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A27514	A threefold treatise of the Sabbath distinctly divided into the patriarchall, mosaicall, Christian Sabbath : for the better clearing and manifestation of the truth ... / by Richard Bernard ...	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing B2037; ESTC R34406	149,622	232

saith it is the day in which wee should rejoyce and bee glad above all other dayes because of his resurrection by which saith S. Augustine Dies Dominicus Christianis declaratus est ex illo habere caepit festivitatem suam Argument 2. WHatsoever in holy writ is said to be the Lords denominatively The altering of the name of the day argueth the Sabbath was altered D. Prideaux pag. 29. that is he the Author and Institutor of As for instance the Lords Supper and the Lords Table because he ordeined it 1 Cor. 11. 20. 10. 21. The Sabbath of the Lord because he commanded it the Tem●le of the Lord because he appointed it the people of the Lord because he chose them the Lords messengers because he sends them Apostles of Christ because he put them into that office No instance can bee given to shew the contrary But this day is denominatively called the Lords Rev. 1. 10. and so in the first of Cor. 16. 2. as Beza noteth on the same place affirming as I have before delivered it that to explaine the first day he had read in uno vetusto codice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which title is very frequent in the Fathers calling it usually Diem Dominicum the Lords day not by Creation for so every day is his from the beginning nor is it so called by Destination as is the last day 1 Thes 5. 2. as then and yet now a day to come hereafter when our Lords day was then so called by an excellency as also famously at that time knowne in the Church for the Lords day as the day of their solemne assemblies Therefore it is so called by divine institution for divine worship and as it hath Jesus Christ for the Authour and Institutor of it Argument 3. IF God by resting from his work of Creation and his blessing of that seventh day made it an holy day for his solemne set worship and service Then Jesus Christ his resting from the work of redemption and his blessing of this day made it an holy day for his solemne set worship and service For there is the like excellency in the resting of God the Son and the blessing of his day as there was in the resting of God the Father and his blessing of that seventh day Christ his work of the worlds redemption and the renovation thereof the making of all things new a new heaven and a new 2 Cor. 5. 13. earth as was foretold Esa 65. 17. is equall with the Fathers work of Creation and in the rest of the one and of the other can there be no inequallity nor disproportion The Sonnes blessing likewise of this day is of no lesse excellency than the Fathers blessing of that day which blessing of his is not in the particulars expressed but the Sonnes blessing of this day is and that at large in many particulars First by his glorious resurrection by which the Lords day So S. Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 22. cap. 30. Lt Scr. 15. de verb. Apost became sacred and consecrated to us Secondly by his severall apparitions for confirmation thereof Thirdly by his heavenly instructions Luk. 24. 25. Fourthly by the illumination of their mindes opening their understandings Luk. 24. 45. Fifthly by the inspiration of the holy Ghost Iohn 20. 22. Sixthly by the installation of the Apostles giving them power to binde and loose in heaven and in earth Iohn 20. 28. Seventhly by his mission in great dignity sending them even as his Father had sent him Iohn 20. 21. All which blessings Christ bestowed on them this day before his ascension and afterwards on this day he sent down Act. 2. his holy spirit extraordinarily after a visible manner upon his Apostles made them speak miraculously with new tongues to the amazement of the hearers and on this selfe same day he blessedly converted 3000 soules Act. 2. 41. and so began on this day his Church to be a separated visible Congregation from among both lews and Gentiles Lastly on this day he gave his heavenly Revelation to his beloved Apostle who was in the spirit upon this day to receive the vision Reve. 1. 10. Thus we see how Christ did blesse this day But God the Father by his resting from the work of creation and his blessing of that seventh day made it an holy day for his solemn set worship and service as the Scripture teacheth Gen. 2. 2. and very learned Divines do maintaine for truth Doctor Rivet cyteth 36 by name and their own words In disser de orig Sab. for it to this purpose Therefore Iesus Christ his resting from the work of redemption and his so blessing of this our day hath made it an holy day for his solemn set time of worship and service Argument 4. THat which Christ through the holy Ghost spake by way of Command to be observed that he is the Institutor of this I hope will not be denyed But Iesus Christ by the holy Ghost spake by way of Command that this day should be observed For the things appertayning to the kingdome of God he gave Commandments to his Apostles to be taught and observed Act. 1. 2 3. But the day of Christs resurrection and the worship therein performed as it was in the Apostles dayes and after as may be collected out of the Scripture and out of the writings of Justine Martyr and Tertullian is of those things which do appertaine to the kingdome of God Therefore he commanded it to be observed and so was the Institutor of it Obj. If any object and say that this day was not expressed by Commandment Ans I answer no more are any other of those Commandments which in Act. 1. 2. he is said to give nor any particulars of the things he spake which appertained to the kingdome of God And therefore we cannot seclude this day out of the Commandements given by Christ because not expressed no more than we can deny other things appertaining to the kingdome of God to be commanded because they are not expressely mentioned till it can be proved that the keeping of this day to the honour of Christ in his publicke worship is none of the things which pertaine to the kingdome of God I answer againe that albeit it is not expressed yet must it be comprehended within these Commandements For these Commandements here given Act. 1. 2. are of those which Christ would have his Disciples to teach his people that enter into the Church by Baptisme to observe Matt. 28. 18. 20. Now we finde the Church to observe this day Act. 20. 7. 1. Cor. 16. 2. The Apostle also to be an observer of it with them Act. 20. 7. prescribing duties to them on this day 1. Cor. 16. 1. 2. when they did meet together 1. Cor. 5. 4. and 11. 20. which was on the Lords day as the Syriack hath it as is before noted And the Apostle telleth the Corinthians that the things he wrote unto them were

