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A16915	Three questions ansvvered I. Question. What should our meaning be, when after the reading of the fourth Commandement, we pray; Lord incline our hearts to keepe this law? II. Question. How shall the fourth Commandement, being deliuered in such forme of words, binde vs to sanctifie any day, but onely the seauenth, the day wherein God rested, & which the Iewes sanctified? III. Question. How shall it appeare to be the law of nature to sanctifie one day in every weeke?	Broad, Thomas, 1577 or 8-1635.	1622 (1622)	STC 3806; ESTC S106710	26,614	43

THREE QVESTIONS ANSVVERED I. QVESTION What should our meaning be when after the reading of the fourth Commandement we pray Lord incline our hearts to keepe this law II. QVESTION How shall the fourth Commandement being deliuered in such forme of words binde vs to sanctifie any day but onely the seauenth the day wherein God rested which the Iewes sanctified III. QVESTION How shall it appeare to be the Law of Nature to sanctifie one day in every weeke ACT. 20.20.26.27 I am pure from the blood of all men for I haue kept backe nothing that was profitable vnto you but haue declared vnto you all the counsell of God SAPIET FELICI AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by IOHN LICHFIELD and IAMES SHORT Printers to the famous Vniversitie 1621. To the Reader THERE is sarce any point of doctrine more controverted then the doctrine of the Sabbath Two points of difference amongst vs are when the day beginneth what worke may be done therein as Dr Bound telleth vs indeed not only we Protestants among our selues but the Papists also among their selues differ in opinion hereabout Againe there is in England iudging one another there is doing things doubtingly and there is doing things with offence which were they tolerable in the Church of Christ Rom. 14. St Paul would not haue spent a whole chapter about these matters Moreover whereas the Papists praying in latin doe pray without vnderstanding many amongst vs doe pray with a sinfull vnderstanding for as in words so in meaning they desire God to incline their hearts to keepe the 7th day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein Farthermore It was printed last 1618. some in their booke often printed to say nothing of other haue these and the like passages The 4th commandement is no more Ceremoniall then all the rest the observation of the 7th day is a morall and perpetuall duty we may not pick vp a few sticks on the Sabbath there is asmuch difference betweene the Sabbath and other dayes as betweene Sacramentall bread and common bread c. The knowledg and consideration hereof among other things causeth mee greatly to desire that the doctrine of the Sabbath may once at length be throughly discussed by men of sound iudgment and doubtles what the Scriptures sentence is in this matter would soone be knowne were it as Dr Cranmer sometime advised well handled by the learned men of our Vniversityes Act. and Monum no man amongst vs should need any longer to halt betweene two opinions as the more to be lamented many of long time haue done and still doe yea and vnlesse the better order be taken no doubt will doe even vnto the end of the world Now to provoke herevnto I haue written this little booke and partly also as hoping it will conduce somthing to the finding out of the trueth when the time commeth that it shal be more carefully sought after which time God hasten for his sake which is the trueth Iesus Christ vnto the illumination of whose Spirit I commend thee gentle Reader and so rest Thine in him as long as life lasteth TH. BROAD I. QVESTION AS when the 8. commandement is read and we pray Lord incline our hearts to keepe this law it is all one as if we said Lord incline our hearts not to steale So when the 4. commandement is read and we pray Lord incline our hearts to keepe this Law it is all one as if we had said Lord incline our hearts to sanctifie the Sabbath to keepe the 7. day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein for this is that law The Iewes had asked this in words and meaning both suppose they had had the like māner of praying after this commandement and we must needs aske the same in words as they should haue done The question then is Whether should we aske the same in meaning as we doe in words or what should our meaning be Answere of some in these daies By the doctrine of some in these daies as in words so in meaning we should desire God to incline our hearts to keepe the 7. day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein They teach that the observation of the 7. day is a morall and perpetuall duty that we may not so much as picke vp sticks in the same and in a word that the 4. commandement is no more Ceremoniall then all the rest Now whereas there is one text principally against them Col. 2.16 17. namely this Let no man therefore iudge you in meate or in drinke or in respect of an holy day or of the New-moone or of the Sabbaths Which are a shaddow of things to come c by Sabbaths here they will not haue the weekely Sabbaths meant But what haue they to say It is Sabbaths in the plurall number and doth not the word Sabbaths in the plurall number import the weekely Sabbaths See Mat. 28.1 Act. 13 14. and 16 13 with many other places This in my knowledge is all they haue to say which is so little that it only argueth a will to say something it is not so much as a shadow of sound proofe Consider 1 