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A14216	The summe of Christian religion: deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his lectures vpon the Catechism autorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: wherein are debated and resolued the questions of whatsoeuer points of moment, which haue beene or are controuersed in diuinitie. Translated into English by Henrie Parrie, out of the last & best Latin editions, together with some supplie of wa[n]ts out of his discourses of diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar [sic] as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine.; Doctrinae Christianae compendium. English	Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583.; Parry, Henry, 1561-1616.	1587 (1587)	STC 24532; ESTC S118924	903,317	1,074

as his Doctrine should bee heard so also the right and lawfull vse of his sacraments should bee seene and behold in the publicke meetings and assemblies of the Church because god will haue both these to bee markes whereby his Church may be knowen discerned from other sects and peoples Againe as the woord so also the sacraments are an instrument or exercise to stirre and maintaine in vs faith and godlinesse They are also a publicke profession of our faith and thankefulnesse towardes God and a part of Gods publicke worship in the Church Therfore the vse of them is most agreeable and fit for the Sabboth day 5 Publicke Jnuocation of God whereby we ioine our confession thankes-giuing praiers desires with the Church For god will be inuocated not only priuately by euery one but also publickely by the whole Church for his owne glory our comfort that so we may the lesse doubt that God will hear vs seeing he hath promised to heare not onely vs but also others and the whole Church praying for vs together with vs. For therefore hath God annexed a speciall promise vnto publicke prayers Mat. 18.19 If two of you shall agree on earth vpon anie thing whatsoeuer they shal desire it shal be giuen them of my Father which is in Heauen For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the middest of them And giuing of thankes and praise vnto God is promised vnto God as a speciall woorship Ps 22. Jn the middst of the congregation will I praise thee And the same is commanded 1. Cor. 14. When thou blessest with the spirite how shal he that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned say Amen at thy giuing of thankes seeing he knoweth not what thou saiest And 1. Tim. 2. I exhort that first of al supplications praiers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for all men Now whereas Christ else where commandeth that when a man praieth Mat. 6.6 he enter into his chamber when he hath shut his doore pray vnto his Father which is in secret he by these words doth not condemne and forbid publicke praiers but hypocrisie and ostentation and fained godlinesse which the woordes testifie that goe before When thou praiest be not as the Hypocrits Now hypocrisie is a faigning and an ostentation or shew of Godlinesse We are here furder to obserue that in this commandement is prescribed the publicke inuocation of the Church but that which was in the former commaundement prescribed is the priuate inuocatiō which concerneth euery particular man 6 To bestowe almes that is to performe the duties of loue and charity thereby to sanctifie the Sabboth in shewing our obedience which wee yeelde vnto the Doctrine Hither appertaineth the sermon of Christ concerning the sabboth wherein he declareth against the Iewes whether it be lawfull to doe good on the sabboth daie And whereas God will haue this Sabboth to be kept all our life time yet will he haue examples and testimonies thereof to bee shewed especially on the externall or ceremoniall Sabboth day that is at those times which are allotted to the teaching and learning of Gods worde For if neither at that time any man shewe his desire of obaying God when Gods Doctrine soundeth in his eares and when God willeth vs surceasing omitting all other cares to meditate on Godlinesse amendment of life he giueth a token that he will farre lesse doe it at an other time Therefore hath it beene alwaies the custome in the Church to bestowe almes on the Sabboth day and to performe the workes of charity towardes those that are in want Nehem 8.10 Send part vnto them for whom none is prepared for this daie is holie vnto our Lord. 7 The honour of the ministerie of the Church or our obedience towardes the whole ministerie in life and manners and this is the morall Sabboth Nowe that obedience towardes the ministery comprehendeth many things First reuerence that is an acknowledging of Gods order and will in the ordeining and maintaining of the Ministery and in the gathering of his