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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04128	Seven questions of the sabbath briefly disputed, after the manner of the schooles Wherein such cases, and scruples, as are incident to this subject, are cleared, and resolved, by Gilbert Ironside B.D.	Ironside, Gilbert, 1588-1671.	1637 (1637)	STC 14268; ESTC S107435	185,984	324

practice of Christianity in both which is seene Sathans malice casting scruples into mens consciences and the vanity of some spirits who applaud themselves saying with the Fly upon the Chariot what a dust doe we raise The disputing of points of this nature against such as these is most necessary especially if God be pleased to give men tractable hearts not to withold the truth in unrighteousnesse Scrupulus conscientiae est quand● mens dubia vacillat nesciens quid melius semper parata facere quod sciret Deo gratum contra ist● scrupulum seùti●●●rem facere non semper est peccatum licèt talis scrupulus sit val●è periculosus quantùm fieri potest extinguendue Gers compend Theol. For though they be things in themselves of lesse importance yet from such trifles as they seeme flourishing Churches and States haue been much impayred No better worke therefore can be undertaken then is the dis-entangling of the conscience every scruple therein being like a thorne in the foot much hindring our progresse or a mote in the very eye of the soule of all parts the most tender not fuffering without anguish the least molestation Perhaps it is not alwaies a sinne saith Gerson to goe against the feares and scruples of our minds provided we be ever ready to embrace Truth made known unto us yet such scruples certainly are very dangerous by all meanes to be extinguished And good reason for as a carelesse conscience begets presumption so a scrupulous desperation A too large conscience calleth evill good and a too streightned calleth good evill The former sort sticks at nothing and herein haue a kind of advantage Conscientia tùm nimis larga tùm nimis stricta cavenda nimis larga generat praesumptionem nimis stricta desperationem nimis larga frequenter dicit malum bonum nimis stricto bonum malum nimis larga de nullo remor sum habet ideo in rebus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rariùs peccat c. Gers ib for by this meanes they erre not in things indifferent but the latter start at every thing and are therefore more often wounded if ever whole The peace also of the Church is to be valued at the highest rate for it is with her as with the civil State all the contentments of a Kingdome are nothing if peace be wanting That these questions of the Sabbath are things of this nature many haue long since complained and Your GRACE doth easily discerne For notwithstanding the Sabbatharian tenents for the most part thereof be meere novelties unknowne even unto our Martyrs in the daies of Queene Mary and were but timorously set afoot by their first masters yet how deepely they are now rooted who seeth not and how the hearts of men are thereby alien'd one from another how such as dare contradict them are made even Anathema all religion being reduced to this one head the observation of the Sabbath How a manifest schisme is raised thereby so farre at least as for fear of Authority men dare adventure a weake eye may discerne So dangerous hath been the long connivence of the Church and silence of her sonnes whilst some have undervalued these questions as too meane speculations for men of great abilities to be ingaged in others have been contented to see well-affected people to be drawn on in Religion by this holy fraud But what the issue of both haue been experience hath now discovered for Miloes suckeling is become an Oxe and the twig that might haue been snapt in sunder is growne a sturdy Oake For my owne part I well hoped to haue stood upon the Hill and beheld this skirmish in the Vally being indeed every way unfurnished for such a service But it hath pleased God to dispose otherwise that which I did partly for my exercise but chiefly satisfaction being found as * 1. Sam. 10.22 Saul hid amongst the stuffe or to compare the least thing with the greatest as they say St Gregory was discovered in the Merchants warehouse I haue notwithstanding at length with my best alacrity committed it unto publike view most humbly beseeching Your GRACE to receive both the Worke and the Author into your Patronage and protection The great Bishop and Sheepheard of our soules multiply his choicest Favours upon Your GRACE and by and through Your GRACE upon his poore Church untill that pretious oyntment composed not of sweet spices but of Gods holy spirit flow from the head of our Aaron even unto the skirts of his clothing which shall be the daily prayer of Your Graces most humbly devoted G. IRONSIDE To the READER GOOD Christian Reader expect not to be courted with fruitlesse Apologies I desire only to informe thee concerning this present Treatise which is now thine That which I intended whē my thoughts first looked this way was my owne satisfaction For though I were not a stranger to these Questions nor tooke vp these tenents by occasion of the Kings Declaration an aspersion fastned upon many an honest man but had declared my selfe therein for many yeares before as some who are contrary-minded can beare me witnesse Yet when of late they fell into agitation I confesse the strange confidence of most the resolute sufferings of some began to stagger me For I conceived that I not sufficiently searched and that something surely had escaped me else it was I thought not possible that men of good apprehensions honest dispositions and well qualified with sundry parts of learning should not only stick at them but oppose them also even with hazzard This was the cause why I not only weighed such arguments as Treatises of this nature afforded but such also as either my selfe could frame or my poore slender reading help me unto This I held fit to acquaint thee with least thou shouldst perhaps think that I affected a Sciomachy or Umbratilous skirmish making a great shew of arguments only to make a greater shew of answeres But God knowes I intended herein satisfaction not ostentation to see what might be as well as what was already said To which purpose I have also faithfully related the reasons of our Adversaries and added such weight unto them by pressing them home as my weak understanding inabled me without partiality desiring only light which I alwaies professed to follow if they afforded any But here if I have at any time for pities sake left untouched certaine places of Scripture miserably tortured I feare wilfully wrested a common and great fault in them with whom we deale let me be pardoned this injury Shews and flourishes which an Artist may convey into a well pen'd discourse may goe for convincing evidences amongst the vulgar He deserves not the name of a Scholar or Orator that cannot by this meanes make any Paradox extreamly probable for it is not easy for a common eye to distinguish shadowes from substances especially when they are wrapt up together under the specious titles of piety And this was the only reason of