that St Paul here vseth another word which doth most properly signifie the Festivall daies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore it is very vnlikely that by Sabbaths the same daies should be meant as they would haue it this had beene a needlesse repetition 2 Vnlesse by Sabbaths here are meant the weekely Sabbaths Christian people chose the first day and made it their Sabbath sayth the booke of Homilies By the doctrine then of our Church the observation of the Lords day is an Eccles ordinance and not an Apostol precept Sozom lib 5. cap. 8. what warrant haue we in the Scripture to worke vpon the Iewes Sabbath Will they say that the Apostles command to sanctifie the Lords day in memory of Christs resurrection Be this granted which cannot be proved and is something discrepant from the doctrine of our Church doth it therefore follow that we neede not keepe the 7. day in memory of the worlds creation Constantine commanded that the 6 day should be kept in memory of Christs death on the Crosse yet was the day of Christs resurrection kept also Sozomenus saith that at Constātinople almost in all other places lib. 7. cap. 19. Sabbato postridie Sabbati conveniunt and in the Scripture wee read of meetings on both daies It is then a weake argument The Apostles commanded to keepe the first day in memory of Christs resurrection therfore wee neede not keepe the 7 day in memory of the worlds creation This I would haue thee well to consider that St Paul of the Apostles is Christs only Doctour about dayes he alone by way of doctrine handleth this point and he handleth it purposly in three severall Epistles here to the Romanes among whom he had never beene Col. 2. Rom. 14. Gal. 4. The controversy about the Sabbath would soone

And shall I demaunde of them when the 7 day Sabbath became a shadow and which was the first Sabbath that was such I doubt not wee should all enter into the heavenly Sabbath before they would agree vpon an answer to this question Obserue that the Apostle Hebr 4 4 I say if not in time for in likelihood God did not sanct the 7 day before the first 7 day was ended Note these words Gen. 2.3 because in it he had rested not would rest speaketh of the 7 day as rested vpon by God and not as sanctified by him or inioyned to be sanctified of man so that the 7 day then became a type when God rested therein The 7 day in order if not in time before it was sanctified was Gods Rest and consequently a shaddow of the rest remaining to the people of God But this by way of disgression to returne Inough hath beene said to make it appeare that the 4 commandement is more Ceremonial then th● 〈◊〉 and therefore not as the other to be observed ●●●●ding to the letter only I will add for a conclusion ●●●t saying of Augustine Quisquis illum diem Sabbatu● observat sicut litera sonat carnaliter sapit that is Spig lit cap. 14. Whosoeuer observeth the Sabbath as the letter soundeth savoureth of the flesh Now they which keepe the 7 day doe no worke therein keepe the sabbath as the letter of the precept soundeth Their Handwriting then should haue beene blotted out and not put in print who teach that the observation of the 7 day is a morall and perpetuall duty and that we may not so much as pick vp sticks in the same Answere agreeable to the Doctrine of our Church When the 8 commandement is read and wee pray So for the rest of the comman Lord incline our hearts to keepe this Law our words and meaning must agree as in words so in meaning wee desire grace not to steale but here not so Though in words we desire God to incline our hearts to keepe the 7 day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein yet not in meaning It is said in the booke of Homylies that whatsoever is found in the 4 commandement appertaining to the law of nature The 4 comman bound the Israelites to do that which they were not bound to doe by the law of nature but not vs Christians This is the cōmon doctrine ought to be observed of all good Christians our meaning then after the doctrine of our Church should be thus Lord incline our hearts to keepe this law so far forth as it is the Law of nature Or thus Lord incline our hearts to keepe so much of this Law as appertaineth to the law of nature which is the same in effect Thus haue I answered a very needfull question in my opinion what other will iudge of this matter I know ●●●●t for mine owne part I iudge it so needfull to be knowne Our Church hath taken order for the nstruction of the ignorant in this matter I meane by the booke of Homilyes but in these dayes sew parishes haue that booke in fewer it is read and where ttis read scarce one in an hundred I feare learneth a right meaning by it that with St Paul I would gladly spend be spent to bring my ignorant brethren to a right meaning here●●●s it not a lamentable case when a man prayeth Lord in ●●●e mine heart to keepe the 7 day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein to meane according to his word which is to obserue a shadow and this a kind of deniall that Christ is come The Papists pray without vnderstanding but such pray with a sinfull vnderstanding And if by some triall I may make coniecture thus doe the greatest part of this kingdome neyther is it any mervaile if very many so doe when they are so taught by some in these dayes Againe I finde by experience that they wil hardly be brought to a right meaning here it seemeth to them so strange that in the Publike Service one thing should be spoken and another