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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01767	Of the Christian Sabboth a godlye treatise of Mayster Iulius of Milayne / translated out of Italian into English, by Thomas Langley.	Julius, of Milan.; Langley, Thomas, d. 1581.	1552 (1552)	STC 11903; ESTC S2707	16,368	72

thou kepe holy the sabboth daye Exo. x● syxe dayes shalte thou worke and the seuenth is the Sabboth of the lord thy god thou shalt do no worke there on Iustitution of the sabboth In thys speche God principallye sheweth to the people of Israell that a man can not be sanctified nor iustified by hys owne workes but proueth that to come to holines behoueth to kepe goostly sabboth This is purport and intent of thys cōmaundement namely that we oughte to be deade to the workes of our owne flesh for beare and rest from sinne and continually haue our meditation study of the kyngdome of god practisinge our selues in this goostly rest we sanctify the christen Sabboth For thys consyderation it is I thynke that Austen writyng vnto Ianuarius sayeth Lib. 2. ca. 12. that this commaundemente of the sabboth is figuratiue a shadow touching the outwarde keping of the daye whiche is cleane abrogated together with all other shadowes and ceremonies of Moses by the death of Iesu Christ Wherfore auncient writers saye thre causes of the sabboth that God appointed the cōmaundment of the sabboth for thre causes Fyrste cause Fyrst because the lord vnder the commaundemente of the bodely rest wold haue vnderstanded the spirituall goostly quiet wherin the faythfull surceasse from fleshly workes geue place to god to worke in them the workes of the holy Goost Seconde cause The seconde cause why the Sabboth was commaunded to the Iewes is that the people of the Hebrues myghte haue an appointed to heare the word of the Lord. The thyrde cause is that seruauntes Thirde cause and such as be in subiection and vnder the cōmaundement or rule of others may haue some ease and discontinuaunce of labour Thus albeit that we find how the sabboth was instituted for thre causes aforesaide yet neuerthelesse the principall and chiefe cause why this ceremoniall commaundemente was geuen is because it shuld sygnify importe to vs the reste from sinne halowing of our soules and mindes For thys cause we read in the old testament that there was no commaundement so precisely and straightly geuen to the Iewes Exo. xxxv as the keping of the Sabboth was when god cōplayneth that al religion was destroied and wasted among the Iewes Hier. xvii he lamēteth that this sabboth is broken Qezech xx that it is not kept not sanctified as though the lord shuld say sabboth is all religion that when the sabboth is defiled despised there remaineth no other thing wherwyth God can be honoured Wherfore the lord commaundeth the religion of the Sabboth aboue all other spiritual workes speaking to hys people on this wise take heade o ye childrē of Israel that ye kepe my sabboth Exo. xixi. because it is a signe betwene me and you thorough out your generation that ye may knowe that I am the lorde that sanctifie you Kepe the sabboth for it is holy vnto you it is an euerlastyng couenaunt betwene me the people of Israell and a perpetual signe By these wordes of the Lord is well perceaued that the sabboth is a signe wherby the people of Israel may know that god is their sanctifier A christē man can not become holy onlesse first of al he crucify the euil desires of his carnal wyl Therfore the straight keping of the ceremonial sabboth is not the thing that can make vs holy but it is a shadow and sygne which teacheth vs to leaue of frō our fleshlye workes that the sprite of the lord maye worke in vs the true sanctificatiō goostlye sabboth so that the carnal wil of the christen man should geue place to the sprite of god his worldly hert to the wil of god Our bodye with all the carnal mēbres therof shuld reste from voices al dishonest workes that god may do in vs hys holy and goostly workes This is that spiritual sabboth christen holy day that Paule describeth to the Hebrues Heb. iij. where he sayeth therfore there remaineth a rest vnto the people of god Heb. iiij For he that is entred into his rest ceasseth from his workes Gene. ij as god dyd frō hys let vs make hast therfore to entre into the reste And forsomuch as a true christian oughte alwayes to subdue kepe vnder the flesh with it cōcupiscences lustes Continuall Sabboth he therfore euery howre kepeth sabboth taketh not one daye to be more holy then another This our spirituall sabboth we begin in this mortal lyfe from daye to day as the power of the sprite of god encreaseth in vs we more and more reste frō the workes of the fleshe be more feruent forward in halowynge the sabboth flesh breketh sabboth Gal. v. But because the flesh continually wrastleth striueth agaynst the sprite and abateth him from the perfecte loue therfore no christen mā whilest he abideth in this flesh kepeth throughly perfectly the sabboth notwithstāding at the last when we shal be coupled to Iesu Christe the kingdome shal be resigned into the handes of god the father 1. Cor. xv god shal be al in al then shall we kepe the perfect sabboth This is that perpetual sabboth cōtinuall holy day that Esay the Prophet describeth saying Esay lxvi there shal be sabboth after sabboth and newe mone after new mone whych also was resembled shadowed of the lord god to the Israelites in the outwarde keping of the seuenth day This is that sabboth for whych the Prophet so much bewayleth because the wicked went about to take it quite away from the earthe Psa lxxiij sayinge come of let vs take euery sabboth of god out of the earthe Other sabboth then thys do not the chyldren of God acknowledge the is to staye trust in the merites of Iesu Christ Christen sabboth by meane wherof they be iustified and crucifye their owne fleshe And forsomuch as a christian mā is assuredly certified knoweth that he hath god for hys father therfore he layeth al his trauayl grefe vpon him which taketh care for his childrē The faithful kepe Sabboth when they say in the lordes prayer o lorde thy wyll be done By these wordes the faythfull is replenished fulfilled with the sprit of the lorde knoweth that it is not behouefull to folowe hys carnal wil that the wil of god might be done accōplyshed He that is the brother of Christ is guyded by the comfortable sprite not by the wysdom of of his flesh Whether death or life shame or honoure riches or pouerty trouble or prosperity come the christian man is nether dismayed with dispayre nor puffed vp in pride For he kepeth diligently the sabboth of the sprite taketh it for certayne that he is in the handes of god Happy be those Christians that sanctify the heauēly Sabboth in their hertes yea more then happy maye I call them for they are