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A43869	A short but cleare discovrse of the institiution, dignity, and end of the Lords-day upon occasion of those words of St. Iohn ... / written by George Hakewill ...	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing H209; ESTC R18460	22,776	41

that in the depth of popery for otherwise such a tradition could not have gotten foot and prevailed among them Neither do I alleadge this for want of true examples in this kinde there being many and me norable which are recorded by others as well of forraigne parts as our own Country in which to the honour be it spoken of the reformed Religion and our Soveraigne Princes the protectors thereof our Reverend Judges have restrained themselves and our ordinary Carryers have by publique Authority been restrained from travelling on the Lords Day though both carry with them the advantage of the publique good to the great comfort of such as without all schismaticall humour or peevish affectation of singularity heartily embrace both the Doctrine professed and discipline practised in the Church of England and their hope is that other abuses yet remaining and tending to the prophanation of that Day may in good time likewise be reformed as in some forraigne reformed Churches they have lately been Lastly for our instruction and imitation against the prophanation of this Day as well Generall Councells and Provinciall Synods have bent their Canons as Emperors and Kings and Commonweals their Laws Such were Con●…tine the Great the first Christian Emperour born in this Island and Charles the Great Canutus the Dane Henry the 6th and Edward the 6th three of our most pious Princes who zealously stood for the religious observation of this Day as Nehemiah did for the sanctifying of the Jewish Sabboth My Conclusion shall be That if some bodily recreations on the Lords Day for the better sanctifying thereof be thought requisite yet under correction I should conceive them more tolerable in the Pa●…or who that Day hath spent his spirits in a faithfull discharge of his Ministeriall Function than in the people and among the people rather in Trades-men and Husband men than in Gentlemen who for the most part make every day holy-day in following their sports and in all with these limitations First That they be in their conscience fully perswaded that the games which they use be not onely lawfull in themselves but also in regard of the Day for whatsoever is not of faith is sinne that which I think unlawfull or am not perswaded in my self that it is lawfull though in it self it be so yet to me it is sinne so as it is a safe rule in Divinity Quod dubitas ne feceris that which thou doubtest of do not The second limitation is That our Recreations do not tend to the scandall of others If meat make my brother offend saith the Apostle I will eat no flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend and yet may publique Recreations one day in the week be more easily be forborn than meat whiles the world standeth My third limitation is That these Recreations tend to the better sanctification of the Lords Day in the refreshing of mens spirits Sanctification being by all Divines confessed to be the principall end thereof which being laid for a ground the consequence in my judgement is unavoidable That all our actions on that day ought more or lesse to be directed and squared thereunto according to that approved rule of the Schools Tantum destinati s●…mendum quantum ad finem prodest so much of the means as conduceth to the end is to be taken and no more I will shut up all with that of the Evangelicall Prophet Esay only changing the Jewish Sabboth into the Lords Day the Sabbath of the Christians If thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure on my holy Day and call it a delight the holy of the Lord honorable and shalt honour him not doing thine own wayes nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thi●…e own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy father For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it God grant that we may so truely serve the Lord by a due observation of his Day h●…re that we may eternall raigne with him hereafter Part of a Speech delivered in the Starre-Chamber against the opinion of Mr. Traske By the Right Reverend Father in God Lancelot Bishop of Winchester deceased IT hath ever been the Churches Doctrine that Christ made an end of all Sabboths by his Sabboth in the Grave that Sabboth was the last of them And that the Lords Day presently came in place of it Dominicus dies Christi resurrectione declaratus est Christianis ex illo coepit habere festivitatem suam saith Augustine The Lords Day was by the resurrection