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A76675	The Sabbath truly sanctified, or, Godly rules and directions for all sincere Christian professors, for the strict observation of the Lords Day before, at, and after the publike exercises of the church. With an order from the House of Commons, for the due observing the Sabbath-Day. As also, a cataloge of the fearfull judgements that have happenned to wilfull infringers, and profane and irreligious Sabbath-breakers. By A.B. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.	A. B.	1645 (1645)	Wing B28; Thomason E26_15; ESTC R6427	6,451	9

THE SABBATH TRULY SANCTIFIED Or GODLY RULES And Directions for all Sincere Christian Professors for the strict observation of the LORDS DAY Before at and after the publike Exercises of the CHURCH With an Order from the House of Commons for the due observing the Sabbath-Day As also A Cataloge of the fearfull Judgements that have happenned to wilfull infringers and profane and Irreligious Sabbath-breakers By A. B. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day LONDON Printed Ian. 31. in the yeer MDCXLV Die Sabbath 22. Mar. IT is Ordered that the Aldermen and Citizens that serve for the City of London intunate unto the Lord Maior of London from this House that the Statutes for the due observing of the Sabbath be put in execution and that the like intimation be made to the Iustices of the Peace in all Counties of England and Wales Hen. Elsynge Cler. Dom. Com. THE SABBATH DULY SANCTIFIED ALMIGHTY GOD Creator of all Mankind will have himself Worshipped not only in a private manner by private persons and families but also in a more publick sort of all the Godly joyned together in a Visible Church that by this means he may be known not only to be God and Lord of every singular person but also of the Creatures of the whole universall World and to that purpose hath appointed one particular day for his own proper service which he hath called the Sabbath or Lords Day and with a speciall Memento hath commanded the same to be sanctified and kept holy which consists in two things First in resting from all servile and common businesse pertaining to our naturall life Secondly in consecrating that rest wholly to the service of God and the use of these holy meanes which belong to our spirituall life For the First 1. The servile and common works from which we are to cease are Exod. 31. 29. 30. generally all civill works from the least to the greatest more particularly First from all the works of our calling though it were reaping in Exo. 31. 12 13. the time of Harvest Secondly from carrying burthens as Carryers doe or riding abroad Exo. 34. 15 c. for profit or for pleasure God hath commanded That the Exo. 34. 2● Beasts should rest on the Sabbath day because all occasion of travelling or labouring with them should be cut off from man God gives Joh. 17. 2● 22. 27. Deut. ●4 them that day a rest and he that without necessitie deprives them of their rest on the Lords Day the groans of the poor tyred beasts shall in the day of the Lord rise up in judgement against him Likewise Rom. 8. 22 Deut. 2. 4 1. Cor. 9 such as spend the greatest part of the day in trimming and painting and pampering of themselves like Iezebells doing the Devills worke upon Gods day Thirdly from keeping of Faires or Markets which for the most Neh. 13. 5. 16. 9. part God punisheth with pestilence fire and strange flood● Fourthly from studying any Books of Science but the holy Scriptures and Divinity for our study must be to be ravished in spirit Apo. 1. 19. upon the Lords day In a word thou must on that day cease in thy calling to doe thy work that the Lord by his calling may doe his worke in thee for whatsoever is gotten by common working on this day shall never be blessed of the Lord but it will prove like Achans gold which being got contrary to the Lords Commandment brought the fire of Gods curse upon all the rest which hee had lawfully gotten And if Christ scourge them out as Theeves who bought and sould in his Temple which was but a Ceremony shortly to be abrogated is it to be thought that hee will never suffer those to escape unpunished who contrary to his Commandement buy and sell on the Sabbath day which is his perpetuall Law Christ calleth such sacrilegious Theeves and as well may they steale the Communion Cup from the Lords Table as steale from God the chiefest part of the Lords Day to consume it in their own lusts such shall one day finde the judgement of God heavier then the opinions of men Fiftly from all Recreations and sports which at other times are lawfull for if lawfull works be forbidden on this day much more lawfull sports which doe more steale away our affections from the Isa 58. 13. 14. contemplation of heavenly things then any bodily worke or labour Neither can there be unto a man that delighteth in the Lord any greater delight or recreation than the sanctifying of the Lords Psal 37. 4 day For can there be any greater joy for a person condemned then to come to his Princes house to have his pardon sealed for one that is deadly sick to come to a Physition that can cure him or for a Prodigall child that fed on the husks of swine to be admitted to eate the bread of life at his fathers table Or for him who fears for sinne the tydings of death to come to heare from God the assurance of eternall life if thou wil● allow thy selfe or thy servant Recreation allow it in the six dayes that are thine not on the Lords day which is neither thine nor others No bodily Recreation is therefore to be used on this day But so farre as it may helpe the soul to doe more cheerfully the service of God Sixtly from grosse feeding liberall drinking of wine or strong drinke Eph. 5. 18 19. Ro. 12. 11 Deut. 28. 47. Isai 58. 