best part of my books having been strangers to my Eyes now above seven years for which reason I have forborn to cite parricularly most of the Authorities I have alledged as I pass along But if need be I promise sacredly particular citations in a new Edition when God shall restore my books to me I alledge what I do now mostly out of Excerpta taken many years ago by my self but not with connexions and references so particular as I can fully trust to But to Return That which makes many persons of sound and good Judgment shy of this name Sabbath under Christianity is I conceive for that they who use it most seem under this style to endeavour the introducing a Judaical Yoke and entiteling the Lords day to all the Sabbatical strictnesses or severities of the bodily Rest imposed on the old people by the letter of the fourth Commandment and the Precepts appendant to it in the Law As to Duration of time they would oblige all Christian people to a Natural day of twenty four hours from Even to Even or from twelve of the Clock Midnight to twelve of the Clock Midnight in all which space they would bear us in hand nothing is to be done which was not lawful for the Jews to have done on their Sabbath Nay indeed as to the strictness of the Rest diverse Liberties allowed because not forbidden the Jews are by these teachers upon the pretence of a Sabbath Spiritual as well as Corporal said to be forbidden Christian people even by the letter of the fourth Commandment And thus intolerable burthens and inextricable snares the particulars of which would require a volume to set down are prepared for us As to all which I conceive if People would duely heed no more need to be said for the disentangling Conscience from the scruples these men have injected than that truely Apostolical Canon Acts xv It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no greater burden upon you than these necessary things That ye abstain from meats offered to Idols and from bloud and from things strangled and from fornication Amongst which necessary things there is no Syllable importing any of the Sabbatical Rites Nor can it be said the Reason of such silence was the sense the world had of the immutable Obligation of the fourth Command for the Obligation of the sixth and seventh Commandments must be acknowledged as immutable yet is there mention here of Fornication and of Blood in the very Conciliary Decree I do conclude therefore as well from hence as from Colloss ii urged in the discourse that all the Ceremonial part of the fourth Command with the appendant Laws are truely ceased nailed to the Cross of Christ and by it taken away which is amply sufficient for the setting Conscience at liberty But I must together conclude that the Natural and Spiritual part of that Commandment are no whit at all infringed The natural part was and is nothing but immutable and Eternal Equity That God should have a due proportion of our time And that not so much privately by secret Devotion of our own though that be necessary also as by a publick separating it or cutting it off from Common Employments to publick sacred Offices Thus much of a Sabbath I insist on to be perpetually and naturally Moral from Paradise in Eden to Paradise in a better World And as to the Spiritual part of the Command that certainly is so far from being abated by the Gospel-Oeconomy that it is rather set higher There is none deny the Christian is bound to the Spiritual Rest onely some tell us and that not without Reason that this is our Duty for our whole life and not for one day in the week onely I embrace with all my heart this Doctrine of Christian peoples being obliged to endeavour their whole life may be a Spiritual Sabbath a Rest from Sin Carnality Voluptuousness c. And I onely desire we may hold to it Let all those therefore who hold this Doctrine pardon me if I adventure according to their Concessions Minus aequo petere ut aequum feram to intreat them and all Christian People but to keep the Lords day as such a Spiritual Rest In plain terms I would desire no more towards the keeping Holy the Lords day than that the Christians of the present Age would in private keep the Lords day as perfectly a Spiritual Sabbath as the Primitive Christians did every day in the week onely with this Addition That what publick Offices the Primitive Christians observed constantly on each Lords day may also be observed thereon by us at present and what Liberties they forbore always may be forborn on this day The point of controversy falls mainly on private or family-Family-duties These some men cannot endure that all Christian People should be obliged to And for the shifting off the necessity of these and setting the ordinary people free to Games and Sports on the Lords Day-afternoon diverse Laborious and some truely not unlearned Books have been written Wherein I must confess I cannot but wonder to see Protestant Doctors hunt for and greedily snap those Nice distinctions in use with the Popish Schools for the defence of the corruptions of their Church and gravely apply them for the decision of Cases of Conscience against their Protestant Brethren I will 〈◊〉 lanch forth into particulars of Controversy but instead thereof pursuant to what I now desired onely lay down two conclusions which I suppose must approve themselves by their own intrinsick Evidence without Controversy to the conscience of all who understand and will consider them 1. None who call themselves Christians may in this Age make such Liberties Sports Games and Recreations as it cannot be proved the Primitive Christians