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A12709	The mystery of godlinesse a generall discourse of the reason that is in Christian religion. By William Sparke divinity reader at Magd: Coll: in Oxford, and parson of Blechly in B[uck]ingham-shire.	Sparke, William, 1587-1641.	1628 (1628)	STC 23026; ESTC S100099	133,807	175

Hallowed be thy thrice glorious name O thou holy one as thou hast commanded That the name of God may bee knowne The Christian sabbath of the holy Catholike Church and worshipped as by euery man in priuate so by all of vs in publike God hath appointed the sabbath for the holy assemblyes representing the holy catholike Church in acknowledgement of his kingdome attending his grace in holy exercises and Christian duties and expecting his glory Which day may not be otherwise imployed farther then necessity enforceth which is god his dispensation and hath no law or then mercy to our selues others requireth n ●at 12.7 which God will haue and not sacrifice Of which duty some question hath beene made of late whether it bee of faith I suppose for these reasons principally First because in nature there is little or no appearance of reason for the sabbath that it should bee morall Secondly because it seemes not to be any where expressely recognised in the new testament as the other commandements are but rather to bee slighted both by Christ and his apostles Thirdly because in keeping the sabbath the Iewes were to obserue certaine ceremonies which are now abolished by the Gospell And lastly because Christians haue neuer kept that day which the Iewes did the commandement seemes to prescribe Which doubts if they may be cleared I hope the ten commandements will holde together and not breake company being all of the same kinde and o Exod. 31.18 c. 34.38 written with God his owne finger He spake these ten words and added no more vnto them For the naturall reason of the sabbath somewhat hath already beene said in the proper place thereof concerning the p I book ch 5. law of nature But may not a law be morall for the vse thereof vnlesse it be naturall in respect of the cause Christ hath promised that where two or three are gathered together in his name he will bee in the midst of them Now although God be euery where at all times yet for our r Ne inordinata congregatio populi fidem minuoret in Corste proptereà dies aliqui constituti sunt vt in vnum oomes pariter veniremus Hieroniad Gal. 4. meetings there must needs be a set time which it is iust that God who appoints the meeting should designe and not wee There may be holy assemblyes as that of ſ Acts 10. Cornelius vpon any day to heare the word to praise God and to pray vnto him as occasion is offered inseason and out of season the Lord will be found in them But on the Lords day the holy assemblies must bee and that weekely because hee hath commanded and hath giuen vs the reason which we haue belecued Now for that which Christ said or did we may bee well assured that his intent was not to violate the law of the sabbath The sabbath not abrogated by Christ who came not to breake the law but to fulfill it and was therein so punctuall and exact u Mat. 3.15 to performe all righteousnesse that if it were but a ceremony he would haue obserued it because all was to continue vntill the vaile of the temple his body was rent Hee often tooke occasion indeed by their greatest assemblies on the sabbath daies to doe some miracles workes of mercy in their sight to confirme the truth of what he taught namely that hee was the Lord of the sabbath and the mercifull sauiour of the world This lesson hee first read vnto them out of the * Luk. 4.16.17.18 Prophet Isaiah in one of their Synagogues as his custome was on the sabbath day Which they should now haue taken forth by him being the chiefe and principall end of their sabbath But when they perversely misconstrued his doings he iustifying the same as also his Disciples plucking the eares of corne to satisfie their hunger tooke occasion to teach them better what was the right vse of the sabbath Not a x Cui septima quaeque fuit lu● Ignava Invenal Sat. 14. Sat. 6. Observant vbi festa mero pede sabbata reges De itinere sabatico Quos etiam irridet Plutarch libel de superstitione superstitious cessation from worke but a spirituall attention to the workes of God euer admitting our workes of mercy and of necessity