of Christ declared to be the Christians Day and from that very time of Christs Resurrection it began to be celebrated as the Christian m●…ns festivall These two the Day and the Supper have the Epithet of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Dominicum in the Scriptures to shew Dominicum is a●…ike to be taken in both This for the practice If you will have it in precept the Apostle gives it and in the same word still that against {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the day of their Assem●…ly Every one should lay apart what God should move him to offer to the Collection for the Saints and then offer it which was so ever in use That the day of oblations So have you it in practice and in precept both FINIS in Gen. 2. 3. Loc. Com. c●…s 2. c. p 7. In 2 ●… Gen. exerci●… 13. a In Gen. 2. Hom. 18. b Loc. Com. Class. 2. cap. 7. c De cult. Sanct. lib. 3. cap. 11. His accedt Robertus Loeus in effigiatione ●…ua veri Sabbatismi pag 48. Of the 〈◊〉 and time of prayer part 1a. Ma●… 24. 20. Vide Hieron. Epist. H●…bid quest 4. Ambros. S●… 61. Cap. 19. In prolog. in Psalm expla. Epist. 119. Idem habet Cypri Epist. 8. Lib. 3. Idem habet Hilar. in praefat in ●…salmos salmos Revel. 19. in 2● Gen. ever cit. 13 versus finem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lo●…us in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sab●…mi pag. 47. His c●…usis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apo stol●… 〈◊〉 ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 domin●…um 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 randum statuerent Mar. 2 27. a Hom●…l in hoc dictum Omnia mihi tradita sunt a patre b Epist. 83. c De resurrect serm. 5. d Serm. de tempo 15 ●… To these Prerogatives some 〈◊〉 that our Saviour was likewise circum●…i sed on the Lords day and that on the same day the star first appeared to the Wisemen See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r●…lig 2. 4. Acts 1 3. Acts 2. 1. Lib. 12. c. 58. In Ioh. 20. v. 26. In hoc dictum Om●…ia mibi c. ●…ist 119. Lib. 2. cap. 17. In cap 16. Apol. Piscator eti●…m Dominicum diem ab ipso Domi●…o insti●…utum ad sanctific●…dum m●…ndatum esse affim●…t in A●…o 1. 10. 1 Cor. 11. 23. Lact. 7. ●… Ca●… 33. ●… 78 79. Serm. de temp. 154. Super ex Hom. 7. Devi●…a Con●…tan p. 4. 18 In epist. ad ubique Orthodox in Hom in hoc dillum om nia mihi tradita sunt Serm. 5. ●…e resurrect Ex H. Wolphii 〈◊〉 de Temp. lib. 1. cap. 2. 2. 5. Serm. 251. Io. 4. 24. 2 Chron. 28. 9. A●…ol 35. Leo Constit 54. In Deut. 5. Serm. 34. The same in effect he hath in his Book De d●…cem Chordis cap. 3. De tem●… Scrm. 251. Epistol. Lib. 11. Ep 3. Serm. de festis pag. 10. Edit. Colon an 1604. Lo●… com ●…lass 2. cap. 7. 〈◊〉 de vita Const. lib 4. c. 18. 19 23. Rom. ●…4 23. 1 Cor. 8. 13. cap 48. v. 3 14.

the mother Synagogue as St. Augustine speaks might be buried with the greater honour it was d●…ely and constantly observed by the Church of God But when the fulnesse of time was come for the abrogation of it yet the equity of the Commandement which Divines do call the morall part thereof remaining still in its full strength and vigour required not onely some certain time to be set apart for the publique Worship of God but at least one day in Seven which is not onely the judgement of a Chrysostome and b Peter Martyr and c Bellarmine and Doctor Fulke in his answer to the Rhemtsts commenting upon the words of my Text and other grave Divines but of our profound and judicious Hooker writing purposely against the Schismaticks of our time so as we need not suspect him of Puritanisme Wee are bound saith he in the 5th Book of his Ecclesiasticall policy and seventeenth Paragraph Touching the manner of celebrating Festivall dayes We are bound to accompt the sanctification of one day in seven a duty which Gods immutable law doth exact for ever although with us the day be changed in regard of a new revolution begun by our Saviour Christ yet the same proportion of time the same proportion of time continueth which was before by way of a perpetutuall homage a perpetuall h●…age never to be dispensed withall nor remitted Then which I see not what can be spoken more plainly or more punctually which is the rather to be marked for that the Author being a man of admirable learning and of a deep judgement and by reason thereof making many doubts to himself which the ignorant by reason of their shallow and narrow capacities hardly discern and easily swallow is notwithstanding in the point so positive and peremptory as you see Whereunto we may adde the testimony of our Homilies allowed to be read in our Churches by publique authority making also one day in the week by the morall part of the Commandement to be