Church by it that is a declaration both in woords and deeds of this our acknowledgement iudgement of the Ministery 1. Cor. 4.7 Let a man so thinke of vs as of the Ministers of christ and disposers of the secrets of God Secondly loue whereby wee gladly both frequent diuine assemblies and heare learn the Doctrine of the church and wish well vnto the faithfull Ministers of the Church not onely in respect of that duty of charity which we owe but also in respect of the ministerie which they discharge Psal 84. How amiable are thy Tabernacles My soule longeth yea fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Thirdly obedience in those thinges which are belonging vnto the Ministerie Hither belong the workes of loue towards God and our neighbour euen the whole life of a Christian which is that spirituall or morall Sabboth For to hold and celebrate that spiritual Sabboth is in the direction and ordering of our life to obey the voice of God speaking by the ministerie of the Church For God will therefore haue the true doctrine to be learned of vs that we may obey it Iam. 1. Bee yee doers of the woord and not hearers onelie deceiuing your owne selues Fourthly Thankefulnesse that is such duties as tend to the preseruation and mainteinance of the ministery Ministers and Schooles For if God will haue ministers to be in his church he will also that euery one according to his ability helpe forwarde and furder the maintenance of the Ministerie Schooles of learning doe his endeuor that the ministers teachers school-masters be honestlie prouided for Hither appertain Moses Lawes of the first-born of first-fruits of tithes such like offerings which were alotted to the Priests Leuites by way of stipend whereby they might sustaine their owne life their houshould that so they might wholly bee employed in the ministerie And albeit the circumstances of these lawes are abolished yet the generall remaineth for euer because God wil haue his ministerie to bee maintained to the end of the world Fiftly lastly Lenitie and moderation in bearing with such infirmities of the ministers as doe not enormously or manifestly corrupt or hinder the ministery hurt the church by offence 1. Tim. 5.19 Against an Elder receiue none accusation but vnder two or three witnesses Seeing then this is the sanctifieng keeping holy of the Sabboth it followeth that those works must needs be contrary to these whereby the Sabboth is broken prophaned 6 How the sabboth is broken or prophaned THE sabboth is prophaned when either it is not at al sanctified or is not sanctified aright but such works are done as hinder the ministerie or are contrarie vnto those woorks which belong to the sanctifieng of the sabboth and were euen nowe rehearsed Wherefore the parts of the profaning of the sabboth shal be those which are opposed vnto the parts

of sanctifieng of the sabboth We wil shortly propound them on this wise 1 Vnto the deliuering and teaching of the doctrine is opposed the omitting or neglect of teaching As also a corrupting or mai●ing of the doctrine or a fitting of it vnto the opinions affections lusts or commodities of the Magistrates or others 2. Corint 2.17 For we are not as manie which make merchaundize of the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we of Christ 2 Vnto the right due administration of the Sacraments is opposed an omitting or neglect in the Church of exhortation to the receiuing of the sacraments as also a corrupt and vnlawful administration of the sacramentes when somewhat is either taken from or added to the ceremonies instituted of God or is altered chaunged in them or when some are excluded from the Sacramentes which should be admitted or are admitted which should by Gods ordinance be driuen from them or when the people is not instructed concerning the right and lawfull vse of them 3 Vnto the studie of learning the doctrine is repugnaunt 1. A contempt and neglect of the doctrine that is either not to afford our presence in sacred assemblies when there is no iust cause to hinder vs and to busie our selues in such works on the sabboth day as might haue been differred or not to giue eare and attendaunce to Sermons and the preaching of Gods woorde or not to meditate consider and examine the doctrine of the Church 2. Curiositie which is a desire study of knowing those things which God hath not reueiled vnnecessary strange and vaine 4 Vnto the right vse of the sacramentes is contrarie the omitting and contempt thereof as also a profaning of them when they are not receiued as God hath commaunded neither by them for whom they were ordained Likewise also contrary thereto is all superstitious vsing of them when as saluation and the grace of God is tied to the obseruation of the rites and ceremonies or when they are