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A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

that they should not inquire after the Nations way of Worship saying How did those Nations serve their Gods even so will I do that is after that manner will I serve God And in particular not after their burning of their Sons and Daughters in the Fire to their Gods Deut. 12. 30 31. Now the God to whom the Gentiles sacrificed their Children was the Sun whose Idol was called Moloch and Milchom Amos 5. 26. 1 Kings 11. 5 7. as being Molech or King of all the Planets and therefore by the 70 translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince and by the Phoenicians Door-Neighbours to the Jews called Beel-Samen the Lord of Heaven as Sanchoniatho witnesseth in Euseb Evang. Prep l. 1. And yet notwithstanding all these Prohibitions and God's discharging them from the publick Worship of himself on that day whereon the Heathens in their Apostacy from the first Institution worshipped the Sun the Jews imitated the Heathens in this most barbarous Custom of burning their Sons and Daughters in the Fire the Representation of the Sun Jer. 7. 31. 19. 5. Psal 106. 37 38. So exceeding prone was that People to imbrace strange Gods And therefore they stood so much more in need to have all Occasion thereto removed from them and especially such as God had instituted at first for the securing his own but were in process of Time perverted to the Introduction and countenancing of the Worship of false Gods as was the fate of the Patriarchal Sunday-Sabbath Upon the like account the Jews were prohibited very many other Customs if not of divine Institution yet of Patriarchal Practice yea some of them seeming to be the natural Results of the Law of Humanity such was mourning at the Funerals of dear and near Relations wherein the Patriarchs exceeded even to the Admiration of other Nations Gen. 50. 10 11. And they wailed there with a very great and heavy Wailing and he Joseph with his Brethren made a mourning for his Father seven days And the Canaanites saw the Mourning and they said This is an heavy Mourning to the Egyptians therefore the name of that Place was called The Mourning of the Egyptians Yet this so natural a Duty was prohibited the High-Priest for he must not mourn for his Father or Mother Levit. 21. 11. and that because he had the holy Anointing and the holy Garments upon him which were holy only in Type So that here the Law of Nature must yield to the Levitical in this particular Case where the High-Priest's honouring of Father and Mother could do the Dead no good but might be an occasion of Evil to the Living by the way this makes the Case of the High-Priests wholly different from the Pharisees pleading Carban But where lay the Danger Answer in drawing the Jews to Conformity to the idolatrous Heathens in their manner of mourning Baruch 6. 31 32. And the Priests sit in their Temples having their Cloaths rent and their Heads and Beards shaven and nothing upon their Heads They roar and cry before their Gods as Men do at the Feast when one is dead Hence all Communion with the Nations is so pathetically forbidden the Jews lest they should by that means be drawn to Idolatry So much less reason have we to wonder that God should appoint the Jews another Day for their weekly Sabbath than that which was instituted at first to all Mankind when the Gentiles had perverted the Celebration of that Day to the instituting the Worship of the Sun Upon the like reason at the Restitution of sunday-Sunday-Sabbath upon the expiring of the Ceremonial saturday-Saturday-Sabbath the Christian Church changed the name of Sunday into that of the lord's-Lord's-Day that she might secure her Children from the Opinion of the Heathen World that it was in honour of the Planet of the Sun that that day of the Week which bore its name was separated for holy Assembles 3. And now we need not go far to seek for a Reason why God appointed Saturday to be the Jewish Sabbath for that being the week-day immediately preceding Sunday and the whole Oeconomy of Moses's Law as of a thing imperfect pointing to good things to come Heb. 10. 1. It was necessary that their typical Day of Rest should be so placed in the order of the Septiman as from thence they might look immediately unto that Day of true Rest that was to come at the rising of the Sun of Righteousness out of the Grave But besides this the more special Reason of God's appointing them Saturday for their Sabbath was because Saturday was the first day of Rest they had from Egyptian Bondage for they marched from Rameses on Friday the 15th day of the 1st Month and set up their Booths at Succoth on Saturday where they stayed two days according to the common Opinion of Learned Men on the latter whereof Sunday the Premises considered it may be presumed that they kept an holy Rest unto the Lord according to the Patriarchal Custom and that it was in that Assembly that Moses repeated the Ordinances of the Passover and separated the first-born of Males and Firstlings of the Flocks and Herds to be holy to the Lord. SECT II. And that this Precept for Saturday-Sabbath did not vacate the Patriarchal either to all Nations or to the Jews themselves for ever but was only imposed upon them as a Carnal Ordinance of divine Service until the time of Reformation Heb. 9. 