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A03271	Three positions concerning the 1 Authoritie of the Lords day. 2 State of the Church of Rome. 3 Execution of priests. All written vpon speciall occasions by Iames Balmford minister	Balmford, James, b. 1556.; Balmford, James, b. 1556. Position maintained by I.B. before the late Earle of Huntingdon: viz. Priests are executed not for religion, but for treason. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 1339; ESTC S120365	24,959	67

THREE POSITIONS Concerning the 1 Authoritie of the Lords day 2 State of the Church of Rome 3 Execution of Priests ALL WRITTEN VPON SPEciall occasions by IAMES BALMFORD Minister 2. Tim. 2. 7. Consider what I say and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for RICHARD BOYLE 1607. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS LADY THE LADY MARGARET Countisse of Cumberland IAMES BALMFORD an vnprofitable seruant of Iesus Christ wisheth all true honor in this life and eternall glorie in the life to come I Will honor them who 1. Sam. 2. 30 honor me saith the Lord of Lords but in no one thing is that Lord more honored than in a religious sanctifying of the Lords day which is an holy Signe Exod. 31. 13 betweene the Lord and vs that he doth sanctifie vs to be his people and that we sanctifie him to be our God Of which day it is thus written If thou turne away Isa 58. 13. 14. thy foote from the Sabbath frō doing thy will on mine holy day and call the Sabbath a delight to cōsecrate it as glorious to the Lord and shalt honour him not doing thine owne waies nor seeking thine own wil nor speaking a vaine word Then shalt thou delight in the Lord and I will cause thee to mount vpon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it In which words we may obserue 1. How highly the Lord esteemeth his Sabbath 2. How religiously the people of God are to sanctifie the same 3. That they who make no conscience of such sanctifying the Sabbath can neuer delight in the Lord what profession soeuer they make and 4. That religious sanctifying the Sabbath as it is a principall part of Godlinesse so it hath a speciall promise of speciall blessings euen in this life With these and many other most gracious words would God perswade man to bee holy But man hath sought out many inuentions and amongst the rest this conceipt That the Lords day is not the ordinance of God Vpon which ground many make no more conscience of sanctifying the Lords day than of keeping holie daies so called ordained only by humane authoritie and some by writing not yet published haue opened a gappe to much licentiousnesse To sloppe which gappe as I may I haue endeuoured to proue That the Lords day is an ordinance of God Which Position with two other concerning the Church of Rome and Execution of Priests written vpon iust occasions and by perswasion the former of your Honor the other of that right Christian Noble-man of most honorable memorie Henry late Earle of Huntington I houe published vnder your Right Honorable name As knowing your well informed zeale for the Lords day and against the Synagogue of Rome to be such that England were the happiest nation in the world if all noble personages were indued with the like And withall hoping that by these and other more Diuine Treatises the same shall be yet more and more inflamed to the glorie of God and comfort of your owne Soule THE FIRST POSITION THE LORDS DAY commonly called Sonday is an ordinance of GOD. IF this bee true that man is not to pollute a Act. 10 15 what God hath sanctified and If Saturday so called were sanctified by God I appeale to the consciences of Gods people for iudgement whether Man can make Saturday common without warrant from God himselfe If not then Saturday is made common either in regard of some Ceremonie or by God himselfe for some other speciall cause As hee permitted a man vncleane b Numb 9 10 11. or in a long iourney to make common the Passeouer which otherwise was to be kept in the first moneth That there was no Ceremony in the Iewes Sabbath to bee abrogated by the comming of Christ I haue proued in another Discourse which with sundrie points concerning the Sabbath I am desirous to publish hereafter if God will In the meane while I desire the Reader to consider these briefe notes 1. That the Sabbath was made c Mark 2 27. Deut. 5. 