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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	moral_a	sabbath_n	1,390	5	9.7943	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01676	Questions and disputations concerning the Holy Scripture wherein are contained, briefe, faithfull and sound expositions of the most difficult and hardest places: approued by the testimony of the Scriptures themselues; fully correspondent to the analogie of faith, and the consent of the Church of God; conferred with the iudgement of the fathers of the Church, and interpreters of the Scripture, nevv and old. Wherein also the euerlasting truth of the word of God, is freed from the errors and slaunders of atheists, papists, philosophers, and all heretikes. The first part of the first tome. By Nicholas Gibbens, minister and preacher of the word of God.	Gibbons, Nicholas.	1601 (1601)	STC 11814; ESTC S103122	726,660	618

the rest The reason is annexed because in it he had rested from all his worke that is had ceased from creating therefore hee appointed the seuenth day to be a perpetuall memoriall of that his worke g From the creation vntill the resurrection of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the last of seuen who sanctified the next day or the fi●st of the next seuen by the perfectiō of our redemption and ordained it to bee obserued for the rest of Christians as appeareth by his presenting himselfe among his Disciples on the same daie Ioh. 20.19.26 by the constant obseruation of the Apostles and Disciples and the Church of God by ordaining euery seuenth day a day of rest Also to sanctifie doth h Mica 3.5 to prepare wa●re where the same word is vsed sometime signifie to make readie or prepare sometime i Leuit. 21.23 to make holie sometime to declare k Ezech. 30.27 holines sometime to l Ioel. 1.14 set apart or dedicate vnto a holie vse God therfore blessed the seuenth day when he ordained it a time of greater and more holie works and by decree did crowne the m Isai 58.14 works themselues with richer fruite hee sanctified the seuenth day when he did chuse it n Chrysost Hom. in Gen. 10. Ab alijs illum segregauit aboue the rest vnto a holie vse The Lord in hallowing doth commaund it of his creatures to be hallowed Men are commaunded to hallow it that is to doe the holie workes thereof which are commaunded Wherefore we must remember that the day is hallowed of vs when holie workes are holily performed in the day which seeing God himself hath hallowed that is commanded to be done they are all found breakers of this ordinance which either doe workes which are vnholie or leaue vndone the workes that God hath sanctified or by prophanenes o Hagg. 2.14 make holie workes to be vnholie Question 3. verse 2. Whether in these words there is contained a commaundement of resting and whether the godly Patriarkes obserued the Sabboth before the law giuen by Moses THese words containe nothing else but a narratiō or report of that whic● was done and do not indeed directly affirme that it was commaunded but they doe vndoubtedly implie as much For seeing it is said God sanctified and this sanctifying is a Exod. 13.2 Ioel. 1.14 to exempt vnto a holie vse to be b Nam vt nomen dei sanctificatur ab hominibus quod per se sanctum est cum in se sanctificari cupiunt Hieron contra Pelag. lib. 3. sic itidem sabbatum sanctificant cū sanctum habent August locut in Num. lib. 3. ad opera sancta in dei cultum destinata Et licet omnia sanctorum opera sancta sunt in fide operata ea tamen ratione propri● dicuntur sancta quo proprio modo ad cultum dei conseruntur performed of the creature not of him that sanctified that it might sanctifie in doing which God had sanctified in ordaining therefore when he sanctified he appointed and in appointing c The word of God containeth all matters of saluation b●th of faith and works with the circumstances thereof either explicitè expressely as in the fourth cōmandement or els implicitè inclusiuè inwardly or inclusiuely as in this place the work● of resting the seuenth day commanded the resting of the seuenth day the seuenth day Wherefore although some there are d Iustin Mart. Dialog cum Triffo Tertull. aduers Iudaeos lib. D●●etur Adam sabbatizasse aut Abel hostiam Deo sanctam offerentem sabbati religione pla●uisse aut Enoch translatum sabbati cultorem fuisse aut Noe aut Abraham Beda alij which think that the Sabboth was not appointed to be kept vntill the daies of Moses yet surely wee may answere them as our Sauiour doth the Iewes e Ioh. 7.22 It was not of Moses but of the Fathers But where were they commaunded to obserue the Sabboth or which of the Fathers was a keeper of it The morall dutie of this commandement f Rom. 2.15 was written in their hearts as the restraint of murther adulterie theft false witnes the chusing and worshipping of strange Gods so that they whom the Scripture g Gen. 5.22 6.9 c. Isai 41.8 commendeth for iust and righteous men h Iam. 2.23 Act. 13 22. as certainly obserued the tenour of this commandement as they did abstaine from murther or from worshipping of Images And for the practise of it who can doubt i Rom. 2.15 Gen. 4.24 de septimo die laudes decantat Hesiodus in Theogon a●ij ethnici perindè ac si iudaeis gentibus communis esset seeing the very wicked did shew the effect of the law written in their hearts and seeing that the faithfull did performe the exercises of the Sabboth as that they called k Gen. 4.26 on the name of the Lord l Gen. 4.4 8.20 offered sacrifices m Gen. 13.4 prepared places to worship in n Gen. 18.19 instructed and taught their families the feare of God which duties although they are not to be restrained only vnto the Sabboth day yet are they chiefly to be referred thereunto seeing God hath sanctified that day and set it apart o Athanas Hom. in Matth. 11.27 Non igitur Sabbatum otiū designat aut innuit sed cognitionem conditoris eò quod cessatum sit à forma creandi vt in Ezechiele scriptum est Sabbata mea dedi illis vt esset in monimētum recordationem mei Intelligentiae igitur non otij datum est Sabbatum to the same intent The vse also of this commandement being no lesse necessarie before the giuing of the law then after may seeme a strong reason for the practise of it by the Fathers Yea moreouer as it was vnto Adam and to the Fathers a remedie against sinne to vse those exercises of the Sabboth after the first offence committed so was it also to Adam in his innocencie no lesse behouefull to be strengthened thereby against concupiscence of sin by drawing as it were p Numb 16.19 1. Sam. 14.36 more neere to God vpon the Sabboth day and vsing more exactly those blessed meanes he knew to be ordained by the purpose of this precept to keepe out sinne Neither are examples wanting q Gen. 2.2 7.4 of the maiestie of God himselfe r Gen. 8.10.12 of Noah ſ Exod. 16.6 of the Israelites before the law by whom the daies were gathered into weekes which sheweth that the obseruation of the Sabboth was not vnknown before the daies of Moses But chiefly sith that the law giuen t Ioh. ● 17.15 by Moses was u Rom. 2. written in the harts of men x August lib. de spiritu lit cap 27. 28. Quia non vsque adeo in anima humana imago dei terrenorum affectuum l●be detrita est vt nulla