vsed to such ends as God hath not appointed 5 Vnto publike praiers is opposed the neglect of them an hypocritical presence at them without anie attention and inward deuotion Likewise such reading or praieng as serueth not for any edifieng of the Church 1. Cor. 14.16 When thou blessest with the spirit how shal he that occupieth the roome of the vnlearned saie Amen at thy giuing of thankes For he knoweth not what thou saiest For thou verily giuest thanks wel but the other is not edified 6 To the bestowing of Almes is repugnant a neglect of the works of charitie as when wee doe not according to our power succour the poore that stand in need of our help 7 To the honour of the ministerie of the church is opposed the contempt of the ministerie as when either the ministerie of the Church is abolished or committed to men vnworthy and vnable or is denied to be the means instrument which God will vse for the gathering of his Church likewise when the ministers are reproched when their doctrin is heard and not obeyed in the ordering of our life when the works of charity are neglected when necessary mainteinaunce is not allowed the Ministers when the defence and protection of them and other duties of thankefulnesse are not perfourmed towardes them when the mainteinance of Schooles and studies and learning is neglected when the tolerable defectes of the Ministers are not borne with and when for such the ministery suffereth reproch and contumely In like maner also is it against the vse of the whole ministerie not onely when some one priuately neglecteth or omitteth the vse of the ministerie but also when one by his commandement and persuasion or example or by some other hinderance calleth away his children family or any other from the vse of the ministery 5 How the sabboth belongeth vnto vs. THE seuenth day was euen from the beginning of the world designed by God to signifie that men should after the example of God himselfe rest from their labours 〈…〉 from sinnes And afterwards in Moses Lawe this commandement was againe repeated and then withal was the ceremony of ceasing from labour on the seuenth day ordayned to be a sacrament that is a signe and token of that signifieng whereby god signified himselfe to bee the sanctifier of his church that is to pardon her al her sins offences ●o receiue her into fauour to endue rule her with his holy spirite for the beginning of newe and euerlasting life in her in this life which afterwardes should be accomplished perfected for by the Messias promised to the fathers And this is the reason why the ceremonial sabboth of the seuenth day is now to be abolished namely because it was typical admonishing the people of their own duty towards god of gods benefits towards them which was to be performed by christ for which selfesame cause also al the other sacramentes sacrifices ceremonies made before after the Lawe were abolished by the comming of Christ by whom that was fulfilled which they signified But although the ceremonial sabboth is abrogated and disanulled in the new testament yet the moral sabboth continueth stil and belongeth vnto vs and euen the verie generall of the ceremoniall sabboth belongeth vnto vs and dooth still remaine which is that some time is to be alotted for the ministerie of the Church For we must euer haue some day wherein the word of god may be taught in the Church and the Sacramentes administred But neuerthelesse we are not restrained or tied to haue either saturday or wednesday or any other certaine day therefore the sabboth doth not belong vnto vs ceremonially in special and particular albeit it dooth belong vn vs so to al men euer continueth both morallie ceremonially in general Obiections against the abrogating of the ceremonial sabboth THE Decalogue is a perpetual Law The commaundement of the sabboth is a part of the Decalogue therefore it is a perpetuall Law and not to be abolished Aunswere The Decalogue is a perpetual Law as it is a Moral Law But the additions or circumstances and limitations of the Morall preceptes annexed by way of signification were to be kept vntil the comming of the Messias 2. The commaundments of the Dacalogue belong vnto vs. This is a commaundement of the Decalogue Therefore it belongeth vnto vs. Aunswere The commandements of the Decalogue which are Morall belong vnto vs. But this commandement is in part ceremonial so as it is ceremonial it belongeth not vnto vs albeit the general belong vnto vs. The reasons why the ceremoniall Lawe belongeth not vnto vs are especially these 1. One part of this Law of sanctifieng the sabboth is ceremonial 2. Paul saith Coloss 2.16 Let no man condemne you in respect of an holie daie 3. The Apostles themselues did change the sabboth 4. From the end or purpose of the Law It was a type