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A09813	Sunday no Sabbath A sermon preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincolne, at his Lordships visitation at Ampthill in the county of Bedford, Aug. 17. 1635. By John Pocklington Doctor of Divinitie, late fellow and president both of Pembroke Hall and Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplaine to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne.	Pocklington, John.	1636 (1636)	STC 20077; ESTC S114780	31,029	56

Ob. Secondly if the Lords day was appointed and kept by the Apostles what shall we say to those turbulent spirits as master Calvin calls them qui tumultuantur ob diem Dominicum Calv. i●s●● ● c. 8 S. 33. 〈◊〉 3● that are all up in a hurly-burly for being abridged of their Christian libertie and made to observe dayes and Feasts and particularly the Lords day Whereupon it was sadly demurr'd upon even in Genevah Barcl●i● paroen l. 1 c. 13. to have that day altered to Thursday and himselfe holds it alterable What shall wee thinke also of the Centurists Cent. 1. l. 2. c. 6. de fe●●● that not onely say there is no place of Scripture to command the observation of the Lords day Cent. 2. c. 6. pag. 11 ● but that the contentions raised by Anicetus and Victor Popes of Rome touching the observation of Easter on the Lords day doe sufficiently declare that for two hundred yeares after Christ some kept the Sabbath holy some the Lords day and that they were false Apostles that attempted at first to bind the Church to the observation of Feasts as of the Lords day and for this cause they sticke the mysterie of iniquitie on the foreheads of those two blessed Martyrs Sol. To that part of the objection which is framed out of the Centurists some perhaps would answer that the guise of the Centurists is to use the Catholike Fathers and holy Martyrs as Balaam used his Asse For if they wil not go that way that they would have them though Gods Angel suffer them not so to doe but the Spirit of truth lead them quite otherwise they fall upon them and use them as rudely as he did the Asse A wrong which cannot but bee highly displeasing to that good God who was so moved upon the sight of the injury done the poore beast that hee was upon the point to have taken a sharpe revenge upon the false hypocrite in habit of a Prophet for the same But with cruell Balaam I will not compare them because he wisht for a sword to be avenged of the poore Asse whereas these like diligent Schoolemasters examine the exercises of the ancient Fathers shew them their errours tell them of the many spots and blots they finde in them and let them see how they are put to the trouble to correct them at every turne whereupon their patience is so moved that they rebuke them sometime with very sharpe language and when all is done they are so ashamed of divers things they heare from them that they set them to schoole againe to learne their lessons backward This their diligence and paines in correcting and wiping the Fathers as one wipes a dish that turneth it upside downe is not well accepted on all hands for some passionate men thinke they whip the Fathers without cause and for not running the way of their errours which these Auditors account to be so many and so costly too that the Merchant payes more for them than for all the truths 〈…〉 morall naturall supernaturall that are in Aristotle Plato or the blessed Bible though you give the Apocrypha leave to be bound up with it I would be loath to say as Saint Paul doth of the testimonie of Epimenides This witnesse is true But be it truth or some counterfeit like Jeroboams wife their credit is eclipsed and their testimonie abated by their doings So I leave them till anon Secondly I answer true it is that Saint Paul and other Apostles preached to the Jewes in the Synagogue on the Sabbath day because they would meet upon no other but it is untrue that they set that day apart to preach unto the Gentiles or the Jews either They were false Apostles that laboured to lay that yoak on the Disciples neckes whom Saint Paul opposed with all his might Col. 2.16 Gal. 4.10 and did utterly reject their Sabbath and appointed no day of publick meetings but the first day of the weeke when their collections were ever made 1 Cor. 16.1 and so continued to be made on that day and on no day else in all succeeding ages And because Saint Paul did keepe the first day of the weeke and opposed the observation of the Jewish Sabbath