allowed themselves on any days to be their ordinary divertisments on the Lords Day And if so I am sure Cards Dice Tables c. within doors Dancing Pipeing Revells c. without doors must all be laid aside For none can shew the Antient Christians used these any daies On the contrary many Canons of the antient Councils severelly condemn them at all times especially to some Persons And if there should be any of our Clergy who plead for those within-door Games mentioned they will do well to consult the XLII Irish Canon and the Old Injunctions in the Reformation of King Edward and Queen Elizabeth whence most probably the Compilers of our Canons more immediatly took those parts of them and whence I hope they may be satisfied But to proceed I say 2dly In all doubtful cases it is still the best to take the safer side and that which in it self cannot be sinful but is Pious and commendable Now certainly upon the Lords day preparing our selves for our publick Devotions by private Prayer Examination of Conscience and composing our minds to a serious temper and awful apprehensions of God whom we are to worship before we go to Church Recollections in convenient time when we
inexcusable on any other score save that of necessity At least it is no excuse to an Incumbent what is too usualy pleaded My Neighbours are content with once a fortnight what need I trouble my self any more To this I say 1 This plea is made many times where it is not true Some Neighbours are content so not all And they who cannot be so confident as to complain to their Ministers face will do it in his absence Or though haply they dare not accuse him to his Bishop will mutter of it to persons of meaner rank and amongst themselves at home 2 If the people are so satisfied yet is not this practice a satisfaction to the Law of God or to the Church nor will it be a satisfaction one day to a mans conscience In short Is the Lords Day to be kept holy Is the publick worship thereon a Christian Duty or No If it be How then dare any person to whom the Charge of Souls is committed be Author to them of Neglecting one or Prophaning the other Will not one Day all such his Peoples neglects and Prophanations all their Alehouse-meetings Revelling Drunkeness and other Debaucheries acted on the Lords Day be charged on such their Minister And lastly in case the people really be thus content it is a shrewd Argument they are grosly Lukewarm and Irreligious Now it would be enquired and will one day is not the peoples lukewarmness their Ministers sin Has not he been a Precedent to them therein Has not his neglect of his duty bred them thereto If they had been better instructed more constantly warned called upon they would have had more knowledg more warmth more sence of their duty more Faith and belief of its obligation than to have satisfied themselves with such slender attendance on God and so little minding their Souls But 't is time to finish this large Porch to so small a Fabrick What I have said is from a serious conscience of my own Duty and in the real fear of God If it have effect to amend any I shall rejoyce therein and bless God If it have not I have born my testimony in this great and publick concern of Religion I will not by Gods grace be an offender against my own rules And I trust one day that whatever my Defects and Omissions have been in other cases as they are and have been God help me very many yet that God through Christ will one day pardon them all and judge touching me as to this Matter that Liberavi animam meam God deliver us all from those judgments both here and hereafter which our Relapses after our late Repentance and vows in our Miseries or to speak it in Scripture language which our returning to our vomit may most justly bring upon us and for which I must declare before all the World I dayly expect yet a return of an over flowing scourge in one kind or other if not prevented by a sudden Reformation to which I know no one thing that will be of more general conducement than a strict and constant observation of the Lords Day the thing I have aymed at in this paper and in the following Discourse Cork Nov 17. 1696 THE Reader may be pleased to understand the whole Paragraph included in Crochets thus pag. 13 and 14. as also another out of Ignatius pag. 27 28. were passed over for haste 's sake at the delivery of this Sermon but were notwithstanding now thought fit to appear in their places ERRATA PAge 19. l. 21. for thereon read then p. 26. l. 7. for seen r. been p. 28. l. 26 27. the words namely by our Lords appointment as in other cases should not have been put in Italick letter for they are not the Fathers words p. 36. in the margin r. from ill imputations In Pref. p. iii. l. penult r. a Virtual p. ix l. 3. r. severely Other literal escapes crave pardon on course A SERMON Touching The LORDS DAY Revelation I. Ver. x. First part I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day FRom these words I purpose to The design of the Discourse assert First the Divine Right of the Lords Day Then the true Christian way of keeping it I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day which day I shall not doubt after some of the Fathers but especially after our own Church both in her Cannons and much oftner and more expresly in the Homily concerning the Time and Place of Prayer to stile a Christian Sabbath Sect I And first as to its Divine Right 'T is the Lords Day In the Original The style of the Text asserts the Lords Day to be of Christs appointment Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Epithet or Term but once more