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A16567	A defence of that most ancient and sacred ordinance of Gods, the Sabbath day Consequently, and together with it. 2. A defence of the iiijth commandement. 3. A defence of the integrity and perfection of the Decalogue, morall law, or X. commandements. 4. A defence also of the whole and intire worship of God, in all the partes thereof, as it is prescribed, in the first table of the Decalogue. 5. A discouery of the superstition, impurity and corruption of Gods worship; yea, and idolatry, committed by multitudes, in sanctifying the Lords day, for a Sabbath day, by the iiijth commandement. Vndertaken against all anti-Sabbatharians, both of Protestants, Papists, Antinomians, and Anabaptists; and by name and especially against the X ministers, ... by Theophilus Brabourne.	Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590.	1632 (1632)	STC 3473; ESTC S120442	538,800	670

of it yea why should we not yeeld God obedience to the one halfe of his 4th com as well as to the other halfe this is not to haue respect vnto all Gods commandements with Dauid Psal 119.6 God will haue an account as well for the least of his commandements as for the greatest Who soeuer shall breake one of these least commandements saith our Sauiour shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen Mat. 5.19 Now be it that that parte of the 4th com which commandeth the day time be neuer so little in your account yet is it not lesse then the least of all the things commanded in the Morall Law Yet further full little doe men thinke what a deale of inconveniēce doth follow vpon this obiection in sleiting of the time day specified in the Morall Law for since this sleiting of the 7th day hath crept into the Church what a deale of instability and profanesse hath crept in with it yea it is to be noted that since this sleiting of the old Sabbath hath bene receiued Sabbaths neuer did thriue in Churches for the discouery whereof let vs take a suruey of the Christian Churches looke we first into the Church of Rome how doe they keepe the Sabbath in these dayes as for the right day to wit the 7th day they hould that abolished and therefore they keepe not that day well then come we to the Lords day and how keepe they that why the Lords day they keepe indeed but like a Common Holy day but as a Tradition of the Church now had they retained the auncient purity of the 4th com holding themselues closse vnto the 7th day as it is written in the 4th com durst they haue kept the Sabhath day so profanly as now they keepe the Lords day Since we are vpon the point we may by the way discouermore of Romes abominations we vse to charge hir with blotting our and raseing the second com so as they haue but 9 commandements but if we looke vpon the matter a little better we shall finde that they haue blotted out and rased also the 4th com and so they haue but 8 commādements for they keepe no day by virtue of the 4th com neither the 7th day nor the 8 day so as the 4th com standeth with them for a Cipher and whereas there are but 4 commandements in the first Table they haue rased out two of them haue lest but ij of them remayning so then the Church of Rome hath reiected two of Gods Tenn commandements and retaineth but eight of them and whereas there be fowre com in the first Table they haue reiected two of those fowre and retaine but two still Againe looke we vpon the Anabaptistes of whom there be greate multitudes in the Low Countries and they keepe no Sabbath day in conscience of any commandement from God but onely for order sake this their profanesse I must impute vnto this sleiting of the day mentioned in the 4th com as for their neglect of the Lords day any man may see they doe not that without a cause since there is no institution for it left by Christ and as for their neglect of the 7th day this I impute vnto the general sleiting of the 7th day made by all Churches the which they being nusled vp in haue growne to sleit it also neuerthelesse this they will confesse vpon argument that if any day ought to be kept for a Sabbath it must be the 7th day so thus we see what euill effectes haue followed since the sleiting of the 7th day hath crept into the Church for Papistes keepe no Sabbath according to the 4th com and Anabaptistes keepe no Sabbaths at all as instituted of God but count euery day a Sabbath or all dayes a like Lastly come we vnto Protestants amongst our selues we shall find that much euill hath crept into Churches since the sleit opinion of the 7th day hath invaded the world for the Church at Geneua it is in euery mans mouth how sleitily they haue kept all Sabbaths for the Churches in the Low Countries vp into Germany it is well knowne how light an esteeme they haue had of Sabbaths for our owne Church of England it is yet in the memory of man how sleit an esteeme hath bene made of Sabbaths not many yeeres past now can we thinke that these so famouse Churches would haue bene so sleitey in a matter so seriouse were is not hence that that speciall time of the 7th day written in the morall Law is sleited as deemed a ceremony which being taken for granted they all saw full well that the 4th com could not be pressed vpon the Lords day hence it was that they gaue liberty tooke liberty on the Lords day thus Gods time being sleited all Sabbaths were neglected so in conclusion you see Sabbaths did neuer thriue prosper in the Church as they would haue done if this time had not bene sleited Come we vnto some particular men since the day to wit the 7th day hath bene sleited no stability could be found out for any Sabbath day but euen Diuines of the chiefest ranke haue staggered bene in a mamering what to say or thinke of the point for example worthy Perkines we can speake in these pointes saith he but by likelihoodes I but had the 7th day bene still in vse he could haue gone beyond likelyhoodes and haue spoken peremptorily without doubtings what should I rekone vp Caluine Zanchie Vrsinus with many others forecited all which haue so sleited all Sabbaths since this sleit esteeme of the old day hath invaded the Church as that their iudgments are that now there is no Sabbath day of higher nature then an indifferent thing that our present Sabbath is to be kept but for order sake Loe these are the fruites that come from this obiection of sleiting the time as if God regarded nothing but the dueties in the day but not the day it selfe these I say are the fruites of sleiting the time in the 4th com to wit Instability doubtfullnesse in Iudgement touching the Sabbath profanesse in sanctifying Gods Sabbath where these two take place Sabbaths shall neuer thriue nor prosper longe I neuer looke to see either Diuines stable in iudgment vnanimouse in consent touching Sabbaths or Churches zealouse in Sanctifying them vntill first all agree to honour that very day time commanded in the 4th com sleight not this time therefore since the fruites of such doings hath bene will be of so euill consequence OBIECT XI Some obiect thus saying why now all times are alike vnder the gospell there is no time more holy then other or more fit for the worship of God then other now I answer 1. Why may there not be some time now vnder the gospel more Holy then other as well as there are now some persones more honourable then other if by the 5th com we hold some

