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A10094	The doctrine of the Sabbath· Delivered in the Act at Oxon. anno, 1622. By Dr. Prideaux his Majesties professour for divinity in that Vniversity. And now translated into English for the benefit of the common people.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1634 (1634)	STC 20348; ESTC S115223	22,039	62

the number of the dayes is left by the authority of Gods Word to the authority of Christs Church to bee determined and assigned orderly in every Country by the discretion of the Rulers and Ministers thereof as they shall judge most expedient to the true setting forth of Gods glory and edification of the people Which preamble is not to bee understood of holy dayes or of Saints dayes onely whose being left the authority of the Church was never questioned but of the Lords day also as by the body of the Act doth at full appeare Last of all for the third and last conclusion that still the Church hath power to change the day our Doctor in the seventh Section brings in Bullinger Bucer Brentius Vrsinus and Chemnitius aliisque nostris with diverse others not named particularly as they are which thinke no otherwise thereof than Calvin did and shewes by what distinction Suarez though otherwise no friend unto the men doth defend their doctrine now as the doctrine was such also is the practise of those men and Churches devoyd of any the least superstitious rigour esteeming it to be as a day left arbitrary and therefore open to all honest exercises and lawfull recreations by which the minde may be refreshed and the spirits quickned Even in Geneva it selfe according as it is related in the inlargement of Boterus by Robert Iohnson All honest exercises shooting in Peeces Long-Bowes Crosse-Bowes c. are used on the Sabbath day and that both in the morning before and after the Sermon neither doe the Ministers finde fault therewith so that they hinder not from hearing of the Word at the time appointed Dancing indeed they doe not suffer but this not in relation to the Sunday but the Sport it selfe which is held unlawfull and generally forbidden in the French Churches Which strictnesse as some note considering how the French doe delight in dancing hath beene a great hinderance to the growth of the reformed Religion in that Kingdome Which being so the judgement and the practise of so many men and of such severall perswasions in the controverted points of the Christian faith concurring so unanimously together the miracle is the greater that wee in England should take up a contrary opinion and thereby separate our selves from all that are called christian Yet so it is I skill not how it comes to passe but so it is that some amongst us have revivd againe the Iewish Sabbath though not the day it selfe yet the name and thing Teaching that the Commandement of sanctifying every seventh day as in the Mosaicall Decalogue is naturall morall and perpetuall that whereas all things else in the Iewish Church were so changed that they were cleane taken away this day meaning the Sabbath was so changed that it still remaineth and lastly that the Sabbath was not any of those ceremonies which were justly abrogated at Christs comming All which positions are condemned for contrary to the Articles of the Church of England as in a Comment on those Articles perused and by the lawfull authority of the Church allowed to bee publike is most cleere and manifest Which Doctrinals though dangerous in themselves and different from the judgement of the ancient Fathers and of the greatest Clerks of the latter times are not yet halfe so desperate as that which followeth thereupon in point of practise For these positions granted and entertained as orthodox what can we else expect but such strange paradoxes as in consideration of the premises have beene delivered from some Pulpits in this Kingdome As viz. That to doe any servile worke or businesse on the Lords day is as great a sinne as to kill a man or commit adultery that to throw a Bowle to make a Feast or dresse a wedding dinner on the Lords day is as great a sinne as for a man to take a knife and cuts his childes throat that to ring more Bells than one on the Lords day is as great a sinne as to commit murder The Author which reports them all was present when the broacher of the last position was convented for it And I beleeve him in the rest The rather since I have heard it preached in London that the Law of Moses whereby death temporall was appointed for the Sabbath-breaker was yet in force and that who ever did the workes of his ordinary calling on the Sabbath day was to dye therefore And I know also that in a Towne of my acquaintance the Preachers there had brought the people to that passe that neither baked nor rost-meat was to bee found in all the Parish for a Sundayes dinner throughout the yeere These are the ordinary fruits of such dangerous Doctrines and against these and such as these our Author in this following Treatise doth addresse himselfe accusing them that entertaine the former Doctrinalls everywhere of no lesse than Iudaisme and pressing them with that of Austin that they who literally understand the fourth Commandement doe not yet savour of the Spirit Section the third This when I had considered when I had seriously observed how much these fancies were repugnant both to the tendries of this Church and judgements of all kinde of Writers and how unsafe to be admitted I thought I could not goe about a better worke than to exhibite to the view of my deare Countrymen this following Treatise delivered first and after published by the Author in another Language The rather since of late the clamour is encreased and that there is not any thing now more frequent in some Zelots mouthes to use the Doctors words than that the Lords day is with us licentiously yea sacrilegiously prophaned Section the first To satisfie whose scruples and give content unto their mindes I doubt not but this following Discourse will be sufficient which for that cause I have translated faithfully and with as good proprietie as I could not swerving any where from the sence and as little as I could from the phrase and letter Gratum opus Agricolis a Worke as I conceive it not unsutable to the present times wherein besides those peccant fancies before remembred some have so farre proceeded as not alone to make the Lords day subject to the Iewish rigours but to bring in againe the Iewish Sabbath and abrogate the Lords day altogether I will no longer detaine the Reader from the benefit hee shall reape hereby Onely I will crave leave for his greater benefit to repeat the summe thereof which is briefely this First that the Sabbath was not instituted in the first Creation of the World nor ever kept by any of the Ancient Patriarkes who lived before the Law of Moses therefore no Morall and perpetuall Precept as the others are Sect. 2. Secondly that the sanctifying of one day in seven is Ceremoniall onely and obliged the Iewes not Morall to oblige us Christians to the like observance Sect. 3. 4. Thirdly that the Lords day is founded onely on the authoritie of the Church guided therein by