occuring in Holy Writt viz. 1 Cor. xi 20. where the Holy Communion is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lords Supper Both equally the Lords because both by the same appropriative term styled such And if both equally his then both Instituted by him Touching the Lords Institution of his Supper none doubteth And why should any doubt of his Institution of the Lords Day when 't is the same Lord to whom both are holy And when by a word peculiar or which seems coined on purpose to assert his claim he the same Lord has avouched them both his and nothing else throughout the whole Scripture in the same stile avouched his Sect. II Yet are there amongst us I mean that call themselves Sons of our Of the term a Christian Sabbata Church too many who really place the Lords Day upon the same level with if not below other Church Holy-days they do so at least if we may judg of their Faith by their Works which some think surer both discoveries and tests of what men believe than any words can be I crave your patience therefore while I remove that insolent demand it is so at least as some use to put it How can you make out the Institution of the Lords Day and where find you or what ground is there for a Septenary Christian Sabbath The answer is A Christian Sabbath according as Christian Temples a Christian Priesthood and other necessary appendages of Christian Worship we cannot expect to meet with elder than Christianity it self But a Sabbath no less than Temples or places dedicated to Divine Worship no less than a Priesthood and such like adjuncts of Worship we find much elder even before Moses's Law as well as under it and all perpetual all positively moral though as the new Law came it must be confest all and particularly the Sabbath received thereby some new modifications as well as new names Sect. III Now the sum of what I shall advance to The sum of the further proof clear this matter shall be directed to those three Points A Sabbath or certain day of rest for Publick Worship is dictated by the Law natural A Seventh day by God's eldest Laws positive This Seventh day by the Law Christian I
are returned Examining and Instructing our Children and Servants causing them to attend Reading and Family-prayers and Psalms for some reasonable time and restraining them all the day long from many Liberties usual on common dayes all these can have of themselves no sin in them but are pious and commendable and will turn to our own and our Families account one day if not at present Herein let the forced Concessions of some of the keenest disputants in behalf of Sunday Sports be heard 1. Whatever may hinder either the worship of God it self or our profiting therein should be forborn and avoided For all such things whatsoever Ironsides 7 Questions Cap. 24. p. 224. p. 269. as keep us from or hinder us in the Publik Worship are altogether unlawful on the Lords Day 2. It is not unlawful to observe the Lords Day with as great strictness as the Jews did the Sabbath provided we have no opinion that such rest is of necessity to be observed under pain of sin putting Religion therein p. 227. And that we censure not others who use their liberty nor out of a superstitious fear decline the doing any work of Necessity or Charity the benefit whereof would be utterly lost were the present opportunity neglected 3. Those who can and will spend the vacant time of the Lords Day in the private Exercises of piety ought not to be discountenanced or disheartened but encouraged rather p. 268. In a word let all follow thus what their own consciences when they are serious cannot what the very learned defenders of such Liberties as they are fond of when they consulted their own consciences could not but confess and there is little question but the whole Lords Day will be generally spent as in this discourse is pressed It may be observed I have not pressed such severities as exclude due refreshments and keeping the spirits in vigour and cheerfulness Nor do I suppose those expressions giving the whole day to God and the like which I have produced out of holy mens writings use to be taken in such a rigorous sense that the private and publick duties having been conscientiously performed and secured any should conclude it unlawful for people to walk abroad awhile in fresh air and Contemplate the works of God and enjoy themselves in beholding and moderately using them No nor for them sitting at home to let drop at their Meals or otherwise out of the times of their Devotions something of innocent cheerful discourse or as occasion offers to speak touching matters of concernment to them or of the common Occurrents in Human affairs though the less of this the better In a word That which I insist on as required is that All this day Christians take care not to disorder their hearts for the worship of God but that after their several refreshments they may return again with composed minds to the thoughts of God and Heaven and their duties and in the Evening sweetly commit their Souls and Bodys their family and substance to the Divine protection reposing themselves comfortably in Gods favour and in the good hopes of his acceptance in Christ Jesus If thus the day be spent it is as much given to God as our present condition will suffer us But will some say if this be all you contend for who denies the Divine obligation of the Lords Day or its observation thus stated I answer many have done and still do deny it Onely it comes to pass in this particular case what does more generally when men write in defence of such Doctrines which their Interest