10. Or until the Seed should come Gal. 3. 19. and those good things the Body whereof is Christ whereof it was a Shadow God gave the Jews many plain Intimations 1. In his assigning their Deliverance from Egypt and their resting from their hard Labour in that Bondage as the peculiar Reason of his commanding the Jews to celebrate his Sabbaths Deut. 5. 15. That thy Man-Servant c. may rest as well as thou and remember that thou wast a Servant in the Land of Egypt and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty Hand and by a stretched-out Arm Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath-day whether weekly monthly or yearly as also the Sabbaths of Years and Jubilees which Reason cannot reach other Nations but is wholly accommodated to the Jews and to them only till the time of Restauration 2. In his suspending the Raigning of Mannah on their Sabbaths and letting it fall on Sunday's Manna being reputed by those that could not look under the Vail Angels Food the Bread of Heaven Psal 105. 40. it s not falling on their Sabbath was interpreted that the giving of true Manna that of which whosoever eateth shall live for ever was reserved for Gospel-times and the Restauration of the Patriarchal Sabbath when he whom the Father sealed would give his Flesh for the Life of the World that true Bread of Life Joh. 6. that spiritual Food which was the desire of all that hungred after Righteousness of the Distribution whereof in the Ordinances of the Gospel when

The Doctrine of the CHURCH of England Concerning the Lord's-Day or Sunday-Sabbath As it is laid down in the Liturgy Catechism and Book of Homilies VINDICATED From the Vulgar Errours of Modern Writers and settled upon the only proper and sure Basis of God's Precept to Adam and Patriarchal Practice VVHERE An Essay is laid down to prove that the Patriarchal Sabbath instituted Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the Patriarchs before the Mosaick Law and re-inforc'd in the fourth Precept of the Decalogue was the same day of the VVeek viz. Sunday which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the Creation of the VVorld by the Redemption of Mankind Stand ye in the Ways and see and ask for the old Paths where is the good Way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your Souls Jer. 6. 16. LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIII THE PREFACE TO THE Intelligent Readers SAd and deplorable Brethren have been our Sabbatarian Controversies For while one Extream pleads there is no other ground for sanctifying the Lord's-Day than there is for other Holy-days to wit Ecclesiastical Constitution thinking thereby to oblige Christians to as religious Observation of other Holy-days as of Sunday They aim at an Impossibility seeing in many religious Persons there is imprinted this common Sentiment That the Lord's-Day ought to be discriminated from other Days And this Principle so deeply imprinted as all Attempts to obliterate do furbish it and make the writing more legible Yea the circumjacent Cold of the Devotion of the contrary-minded as by an Antiperistasis enflames the Zeal of Men seriously devout beyond the due Bounds and pusheth them on to the very Brink if not into the Gulf of Judaizing in the manner of celebrating the Lord's-Day And on the other hand the looser sort observing how some of those that with most Earnestness press the aforesaid Ground of Ecclesiastical Constitution do themselves observe Holy-days think they have fully discharged the Office of good Religious Christians if they sanctify the Lord's-Day as they celebrate other Holy-Days that is by resting from their ordinary Callings frequenting the Morning-Prayer to attend Evensong is a work of Supererogation and trifling away the remainder in pass-times Now what hath or can be the issue of this but Ignorance and Prophaneness and an Incouragement to profane Sundays instead of sanctifying other Holy-days But I love not to be querulous motos praestat componere fluctus I would much rather help towards the calming of this boisterous Sea in order whereunto I shall propound these Preliminaries 1. That the Progress of Men's Devotion for Sundays above other Holy-days into Superstition ought by all means to be prevented and the Jewish Yoke of the strict Ceremonial Rest of their Sabbath as well as their Sabbath-Day it self ought to be taken off the Necks of the Disciples because that Ceremonial Rest being a Shadow of good things to come by Christ the retaining of the Shadow is a denying that Christ the Body is come And bodily Rest as well as bodily Exercise is now under the Gospel unprofitable except it be ordinated to spiritual 2. That yet a due Respect to the Lord's-Day ought by all means to be incouraged 1. Because this seems to be the common Notion of serious Christians and that argues it to be an Infusion from that one Spirit into which we are all baptized and by which as their Intellectus Agens or common Soul all Christ's living