14 15. for man yea so that great care is had of seruants their rest which is no ceremoniall respect 2. That the Learned do so disagree about the supposed Ceremony that one affirmeth Rest and denieth The seuenth day another affirmeth the seuenth day and denieth Rest to be the Ceremony 3. That the fourth Commandement which by cōsequence gaue confirmation to Saturday before Christ his death as now to Sonday and euery word thereof was d Exod. 34. 1. twise written by the finger of God in tables of stone To shew e 19 11. 20 1. Deut. 4 12 13. 14. Gen. 17 9 10 22 23. That the Decalogue as it was preached to the Church immediately by God himselfe before it was written by God and deliuered to Moses on the Mount so it is eternall as God himselfe As the Gospell preached by Christ himselfe who was God as well as Man is eternall Gal. 3. 19. Heb. 12. 27. 28. 21. c. 8. 2. Whereas Circumcision and the ceremoniall Law brought from God to the Church by Abraham and Moses was temporall 4. That none of the other nine Commandements except the second by Papists is said to be in any part ceremoniall 5. That Saturday of it selfe without the consideration of Rest or the number Seuen both which are also liable to Sonday cannot signifie any thing to come 6. That it was sanctified f Gen. 2. 3. in Paradise though not expressely named and therfore not instituted at the first to signifie Christ to come and therefore no more a Ceremonie to be abrogated by the comming of Christ than Marriage which g Gen. 2. 23. 24. was also instituted in Paradise and is figuratiuely applied to signifie h Ephes 5. 25. c. the spirituall coniunction betweene Christ and his Church But let it be supposed that Saturday was ceremoniall What other thing is thereupon to be inferred but that therefore it ceaseth to be Gods Holy day But can we imagine that God would take no order that another day should be established for his owne worship Did hee sanctifie a Sabbath in the time of innocency and when there were none to keep it but Adam and Eue And would he not appoint a Sabbath in the time i Mat. 19 28. of Regeneration when his people were k Isa 2 2 3. multiplied his Sonne l Psal 110. 1 2 3. King in Sion and the power of his rod such that as it was prophecied His people should come willingly at the time of assembling his army in holy beautie Did he himselfe not only institute a Seuenth day in Paradise to our first Parents but cōfirmed it also m Exod. 20 1 8. to the Iewes And will he leaue Christians n 1. Pet. 2 9. Achosen generation and Royall

daies after his resurrection When as it is written x Act. 1. 2. 3 in expresse words he gaue through the Holy Ghost Commandements vnto the Apostles whom he had chosen and spake of those things which appertaine to the Kingdome of God Now doth it not especially appertaine to the kingdome of God that Christians should sanctifie their Lords day wherein y 1. Cor. 1. 23. 24. Christ crucified z 1. Tim. 3. 16. The mystery of godlines and a Mat. 1. 21. Sauiour of the world should be * Act. 10. 42. 43. preached as well as the Iewes had their Sabbath on which Moses A schoole master b Gal. 3. 24 to Christ and A minister of the Letter c 2. Cor. 3. 6. which killeth was d Act. 15. 21. preached Againe If in those 40. daies Christ e Eph. 4. 8. 10. 11. appointed what Ministers should teach his Church for euer how can it be but that thē also he appointed some Sabbath wheron they should ordinarily performe the worke of their ministerie as hee was wont f Luk. 4. 16. to do himselfe Seeing it is prophecied g Psal 110. 2. 3. That the power of his rod should be such that His people should come willingly at the time of assembling his army in holy beauty Seeing his Father whose works * Ioh. 5. 19. he imitateth appointed h Leuit. 16. 2. 29. as an high Priest so a time when once in a yeere he should enter into the Most holy place and as other Priests i Exod. 29. 44. 38. so morning and euening sacrifices and considering it is written k Eccles 3. 1. To euery purpose vnder heauen there is an appointed time Lastly If the Sonne be like his Father as in teaching his Apostles 40. daies for so long l Exod. 24. 12. 18. 39. 42. was Moses with the Father vpon the mount so in speaking those things which appertaine to the kingdome of God as his Father taught Moses al things belonging to the furnishing of the Tabernacle and If the Sonne be like his Father in sanctifying a day to his owne honor as hath been declared Why may not Christians beleeue that Christ sanctified The Lords day within those 40. daies as the Father m Deut. 9. 