rather than their Conscience approves that by their own concessions in conscience they sometimes contradict what they have said for Interest And hence it is that we may easily pick out of our very Adversaries writings sundry memorable passages which favour us and so sometimes they deny what we contend for and sometimes they grant it In the mean time what is the effect which these Learned mens denying flatly and directly sometimes in their writings sometimes in ordinary discourse and it were to be wished they did it not in their most sacred discourses too what I say is the effect which their denying the morality of the fourth command has in the World Truely nothing but the growth of Licentiousness and Irreligion I know they pretend onely to Innocent Liberty and easing peoples Consciences of endless Scruples But is not Conscience easy enough by asserting such a Morality and Observation of a Christian Sabbath as above They would be understood to deny meerly such a Natural Morality of the letter of the fourth Command as there is in the first Thou shalt have no other Gods but me That is thou shall worship the Lord thy God and him alone shalt thou serve The Justness and Obligation whereof the very light of Nature or reflecting upon the very Terms doth dictate to us They would be content they 'l say to allow unto the fourth Command a kind of Equitahle morality and own the command too in some regard as positively Moral Nor do I deny but that when they thus speak they speak what if strictly taken and well understood is reason and as farr forth as there is reason and truth in it I have owned it But the People in the mean time understand not the Nice and distinct degrees of Morality And when they read or here learned men deny the Morality of the fourth Commandment they take all at Random and think themselves at liberty They say with themselves If indeed we keep the Lords Day t is true we do well but if we see fit to travel or if we take our pleasure or bodily ease all that day we sin not For the fourth command is not moral And the Lords Day is onely a Church Holy day All dayes under the Gospel are equal as our most learned Doctors teach us Now is it not evident that by these Terms such learned men have betrayed poor plain people into Licentiousness Prophaness and Irreligion And were it not better to be more cautious and allow all the Decalogue to be moral as indeed it is in one degree or other though one command or one duty may sometimes give place to another as Sacrifice to Mercy and onely to teach that the fourth command had one sense to the Jews and another to us Christians as had the Preface to all the commands Thy God that brought thee out of the Land c and divers passages in other Commands And finally to press the Evangelical sense of all which none question to be moral enough were not this I say much better than by our Learning and exactness by terms unknown to Scripture and distinctions not understood by common people to become Authors of their sins I leave this to the conscience and consideration of all prudent and serious Christians and pass on to another point in the following discourse which some haply may censure Amongst the constant publick Duties of the Lords day I
have reckoned Communicating And herein some will conceive I have gone beyond the Law of our Church which Requires as they may think by her Rubrick that the people Communicate but three times a year To this I say this is indeed the least which according to the Laws of our Church will exempt people from Censure but this is far from being all which she would bring her Sons to For she has provided a Communion-service not only for every Lords day but for every holyday in the year And by diverse passages of the Rubrick more than I am willing to insist on at present it appears she desires more I may not wave that particular Text of the Rubrick In Cathedral and Collegiate Churches where there are many Priests every Sunday at the least except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary c. And further to back this Rubrick I must solemnly profess I do not see how any Christian can satisfie himself that he walks according to Scripture and Primitive Rule who except in cases of necessity or want of opportunity Communicates seldomer than each Lords day In the beginning of Christianity 't is plain from Acts ii 42. they Communicated dayly And this Custome continued in a great part of the Church for above four hundred Years after Christ St. Austin particularly who dyed not till the year of our Lord. 430 not only mentions it as then Customary but exhorts to it I will not urge that in the Romish Church we may observe the Footsteps of this practice still from their dayly private Masses But I must note that the minimum quod sic or most seldom returns that we read the Administration hereof had in the Apostolical age were on every Lords Day On the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break Bread c. Acts xxi And I wish those words which St. Paul reports as in the Body of the Institution from our Saviour and which our Church from St. Paul inserts into the form of Consecration Do this as oft as ye Drink it in remembrance of me had been better considered especially as they stand in the Original than they are by most interpreters I think I could easily and evidently make out that they import no less than an express command to this purpose every day whereon you publickly assemble see you celebrate my Supper Let this be a constant part of every days publick Worship But the due Deduction of this sense would take up more room