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A10094	The doctrine of the Sabbath· Delivered in the Act at Oxon. anno, 1622. By Dr. Prideaux his Majesties professour for divinity in that Vniversity. And now translated into English for the benefit of the common people.	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1634 (1634)	STC 20348; ESTC S115223	22,039	62

proofe thereof First Acts 20.7 Vpon the first day of the Weeke when the Disciples came together to breake Bread PAVL preached unto them readie to depart upon the Morning and continued his Speech till Midnight Why is it sayd expressely That the Disciples came together to heare the Word preached and receive the Sacraments rather on this day than another rather than on the Iewish Sabbath were it not then a custome to celebrate on that day their publike Meetings the Sabbath of the Iewes beginning by degrees to vanish The Fathers and all Interpreters almost doe so conceive it Though I confesse that from a casuall fact I see not how a solemne institution may bee justly grounded Nor may wee argue in this manner The Disciples met that day together therefore they gave commandement that on that day the Church should alwayes bee assembled for Gods publike worship Who markes not heere a great and notable incoherence Looke therefore next upon the first to the Corinthians cap. 16. vers 2. where wee seeme to have a Commandement Let every man sayth the Apostle upon the first day of the Weeke lay by him in store What Collections for the Saints And why Because hee had so ordered it in the Churches of Galatia Heere then wee have an Ordinance set downe by the Apostle to bee observed in the Church But what is that hee ordereth Not that the first day should bee set apart for the Lords service but that upon the first day of the Weeke they make Collections for the Saints The third and last is Revel 1. and 10. I was sayth the Evangelist in the Spirit on the Lords day And what day is that Had hee meant onely the Iewish Sabbath doubtlesse hee would have called it so If any other of the Weeke not eminent above the rest the title had beene needlesse and ambiguous and rather had obscured than explaned his meaning What therefore rests but that comparing this place with the former two Interpreters both new and old conclude together that here the Apostle meant the first day of the Weeke whereupon Christ rose and the Disciples came together for the discharge of holy duties and Paul commanded that Collections should bee made as was the custome afterwards in the Primitive Church according unto Iustin Martyr who lived verie neere the Apostles times The alteration of the name doth intimate that the Sabbath was also altered not in relation to Gods worship but the appointment of the time SECT VII What then Shall wee affirme That the Lords day is founded on Divine authoritie For my part without prejudice unto any mans Opinion I assent unto it however that the Arguments like mee not whereby the Opinion is supported This inference first offends mee That in the Cradle of the World God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it therefore all men are bound to sanctifie it by the Law of Nature since I both doubt whether the Patriarkes did observe it before Moses time and have learnt also that the Law of Nature is immutable Next this distasts mee That they would have the spending of one day in seven on Gods holy worship to bee perpetuall and Morall As congruous or convenient all men admit it but cannot see so easily that it should bee Morall and perpetuall Nor is it thirdly without scandall that the fourth Commandement should bee so commonly produced to iustifie our keeping of the Lords day by the Text thereof If they required no more but the analogie the equitie or the reason of that Commandement wee would not sticke to yeeld unto it But whiles they stand too close to the very letter they may perhaps bee iustly charged with Iudaisme Fourthly as little like I them who promise much in proofe hereof out of the New Testament which the Text affordeth not For where is any expresse institution of the Lords day in any one of the Apostles or Evangelists Yea or what Text is there whence it may necessarily bee collected in case wee meete an Adversarie who must bee dealt withall exactly and will not easily assent but to solide Arguments Nor lastly am I satisfied with the bare Ordinance of the Church which with the same facilitie may bee broke as it was enacted Which absolutely to affirme of the Lords day were too unadvised Therefore amongst so doth distinguish with us of Divine authoritie strictly and largely taken that so not that alone which is found in Scripture may properly be said to have Divine authoritie but whatsoever by good consequence may bee drawne from thence eyther in reference to the institution or some example of it or at least some analogie thereunto And whereas Calvin Bullinger Bucerus Brentius Chemnitius Vrsine and others of the Reformed Churches affirme That still the Church hath power to change the Lords day to some other Suarez doth thus distinguish in it That it is absolutely alterable but not practically that is as I conceive it That such a Power is absolutely in the Church though not convenient now to bee put in practise The reasons of it two First because instituted as generally the Fathers grant in memorie of our Redemption made perfect on that day by our Saviours resurrection Next because not depending barely upon a Civill or Ecclesiasticall Ordinance but on the practice and expresse tradition of the Apostles who questionlesse were ledde into all truth by the Holy Ghost Which beeing so if any waywardly shall oppose us as if they would compose some Sabbaticall Idoll out of an equall mixture of Law and Gospel they may bee very fitly likened to the Iew of Tewksburie mentioned in our Common Annals who on a Saturday fell by chance into a Privi● and would not then permit himselfe to bee taken out because it was the Iewish Sabbath nor could bee suffered to bee taken thence the next day following because the Lords day celebrated by the Christians And so betwixt both dayes hee died most miserably that understood not rightly the celebration and true use of eyther Of which the celebration of this day I am next to speake SECT VIII Prayse waiteth for thee O Lord in Sion and unto thee shall the Vow be performed O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come The life of Pietie and Religion is Gods publike worship the soule of publike worship is the due performance of the same They which esteeme not this as they ought to doe whether prophane carnall or schismaticall persons doe not alone as much as in them is teare the Church in pieces which is the seamelesse Coat of CHRIST but doe renounce the Heritage bought for us at so great a price and offered to us with so great mercie Hee that endevours to pursue the severall by-wayes and dissonant clamours of particular men in this present Argument entreth into a most inextricable Labyrinth But generally those things which others have propounded in some obscuritie may bee reduced most fitly unto these two heads First that wee marke distinctly in the