13 which may make us either drowsie or unapt to serve God with our hearts and mindes Seventhly from all talking about worldly things which hindereth the sanctifying of the Sabbath more than working seeing one may work alone but cannot talke but with others He that keeps the Sabbath only by resting from his ordinary worke keeps it but as a beast But rest on this day is so farre commanded to Christians as it is a help to sanctification and labour so farre forbidden as it is an impediment to the outward and inward worship of Almighty God If then these Recreations which are lawfull at other times are on the sabbath not allowed much more those that are altogether at all times unlawful who without mourning can indure to see Christians keep the Lords day as if they celebrated a Feast rather to Bacchus then to the honor of the Lord Jesus the Saviour and Redeemer of the world For having served God but 1 Cor. 10. 7. an houre with outward shew they spend the rest of the Lords day in sitting downe to eate and drinke and rising up to play first balasting their bellies with eating and drinking and then feeding their lusts with playing and dancing Exod. 31. ●8 19. Aug. in tic Psal 91. Against which Profanation all holy Divines both old and new have in their times most bitterly inveighed insomuch that Augustine affirmeth that it was better to plough then to dance upon the Sabbath day For the Second 2. The

Consideration of the Sabbaths rest consists in performing three sorts of duties First Before Secondly At. Thirdly After the publike exercises of the Church The duties to be performed before the publike exercises of the Church are 1. To give over working be times on the Eve that thy body may be the Adoc 2. 3. more refreshed and thy minde the better fitted to sanctifie the Sabbath on the next day for want of this preparation thy self and thy servants being tyred with Labour and watching the night before are so heavy that when you should be serving God and hearing what his Spirit saith unto the Church for your souls instruction you cannot hold up your heads for sleeping to the dishonour of God the offence of the Church and the shame of your selves therefore the Lord commands us not only to keep holy but also to remember aforehand the Sabbath day to keep it holy by preparing our hearts and removing all businesse that might hinder us to consecrate it Isa 56. 51. 13 c. as a glorious day unto the Lord who in the other Commandments doth but either bid or forbid but doth both in this Commandement and that with a speciall Memorandum As if a Master should charge his servant to look well unto ten things of great Trust but to have a more speciall care to remember one of those tenn for divers weighty reasons should not a faithfull servant that lov●s his Master shew a more speciall care unto that thing above all other businesses Thus Moses taught the people overnight to remember the Sabbath and it Exo. 16. 23 c. was a holy custom among our forefathers when at the ringing to prayer on the Eve before the husbandman would give over his labour in the field and the tradesman his worke in the shop and goe to evening prayer in the Church to prepare their soules that their mindes might more cheerfully attend Gods worship on the Sabbath day 2. To possesse that night thy vessell in holinesse and honor that thou maist Exo. 9. 15 1 Cor. 7. 5 Gen. 35. 2 ● Sam. 31. 5. Exo. 19. 16. Psa 9. 22. Ec. 4. 17. present thy soul more purely in the sight of God the next morning 3. To rise up early in the morning on the Sabbath-day Be carefull therefore to rise sooner on this day than on other days by how much the service of God is to be preferred before all earthly businesses For there is no master to serve so good as God and in the end no works shall be better rewarded then his service 4. When thou art up consider with thy self what an impure sinner thou art and into what an holy place thou goest to appeare before the most holy God who seeth thy heart and hatethall impurity and hypocrisy Examine thy self therefore before thou goest to Church what grievous sins thou hast committed the week past confess them unto God and earnestly pray for the pardon and forgivenesse of them and so reconcile thy self with God in Christ Renew thy Vows to walk more conscionably and pray for an increase of those graces which thou hast and a supply of those which thou wantest But especially pray that thou maist have grace to hear the Word of God read and Preached with profit and that thou maist recive the holy Sacrament with comfort if it be Communion day that God by his holy Spirit would assist the Preacher to speak somthing that may kill thy sinne and and comfort thy soul which that thou maist doe poure forth thy prayers to Almighty God who upon thine unfained repentance will enable thee and hear thy earnest and most humble request Now in the Name of Almighty God who rested having created heaven and earth and of his eteanall Son Jesus the Redeemer of his Church who shall shottly come on the dreadfull day of doom to judge all men according Act. 12. 31 Ro. 2. 12. 1 Thes 2. 8. to the obedience which they have shewed to his Commandments I exhor● nay I require thee who readest these words as thou wilt answer before the face of Christ and his holy Angels at that day that thou better weigh and consider whether Dancing Stage-playing Masking Carding Diceing Tabling Ches-playing Bowling Shooting Beare-baiting Carousing Tipling and such other fooleries of Robin-hood Morrice-dances Wakes and May-games be exercises that God will blesse and allow on the Sabbath day And seeing no Action ought to be done that day but such as whereby wee either blesse God or look to receive a blessing from God how darest thou do these things on that blessed day on which thou darest not to pray to God to bestow a blessing on it to thy use Hear this and tremble at this O profane youth of a profane age O heart all frozen and voide of the feeling of the grace of God And having every day in six every hour in every day every minute in every hour so tasted the sweet mercy of thy God in Christ without which thou hadst perished