therefore the Ebionites say St. Irenaeus and Epiphanius rejected his writings Apostatam legis dicentes S. Irer l. 1. c. 26. S. Ep●ph●h●e 31. rating him for an Apostata So likewise the blessed Martyrs in the Primitive Church Euseb l. 3. c. 24. S. Ignatap 3. ad M●g by the doctrine and example of Saint Paul and the Apostles so unfeignedly abhorred the observation of the Jewish Sabbath that they esteemed the observers thereof and the contemners of the Lords day the very sonnes of perdition enemies of our Saviour and sellers of Christ and as Saint Justin Martyrtells Trypho S. Just 〈◊〉 Triph. Tom. 2. they gladly endured the most horrible torments that men and divels could devise to inflict upon them rather than yeeld Sabbatha vestra solennes dies observare to keepe your Sabbaths and dayes of solemne assemblies which saith he could not hurt us were they not forbidden us by the doctrine and practice of the Apostles and Christ himselfe S. Just ad Anton But the observation of Sunday was so generally and religiously observed of all Christians that then was the common meeting of all qui vel in oppidis vel rure degunt both Citizens and Country men All sorts of Christians met on Sundayes and none on the Sabbath day but Jewes onely With what face then dare the Centurists vent such untruths that the keeping of the Lords day was a thing indifferent for two hundred yeeres And with what conscience dare they forge those to be false Apostles that were the bringers in of the observation of Feasts and particularly of the Lords day Or with what conscience dare they use the Martyrs of God members of Christs body so unworthily as to make the blessed Saints in heaven fellow heires with Christ Jesus meet vessels for the mysterie of iniquitie to begin to worke in who did no more than either was appointed by the Apostles and Apostolike men before themselves or was afterward confirmed by the Councell of Nice the Edicts of Constantine and his successours the Decrees of the Councell of Constantinople and other Synods as well in the Greeke as Latine Church in all succeeding ages Ob. But they say there is no place of Scripture to command the observation of the Lords day but onely the Tradition from the Apostles therefore the day may be altered Sol. Be it so yet as Chemnitius excellently saies though we be not bound by any necessity of law in Novo Testamento C●em Exam. de ●est 4. pars in the New Testament to observe the Lords day for solemne assemblies barbarica tamen petulantia yet were it barbarous saucinesse to refuse to observe the custome of the Apostles and Primitive Church For as Saint Augustine saies wherein the

Scripture hath determined nothing mos populi Dei S. Aug. ep Cas 86. instituta majorum pro lege tenenda sunt the custome of Gods people and the ordinance of our Elders are to be observed as lawes And in this case for any man to doubt whether he should relinquish and abandon his owne new devices ita faciendum and that it becomes him to doe as he sees the whole Church of God to doe insolentissimae insaniae est is an insolencie with madnesse to boot saies Saint Augustine S. Aug aep 119. Ja. And to talke with such interminata orietur luctatio were to uphold wrangling world without end 3 If the first day of the weeke be the Lords day we must looke to doe the Lords worke on it and not trench upon him by doing our owne worke thereon For no excuse of businesse ought to keepe us from the service of God on that day No necessitie is a greater tyrant than poverty yet is that no good excuse for thy absence from Church saies Saint Chrysostome to say thou art poore and must follow thy businesse S. Chrysoft hom 24. de bap Christi For God hath not taken to himselfe the greatest part of the dayes of the weeke but hath given thee sixe unam vero sibi reliquit and left himselfe but one yet wilt thou finde out the thiefe povertie to steale that away from him too as sacrilegious persons doe consecrate things But what doe I speake de integro die of a whole day Doe but that in keeping the Lords day which the widow did in her almes that gave two mites sic tu duas horas so give the Lord two houres This if you doe not beware you lose not integrorum annorum labores the labours of many whole yeares Qu. May then no worke of our owne be done on the Lords day not so much as out of the times of the Lords service Resp Out of doubt there may yea though we should suppose that Christians are bound to keepe the Lords day as strictly as our Saviour kept the Sabbath For our Saviour saies Epiphanius non artem fabrilem lignariam S. Epip●●● 2. 