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A14213	A verie profitable and necessarie discourse concerning the obseruation and keeping of the Sabboth day seruing as well to confute the superstition of the Iewes, which obstinately vrge the strict keeping of the seuenth day, as also to ouerthrowe the vaine and godlesse reasons of others, that stiffely at this day maintaine, that Christians ought to keepe no set or appoynted time to worship and serue the Lord in, in his church and faithfull congregation. Written in Latine by Zacharias Vrsinus, sometimes reader of the diuinitie lecture in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberg in Germanie, and very nevvly turned into English, by Iohn Stockvvood schoolemaster of Tunbridge.	Ursinus, Zacharias, 1534-1583.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1584 (1584)	STC 24528; ESTC S103618	26,018	66

true Christianitie Reade the Epistle of S. Iohn vnto the elect lady And here at no hand may wee let passe the worthie cōmendation which Iohn giueth vnto the most vertuous worshipful Lady and her children whose conuersation before the world was agreeable vnto their profession according as the truth of the Lord requireth that it should be Which singular and notable exāple as it generallie concerneth al christian and godly women so dooth it most neerelie and properlie belong vnto your good Ladiship all other gentle women of your place and calling Ro. 15.4 For if whatsoeuer examples of the olde fathers in the Scriptures are written for our learning that by reading their examples we should expresse and followe their vertues then doubtlesse are all women of great worshippe and dignitie of this godlie Ladie to learne that it is not sufficient that they be religious and godlie themselues but that they also labour to haue their whole families and households vnfainedlie to feare the Lord which thing cannot bee performed without the diligent hearing of the word on the Lords day other meetings of the Church and priuate labouring in instructing and dailie teaching of our charges at home the which good exercise as I can hope for at the handes of manie so I can promise and assure my selfe that it shall bee carefullie practised of your W. of whome I heare so well for zeale and loue of the truth nothing doubting but that beeing compassed about with so greate a cloude of witnesses He. 12.1.2 whose care hath beene so vehement and earnest for the true spending of the Sabboth and Christian education of their famylies with performance of other dueties of Godlynesse all lets and stumbling blockes being remooued you will dailie adde vnto that great good forwardnes which the lord hath wrought in you alredie a plentiful increase in all vertues beautifying and garnishing a Christian Ladie God by his holie spirite working in your heart a burning desire euerie daie more and more to imitate the commendable examples of these holy matrones before alleadged Secondlie hauing receiued many benefits at the hands of that worthie Knight sir Iohn Pellam your late deceased husband a Gentleman so well deseruing of his common wealth and Countrie that verie enuie her selfe if neuer so faine she woulde shall yet neuer be able to burie in the dark lake of obliuion his due deserued praises I haue thought it meete and requisite to giue out before the world some dutifull testimonie of a thankfull minde in regard of the same least I might worthilie be condempned of that vice which is both hated of God and detested of men I meane the foule staine of ingratitude which the verie Heathen haue recorded to be the chiefe ring-leader vnto all filthinesse Xenophō In his first ●ooke of ●he edu●ation of Cyrus as being alwaies accompanied with blushles shamelesnesse which may easily perswade vnto al kind of wickednes Thirdlie in regard of your owne W. omitting such good graces as are generally knowen by the working of God his spirite to be in you to the comfort of the godlie because that you of your modestie cannot abide to heare them nor I without suspition of flatterie may be thought to name them the particular knowledge of vndeserued gentlenes from your good L. meant vnto me most worthilie craueth some dutifull signification of my gratefull remembraunce of such most curteous kindnesse the which because my poore abilitie wyll suffer no other waie to expresse accept I most humblie beseech you these paper thanks vntil God shall offer some fitter occasion to testifie that vnfained thankefulnesse which your singular courtesie most iustlie doth require praying in the meane season the Lord most abundauntlie in this life to direct you in all your waies to his glorie and ioy of his chosen and in the life to come to make you partaker of those vnspeakable blessings which in most rich mercy he hath prepared for all those that in his Christ do trulie feare and serue him to whome be all glorie both now and for euer Amē Frō Tunbridge the 20. of Oct. 1584. Your W. most humble Iohn Stockwood Schoolemaster of Tunbridge A RIGHT GODlie and learned exposition vpon the fourth Commandement concerning the Sabboth and right vse of the same The fourth Commandement REmember that thou keepe holie the Sabboth daie Sixe daies shalt thou worke and doe all thy worke but the seauenth daie there shall bee a Sabboth vnto the Lord thy God Thou shalt doe no worke neither thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter nor thy seruaunt nor thy maide nor thy cattell nor the straunger which is within thy gates For in sixe daies the Lord made heauen earth the sea and whatsoeuer are in them and rested the seauenth daie and therefore he blessed the seauenth daie and hallowed it The exposition THere are two parts of this lawe the commandement the reason of the same And again there are two parts of the cōmandement of the which the one is morall or euerlasting namelie that the Sabboth be hallowed What is morall for euer in this cōmaundement What is ceremoniall for a time that is to saie that some certaine time be appointed for the ministerie of the Church or publike worshippe of God The other is ceremoniall and for a time namelie that this time shuld be the seuenth daie and that in it should be obserued and kept the ceremonies of the Leuiticall lawe And that this part is for a time and the other euerlasting we doe vnderstand by the end of the commaundement and causes of both these parts The ende of the cōmaundement The Ministerie The end of the commaundement is the publike praising of God in the congregation or the conseruation or maintenance and vse of the ministerie of the Church which is an office ordained by God to teach the Church concerning God and his will out of the word of God deliuered by the Prophets and Apostles and to minister the sacraments according to the ordinaunce of God And God would haue at all times of the world that there shuld be publique assemblies of the Church in the which should sound true doctrine concerning God for these causes especially The first that in mankinde God might be praised and called vpon Causes of ordeining the ministerie not onely priuately but also with the publike voyce of the Church in this life Psalm 68. In the Congregations blesse ye the Lord. The second that the publike and ordinarie preaching of doctrine the rehearsing of prayers and thankes-giuing and vsing of ceremonies might be an exercise stirring vp and fostering faith and godlinesse as the which without exercises by reason of our infirmitie and weakenesse doth very easely were colde Ephes 4. He hath giuen some Apostles others Prophetes others Euangelists others Pastors and Doctors vnto the worke of the ministerie vnto the edifying of the bodie of Christ vntill we all come vnto the knowledge of the Sonne of GOD