day then Friday was an holy day now I trust no man will think that the primitiue Churches kept Friday for a Sabbath day no nor yet that they kept both these as Sabbathes the Friday the Lords day for so they should haue kept ij or iij Sabbathes in a weeke Thus you see their argument fetched from the practise of the primitiue Churches for the Lords day will doe them no good SECT XX. Their third argument from Testimony is the constant practise of the Church for many hundreth of yeeres togeather for say they the Church of God hath kept this Lords day for a Sabbath now this Sixtene hundreth yeeres vpwards can it be thought that Gods Church should laie in an errour so longe what Sixetene hundreth yeeres Herevnto I answer 1. that the Church of God hath not euer in all places kept the Lords day for it was neglected of thos Churches which succeeded the Apostles vntill it was established by Christian Emperours so as in all porbability it was not kept for 300 yeers by some Churches as you haue heard quoted out of Perkins in the last Section before this 2. In those Churches where it was kept it was not kept for a Sabbath but as an holy day remisly and with workes of husbandry done in it like as they kept their Friday as we haue showne in the former Section 3. Since those formost ages of the Church it hath bene kept by all Christian Churches being Romish but as an other holy day vntil Luther and many yeeres since for vntill Luther or thereabouts our Church hath lyen buried in the Romish Church as wheate in the chaffe now it is vvell knowne that the Church of Rome doe hould maintaine the Lords day to be but a Tradition of the Church and that it is to be kept but like an other holy day not by the 4th com herein they are neerer the trueth then wee are thus you see how the Church of Rome doth jumpe and agree vvith the Ancient Church in Constantins time how both in Constantins time and in the Church of Rome since vntill Luthers time the Lords day hath beene accounted but as an holy day the contrary whereto cannot be showne thus you see what account the Churches haue made of the Lords day vntill Luthers time vvhich is a matter of fiften hundreth yeeres And now let vs come vnto the times since Luther If we shall take a suruey of the Reformed Churches in France the lovv Countries it is apparant that they haue kept it remisly like an holy day not like a Sabbath day sauing that in the Low Countries at this time it is more solemnly kept much what as solemnly as we in England keepe it now but they haue not kept it so solemnly vntill now of late yeeres as within this 7 or 10 yeeres or thereaboutes as is well knowne Come we then vnto our owne Church which is the most famouse Church for keeping of the Lords day of any other I demaund how long our Church of England hath kept this day so zealously as now it doth it is well knowne by men of yeeres that can but remember 40 or 50 yeeres agone that then the Lords day was not kept as it is now I spare to make a Catalogue of the ordenary workes of mens caleings then done on the Lords day publikly frequently I cannot remember 40 yeers past and yet in my time I can remember such ordenary workes done generally of all sortes of men as are no Sabbath day workes I am suer but for the particulars I referr you to the memory of men of greater age more yeeres Thus I haue briefly giuen you a suruey of the times ages of the Church how the Lords day hath bene in account in practise from the Apostles times vntill now with in these 40 or 50 yeeres hitherto it hath not bene kept like a Sabbath day how then can the patrons of the Lords day boast that it bath bene kept as a Sabbath in the Churches constantly for Sixetene hundreth yeeres whereas they aske by way of admiration is it possible that the Church of God should lye in an errour so long what 1600 yeeres they bewray their owne errour ignorance to speake so for I haue showne that the Church neuer accounted it or kept it for a Sabbath day but for an holy day remisly for 1500 or 1600 yeeres together But admit that our Church or some in our Church rather haue accounted the Lords day for a Sabbath day by the 4th com for this 40 yeeres or 50 yeeres make they such a wonder that a Church may lye in such an errour as this is as if it were vnpossible what will they then say vnto the Churches that succeeded the Apostles that neglected the Lords day all together for a matter of 300 yeeres vntill it was reuiued by Christian Emperours as we haue formerly proued why may not our Church or some in our Church rather err in thinking the Lords day to be a Sabbath when it is not as well as those Churches which succeeded the Apostles did err as these men thinke that patronag the Lords day in thinking the Lords day was not to be kept at all if they might err for 300 yeeres togeather may it not be thought possible for our new Sabbatharians to err for 40 or 50 yeeres together Besids it is not the Church of God that hath erred so long it is the errour only of our nevv Sabbatharians who haue erred from their cradle they thinke therfore that the whole Church of God hath also euer bene in errour with them from the Apostles dayes vntill now indeed they would faine make the world beleeue that all Gods Church hath euer bene of their minde for the Lords day but you see they are foulely beguiled ther 's no such matter it is but their dreame when they awake they will see better It is to be lamented to see how by this golding conceipt that the Church of God hath euer constantly kept this Lords day for a Sabbath since the Apostles they haue ledd the world after them and now they haue bred such a firuent zeale of the Lords day in the hearts of many men as that they thinke it no lesse then blasphemy for a man to say any thing against it as they hold it But since they haue alleaged vnto vs the practise of the Church I wish they would stand to their owne argument and that they would subscribe vnto it that vve are no otherwise bound to the Lords day then can be proued the primitiue Churches practisedit for then should not all Churches be bound to keepe the Lords day but some might keepe it that pleased so to doe and other Churches might omit the keeping of it vvho pleased not to keepe it for so vvas it in the primitiue Churches some kept it but othersome kept it not no not for 300 yeeres together as vve haue