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A26918	The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1253; ESTC R3169	125,645	262

work to do than to search our hearts and lament our sins and beg for mercy and learn Gods Word and treat with our Redeemer about the saving of our souls and to prepare for death and judgement surely it should challenge all our faculties and tell us that voluntary diversions do too much savour of impiety and contempt It is the great mercy of God that we have leave to lay by these clogs and impediments of the soul and to seek his face with greater freedom than the incumbrances of our week day labours will allow us No slave can be so glad of a Sabbaths ease from his sorest toil and basest drudgery as a believer should be to be released from his earthly thoughts and business that he may freely entirely and delightfully converse with God III. The Lords day must not be spent in tempting diverting unnecessary recreations or pleasures of the flesh 1. For these are as great an impediment to the holy employment of the soul as worldly labours if not much more It is easier for a man to be exercised in heavenly cogitations at the Plow or Cart or other such labours of his place and Calling than at Bowls or Hunting or Cards or Dice or Stage-playes or Races or Dancing or Bear-baitings or Cock-fights or any such sensual sports I need no proof of this to any man that hath himself any experience of the holy employments of a believing soul or that ever knew what it was to spend one Day of the Lord aright And no proof will suffice them that have no experience because they know not effectually what it is that they talk of 2. We find that even on other daies the worst men are most addicted to these sports and are the greatest pleaders for them and that the more they use them the worse they grow yea that the times of using them are frequently the times of the eruption of many heynous sins I have lived in my Youth in many places where sometimes Shews or uncouth Spectacles have been their sports at certain seasons of the year and sometimes Morrice-dancings and sometimes Stage-playes and sometimes Wakes and Revels And all men observed that these were the times of the most flagitious crimes and that there was then more drunkenness more fighting more horrid Oathes and Curses uttered than in many weeks at other times Then it was that the enraged sensualists did act the part of furious Devils in scorning and reviling all that were soberer and better than themselves and railing at those that minded God and their everlasting state as Precisians Puritans and Hypocrites Then it was that they were ready in their fury if they durst to assault the very persons and houses of them that would not do as they did Whatever is done in such Crowdes and Tumults is done with the impetuosity of rage and passion and with the greatest audacity and the violation of all Laws and regulating restraints As many waters make a furious stream and great fires where much fuel is conjunct do disdain restraint and quickly devour all before them so is it with the raging folly of Youth when voluptuous persons once get together and their lusts take fire and they fall into a torrent of profuse sensuality Yea those that at other times are sober and when they come home do seem of another mind yet do as the rest when they are among them and seem as bad and furious as they As we see among the London Apprentices on the day called Goodtides Tuesday or May day when they once get out together and are in motion they seem all alike and those that are most sober and timerous alone in the rowt are heightened to the audacity of the rest And as in an Army the sight of the multitude and the noise of Drums and Guns puts valour into the fearful and they will go on with others that else would run away from a proportionable single combate and danger And as Boyes at School that fear to offend singly yet fear not to barr out their Master in a combination when all concurr so all seem wicked in a crowd and rowt of wicked persons And sensuality and licentiousness is not the smallest part of wickedness O how unfit is Youth in such a Crowd to think of God or Eternity or Death or to hear the sober warnings of a Preacher in comparison of what the same persons be when they are at Church and Congregated purposely to hear Gods Word Go among them and try them then with any grave and wholesome Counsel Ask them whether they are penitent Converts and whether they are prepared for another world Try what answer they will give you and whether they will not deride you more than at another time I would those that write and plead for this under the name of harmless recreations would go amongst them sometimes with sober Counsel and learn to be wise by their own experience that their errours might not be of such pernicious consequence to mens souls as it hath been Reason it self hath no place or audience in the noise of youthful furious lusts They will laugh at Reason as well as at Scripture and scorn sobriety as well though not so much as holiness If even in the meetings of grave persons it have ever been observed that individual persons are apt to be carryed by the stream and otherwise than their talk importeth at other times when they are single what wonder if it be so in evil with unbridled youth If you say that the Law forbiddeth rowts and riots and it is no such unruly assemblies that we defend Answ. Disclaim not the name only while you defend the thing Be not like them that say We perswade men to voluntary untruths but not to lying to break their Vows and Oathes in lawful matters but not to perjury to kill those that anger them but not to murder to take other mens goods by force but not to robbery c. Is not a Wakes and Revels and Morrice-Dances and Dancing-assemblies and Spectacles and Stage playes and the like such a concourse as I am speaking of Do you limit Dancers and Players to any numbers I speak not of the Laws I am too much unacquainted with them If they say that above four meeting to Dance or Drink on the Lords day shall be accounted a Conventicle or unlawful Assembly it is more than ever I heard of But I am speaking of the common practice of the contrary and of those that ordinarily defend it and labour to bring both Godly Ministers and sober people under the scorn of foolish preciseness and superstition because they would hinder the sin and ruine of the people If you will allow them to assemble for their Dancings Shews and Sports you will encourage them to break the Laws both of God and Man though you pretend never so much care that they be observed You may as well allow them to be Drunk and when you have done forbid them to break Gods Laws and