9 confirmed The seuenth day in those 40. daies that Moses was with him on the mount And the rather because it is te be obserued That the Disciples n Ioh. 20. 19. 26. assembled the two first daies of the two weeks immediatly following Christ his resurrection and that our Lord not only of purpose sanctified both those assemblies with his holy and miraculous presence but also immediatly before his Ascension commanded his Apostles o Act. 1. 4. 5. 7. 9. to wait a few daies for the promise of the Father Which by his prouidence in whose power bee times and seasons as Christ affirmed euen in this case was fulfilled p Mark 16. 1. 2. Leuit. 23. 15. 16. Act. 2. 1. 4. 14. vpon a Sonday and at the same time the Apostles first began the execution of their ministery and preached Christ publiquely But publique preaching q Num. 10. 7. 8. Isa 58. 1. Ezech. 44. 23. 24. Act. 23. 14. 42. is a speciall worke of the Sabbath day It may therefore bee gathered That Christ appointed his Apostles to sanctifie Sonday whereon he would manifest himselfe r 1. 6. 7. 8 to be King of Israel as his Father instituted A seuenth day as on which he was manifested to bee GOD of heauen and earth To conclude If Saturday were made common not by man but by God himselfe and that not for a Ceremony but for some other cause If God sanctified a Sabbath as well to Christians as to Iewes If euery ordinance of Christ were an ordinance of God If Christ were as faithfull in all his owne house as Moses about the Tabernacle If Christ came to fulfill the fourth Commandement which prescribeth one day of seuen If the Church of God bee not easily to bee condemned as neglecting the ordinance of God in sanctifying Sonday for many hūdred yeeres If Christ were like his Father in sanctifying that day to his owne honor whereon he was declared to be the Sonne of God and King of Israel to wit Sonday If the day be so appointed that the Creator is glorified with the Redeemer If it appeare by the Word that the first day of the week was confirmed by the Apostles practise and preceptiue exhortation If by the first day of the week be meant that day wheron Christ did rise againe and that was Sonday If in the Word Sonday be called The Lords day to the honour of Christ our Lord If the warrant of Sonday consisteth not in the ordinarie authoritie of the Church because it was established by the Apostles If euery spirituall man be to acknowledge the ordinances of the Apostles to bee the ordinances of the Lord and If the Apostles were informed by Christ touching the Lords day within those 40. daies after his resurrection I may safely hold this my Position The Lords day commonly called Sonday is an ordinance of God THE SECOND POSITION THE CHVRCH OF ROME IS not the Catholike Church neither yet hath continued an apparant member of the same euer since the Apostles time 1 THe Church is said to be Catholike in regard of the vniuersality thereof for this word Catholike signifieth Vniuerfall The Vniuersalitie thereof consisteth in Times Persons and Places For there is no age of the world no nation on the earth and no sort of people that can be exempted from the same And therefore it is called The celestial Hierusalem and said to be the congregation Heb. 12. 22. 23. of the first borne which are written in heauen So that we are to beleeue That as there hath been euer an head to wit Christ so there hath been also a body to wit the Church some where or other but the Church of Rome is a particular Church confined within a certaine compasse and hath not been a Church but since Christ his comming in the flesh therfore it is not the Catholique Church 2 The Catholique Church is an obiect of faith according to the Apostles Creed and therefore inuisible howsoeuer the members thereof called by Peter Liuely 1. Pet. 2. 5. Heb. 11. 1. stones be visible as they be men For faith is the euidence of things not seene But the Church of Rome is visible therefore not the Catholique Church 3 I grant that as one man so one particular Church may be called Catholike but it is only in regard of the Catholique faith as being one the same throughout the Catholique Church which that one man or that one Church professeth But the Church of Rome professeth not indeed the Catholike faith as shal be in part shewed hereafter therefore in no sense it can be truly called Catholique But suppose it held the Catholique faith yet were