And if Christ thereby abrogated the sabbath then did hee abolish the other commandements also whereof he said y Mat. 5. So and so it hath beene said vnto you of old but I say vnto you thus and thus shall yee doe and then was the Sabbath abrogated long afore by the Prophet Isaiah in the name of the Lord. z Isa 1.13 The new moones and sabbaths the calling of solemne assemblies I cannot away with But this Christ hath taught vs concerning the sabbath a Mark 2.27 That it was made for man not man for the sabbath as indeed the whole law was made for man not to breake but to keepe it for his owne good This especially was a provisionall statute for his benefit b Quian durabile non est quod requie caret o● tium quoddam sanctum Deus praecepit vt insatiabilem hominum cupiditatem fraenaret qui tam seipso● quam servos suos nimijs laboribus exhauriunt modo lucrum faciant Gualterus homil 56. in Luc. partly in regard of his body whose worldly heart would else giue him no rest but would make him out-worke Gods curse if God did not allow vs a rest supplying vs the while with necessaries by his ordinary prouidence c Exod. 16.24 as he did the Israelites by miracle but principally for his soules good that he might attend and receaue the d Homini non ante septimum laetalis inaedia est Plia hist nat l. 11. c 53. Plerique ex his qui septem diebus nihil edere aut bibere volunt in his moriuntur quod si quidam eos super averint nihilominus tamen moriuntur Hyp. l. de carn ad sinem Non possunt boni mores ne secundum naturam quidem ipsam apud eos homines constare qui vnum de septem diebus non observant sanctificant domino Iun. de Pol. Mosis c. 8. spirituall food thereof vnto eternall life As for the Apostles The Sabbath not abrogated by the Apostles St Paul writing to the Galatians condemnes the superstitious e Gal. 4.10 obseruing of daies and months and times and yeares in generall whereof the Iewes accounted some more holy the Gentiles some more happy But to the Colossians he speakes of Sabbaths by name reckoning thē amongst shadowes he saith f Coloss 2.16 let no man iudge you in respect of the Sabbaths a phrase which he vseth g Rom. 14.4.10.13 elsewhere forbidding all censuring contending about things indifferent amongst which he reckons the obseruing of a day and it may bee that set day for the Sabbath for he saith h V. 6. he that

spirit on the Lords day teaching thereby the Church represented in them to assemble euer on c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sublimi vtique sublimior admirabili admirabilior Greg Wazianz de nova deminica orat 43. p. 700. that day and euery one to bee spiritually minded and exercised in remembrance of his resurrection attendance on the holy ghost and expectance of our finall glory in the presence of God the father It is therefore most fitly called d Quia enius sabbati tunc appellabatur dies qui nunc dominicus appellatur August ep 86. ad Casulan the Lords day e Ps 118.24 This is the day which the Lord hath made wee will reioice and be glad in it And it may bee called sunday in a better sense then the f Ecce enim dies solis adest Sic enim barbaries diem dominicum vocitare consueta est Greg. Turonensis Histor lib. 3. cap. 13. heathens knew because on this day g Malach. 4.2 Solis autem die communiter omnes conuentum agimus quandoquidem is primus dies est quo deus è tenebris materia quam prius creauerat versa mundum essecit Iesus Christus seruator noster eo ipsodie a mortuis resurrexit Iuslin Martyr apolog lib. 2. the sunne of righteousnes arose with healing vnder his wings But howsoeuer the name be the duty of a sabbath remaines to bee performed by the expresse law of God inuiolable Which the Apostles were carefull to obserue The Lord s day hath euer bin obserued as the sabbath by the church as appeares not only by their former assemblies exercises on that day but afterwards againe Act. 20.7 and by their doctrine The spirit calling all things to their remembrance which Christ had taught and commanded them For that very day the Apostle appointed to be religiously kept not only at Colossi as it hath beene shewed but expressely in the Church of h 1 Cor. 16.1 Corinth and Galatia and accordingly wee may well suppose in all other Churches This day thus instituted the i Die dominico qui est dies resurrectionis slisdiosius templum domini adite Quid enim apud deum excusare poterit