than I may at present allow my self However still I challenge any instance to be produced from Scripture of Christians in the Apostles age communicating seldomer than each Sunday I may therefore reasonably conclude touching this Rubrick of our Church not punishing the negligence of such as Communicate but thrice a year as our Lord does touching Divorce Because of the hardness of mens hearts it is suffered to them but from the begining it was not so nor is it the mind of our Church it should be so The Lords Supper was and still ought to be as occasion requires Administred oftener than on each Lords day but it being plain that the constant celebration of the Lords Supper and the Lords Day coming in as it were together and that neither any order or practice of the Apostles nor any Canon of the Church has separated them or excluded the Lords Supper from the publick duties of the Lords Day the separation of them which is now come into the Church can onely be made by the corruption and degeneracy of the latter Christian ages And whether either the corruption or degeneracy of others will be a good plea for the like in us one day it behoves us to consider in time For my own part I am resolved I and as many as I can prevail with shall never run the venture I will Communicate or Administer if I can get but three Christians with me at least every Lords day And let others forbear it at their peril and as they will answer before God and Christ the Righteous Judge at the last day It remains now I onely add a word or two for removing those neglects which in the begining I taxed as so frequent especially amongst the Irish Protestants in most Country Parishes The Neglect of afternoon publick worship and so of Catechising youth with that constancy that the Laws have enjoyned is ordinarily pleaded to be necessitated or made in a manner unavoidable by the distance of the Parishioners dwellings from the Churches in the Country But to this I answer 1. This is not so constant every where but that there are some competent number of Protestant Inhabitants within such convenient distance as that there might be a smaller Congregation in the afternoon And then families might be warned by turns and in course to send their younger people on afternoons to Catechism which thing might be made convenient by a hundred little Contrivances that the meanest capacities if people had but a good heart for their duty would quickly find out As for instance if my young people came with me to Church in the morning I could easily let them stay a dinner-time at their Neighbours house neerer the Church than my own that they may be at Evening service and Catechism If they do not I can order them to be ready by such a time as I come home to take the Horse or Horses with which I and others of my Family went to Church in the Morning and they will be early enough for their duty A true good will and a litle zeal for our Religion may find out more and better expedients as circumstances may varie 2 If the Ministers house be so far distant from the Church are his and all substantial Religious Neighbours Houses so out of the way that there can be no small afternoon-Assemblies in any of them If any be unwilling to have their house so constantly troubled every Lords Day convenient Houses in several districts may be taken by turns and in the morning notice given at the Church that evening Prayers will be at such a Family this day and at such a one the next Lords Day c. Now here young people may conveniently appear for Catechism This will be made much the more tolerable to poorer Inhabitants if there be a rule set up that there be no such custom at any time permitted as giving Drink and Entertainments to the Neighbours that Assemble any more than there is at Church But I am ashamed to descend to such minute matters I leave this to good Christians piety and prudence And take notice in a word of the other more gross neglect above taxed namely the Clergies coming to their Cures but once a fortnight or seldomer Where the slenderness of the maintenance is such that better provision cannot be made this is to be born and lamented But in other cases I hope the Governours of the Church will not bear with it and I am sure it is
even to himself Waving then what was extraordinary Let us attend to what is ordinary and ought to be constant We may and ought on the Lords Day to be 1 in Spiritual Exercises and 2 in a Spiritual temper for attending them Sect. 16 Spiritual Exercises I call the offices of Worship or ordinary duties Of Spiritual Exercises on the Lords Day of Devotion on the Lords Day and those are either Publick Private or Secret which cannot commonly be omitted without sin Publick duties are those which are performed in Church Assemblies And they are chiefly four in their Scripture Names Praying Singing Doctrine and Breaking of Bread There is no reason to surmise from what we have extant in the Acts and in the first Epistle to the Corinthians that any Lords Day in the Primitive Church passed without each of these in their Solemnity What amongst us is most neglected give me leave to touch upon Of which sort is constant communicating The Christian Church while it continued in any tolerable purity never spent a Lords Day without the Lords Supper on which of old it was more Scandalous for any Christians to turn their backs than it is now for Men amongst us to live Excommunicate this I could easily prove at large but must forbear And that our own Church esteems the Lords day but half celebrated without the Communion appears by her having provided a