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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	bind_v	law_n	moral_a	1,736	5	9.5201	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16915	Three questions ansvvered I. Question. What should our meaning be, when after the reading of the fourth Commandement, we pray; Lord incline our hearts to keepe this law? II. Question. How shall the fourth Commandement, being deliuered in such forme of words, binde vs to sanctifie any day, but onely the seauenth, the day wherein God rested, & which the Iewes sanctified? III. Question. How shall it appeare to be the law of nature to sanctifie one day in every weeke?	Broad, Thomas, 1577 or 8-1635.	1622 (1622)	STC 3806; ESTC S106710	26,614	43

sanctifie one day in the weeke though it bee the law of nature so to doe Some would haue the Morall law and the law of Nature to be the same but when they haue better considered the matter I doubt not they will be of another minde The law of nature to distinguish of it so farre forth as concerneth the present purpose The la●●ture is partly morall partly circumstantial 〈◊〉 twofold First the law of nature bindeth vs to performe Morall duties as to pray giue almes c. every one by the light of nature knoweth that he must doe good vertuous and godly actions to his power Secondly 〈…〉 of nature bindeth vs to obserue circumstances ●● time and place about the performance of morall duties that good may then and there be done when and where it is best to bee done and this againe we all knowe by the light of nature in vs. Now then inasmuch as the law of nature bindeth vs to performe morall duties let it be ●●ed morall it is a morall law of nature to pr●●●● to giue almes to relieue the oppressed c. But inasmuch as the law of nature bindeth vs to obserue circumstances as time and place about the performance of morall vertues it should in my vnderstanding be tearmed circumstantiall Time as place is a Circumstance therefore I cannot like that a commandement whereby the obseruation of any time is required should be tearmed morall it properly belongeth vnto those commandements whereby morall vertues are inioyned And this seemeth to bee the iudgement of our most iudicious Divine D. Field who excepteth the fourth commandement out of the number of the Moralls booke 5. chap. 22. S. Augustine hath their words in Galat. cap. 3. Scine priùs debet quis c. We ought first to knowe the 〈…〉 ●●kes of the law are twofold for part belong vnto S● 〈…〉 ●nd part vnto manners Vnto the Sacraments th● 〈…〉 ●ircumcision of the flesh Note that hee saith the Temporall Sabath and not only the litterall or seaventh day Sabath the temporall Sabbath t● 〈…〉 ●he sacrifices and innumerable such like obseruat● 〈…〉 into mann●● Thou shalt not kill 〈◊〉 shalt no●●●●●it adultery Thou shalt not beare false 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 If now the temporall Sabbath did 〈…〉 ●●nners if a Jew sanctifying his Sabbath 〈…〉 ●me a morall duty then is it not morall 〈…〉 ●●●e day of the weeke for the seauenth day to ●●e Iewes was as this law of nature it selfe seeing they laboured all the six daies going before If the Temporall Sabbath belongeth not to manners neither doth ours for ours is aswell temporall as the Iewes though not so litterall or shadowish ours is no more eternall then theirs was The other thinge which I thinke good to advertise thee of is that though it be the law of nature to sanctifie one day of every weeke yet not absolutely but after a sort After a sort for it is most commonly the best order not absolutely for it is not alwayes the best order One and the same order cannot be best at all times and in all places circumstances alter matters of circumstance so that what Nature teacheth vs to doe at one time it may forbid vs to doe at another time This which is a circumstantiall law of nature one yeare may not bee such the next yeare To instance the last yeare of Kinge Edward the sixt Nature taught the godly it was the best order to meete at appointed times in publick Temples there to pray receaue the Sacraments c. but the next yeare following being the first of Queene Mary Nature or Reason forbad them so to doe and taught them to meete when with safety they might in private houses fields or woods as they did in the Primitiue Church during the times of persecution this was then the best order Againe the absolute Lawes of Nature may not be broken in case of necessity a man may not forsweare him selfe lye or steale to saue his life but to saue the liues of his cattell a man may labour all the week and make every day working day The Sabbath 〈…〉 said before was to the Israelites as this law of Nature nay it was more Col. 2. for the Sabbath was a shadow of things to come yet in case of necessity the Israelites might breake and profane the Sabbath as in the time of the Macchabees some intended to doe 1. Mac. 2. The Sabbath as Christ sayth was made for the good of man and not man for the observation of the Sabbath Mar. 2. That he must be pinched with hunger that hee must loose his Oxe fallen into a pit the like so that whensoever it fell out as often it did that mans good must be impaired or the Sabbath must be violated the Sabbath ought rather to be violated as being inferiour to the good of man for which it was made and ordained Such as will haue it the absolute Law of Nature to sanctifie one day in every weeke of three thinges must affirme one .1 Eyther they must say that in case of necessity a man may not labour all the weeke but this no man doth say in my knowledg 2 Or else they must say that a man labouring all the weeke doth sanctifie one of the dayes and this some seeme ready to affirme But if to sanctifie a day be to forbeare our owne worke and to spend it in the service of God how doe I sanctifie that day which I spend about mine owne busines If he that laboureth all day may sanctifie a Sabbath or Rest then he that feasteth all day may sanctifie a Fast also Moreover I would demaund When I labour hard every day of the weeke about the same needfull busines suppose repairing of the Sea bankes defending a citty from the enemy seeking cattell covered with snow c. which of the dayes doe I sanctifie If I sanctifie one I may aswell sanctifie all and then it seemeth I ought so to doe as being the better .3 Or thirdly they must say that an absolute law of Nature may be broken in case of necessity but this againe I knowe none that will say though some affirme that a law of Nature may be broken by speciall commandement from God thus the Israelites killed the Canaanites and brake that law Thou shalt not kill But to speake properly the Israelites did not kill the Canaanites but God killed them by the Israelites hands ipse non occidit qui ministerium debet iubenti sayth Augustine it is the Iudge and not the Executioner Aug de Civitat that putteth a thiefe to death In like sort to speake properly the Israelites did not rob the Canaanites nor the Egyptians for god whos 's the earth is gaue vnto the Israelites the goods of them both D. Field saith touching all the commandements excepting the fourth In the .5 booke chap 22. It is resolued that God cannot permit a man to doe the things forbidden by them Indeed how