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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	observe_v	sabbath_n	17,846	5	10.0492	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87881	The observator observed, or, Animadversions upon observations on the history of King Charles wherein that history is vindicated, partly illustrated, and severall other things tending to the rectification of some publique mistakes, are inserted : to which is added, at the latter end, the observators rejoinder.	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1188A; ESTC R179464	41,478	51

calling of it in Page 114. Fol. 129. The Divinity of the Lords day being new Divinity at Court Observator And so it was by its favour in the Countrey too not known in England till the year 1595. So new it is that it cannot prescribe to 60 years for if it could we should have found some mention of it in our Articles or Our Book of Homilies in which we find nothing at all touching the keeping of that day Answer By this and some other passages in the Observator we may suspect the man to be Petrifi'd there 's an hard word as hard as a stone and very conversant with Peter Hielen a Dr. of Cosmography a work very proper for him for none fitter to describe the world then he who all his life hath loved the world none like him but of that Dr. more anon Next to the Observator if that Dr. and he be two First he saith that the Divinity of the Lords day was not known in England till the year 1595. If so I demand of the Observator what did Archbishop Whitgift mean in his defence of the Answer to the Admonition p. 553. where speaking in the present tense he saith the Sabbath is superstitiously used by some did he mean the Jewish Sabbath that cannot be for he subjoynes so is the Church the Creed the Lords Prayer importing it to be a lawful thing abused by superstitious people and soon after he speaks of a Sabbath then commanded by the 4th Precept which could not be the Jewish and if not that must of necessity be the Lords day Now this Archbishop published his Defence Anno. 1574. Next for the book of Homiles surely he spake much without book for certainly there was not any thing more especially taught in those Homiles then the divinity of the Lords day they saying God in that Precept speaking of the fourth commandeth the observation of the Sabbath which is our Sunday What can positively be rendred clearer Here 's the Sabbath interpreted by the Lords day and that commandeth to be observed in the 4th Precept by God himself So that by the Observators leave the Divinity of the Lords day may be found in our book of Homilies Page 115. Fol. Ibid. Which seemed the greater prodigy that men who so eagerly cryed up their own Order and Revenues for Divine should so much deny the Lords day from being such when they had no other Existence then in Relation to this Observator Here 's a Prodigy indeed and a Paradox too that neither the Order nor Revenues of the Evangelical Priesthood have any existence but in Relation to the Divinity of the Lords day If our Author be not out in this I am much mistaken Answer Where hath this Observator been brought up that this Tenet of mine of mine said I yea of all learned men should be so wondred at to be called a Prodigy Good Reader when thou seest him next tell him from me there is scarce a man of note who treateth of the fourth Commandment that owneth not this Prodigious opinion I shall content my self with only one at present but one who I hope will be instar omnium with the Observator as being free from Puritanism The learned Bishop of Winchester who expounding the fourth Commandment saith first because men should not be left at liberty when to perform Religious duties God hath appointed a Day whereon to do them and that more solemnly in a publique meeting or assembly this Day he calleth the Lords Day Secondly Now whereas the solemn duties of this Day cannot be performed in a publique manner without a Place set a part and Persons enabled to perform such sacred actions Therefore both Places Persons sanctify'd to those purposes Maintenance also for those Persons are included in this Precept so here are both the sacred Orders and Revenues constituted in relation to the Lords Day and the duties thereof and emergent both from the fourth Commandment and so I hope the Prodigy is at an end Page 116. Fol. Ibid. But of this elsewhere Observator And indeed of this there hath enough been said elsewhere to satisfie all learned and ingenuous men both in the meaning of the law and in point of practice Answer Never any thing more truly spoken And all I shall superadde is this that whereas I said But of this elsewhere my meaning was that of the Doctrine of the Sabbath or Divinity of the Lords day I had treated elsewhere in a book extant of that Argument Anno. 1640. never as yet answered by any To that Treatise I refer all men who shall desire my Judgment in that Subject Only from thence I shall having so fit an opportunity be bold to re-mind Doctor Heilen of an od mistake to say no worse committed by him in vindication whereof he never attempted any thing as yet The mistake this The main question concerning that Day was and I am sorry to find it is whither or not it be of Divine institution That Doctor with his leaders and followers said nay and because it would signifie the same thing should it be evinced to be Apostolical the man sweats toyles and somewhat worse to evade it For Part 2. c. 6. S. 7. of his History of the Sabbath he citeth out of Pareus his Com. in Gen. 2. treating of the change of the Sabbath into the Lords Day these words Quomodo autem facta sit haec mutatio in sacris literis non apparet And to make it apparent he was industrious in it because Quomodo alone he thought non vult fac would not do the deed without his Paraphrase he descants on it thus How that is by what Authority this change was made appeareth not in sacred Scripture whereas in very truth Pareus his word in two several Editions one 4o the other folio is Quando not Quomodo for the Authority he in that very place ascribes it Apostolicae Ecclesiae to the Apostolique Church and in Comment upon 1 Cor. 16. v. 2. and upon the Revelation fixeth it positively upon Apostolical Authority Now what it is for a Doctor of Divinity for so great a champion of Antiquity against Novelty not in an idle circumstance but in the grand concernment of a controversie to forge and falsifye a Record so boldly I dare not say so impudently I submit to the judgment of all the world This I write partly to provoke an answer from that Doctor and partly to vindicate him from the groundlesse supposition which renders him the Author of these Observations who as he hath professedly disavowed it so is it scarce credible that he of all men durst be so bold with me as this Observator is knowing how readily I might have returned Quis tulerit Gracchos Page 117. Fol. Ibid. And was after stiled Duke of York Observator Our Author here accomodates his stile to the present times when the weekly Pamphlets gave the Prince no other Title then the Titulary Duke of York It is true