Members are animated 2. Because this is one of the surest Nails fastened by the Masters of Assemblies for the Support of Religion especially in this Age For this Principle is that that not only brings Men to Church to worship God and to be instructed by him in the Ministry of the Gospel but also obligeth them in Conscience to do something extraordinary in their Families on the Lord's-Day towards the educating them in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord beyond what they think themselves bound to do on the Week-Days so that if this were an Errour it would be an happy Errour as being an occasion of bringing Men to the Worship of God and Knowledg of the Truth And truly if I were perswaded that the other Opinion that the Sanctification of the Lord's-Day hath no other Ground than Ecclesiastical Constitution were a Truth I should think it a Truth not necessary to be published For if Men did not apply themselves to the Service of God and promoting the Interest of their Souls with more Seriousness of Devotion on the Lord's-Day than it is possible to perswade them to in keeping other Holidays the common Practice of most and the Principles of the more Religious considered Ceres and Bacchus would have more Service from Christians than the only true God For how I pray are our very chief Holy-days celebrated such as Christmas Easter Pentecost Sunday excepted but by Carding Dancing Revelling Whitsun-Ales c If God therefore had not better Sacrifices offered to him and Men's Souls better Sustenance administred to them on the lord's-Lord's-Day Men would rob God of his Honour and starve their own Souls 3. The first Errour in the Digestion of Men's Thoughts touching this Controversy is the common Hypothesis of all modern Litigants to wit That the Lord's-Day comes in as a Successour in the room of Saturday Upon which sandy Ground it is not so easy to lay any solid Foundation for sanctifying the Lord's-Day For if that Day which God by his Example and Precept first sanctified for the weekly Sabbath be Saturday that Day cannot be unsanctified and another adopted in its room but by an Equal if not a Superiour Authority to that which consecrated Saturday Now a Superiour Authority to the Example and Precept of God cannot be imagined And that which is alledged by either Party for the unsanctifying Saturday falls far short of Equality to it For what argumentative Force can there be in Christ's rising his appearing to his Apostles the Apostles assembling on Sundays for the sanctifying that Day comparable to the express Command of God for sanctifying Saturday much less can the Constitution of the Church counter-ballance it Briefly they proclaim Sunday an usurping Intruder into the Priviledges of Saturday rather than its legal Successour who advance it into the Possession of Saturday's Crown to be the weekly Holy-day upon no better claim than can possibly be deduc'd for it while they make it a younger Brother 4. This Errour in the first Digestion being incurable must either be removed out of the way of Men's Thoughts when they are pitching them upon this Argument or they will be ever learning and yet never come to the Knowledg of the true Ground for the sanctifying of the Lord's-Day but will endlesly draw the Saw of Contention both ways That the abovesaid Errour therefore may be obviated I have laid down this contrary Hypothesis viz. That Sunday-Sabbath is elder Brother to Saturday-Sabbath That being assigned for the weekly

Septuagint which renders it The Seventh Day altho our last Translation of the Bible follows the Hebrew Altho the Puritans as they were called have called long and loud to our Church to rectify the Reading and conform it to the Hebrew as knowing that their opinion of the fourth Precept commandeth a Seventh not the Seventh Day is utterly overthrown by rendring it Wherefore the Lord Blessed the Seventh-day And altho our Church hath gratified their Clamours in conforming the Epistles and Gospels to our last Translation yet in the forenamed versions of the fourth Precept she adheres still to the Septuagint and persisteth in teaching her Children young and old that the Sabbath of the fourth Precept in the plain literal sense of it is the Seventh day wherein God rested and therefore sanctified and separated to be observed by us Christians in obedience to that Precept and in conformity to God's Example Or to give her sense of this Precept thus translated in her own words Homilie of the time and place of Prayer God expresly in the fourth Precept commandeth the observation of the Sabbath which is our Sunday And not only commandeth it but also by his own example doth stir and provoke us to diligent keeping of the same And a little after this Example and Command of God the Godly Christian People began to follow immediately after the Ascension of our Lord Christ It was you see in obedience to this Command urged by this Example that the Christians began to celebrate Sunday in our Churche's Judgment In Obedience I say to this Precept in the plain literal sense of it For sure the Church of England is a more indulgent Mother than to teach her Babes by Tropes and Figures