the Commandements of God 1. Cor. 14. 37. And it is acknowledged of all that the whole Catholick Church from that time till this day hath duly observed the same Therefore is it one of those things commanded by Christ to be observed and taught by his Apostles which the whole world hath so religiously kept hitherto And it will not bee denied that such an universall religious observation can have any lesse ground for it than the authority of God himselfe being so unanimously kept in all ages for these 1600 yeeres without gaine-saying as our Homily avoucheth very plainely Argument 5. EIther himselfe instituted this day for his publick worship or left it to others to appoint it for that end But he left it not to others Therefore he instituted it himselfe for his publick worship That he left it not to others to institute wee may thus reason 1 God his Father when he had ordained his worship did not leave to Moses nor to Israel his Church to appoint a solemn day for it but he himselfe instituted it Exod. 20. 8. When the Idolaters in Israel Exod. 32. did invent a worship they that invented it instituted a day for it verse 5. Jeroboam devised a worship which when he had done he ordained a day for it 1 King 12. 32. 33. So did Nebuchadnezzar devise an Idoll and a worship for it and appointed the dedication and day of the solemne worship Dan. 3. 2. The miscreant Prophet Mahomet as hee gave a Law and prescribed a worship so hee himselfe instituted his day for the same and did not leave it to the arbitrary will and pleasure of his Worshippers to ordaine and appoint Therefore from all this I conclude unlesse Christ should doe as his Father did and be lesse carefull of a day for the solemnitie of his set worship than the very Idolaters hee must bee the Institutor of this day which we observe to him For it cannot be proved that at any time in any age of the world that any publick worship was ever invented to be observed but the very Authour and Inventor thereof was also himselfe the Institutor of the day for that worship not leaving it to any others will to appoint the same for him 2 If Christ left it to others as to his Apostles then either before his ascension during his abode with them which is absurd to conceit or after his ascension if any doe think so then it will follow that from his resurrection to his ascension the space of six weeks the Church had no set day under Christ publickly to doe him solemne service For the other seventh day hee took away by his lying that whole day in the grave so that if he appointed no other day for it himselfe the Church had then for that space no such day But as I have proved Christ blessed the day of his resurrection and in this space from his resurrection to his ascension the Apostles and Church observed it And therefore he ordeined it and left it not to them 3 Wee are to understand that there are some circumstances about Gods worship which he hath ever reserved to his own authoritie and never left them determinable to any but to himselfe such bee these which doe concurre about the observation of the Lords day The first circumstance of this kinde is that which concerneth the very substance for time of performing of publick worship whether one day in a yeere in a moneth in a week or whether a part or some few houres of the day be to be set apart for his service or the whole day bee his The determination of this time is substantiall and God alwayes appointed the same as the ordaining of the Sabbath day and other holy dayes set apart by God doe manifest The second circumstance is that whereof there is no reason to sway or guide the judgement this way or that way but the will of God must bee needfull to the determining of it Such a circumstance is the proportioning of time and rest on the Lords day for Gods service For if reason could regulate it then should it bee the Law of nature but by his written Law and revealed will hath God ordered it The third circumstance is that which is of universall observation by all which none but God can impose by his supreme authoritie to which all are alike equally subject And such an universall circumstance is this for observation of this day by all Christian people and by the generall consent of the whole Church of Christ in all ages Therefore this day was not left to the Apostles to be determined but appointed by Christ himselfe Undoubtedly Christ would imitate his Father and set a day for his publick worship as he did And can we suppose our Lord Jesus Christ to bee lesse carefull than the Turkish Mahomet or other Idoll Worshippers in ordaining a solemn day for his publick service But if this day which we observe be not of his appointment then have wee none for all other dayes are the ordinances of the Church and observed only by humane authoritie 4 That which the Apostles did observe not only by inspiration but by way of injunction and command from Christ here on earth through the Holy Ghost that hee ordained and left it not to them to ordaine But the Apostles did observe the Lords day not only by inspiration but by way of injunction and commandement from Christ here on earth through the Holy Ghost And therefore he left it not to his Apostles The Minor is thus proved from Act. 1. 2. where it is said that Christ Jesus through the Holy Ghost gave Commandements to his Apostles in which Commandements is included the Lords day as before is proved which Commandement with the rest he gave them through the Holy Ghost that is he in giving them did convey his holy Spirit into them to make them to understand them to retaine them in memory to make conscience to observe them and to teach others to observe them as commanded from him for so much these words through the Holy Ghost import when hee gave them Commandements and spake of the things pertaining to the Kingdome of God So that through the Holy Ghost here is not meant as afterwards the divine inspiration of the Spirit directing them as occasion served to ordaine things expedient and profitable for the Churches of Christ which he himselfe immediately commanded not but left them to them as by the wisdome of his spirit they should be informed But here is to be understood the then operation of his Spirit upon them to receive the Commandemets which at that present in his own person he gave them which they should observe and teach others to observe as his own Commandements and as he himselfe had charged them to doe in Matt. 28. 20. when as here in Acts 1. he was to depart from them and to ascend up to his Father Of other things after Christs ascension the Apostles spake from the