every moment yet canst not finde in thy corrupt and irreligious heart to spend in thy Masters service that one day of the week which he hath reserved for his owne praise and worship Let men in defence of their profaness object what they will and answer what the Devill puts in their mouthes yet I would wish them to remember that seeing it is an antient tradition in the Church that the Lords second comming shall be upon the Lords day how little joy they should have to bee overtaken in Lactan .l. 7. cap. 1. those carnal sports to please themselves when their Master should find them in spirituall exercises serving him The profanest wretch would then wish rather to be taken kneeling at prayers in the Church then skipping like a Goat in a dance If this cannot move yet I would wish our impure Gallants to remember that while they thus dance on the Lords day contrary to the Lords Commandement they doe but dance about the Pits brink and they know not which of them shall first fall therein whereinto being once fallen without repentance no greatnesse can exempt them from the vengeance of that great God whose Commandment contrary to their knowledge and conscience they doe thus presumptuously transgresse If then Gods Commandments cannot prevaile with thee nor Gods Word advise thee Then let these ensuing Examples of Gods Judgments on Sabbath-breakers deterre thee from the wilfull profanation of the Lords day The Lord who is otherwise the God of mercy commanded Moses to stone to death the man who of a presumptuous mind would openly goe to gather Num. 53. 2. sticks on the sabbath-Sabbath-day The fact was small true but the sin was the greater that upon so small an occasion would presume to breake so great a Commandement Nicanor offering to fight against the Jewes on the Sabbath day was slaine himself and 35000. of his men A husbandman grinding corne upon the Lords day had his Mill burned to ashes Another carrying corn on this day had his barne and all his corn therein burnt with fire from heaven the next night after A certain Nobleman profaning the Sabbath usually

in hunting had a child like a Dog and with ears and chaps and crying like a hound A flax-wife working with her maids on the Lords day it seemed unto them that fire issued out of the flax but did no harm the nex Sabbath it fired indeed doing little harm but not taking warning by this the 3. Sunday it again took fire burnt the house scorched the woman and two children whereof they died the next day but by the mercy of God a childe in the cradle was taken out of the fire alive and unhurt At a Beare-baiting in France on the Sabbath 300. were slaine outright besides divers lamed and grievously wounded A Miller dwelling in a Town called Hoult neer Westchester grinding corn on the Lords day An. 1588. was found dead in his Mill by his wife on the Munday following his ears nose and lipps eaten off with Ratts On the 13. Ian. 1582 being the Lords day the scaffolds fell in Paris Garden under the people at a Beare-baiting so that eight were suddenly slain Stowes a bridg An. 1582 and a great number hurt and maimed A warning to such who take more pleasure on the Lords day to bee on a Theater beholding carnall sports then to be in the Church serving God with the spirituall workes of Piety At a Bull-baiting in the Popes dominions 1603. the Bull breaking from the Ring killing a woman and so 〈…〉 righted another woman being great with child that she immediately fell in labour and dyed with her child also Many fearfull examples of Gods Judgements by fire have in our dayes been shewed upon divers Towns where the prophanation of the Lords day hath been openly countenanced Stratford upon Aven was twice on the same day twelve-mon●th being the Lords Day almost consumed with fire chiefly for profaning the Lords Sabbath and for contemning his Word in the mouth of his faithfull Preachers and Ministers Torverton in Devonshire whose Remembrance makes my heart bleed was oftentimes admonished by her Godly Preacher That God would bring some heavy judgement on the Towne for their horrible profanation of the Lords day occasioned chiefly by the Market on the day following Not long after his death on the 3. of Aprill 1598. GOD in lesse then half an hour consumed with a sudden and fearfull fire the whole Towne except only the Church the Court-house and the Almes-house or a few poor peoples dwellings where a man might have seen 400. dwelling-houses all at once on fire and about 50. persons consumed with the same and lately on the fift of August 1612. the whole town was again fired and consumed except some thirty houses of poor people with the School-house and Almes-houses they are blinded who see not in this the finger of God God grant them grace to change their market-day and to remove all occasion of profancing the Lords Day Let other Townes remember the Tower of Siloe Luk. 13. 4. and take warning Luk. 13. 4 by their neighbors chastisements and fear Gods threatnings Ier. 17. 27. and beleeve Gods Prophets if they will prosper 1 Chron. 20. 20. Many other examples of Gods Judgements as the fire lately at Oxford might be alledged but if these are not sufficient to terifie thy heart from the wilfull profanation of the Lords day It may be if thou proceed in ●hy profanation the Lord will make thee the next example to teach others to keep his Sabbaths better Wherefore againe and againe in the name of the Lord I exhort thee Nay I conjure thee as thou tenderest the salvation of thy own poor soul that thou remember to sanctifie the sabbath and to keep holy the Lords Day if not for the love of him who loved thee so well that he gave his only begotten Sonne to suffer for thy sin yet for feare of temporall punishment here and eternall torment hereafter in the world to come Oderunt peccaere boni vertutis honore Oderunt peccaere mali formidine penae For love of Vertue good men from sinne abstaine For feare of punishment the wicked doe refraine FINIS