believe on him to the end of the World How often in those Forty days our Lord appeared to his Disciples it has not pleased the Holy Ghost precisely to set down Two Lords days apparitions to them in their assembly we have thus seen expresly on Record and on the same days several private apparitions to diverse of them apart are recorded also which we may not stand to examine Thirdly the most famous and often fore-appointed appearance on the mountain in Galilee a place distant enough from Jerusalem that none might fear disturbance from the Chief Priests and their Partisans is by some very great men placed on the Lords day at which time he was seen of above Five hundred Brethren at once speaking no doubt as his use was of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God And being that this his appearance cannot consistently with St. Paul's account be 1 Cor. xv 6 7. coincident with that at his Ascension there is little probability all circumstances being considered for placing it on any other day Last of all our Lord chose to bless the First day of the Week by that most illustrious manifestation of his being the Son of God in sending the spirit of Promise Acts. XI 1. When the day of Pentecost was fully come Pentecost that is the Fiftieth day there is no reason to regard precisely the Jewish Festival or to make a proper name of a common one on the Fiftieth day I say which from the Resurrection must needs fall on the First day of the week reckon it at leisure they were all with one accord in one place continuing still their Assemblies on the First day of the week and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a mighty wind In a word the Holy Spirit most miraculously came upon them all as the Lord had promised Here is from our Lord himself another sanctifying of the Lords day to the purpose For indeed with it he miraculously sanctified the whole body of the faithfull assembled thereon Subsequent hereto or after the 2. By his Apostles mission of the holy Ghost the Apostles and Apostolical Churches constant observing the Lords day in

its weekly course as is most probable upon Apostolical Orders for it was a continued or reinforced practical Divine Institution of the same Divine I said For none will doubt whatever Orders proceeded from the Apostles as Planters of Christianity in the World were of the same authority as if they had come immediately from Christ who sent them As to the practice of the Church At Troas St Paul passing to Jerusalem upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break Bread preached to them Acts xx 7. St. Pau'ls preaching at that time might be as to that Church casual enough but it appears to have been the stated and usual course the Dies Natus for the Churches meeting together to break Bread Besides this solemn and continued practice we have the footsteps of the Apostolical mandate it self 1 Cor. xvi 1. 2. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia even so do yee upon the first day of the Week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when I come The Churches of Galatia were of a great extent He had given orders in those Churches and now gives orders also in Corinth for Lords day-alms The private laying aside at home if we will interpret it consonantly to what we are assured to have seen from the begining the usual practice was only in order to the depositing all in the Assembly with the Chief Minister of the Church called in Justin Martyrs days the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bishop For if this had not been design'd the end he mentions would not have been obtained There would have needed still a Gathering of all when he came But at the celebration of the Eucharist styled in those days Breaking of Bread the Deacons collected what each person offered and delivered it to the trust of the Bishop as we read more at large in the Antients This collection therefore proves a Communion that day and the Apostles order being plain for what was Accessary must be acknowledged for the Principal Now if the Apostle gave order for the Communion and Collection thereat on the Lords day no doubt he gave orders for the Assemblies thereon at which the one was to be celebrated and the other made And then if we admit that the Doctrine and Tradition of all the Apostles was one and the same as the Ancients affirm and I know not on what good reasons any can deny it will follow that it was an Apostolical Order that the Lords day should be the day of publick Christan Assemblies Sect. 14 In this assertion of the sacredness of the Lords Day partly from the The Antient Fathers are Unanimous herein Institution of Christ and afterwards by the Order of the Apostles the Antient Fathers are unanimous Above all others memorable is that large Text of St. Ignatius an early Martyr of Christ who himself avows as his Text is commonly rendred that he saw our Lord Jesus in the flesh after his Resurrection and who was ordained Bishop of Antioch by the imposition of the hands of St. Peter himself truely therefore St. Peters Successor and an Apostolical Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he Let us therefore no longer Jewishly keep the Sabbath that is neither on the day nor in the manner the Jews do which manner he there exposeth But let each of us spiritually keep the Sabbath rejoycing in meditations on the Law of God admiring the works of his hand Let every one that loves Christ keep the Lords Day the Queen of days on which our life rose and victory over death was gotten with more Elogies of it there to be seen Now here the Jewish Sabbaths and Sabatising are expresly required to be laid aside and a Spiritual Rest and the Lords Day injoyned instead thereof But St. Athanasius in his Homily De Semente goes farther and teaches us the Lord of the Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. translated the Sabbath Day to the Lords Day And further The Apostles Apostolical Men did ordain namely by our Lords appointment as in other cases that the Lords Day should be kept with Religious Solemnity saith St. Austin And much more on the same purpose have others which I must wave Sunday then does not stand on the same foot with other Church Holy days It is more sacred truly of Divine Right the Lords Day or a Christian Sabbath Sect. 15 Now as to the true Christian way of keeping it I was saith St. John How the Lords day is to be kept in the Spirit on the Lords day Time will not permit me to present the various glosses on this phrase To shorten all I will readily acknowledg we now adays cannot be in the spirit any Lords day as St. John was on this in the Text. He was in a prophetick extasy But that which in all likelyhood led him into this exalted temper and which in our state of things bears analogy thereto may be and ought to be our entertainment each Lords Day St. John was now in Patmos a small Island in the Archipelago between Crete and Asia minor banisht thither by Domitian for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ Here was no assembly of Christians for him to joyn with But the Lords Day coming upon him in course we cannot well but conceive him taken up in this his Solitude with Prayer Praise and Contemplations suitable to the day and in these being transported to have had his Soul wholly possest by the Holy Spirit and to have received from our Lord all those Revelations which in this book he Records And thus past that whole day at least far the greatest part of it with the beloved Disciple For in one day as is conceived by very learned Interpreters had he all those apocalyptick visions They who cannot ascend into heaven may yet go up to the mountain We are not in the present state to expect Visions and Revelations each Lords Day St. John himself had them not that we know of but while in Patmos and when God made his Church amends as I may say for the want of his common Ministry by extraordinary Revelations which were to convince the World and all the Powers of Hell that their malice could not suppress the Gospel but only make it shine another way clearer and farther and that however Tyrants might drive the messengers of those glad tydings into desolate corners so as some Assemblies might for a season want their living voice yet should they not be able to hinder but the whole World should ring of their testimony wherever they were and thereby know in what methods and disguises the Grand Master of all the Tyrants on earth the Devil has and shall in the several ages of Mankind set them on work to the end of all things so that I say St. Johns being thus in the Spirit was not common