〈◊〉 2. ber 66. p. 229. aut ferrariam did not follow the trade of a Carpenter or Smith on the Sabbath day though he was so poore that he used Josephs trade and made both Carts and Ploughs yet conversatione doctrinâ by his doctrine and course of life he shewed that some workes of our owne might be done on the Sabbath out of the times of divine service for himselfe made clay est autem opu● lutum subigere and to make clay is a kinde of worke a worke neither of necessity nor charity for had it so pleased him the worke of charity had taken place before the clay could have been tempered He commanded also the Cripple grabbatum tollere to carry away his bed which then needed not for the arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem would not have medled with it on that day The Disciples also by his doctrine and example saies the same Father spicas vellunt torrent edunt do plucke and parch their corne on the Sabbath day And there was no law saies Saint Irenaeus that forbade them so to doe 〈…〉 metere autem colligere in horreum lex vetabat but the law forbade reaping and carrying into the barne on the Sabbath day His reason is this continere enim se jubeb at lex ab omni opere servili i.e. ab omni avaritiâ quae per negotiationem reliquo terreno actu ●gitatur The law forbiddeth all servile workes wherein covetousnesse sticketh as a naile betweene two stones Some small chares then of our owne may be done on the Lords day out of the times of the Lords service Secondly meate may be drest and Feasts may be kept on the Lords day by Christs example S. Luc. 14.13 who was at a feast on the Sabbath day and none ought to blame us for doing the like For rectè Ecclesiae festa colunt S. Aug. de temp ser 253. 255. qui Ecclesiae filios se esse recognoscunt they doe well to keepe the Feasts of the Church that remember themselves to be the sonnes of the Church This doctrine Saint Augustine taught his people Novit sanctitas vestra fraires my brethren your holinesse knoweth very well that to day consecrationem altaris celebramus we celebrate the Feast for the consecration of the Altar in quo unctus vel benedictus est lapis in quo divina sacrificia consecrantur ac meritò gaudentes celebramus and wee doe well to keepe this feast with joy not with wanton lewd or unchaste joy Saint Austine is no Proctor to plead for Baal nor any that follow him For nescio qua fronte saith he I cannot tell with what conscience he can shew a cheerefull countenance in altaris consecratione that is not precise in cordis sui altari munditiam custodire to preserve purity in the altar of his heart The Lords day then is and ought to bee kept as a Feast as the Sabbath was Judith 10.2 For magnum scandalum saies Saint Augustine nay magnum nefas saies Tertullian it is a great scandall S. Aug. ep 86. Tert. de Coro Mil. and a foule sinne to fast on the Lords day Therefore we condemne the Manichees saies Saint Ambrose that fast on Sundayes S. Amb. ep 33. l. 10. We are bound to fast on Fridayes and of feast on Sundayes so have we a day amaritudinis laetitiae in illo jejunemus illo reficiamur to fast on the one to feast on the other The Jewes themselves saies Tertullian kept not their Sabbath with fasting for pridianâ paraturâ by their provision of two Omers for a man it plainely appeareth that they made as large a meale on the Sabbath as on any day else Ob. But they were commanded to dresse their Sabbath dinner the day before and the Commandement saies On it thou shalt doe no maner of worke Sol. Not to dispute it further S. Aug. ep 119. c. 12. how or to what the Jewes were bound upon their Sabbath however this nothing concernes us Christians if we understand the Commandement aright for though all the nine Commandements sic observantur ut sonant are to be kept according to the letter observare tamen diem Sabbathi non ad literam jubemur secundum etium ab opere corporali sicut observant Judaei yet we Christians are not commanded to observe the Sabbath after the letter by a strict rest as did the Jewes nor the Lords day after the maner of the Jewish Sabbath for of all the ten Commandements the third which concerneth the Sabbath figurativè intelligendum est is to be understood figuratively For this Commandement was given for no other end but onely for a signe saies Saint Irenaeus out of the Prophet Ezechiel ● Iren. l. ● c. 30. cap. 20. and out of the Law of Moses