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lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13187	Disce vivere Learne to live : a briefe treatise of learning to liue, vvherein is shewed, that the life of Christ is the most perfect patterne of direction to the life of a Christian : in which also, the well disposed may behold their orderlie passage, from the state of grace, to the state of glorie.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 23484; ESTC S1737	203,338	618

was made for man and not man for the Sabaoth as also to manifest the workes of the Sabaoth what they were and of what nature to doe good vpon this day were it but to a dumb creature Christ did not disallow and the Pharisies did not amisse in lifting out an Oxe or an Asse from the ditch vpon this day but howe much more was it agreeable vnto the sanctifying of the Sabaoth to helpe a distressed man and to loose one whom Sathan hath bound soe manie peares For the superstitious obseruation of the Sabaoth which the Iewes vsed it grew as wee may perceiue by our Sauiours discourse with them from very ignorance of the very first institution It was not saide Otio celebrabis Thou shalt celebrate the Sabaoth with rest but Sanctificabis Thou shalt sanctifie or thou shalt kéepe the Sabaoth with a holy rest Againe to shew that charitie which is the summe of the law in generall is to be preferred before anie Lawe in particular for I will haue mercie and not sacrifice sayeth the Lord. Christ our Sauiour as wee see chiefelie aymed at dooing good vpon the Sabaoth day secretlie to interuent thy neighbour or openly to enuie a poore mans health was with the Pharisies no breach of the Sabaoth but to doe good vpon him the Sabaoth is broken For the kindling of fire but chiefely the gathering of stickes was it not punished in a verie high degree and therefore not the least action to be doone vpon the Sabaoth day these men considered not how the first institution required strictnes which in that instance is manifest for the veterring of others contempt is one thing necessitie is another which Christ shewed in excusing his Apostles when they were murmured at for plucking the eares of corne vpon the Sabaoth day The ignorance of the Pharisies did cleaue onely to the letter of the Law Christ addeth a fauorable dispensation and confirmes what he had done Hee that cured me said Take vp thy bed and walke or he that bid me will beare mee out in that I doe He said vnto me Take vp thy bed and walke 5 Doubtlesse with great Religion did the old Israelites wel obserue and kéepe the holy Sabaoth of the Lord which day God himselfe sanctified from the beginning as this day Noe in the Arke rested on the mountaines of Ararat as this day the Israelites were deliuered from Egypt when they rested from the oppression of Pharao as this day the people brought in Christ into Ierusalem with Palme boughes a little before his passion as this day shewed he his first myracle at Cana in Galilée as this day after all his myracles rested he in the Scpulcher gloriously arising from the dead the day following which day by the constitution of the Apostles them selues and so Authors against whom no exception can be taken the Church celebrateth this day as her Christian Sabaoth vnto the Lord. This is therefore called by S. Iohn Dies Domini our Lords day from the resurrection Concerning the alteration héereof the prophet O see might séeme to speake when he sayeth I will cause their Sabaoths and Feasts to cease The day of our Lord saith S. Austen which we kéepe as our Sabaoth it is not onely a remembrance of his resurrection past but a type and figure of that eternall Sabaoth which is to come The alteration therefore in part is as thus They did celebrate their Sabaoth with a remembrace of the creation we of the resurrection they as a figure of grace when they should rest from the seruitude of sinne wee as a figure of glorie when we shal rest from occasions of sinning 6 Eusebius sheweth vs of certaine men called the Ebionites which would keepe the Sabaoth with the Iewes and the Sunday with the christians like men who wold be of all religions whē they are indéede of none Others tel vs of the Petrobrutiani a kind of men which would haue no solemne and sanctified Feasts to the honour of God at all The Iewes were not so superstitious as these were irreligious These men are gone but yet their fancies in some part remaine for the former to wit the superstitious manner of the Iewes in kéeping their Sabaoth we sée it refuted by our Sauiour the right vse to be kept how after what manner The question hath béene moued whether the Machabees did well in violating the Sabaoth the question rightly proposed is otherwise whether the Machabées in fighting that day did violate the Sabaoth many began to waxe scrupulous Mattathias a good and godly Captaine saw it was no time to stand vpō points that now they must eyther fight it out like men or be murdered like beasts to be hampering vppon nice matters of the lawe when the enemies of God were readie to destroy the lawe and them hee thought good to defend themselues and offend their enemies which was approued the case standing as it did For the Sabaothes dayes iourney which consisted as some say of two miles distance for that the people placed their tents or their vttermost parts thereof so farre from the Tabernacle or that mount Oliuet was about that distance from Ierusalem whither the people on that day might repaire the discussing heereof is not so necessary For the trauel of Phisitions or any in case of necessitie so it be not ordinary vpon this day men néede not be so scrupulous I wil not say Iewish as to say truth they are if in this they remaine opinionated In the Christian obseruation of our Sabaoth to stand vpon a number of curious conceites is without iudgement learning and in part Pharisaicall It were to be wished that a serious and religious obseruation thereof were in vse without farther friuolous deuises of running fanciers There are other dayes for our vocation the holy Sabaoth is of our vacation to God the people vpō other dayes offered a Lamb but vppon the Sabaoth two Lambs were offered as if that day our deuotion should be doubled Euery day would Dauid worship God yea seauen times a day would hee call vpon him this is the day wherin we should call vpon God more then ordinarie a day of prayer and meditation of reconciling our selues to God and man of doing good and sanctifying a holy time with holy conuersation therefore called the Lords day because the Lorde should chiefly be worshipped vpon this day 7 In the second place for the obseruatiō of other festiual tunes annual solemnities it hath béen shewed that Christ our Sauiour went often vnto the Feasts A little before his passion his disciples come vnto him saying Maister where wilt thou that wee prepare the Passeouer As if they knewe it was their Maisters manner to keepe the Feast nowe approching For the feasts of the Iewes there is no question as they were commaunded of God so were they euer solemnly kept of the godly as they had their feasts so