qui eo die ad audiendum verbum dei salutare de resurrectione non conuenit Clem Const l. 2. c. 59. Church of Christ hath euer since kept as their sabbath and that aunciently with such seuere necessity as that for this very cause the whole k Vid. Euseb Eccles bist lib. 5. cap. 11. Socrat. lib. 5. cap. 21. Greeke Church was excommunicated by Victor Bishop of Rome whose authority and proceedings therein I vndertake not because they would keepe Easter the Lord his holy day in honour of his resurrrection vpon any day of the weeke if it were the l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quartadecimam foureteenth day of the moneth and not put it ouer to this day of the weeke m Vid. I fiodor de ecclesiast offic l. 1. cap. 31. It was decreed by the counsell of Nice Ruffinus lib. 1. cap. 6. Cur id obseruetur cum pascha celebratur vt sabbatum occurrat Hoc enim proprium Christiane religionis est Aug. ep 119. ad Ianuar paulo post Orbi vniverso Christiano persuasum est eo modo pascha celebrari oportere as the first and great sabbath whence all the other throughout the yeare are reckoned Were the Lords day kept weekly as other holy daies are yearely only as an holy day not as the sabbath then were the daie of the moneth fittest for Easter as for other holy daies but being the same seauenth day of the weeke must of necessity be kept the yearely holy day must be translated to this day of the weeke rather then the weekly sabbath varied euery yeare by that holy day n See the conference at Hampton Court p. 45. reprinted 1625. In the Synod called and held by the late King Iames of blessed memory when many things were not found need full to be amended the motion for a stricter course to reforme the prophaning of the sabbath day by that name without scruple * Tertio Caroli Constanti●us Imperat grauissima authoritate sanciuit dominicum Enseb lib. 4. de eius vita which now blessed be God is happily inacted by Parliament founde a gener all and vnanimous consent For they well perceaued that if this duty were remitted the life of religion which hath a long time languished would soone be vtterly extinct and vanish o Cum ex septem diebus vnus in domini honorem consecratus sit religionis prorsus dissolutae suerit nos aliorum dierum ad opera vsu contentos non esse neque illum domino eximium in violatum conservare sed ipsum etiam vulgarem facere nostrisque operibus applicandum putare Leo imperat Novel 54. For howsoeuer it may be pretended instead of the seauenth to keepe euery day holy yet is it easily seene that many who make no religion of the sabbath are indeed euery day alike prophane enough whereas they who doe most devoutly redeeme some time of respit euery day from their owne affaires to the seruice of God doe most earnestly desire and carefully vse the helpe of the seauenth day to repaire their defaults on the other sixe To conclude The sabbath respects the kingdome of God of all the commandements in the morall law the sabbath especially is of faith not only in God the father because of the creation but in Christ the redeemer and throughout the whole creed acknowledging Gods kingdome of nature grace and glory That day which the Iewes obserued was as their other holy daies new moones p Colos 2. v. 17. a shadow the body is of Christ Namely the q Ephes 1.23 1. Cor. 12.12 catholicke Church which is the body of Christ his redeemed kingdome for which he prayed and dyed For that being euery where dispersed is in many places gathered together and generally resembled by the holy assemblies on the Lords day r Ideo upostosi nê ecclesia cum Iudeorum superstitionibus aliquid communè haberet otium illud sacrum in sequentem diem transtulerunt At ijdem non tantum sibi permiserunt vt preceptam diei septimi obseruaetionem in decimum aut quemcunque alium extenderent Horum igitur exemplo nos insisterc conuenit nesub liber totis Christianae praetextu in illis ludamus quae deux certacum ratione instituit illa tandem in licentiam degeneret quae vt consusionem gignit ita animos tandem ab omni religione alienat Gualt in Lucam hom 56. And therefore the Iewes day of sabbath wherby they were distinguished from all others as the peculiar people of God is now altered the grace thereof being extended vnto all nations For now from one sabbath to another from that of theirs to this of ours and from one Lords day to an other all flesh comes