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A96264	A sermon touching the divine right and due observation of the Lords day Preached before the Lord Deputy, and the Lords Spiritual & Temporal of the kingdom of Ireland; in time of Parliament. At Christ-Church Dublin. On Sunday the 6th. of October, 1695. With a preface humbly address'd to the whole body of English Protestants: especially those inhabiting the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1520A; ESTC R229732	26,838	68

worked Six nor to work each day as they listed for God rested the Seventh and blessed it that is he made it a Holy Rest a Sabbath Sect VIII From this either Command or Precedent without all doubt proceeded The Sabbath observed by the Church before the Law even before Moses's Law the Observation of The Sabbath amongst all such at least as adhered to the worship of the true God which observation has been by diverse learned men amply proved both from Scripture and Fathers the proof is too long here to insert I will only mention that St. Epiphanius expresly distinguishes betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Sabbath by nature or Law Naturall appointed from the beginning and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Sabbath ordained under the Law which shews a Sabbath before the Law was in his time or at least by him in no wise doubted of Sect. IX For mine own part I am in that Paradox with submission to better T is probable Adam and Eve observed the Sabbath in Paradise judgments that the Sabbath was kept by Adam in Paradise notwithstanding what the Rabbies talk to the contrary and that it was the only intire day he stood in his Innocency For that Adam fell not on the Sixth day as many have thought Eves being Created late that Day and God's pronouncing all very good for the conclusion of the day seem to me little less than demonstration And whereas God having finished his works immediatly rested blessed the Seventh day and sanctified it it looks not likely that the day which God blessed and sanctifyed should be the day on which the curse enter'd into the World Therefore I say it seems to me most probable that our first Parents received the revelation of Gods resting upon the very day he rested and so kept the first Seventh or Sabbath day in Paradise But be that as it shall I contend not However I think it cannot be denyed but to them who in those early ages knew the History of the Creation which undoubtedly Seth's Race in general till the Floud and many of them long after it did know there was as also there will be to the end of the World more reason for keeping one Day in Seven than one Day in Six or one in Eight Nine or Ten for that the first Period by which even from the begining Time was distinguisht was that of a septenary of Days or a Week God worked Six Days and rested the Seventh Nor is it improbable but that to such a periodical distinction of days may that passage Gen. iv 3. be referr'd At the end of days so stands it in the Hebrew Text what we too largely render In process of time that is not improbably I say upon the Revolution of some certain Week namely upon some Sabbath Day Cain and Abel brought their Offerings The like may be believed of those Texts in Job a History generally granted to be elder than the Law There was a day when the Sons of God as the Holy Race are stiled Gen. vi 2. came to present themselues before the Lord Job i. 6. and ii 1. This cannot be better fix'd than as by Learned Persons it is on the Sabbath Day Sect. X But to pass the Patriarchal Observation There can be no question The fourth Command of the Decalogue Morall of the command of the Sabbath from Mount Sinai amongst the other Commands of the Decalogue It is delivered in a style more emphatical than any of the other And therefore a man would wonder that it alone of all the Ten should not be Moral Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy which words that they should injoyn matter of meer Ceremony of concernment only to the Jews and of no lasting obligation to Christians as to a weekly day of a holy rest for the publick Service of God the Arguments which I have yet known offered I must confess are much too feeble to perswade 'T is true indeed the Apostle tells us Colloss ii 16 17. the Jewish differencings of Meats and Drinks their Holy days their New Moons and Sabbaths Sabbath days is not in the original but Sabbaths that is their great variety of Carnal Rests their Sabbaths of Years and their Sabbaths of Months and their Sabbaths of Days for all these they had their Feast-Sabbaths and Fast-Sabbaths and the peculiar ways of observing them by feeding on certain appointed Meats and abstaining from others usual enough at common seasons all these were a shadow of things to come But will this which concerns only a part of the Ceremonial Law evacuate one of the branches of the Decalogue all whose other Commands are confessedly moral Let that precise Seventh day namely the last day of the Week be Temporary and only obligatory till the fullness of time were come Let bodily rest and strictness of the rest thereon injoyned to the Jews not to do so much of servile work as to kindle a fire thereon let these I say be Ceremonial significative of a speritual Rest under the Gospel Was therefore a weekly Sabbath holy to God for his publick worship a shadow too and no certain constant proportion of time to be allowed as separate to God because the multitude of Jewish Festivals and even the Judaism and Ceremonialness of the Sabbath were to be abrogated which is the utmost can be concluded hence Let us beware of arguing thus there being no reason for such conclusion as the Objectours would infer Before we resolve of laying aside any part of the Law of God let us consider it better There was more in the Command then a meer Carnall Rest and therefore more than a Ceremony Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day Resting from common labours thereon was a Ceremony but somewhat of this Rest a Ceremony necessary and pre-requisite to the keeping of it Holy the main substance of the Command or chief matter commanded was keeping it holy that is worshiping God thereon in publick contemplating him and his works in secret being wholy free to him for that day Is Divine Worship and Holy Contemplation and Converse with God a Ceremony Further Somewhat there is too in the Command as to other days which we cannot account Ceremonious Is it a Ceremony a thing in it self meerly Indifferent how we spend our time the Regulation of which is most plainly the summe of this Commandment Six days to be spent in our common calling as persons of such or such condition or occupation And a Seventh in our holy calling as worshippers of the true God Sect. XI Let who will say this Command is meerly Ceremonial I am sure no The Judgment of our Church herein Son of the Church of England must say so For if this as well as the other nine Commandments be not in the Judgment of our Church a part of the Moral Law why were we just now upon our knees before God by order of our Church beging Gods mercy for our