meāt as that they should heare the 7 day is the Sabbath when not the 7 day but the first day must be kept by them And when to make them take more heed I tell them that to keepe the 7 day for Sabbath and to doe no worke therein as the words of the cōmandement are is to savour of the flesh which is death in the iudgment of St Augustine and other learned Divines Sapere secundum carnem mors est Spir. lit cap. 14. this maketh them even to stand amazed at the strangnes of the matter Moreover as it is hard to bring them to so no doubt will it be to keepe them in a right meaning these words the 7 day is the Sabbath and in it thou shalt doe no worke still sounding in their eares Which I write to this end that my brethren may be more carefull often to ingeminate vnto their Parishioners the doctrine of our Church delivered in the booke of Homilyes Truely if ever it had here need be as the Prophet Esaie speaketh precept vpon precept precept vpon precept line vpon line line vpon line here a little Esai 28.10 and there a little or rather indeed here a great deale and there a great deale and yet I feare mee all to little as would be found vpon triall afterward II. QVESTION IN the iudgment of St Augustine we Christians are bound by the 4 commandement to keepe a figuratiue or spirituall Sabbath Epist 99. ad Ianuar. Inter omnia illa decem precepta c. Among all those ten precepts that alone which is there placed of the Sabbath Tertul adver iud is commanded figuratiuely to be observed Thus Tertullian termeth Christ whom as the beloved Sonne wee must heare Mat. 17. Hebr. 1. Sabbati spiritualis cultorem and Chrysostome saying that Legis iustitia prima salutaris decem habet mandata setteth downe this for the 4 Cole Sabbatum spirituale Cited by Mus loc commun keepe a spirituall Sabbath There is according to Augustine and other as I obserue in my little reading a twofold keeping of those commandements touching the Sabbath circumcision There are two sorts of Sabbath after Augustine and other the one literall carnall or temporall the other figuratiue spirituall and eternall sacrifices and the like the one literall or carnall the other figuratiue or spirituall Now the Israelites were bound to keepe these in a literall manner that is to doe no worke on the 7 day to circumcise on the 8 day to offer lambs and such like in sacrifice to the Lord We Christians are bound to keepe these in a figuratiue or spirituall manner that is to rest from the works of our corrupt nature all the dayes of the worke to circumcise the foreskins of our hearts and to offer spirituall sacrafices of praise thanksgiuing These two kinds of binding figuratiue and

literall I obserue in St Augustine and some other but by the common doctrine in these dayes there is a third of that commandement touching the Sabbath though not of the other namely partly literall for it bindeth vs to sanctifie one day of the weeke But there a question may wel be demanded How shal the 4 commandement being delivered in such forme of words binde vs to sanctifie any day but only the seaventh Suppose that Christ had said to his Disciples Remember the day of Resurrection to sanctifie it sixe dayes of the weeke ye shall labour and doe all that ye haue to doe but the first day is the day of Resurrection in it you shall doe c. How should this commandement binde vs to sanctifie any day but onely the first the day of Resurrection So God saying Remember the sabbath or day of Rest to sanctifie it 6 dayes shalt thou labour doe al that thou hast to doe but the 7 day is the Sabbath c. How should this commandement binde vs to sanctifie any day but onely the seaventh the day wherein God rested and which the Iewes sanctified I haue thought good thus to vnfold the 4 commandement for the better vnderstanding of that which followeth Answere of a great Divine heretofore In the 4 commandement we haue to obserue .1 The commandement it selfe briefly delivered is thus Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it .2 Then followeth an Explication in order God shewing first which is the Sabbath the seventh day is the Sabbath to the Lord thy God and after how it is sanctified in it thou shalt doe no worke .3 Lastly a reason is yeelded why God requireth this service Redem in 4 precept for in sixe dayes the Lord made c. Thus Zanchius in effect thus Virell likewise in his Grounds of Religion and this analisis of the 4 commandement is so naturall that every one of vnpartiall iudgement must needes approue it and I could wish that such as vndertake to handle the 4th commandement would take notice of it So then this is for substance the whole 4 commandement Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it as for that which followeth it is eyther an explication or a Reason Here now the word Sabbath a great Divine would haue taken in a generall sence so that God saying Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it That thou maist the better conceaue his meaning Suppose God had said to the Israelites Remēber to honour your King Saul is your kinge When Saul was dead and David come into his place this commandement Remember to honour your kinge had bound them still asmuch to honour David now as Saul before So God saying Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it and the 7 day is the Sabbath when the 7 day ceased to be the Sabbath the first day came in his place this commandement Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it may binde aswell to sanctifie the