that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you John 17. 8. I have given to them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them V. 17 18. 〈◊〉 then through thy truth thy word is truth As thou hast sent me into the world so have I also sent them into the world And for their sakes I 〈◊〉 my self that they also might be sanctified through the truth Matth. 28. 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and loe I am with you alwayes to the end of the world Acts 1. 4. And being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father which ye have heard of me For John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many dayes hence V. 8. But ye shall receive Power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses uitto me both in Jerusalem and to all Judaea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth By these Texts it is most evident that Christ promiseth the Apostles an extraordinary Spirit or measure of the Spirit so to enable them to deliver his Commands and execute their Commission as that he will own what they do by the guidance thereof and the Churches may rest upon it as the Infallible revelation of the Will of God CHAP. IV. Prop. 3. Christ performed all these promises to his Apostles and gave them his Spirit to enable them for all their commissioned work This is proved both from the fidelity of Christ and from the express assertions of the Scripture He is faithful that hath promised Heb. 10. 23. Titus 1. 2. God that cannot lye hath promised 2 Cor. 1. 18. As God is true Rev. 6. 10. H w long O Lord Holy and True Rev. 19. 11. He was called faithful and true Rom. 3. 4. Let God be true and every man a lyar 1 John 5. 10 He that believeth not God hath made him a lyar John 20. 22. He breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the Holy Ghost Acts 2. Containeth the Narrative of the comeing down of the Holy Ghost upon them at large Acts 15. 28. seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us Heb. 2. 4. God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers mighty works and distributions of the Holy Ghost according to his own will 1 Pet. 1. 12. The things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the Gospel unto you by the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven Rom. 15. 19 20. Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ. Read all the Texts in Acts and elsewhere that speak of all the Apostles Miracles and their giving of the Holy Ghost c. And 1 Cor. 7. 40. Acts 4. 8 31. Acts 5. 3. 6. 3. 7. 51 55. 8. 15 17 18 19. 9. 17. 10. 44 45 47. 11. 15 16 24. 13. 2 4 9 52. 16. 6. Rom. 5. 5. 9. 1. 1 Cor. 2. 13. 2 Tim. 1. 14. 1 Cor. 12. Eph. 4. 7 8 c. 3. 5. But this Proposition is confessed by all Christians CHAP. V. Prop. 4. The Apostles did actually separate and appoint the first day of the Week for holy Worship especially in Church-Assemblies Here the Reader must remember that it is 〈◊〉 matter of fact that is to be proved in the proof of this Proposition and that all till this is clearly and undenyably proved so that the whole Controversie resteth upon the proof of the fact That indeed The Apostles did separate 〈◊〉 set apart this day for ordinary publick Worship And in order to the fuller proof of this I have these 〈◊〉 Propositions to prove Prop. 1. Matter of past fact is to be known to us by History Written Verbal or Practical This is evident in the nature of the thing History is the Narration of facts that are past We speak not of the fact of meer natural agents but of Moral or humane facts It may be known without History what Eclipses there have been of the Sun what changes of the Moon c. But not what in particular Morals have been done by man The necessity of other distinct wayes of knowledge are easily disproved 1. It need not be known by Divine supernatural Revelation Otherwise no men could know what is past but Prophets or inspired persons nor Prophets but in few things For it cannot be proved that God ever revealed to Prophets or inspired persons the general knowledge of things past but only some particulars of special use as the Creation to Moses c. so that if Revelation by Inspiration Voice or Visions were necessary Scripture it self could be understood by none but inspired persons or that had such revelation 2. It is not known by Natural Causes and by arguing from the Natural Cause to the Effects It is no more possible to know all things past this way by knowing the Causes than all things future Therefore it must be ordinarily known by Humane report which we call History or Tradition Prop. 2. Scripture History is not the only certain History much less the only credible Without Scripture History we may be certain that there was in 1666. a great Fire in London and a great plague in 1665. and that there were Wars in England 1642 1643 c. and that there have been Parliaments in England which have made the Statutes now in force and that there have been such Kings of England for many Ages as our Records and Histories mention c. Prop. 3. Scripture History is not the only certain History of the things of the Ages in which it was written or of former Ages much less the only credible History of them We may know by other History certainly that there were such persons as Cyrus Alexander c. That the Macedonians had a large extended Empire that the Romans after by many Victories obtained a spacious Empire that there were such persons as Julius Caesar Augustus Tiberius Nero Cicero Virgil Horace Ovid c. Prop. 4. Scripture History is not the only means appointed by God to help us to the knowledge of Ecclesiastical matters of fact transacted in Scripture times 1. For if Humane History be certain or credible in other cases it is certain or credible in these There being no reason why these things or much of them should not be as capable of a certain delivery to us by humane History as other matters As that there were Christians in those times may be known by what Tacitus Suetonius c. say And the antient Writers oft appeal in many cases to the Heathens own History And no man pretendeth as to the Civil matters mentioned in the Scriptures that no other History of the same is credible or