consecrated and that not in part but wholly to heavenly exercises of Gods true Religion and Service And truely this our Churches resolution therein to me weighs more than the opinions of many others to the contrary though I will not censure much lesse absolutely condemne them My conclusion shall be That as the tenth part ad minimum is Gods portion for the fruits of the earth so the seventh part of his proportion for time and both of them not onely under the Leviticall Law but under the Gospel the number of seven is sacred as Philo in his book de opificio mundi hath learnedly shewed but for proof thereof I will go no further then this very book of the Revelation wherein we read of Seven Angels and Seven Trumpets and Seven Vialls and Seven Seales and Seven Stars and Seven Candlesticks and Seven Churches and Seven Spirits before the throne of God all which seems to imply the number to be Mystical and sacred and consequently most properly due to religious exercises in publick consisting in the sacred Service of allmighty God All which notwithstanding some such are found professi●…g themselves Christians as Anabaptists and 〈◊〉 who not only deny any set time to be appropriated to Gods service by the law of Christ but further affirme that no such time is now by Christians living under the Gospell in any sort to bee observed And to this end they wrest those passages of the Apostle Gal. 4. 10. Rom. 14. 5. Col. 2. 16. they wrest them I say the only scope of the Apostle in those passages being to cry downe the Ceremomall use or Superstitious abuse of dayes as well among the Iewes as the Gentiles not to make holy dayes set apart for Gods Service unlawfull nay it is certaine that in other places hee m●…kes the●… lawf●…ll and this day here spoken of in my Text in pa●…ticular aswell by his practice as his precept w●…ich will appear in my second generall part which offers it selfe in the next place namely that t●…e day here spoken of in my Text is that particular day which is now by us Christians in a speci●…ll manner set apart for the service of God In the handling whereof wee have two things to be considered first the severall names of this day and then why it is termed the Lords day This day is sometimes called the Sabboth sometimes Sunday sometimes the first day of the week sometimes the Eighth day and sometimes the Lords day as here in my Text The name of the Sabboth I must confesse in the ancient Councels or Fathers wee shall hardly find applyed to this day unlesse withall they adde Sabbathum Christianorum the S●…bboth of Christians For when they speak of the Sabboth absolutely without any addition they alwayes understand the Saturday the Seventh day the Sabboth day of the J●…wes which except it bee heedfully observed of those who are conversant in their writings it may be an occasion of much errour and mistake Which notwithstanding I make no question but this day may without any just suspition of Iudaisme be called the Sabboth and that for these Reasons First because our Saviour himselfe as I conceive hath so called it pray that your flight be not in the winter nor on the Sabboth day where he speakes of the destruction of Hierusilem which fell out about forty years after his Ascention whereas the Sabboth of the Iewes was abrogated by his resurrectio●… and consequently it cannot well bee understood but of the Sabboth of Christians the day here spoken of My second Reason is for that Sabbath signifying Rest the word in regard of that signification is appliable to our day as well as to theirs it being a day of Rest to us as well a●… to them True indeed it is that the Sabbath was so called a day of rest in a double respect First because God him●…e upon that day rested from the workes of the Creation and then because they in imitation of God and by commandement from God were likewise to rest upon the same day whereas ours cannot be called a Sabbath in respect of the first that is Gods rest but only in respect of the second that is our rest My third reason is for that our Lords day succeeded in the place of the Sabboth and was ordained to the same generall end as our spirituall exercises are called Sacrifices because they succeed in the place of their Sacrifices so may our Lords day not unfitly bee termed the Sabbath because it succeeds in the place of t●…eir Sabboth Secondly this day here spoken of in my Text is sometimes called Sunday which though it be a name imposed by the Gentiles who knew not the true God giving the names of the seven Planets to the seven dayes of the week yet for distinctions s●…ke I see not but wee Christians may without superstition or relation to them call the dayes of the weeke by the same names that they did as well as we do the