first day now as it did the 7 day heretofore Thus teacheth a great Divine but I cannot easily subscribe herevnto In my opinion God saying Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it is all one as if he had said Remember the 7 day to sanctifie it The Sabbath is the 7 day and the 7 day is the Sabbath in the scriptures many reasons there are which will not suffer vs to approue his doctrine .1 The dayes of the weeke may be named thus the first day the second day c. or thus the day of creating light the day of creating the firmament c. As now the first day and the day of creating light are the same so likewise the seaventh day and the day of Rest And this appeareth to be the iudgment of Augustine Eusebius So likewise it is taken in some Courts a proces citing to appeare dic Sabbati is vpon Saturday Tertullian c. seeing in their books by the Sabbath is meant the 7 day and by the Lords day is meant the first for otherwise they would haue vsed the names of Sabbath and Lords day for one the same day of the weeke .2 By the word Sabbath in the end of the commandement must needes be meant the 7 day only For obserue and rested the 7 day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath sanctified it Here thou seest that Gods resting on the 7 day is the reason wherefore he sanctified the Sabbath and can it be a reason of sanctifiing any other day besides the seventh especially when he laboured on all the other The reason of the 7 dayes institution vanished as a shadow with the shadow Suppose we had the like speech in the New Testament as thus He rose againe vpon the first day wherefore he blessed the day of Resurrection and sanctified it who would not take the day of Resurrection here for the first day only Adde that were not Sabbath seventh day the same it should rather haue beene said Wherefore the Lord blessed the 7th day or this Sabbath then the Sabbath Againe it is said blessed the Sabath the meaning is in the beginning and now turne to Gen. 2. and there it is said that God blessed the 7 day and sanctified it These words then Sabbath and seventh day are vsed promiscuè in the Scripture .3 By this doctrine the 4 commandement should be of larger extent then that commandement in the beginning suppose it were a commandement as some will haue it for there it is said God blessed the 7 day not the Sabbath .4 Thus should the 4 commandement consist of a generall commandement and a particular the generall Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it the particular The 7 day shall be the Sabbath 5 Had they who first appointed that order of reading the 4 commandement and the people praying after beene of this iudgment they would mee thinks haue put the first in place of the seventh the first day and not the 7 being now the Sabbath to the Lord our God Suppose God had given this commandement to the Israelites Remember to honour your kinge and Saul is your kinge This commandement being read in the Synagogues and the people praying after Lord haue mercy on vs c. when Saul was dead and David kinge would they haue still read the commandement in the same forme of words Remember to honour your kinge and Saul is your kinge I cannot belieue it They then no doubt who first appointed this order in the Church tooke the Sabbath the 7 day for the same in the 4 commandement Answeres of other in these dayes Answere 1 That the Sabbath and the 7 day are the same is acknowledged by some other in these dayes but they would haue the word seventh taken in a generall sence so that I conceaue they would haue the 4 commandement read thus Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it c. sixe daies c. but a seventh day is the Sabbath c Herevnto my answere is .1 A seventh day that is one of seven as I vnderstand

that besides the Sabbath and other holidaies inioined by the law they sanctified the Lords daie and so rested from worke two daies in every weeke I cannot beleeue without some proofe and hitherto I haue seene none at all As touching the Churches of the Gentiles it seemeth by the Scriptures that some of them for a time came together rather on the Iewes Sabbath then on any other daie indeed S. Paul as he yeelded lesse to the Jewes then other so happilie in the Churches by himselfe established hee beganne sooner then other to appoint their meetings on the first daie of the week which daie growing more more in request before the yeare 96 obtained the name of Lords day which name had it beene giuen when S. Paul wrote his first Epistle to the Corinthians S. Luke the Acts it is likely that one of them would haue vsed it and yet it is not vnlikely that this name Lords day was giuen as soone as the day began to be in any great account Now about this Lords Day the first day of the weeke commonly called Sunday there are in these times three opinions something differing the one from the other 1 Opinion It is the will and command of God that Christians should sanctifie one daie of euery weeke as he bound the Israelites heretofore to sanctifie the Sabbath or seauenth day so in this time of the Gospell hee bindeth vs Christians to sanctifie the Lords day or first daie of the weeke 2 Opinion It is the will and command of God that Christians should sanctifie one day of euery weeke but whereas he bound the Israelites heretofore to sanctifie the seaventh day alone hee left it to the Christian Church to chuse their day and it hath chosen the Lords day 3 Opinion Redemp in 4 praecep It is the will and command