Communion Service for every Lords Day in the Year The Communion as we have heard was ever attended with a Collection for the Poor now called Oblations Never Eucharist without Offertory And this we have seen to be as ancient as St. Pauls planting the Gospel Doctrine was subdivided into Prophesying or Interpreting of Scripture which we now call Preaching into Reading Exhortation Teaching and perhaps otherwise Now the word commonly used for teaching is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Catechise This Office was of so great note in the Primitive Church that it was committed to some choice Person appointed purposely thereto but him commonly most learned And by Catechising I do not mean meer hearing young People repeat the words of their Catechism but expounding to them the Doctrine of it Examining them upon such Expositions and by all the several plainest ways possible inculcating these Doctrines till they understand them And for gaining reverence to this Office as well as for other reasons which I will not name Elder people ought to fit by In a word all forrein Churches outdo us herein And if we take not more care than yet usual amongst us as to this work we shall without a miracle in the next age go very neer to loose our Religion Private Duties I call those which are performed in private Families Parents Children Sojourners Servants joyning in Prayer and Praises to God and in reading his Word and other good Books as conveniency offers Secret Duties are such as every Christian should perform by themselves in the Closet or Retirements Such are Meditation self Examination Recollection of our improvements and in the close Prayer and Thanksgiving as occasion requires Section XVII Those who demand Proof for these being duties of the day will give me leave to ask them whether Proof for these Duties such practices in the Family or in the Closet be necessary and duties on any day If they be so there is no sufficient reason for their omission on the Lords day when by Law of God and Man there is most leisure for them Besides they will be pleased to consult Numbers xxviii 9 10. where they will find the peculiar sacrifice for the Sabbath both Morning and Evening was required of the Jews over and above the continual daily Burnt offering the like too upon the New Moons ver 24. and on other Festivals ver ult That which I infer from hence is that the publick Lords Days Worship and other Festival Offices must not supercede or abate our ordinary Private or Secret Devotions on those Dayes These are to be faithfully superaded to them Section XVIII This haply some will cry out is Fanaticism Puritanism Sabbatarianism and the like A Vindication of this Practice from ill imputations I answer there may be a Fanatical and perhaps a Pharisaical way too of doing these duties but the practice of the duties it self is not Fanatical or Pharisaical and much less is it Sabbatarianism We must make Fanaticks and Sabbatarians of the most Ancient Fathers of the Primitive Church and the most learned Doctors and Pillars of our own Church if we can find either Fanaticisme or Sabbatarianisme in spending the whole Lords day in a succession or holy exchange of such Duties as these mentioned Justin Martyr was no Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet in his second Apology he tells us the Christians of that age which was but one hundred and forty Years from Christ used to repeat at home what they had learned that day in the Publick Assembly Origen and St. Chrysostome were no Fanaticks nor yet Sabbatarians yet both nay the later more than once press the spending 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. This whole day in the exercise of Spirituals And to wave others of the Ancients and come neerer home I scarce think any Son of the present Church will adventure to brand the Reformation in King Edward the Sixths days with Fanaticisim or Sabbatarianism yet under that I find a Canon acknowledged for spending the Lords Day in private Prayer and Thanksgiving acknowledging our Offences reconciling our selves to our Brethren visiting the Sick comforting the Afflicted relieving the Poor and instructing Children and Servants in the nurture and fear of the Lord. But to be sure the Authors of the Book of Homilies we must not say were either Fanaticks or Sabbatarians For the Homilies we are bound still to subscribe and approve at least if not publickly to read yet they teach that on this day people shauld cease from all common and bodily labour and give themselves Wholly note that word to the exercises of Gods true Religion Arch Bishop Whitgift against the Admonitioners was no Fanatick Puritan or Sabbatarian yet saith he no man doubteth the meaning of these words Six days shalt thou labour c. to be this that seing God hath permitted us Six days to do our own works in we ought in the Seventh Wholly to serve him Bishop Francis White in his Book against the Sabbatarians was neither Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet he tells us our Church requires that upon the Lords day Parents and Masters instruct their Children and Servants in the fear and nurture of the Lord. Mr. Hooker was neither Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet he teaches we are to account the Sanctification of one Whole day in the week a Duty which Gods immutable Law doth enact for ever Finally I believe no sober man will say that Excellent Book The Whole duty of man savours either of Fanaticism or Sabbatarianism yet Partit 2. Sect. 17. The Author teaches all in their Families the practice I have perswaded