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duty_n	christian_n	day_n	sabbath_n	1,144	5	9.3710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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-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