and far-fetch'd Consequences what that holy Will of God is to the keeping whereof their Baptismal Vow obligeth them or to oblige them to say Lord have Mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law after the pronouncing of the fourth Precept at the Lord's Table if that did not stand intirely in every tittle of it according to its plain and primitive sense in as full force now under the Gospel as any of the rest Moses was faithful in God's House and therefore at his repeating of the Decalogue and applying it to the Israelites he lets them know that they were not concerned in that Reason for sanctifying of that Sabbath which God published on the Mount to wit because God rested on the Seventh-day but urgeth the keeping of their Sabbath by another Reason peculiar to themselves to wit their resting from Egyptian Bondage Deut. 5. which very Reason is an Argument that their Saturday-Sabbath was not the day on which God rested but local and temporary And God's urging the sanctifying of the Sabbath of the fourth Precept from his own Example argues the day therein commanded to be the day whereon God rested and to concern all Ages and Nations The reason of it being common to all and therefore to be our Sunday And this speaks the faithfulness of our Church viz. her informing her Children that the whole and intire both Precept and Reason appertains to us Christians and therefore we are bound to beg pardon for the breach thereof and Grace to observe it I had never much Artificial yet have so much Natural Logick as to think this a very strange Inference God rested the Seventh-day that is Saturday wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day that is Sunday and the common Opinion to be void of Reason viz. That the day commanded in this Precept is gon but the Precept remains seeing all that 's commanded is the sanctifying of the day whereon God rested It may with every whit as much reason be said the honouring of Father and Mother is gone but the Law commanding that Honour is still in force as that the day whereon the Command bids us rest is gone but the Precept commanding that Day of Rest remains as if that day injoyned belonged to the Jews and the Precept enjoyning to us My resentment of such horrible absurdities unavoidably issuing from the common Opinion that Saturday is the Day whereon God rested and that Day which he commanded the Jews to sanctifie in the fourth Precept And yet that the Precept is still in force to us Christians obliging us to sanctifie another day Sunday in Conjunction with the reverence I bear to the sounder Doctrine of the Church of England viz. That the fourth Precept commands us to celebrate Sunday upon the Account of God's resting on that day first put me upon that enquiry whereof my Treatise of the Sabbath is the result viz. whether that Hypothesis could be proved from Scripture and Reason and if proved whether it would secure unto us our Sunday-Sabbath without any new Institution by Christ's Precept upon better grounds than can be laid by the vulgar opinion and such as free our Necks from the yoak of those carnal austerities which attend the Jewish Temporary and Ceremonial Saturday-Sabbath This Design I confess affronts the whole World of private modern Writers but I have standing on my side the Church of England which carried on the Reformation of Christian Religion from Papal Innovations more pecately regularly cautiously and with a greater respect to Catholick Antiquity than any other Reformed Church did And that which inclined me the rather to follow her Conduct through my whole Tract of the Sabbath was this because I observed that the Writers upon the fourth Precept have fallen into inextricable perplexities meerly through this one mistake That the Sabbath injoyned in that Precept is Saturday and not as our Church teacheth Sunday And that if they had followed our Churches Clew they would have found the way out of those Labyrinths wherein they have lost themselves For if Sunday be the Day whereon God rested and therefore commanded in that Precept to be sanctified after God's Example and unless it be that day wereon God rested that Precept does not command the sanctification of it how naturally will these Consequences follow 1. That Adam and the Patriarchs could not be ignorant of that Example of God which was laid down in the Precept as the Reason why we are to sanctifie it for if that reason oblige us who only hear it It must much more oblige Adam who after a sort saw it 2. That the Law of the Saturday-Sabbath is not expresly commanded in that Precept but only reducible to it in regard of its equity and proportion of time viz. one of seven And therefore Saturday-Sabbath may depart and the Precept continue in full force Nay that Sabbath together with the Ceremonial Precepts concerning it must as the rest of Mosaick Ceremonies depart at the rending of the Vail and give way to the Sunday-Sabbath And thus the Christian Church is disburdened of those Austerities about which there hath been so much wrangling amongst Modern Writers 3. That there was no need of a new Gospel-Precept for the first Institution of Sunday-Sabbath and that