its weekly course as is most probable upon Apostolical Orders for it was a continued or reinforced practical Divine Institution of the same Divine I said For none will doubt whatever Orders proceeded from the Apostles as Planters of Christianity in the World were of the same authority as if they had come immediately from Christ who sent them As to the practice of the Church At Troas St Paul passing to Jerusalem upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break Bread preached to them Acts xx 7. St. Pau'ls preaching at that time might be as to that Church casual enough but it appears to have been the stated and usual course the Dies Natus for the Churches meeting together to break Bread Besides this solemn and continued practice we have the footsteps of the Apostolical mandate it self 1 Cor. xvi 1. 2. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia even so do yee upon the first day of the Week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when I come The Churches of Galatia were of a great extent He had given orders in those Churches and now gives orders also in Corinth for Lords day-alms The private laying aside at home if we will interpret it consonantly to what we are assured to have seen from the begining the usual practice was only in order to the depositing all in the Assembly with the Chief Minister of the Church called in Justin Martyrs days the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bishop For if this had not been design'd the end he mentions would not have been obtained There would have needed still a Gathering of all when he came But at the celebration of the Eucharist styled in those days Breaking of Bread the Deacons collected what each person offered and delivered it to the trust of the Bishop as we read more at large in the Antients This collection therefore proves a Communion that day and the Apostles order being plain for what was Accessary must be acknowledged for the Principal Now if the Apostle gave order for the Communion and Collection thereat on the Lords day no doubt he gave orders for the Assemblies thereon at which the one was to be celebrated and the other made And then if we admit that the Doctrine and Tradition of all the Apostles was one and the same as the Ancients affirm and I know not on what good reasons any can deny it will follow that it was an Apostolical Order that the Lords day should be the day of publick Christan Assemblies Sect. 14 In this assertion of the sacredness of the Lords Day partly from the The Antient Fathers are Unanimous herein Institution of Christ and afterwards by the Order of the Apostles the Antient Fathers are unanimous Above all others memorable is that large Text of St. Ignatius an early Martyr of Christ who himself avows as his Text is commonly rendred that he saw our Lord Jesus in the flesh after his Resurrection and who was ordained Bishop of Antioch by the imposition of the hands of St. Peter himself truely therefore St. Peters Successor and an Apostolical Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he Let us therefore no longer Jewishly keep the Sabbath that is neither on the day nor in the manner the Jews do which manner he there exposeth But let each of us spiritually keep the Sabbath rejoycing in meditations on the Law of God admiring the works of his hand Let every one that loves Christ keep the Lords Day the Queen of days on which our life rose and victory over death was gotten with more Elogies of it there to be seen Now here the Jewish Sabbaths and Sabatising are expresly required to be laid aside and a Spiritual Rest and the Lords Day injoyned instead thereof But St. Athanasius in his Homily De Semente goes farther and teaches us the Lord of the Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. translated the Sabbath Day to the Lords Day And further The Apostles Apostolical Men did ordain namely by our Lords appointment as in other cases that the Lords Day should be kept with Religious Solemnity saith St. Austin And much more on the same purpose have others which I must wave Sunday then does not stand on the same foot with other Church Holy days It is more sacred truly of Divine Right the Lords Day or a Christian Sabbath Sect. 15 Now as to the true Christian way of keeping it I was saith St. John How the Lords day is to be kept in the Spirit on the Lords day Time will not permit me to present the various glosses on this phrase To shorten all I will readily acknowledg we now adays cannot be in the spirit any Lords day as St. John was on this in the Text. He was in a prophetick extasy But that which in all likelyhood led him into this exalted temper and which in our state of things bears analogy thereto may be and ought to be our entertainment each Lords Day St. John was now in Patmos a small Island in the Archipelago between Crete and Asia minor banisht thither by Domitian for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ Here was no assembly of Christians for him to joyn with But the Lords Day coming upon him in course we cannot well but conceive him taken up in this his Solitude with Prayer Praise and Contemplations suitable to the day and in these being transported to have had his Soul wholly possest by the Holy Spirit and to have received from our Lord all those Revelations which in this book he Records And thus past that whole day at least far the greatest part of it with the beloved Disciple For in one day as is conceived by very learned Interpreters had he all those apocalyptick visions They who cannot ascend into heaven may yet go up to the mountain We are not in the present state to expect Visions and Revelations each Lords Day St. John himself had them not that we know of but while in Patmos and when God made his Church amends as I may say for the want of his common Ministry by extraordinary Revelations which were to convince the World and all the Powers of Hell that their malice could not suppress the Gospel but only make it shine another way clearer and farther and that however Tyrants might drive the messengers of those glad tydings into desolate corners so as some Assemblies might for a season want their living voice yet should they not be able to hinder but the whole World should ring of their testimony wherever they were and thereby know in what methods and disguises the Grand Master of all the Tyrants on earth the Devil has and shall in the several ages of Mankind set them on work to the end of all things so that I say St. Johns being thus in the Spirit was not common