of God to sanctifie some time aliquam temporis partem as Zanchius speaketh whē this time shall be God left to the Christian Church to appoint and it hath appointed the Lords day Of the former opinion I scarce knowe any Divines of note vnlesse of late yeares betweene the two latter opinions there is in respect of vs little or no difference at all for by both the Lords day is the command of God mediatly God mediatly and by the Magistrate bindeth vs Christians to sanctifie the Lords day Obiect Then the Gouernours of the Church may alter the day yea they may appoint the first of one weeke the third of the next the fift of the next c. Answ It doth not follow for the best order is the will of God and law of Nature The Gouernours then cannot set downe what order they will neither touching the time and place of Gods worship neither touching other things belonging therevnto but what in their vnderstanding is the best order they are bound to set downe Obiect If God mediatly and by the Magistrate bindeth vs Christians to sanctifie the Lords day certainely this bond is so weake that very many will easily breake it Answ This bond is strong enough to hold him that is not very vnruly In the fift of Marke we read of one that being often bound with fetters and chaines brake them in peeces no Man could binde him strong enough but when Christ had cast out the euill Spirit they see him saith the text sitting Mar. 5.15 cloathed and in his right minde In like sort deliuer these vnruly fellowes from the evil Spirit be a meanes to bring them into their right minde afterward J doubt not the Gouernours of the Church shall binde them well enough They will sit still bee quiet and be content to be ruled by reason they wil see by the light of nature that as there are feet so there must be an head of the body and that the feet cannot say to the head We haue no need of thee without the helpe of the head they cannot chuse the best way they wil remember by whom kings raigne that all power is from aboue and that as God hath set the members euery one in the body as it pleased him so hath he set some in the Church 1. Cor. 12.18.28 first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly teachers c. This and much more will they call to minde when they are brought into their right minde and very willing shall we haue them to be ordered What thinke we Had such vnruly fellowes liued vnder the law and Note that even in the time of the law some things were left to be ordered by the Magistrate lex à ligando had they beene bound strong enough Nay verily for though God appointed the precise daie and commanded to haue an holy Convocation yet no time of the day for this Convocation not two Convocations not Synagogues When they had beene called This commande of Paul or law of Nature is the generall comprehending the fourth commondement in the Decalogue and all other Commandements touching the time and place of Gods worship and other things belonging therevnto they would haue answered with Dathan and Abiram We will not come for God himselfe hath not bidden vs come to such a place nor at such time of the day Let the law of Nature be no more then all acknowledge to sanctifie some time as the Gentiles did suppose no other command but that of Paul Let all things bee done to edifying decently and in order If there come a command from authority to sanctifie any day of the weeke yea besides the Lords day this is enough to bind him that is in his right minde if any wilfully breake this bond Iud. ver 8. it is by the comming of another Spirit vpon him then came vpon Sampson heretofore It were good to beware least any of vs bee found such as Iude speaketh of Despising gouernment speaking euill of dignities for it is too much to despise Governours but more to despise gouernment it selfe Certainely if any man bee so vnruly that Gods Ministers and Officers here bee not able to binde him God hath other officers and seruants elsewhere which are able And the King said to the servants Take him and binde him hand and foot and cast him into vtter darknesse To make an end They which say least say enough to cause all those who haue the feare of God before their eyes to sanctifie the Lords day and they which say most doe not say enough to cause those who feare not God to forbeare driuing pack-horses therein frequenting the Tauerne and the like Would to God no man might once say more nor lesse than the truth for doubtlesse were the truth alone preached the greatest good would follow therevpon and this is one matter more which causeth me should cause thee Gentle Reader often and earnestly to pray in this manner or to this effect Lord haue mercy vpon vs and incline our Governours hearts to take such order that once at length we may be all brought to the right vnderstanding of the fourth Commandement Amen FINIS Errata Pag. 1. line 8. strike out had p. 3. l. 4. strike out your p. 5. l. 4. for here likeneth read here he likeneth p. 5. l. 16. text read type p. 6. in marg If the Sabbath were a shadow c. p. 9. l. worke r. weeke p. 10. l. 16. after Remember the Sabbath to sanctifie it read this should be a more generall commandement then if hee had said Remember the seauenth day to sanctifie it p. 12. l. 3. vs r. me p. 18. l. 3. commanding r. commanded p. 26. The saying of Chrysostome should be placed last of all after the note touching the Lords day p. 27. l. 7. to make it more Christian and lesse Iewish Other faults escaped in printing the Reader may amend