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A96264	A sermon touching the divine right and due observation of the Lords day Preached before the Lord Deputy, and the Lords Spiritual & Temporal of the kingdom of Ireland; in time of Parliament. At Christ-Church Dublin. On Sunday the 6th. of October, 1695. With a preface humbly address'd to the whole body of English Protestants: especially those inhabiting the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing W1520A; ESTC R229732	26,838	68

But will some say there were in our Church who have taught otherwise who have justified Sports and Revels on this day Yes and there are too many at present who practice otherwise but I fear not to say both the one and the other were and are I will hope not intentionally yet in reality and effect in this part the depravers of Religion the corrupters and disturbers of our Church It were easy to take off that thin vail of learning with which such liberties have been set off but I must not divert thereto Section XIX A word I ought to speak to that temper of mind with which we are to attend holy duties which ought Of spiritual Temper indeed to possess us every day but more especially on the Lords day That I called a spiritual temper The term I ground on those Texts Jude 26. Praying in the Holy Ghost And Ephes 6. 18. Praying always with all manner of Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit by which term Spirit no doubt both the Apostles meant not praying with any such imaginary spiritual gift of Prayer as is cryed up for absolutely necessary by many but praying with a devout holy temper of mind a temper consisting in the union of those several Graces of Gods Spirit which ought to be exercised in Prayer In short praying with a heart full of Faith and of Love towards God and Mankind of the hopes of Glory and so of contempt of this World I may not now take time farther to open this Temper but with such temper as this should we this day perform all those parts of worship which we any where offer And to be employed in prayer and praise and in like offices mentioned with such temper is to be as much in the Spirit on the Lords Day as in the present state of things we can be But I must draw to a conclusion Sect XX You have heard beloved how the antient Christians kept the Conclusion Lords Day and how we may and ought to spend ours Now give me leave to ask you or will you be pleased to ask your selves how you spend yours In the Morning if you can many By way of Reprehension of you dress your selves more Vainly and Phantastically than you do all the Week that 's your first labour Then some of you get a better Breakfast than on other days Then to Church and shew your selves where if you are a little demure in part of the Prayers that 's the summ total of your Devotion At other times you Gaze one while you Whisper Talk and Laugh another while some compose themselves and Sleep How small is the constantly-Serious Devout and attentive Part How strange a body now now adays is a Christian Assembly Then when the Morning Offices are done a more liberal Dinner than on other days and what diversion we can find within doors or without as the weather serves entertains the generality of us the rest of the day Good Lord forgive Good Lord amend this Wherefore In a word let what has By way of Exhortasion been said prevail with all for a more reverend esteem strict observation of the Lords Day Let us distinguish it from other days by something else than Holy-day Cloaths and Holy day Fare and Holy-day Liberties I must stand to it the keeping up amongst us not only that small remain of the power of Godliness which is yet left but the very face of the Reformed Religion which God be blessed we have fairer than our neighbours depends very much hereon Works of mercy may be and ought By way of Caution to be done on this day as well as on any other When they come from a pious heart they are Acts of Devotion in his esteem who hath said I will have mercy and not sacrifice And works of necessity or grand conveniency such as securing necessaries of life when perishing dressing fit food or the like forasmuch as they are neer a-kin to works of Mercy are not on this day unlawful to Christian People St. Ignatius in the place before mentioned taxes the feeding on cold Meat this day as a point of Judaizing And there is an antient Canon amongst those called Apostolical against fasting on the Lords Day Wherefore certainly such refreshment of our Bodies and regard to their vigour as may keep up our Spirits in the service of God is not to be neglected We ought this day if any day to eat our meat with gladness as well as singleness of heart But in all these things we must be faithful to God and our selves not framing necessities of business where there are none and taking care we in such sort use not the succours of Nature as to turn them into burdens and hindrances I have done and beseech God what I have thus plainly though too precipitantly and briefly said may effect in all or some of us at least a more constant conscientious and spiritual discharge of our Publick Private and Secret duties on this day By this means a vein of intelligent and serious Religion will soon run through Families and by them through Parishes through City and Country And this will soon settle and secure Religion to us and Religion settled will certainly settle and secure the Nation At least if God see not fit to settle any of us here in this World it will prepare and lead such of us who are spiritual Worshippers of him to an eternal settlement to a better Country and therein to that glorious Sabbatism which remains for the Children of God To which our Heavenly Father bring us all through Christ Jesus Amen FINIS

inexcusable on any other score save that of necessity At least it is no excuse to an Incumbent what is too usualy pleaded My Neighbours are content with once a fortnight what need I trouble my self any more To this I say 1 This plea is made many times where it is not true Some Neighbours are content so not all And they who cannot be so confident as to complain to their Ministers face will do it in his absence Or though haply they dare not accuse him to his Bishop will mutter of it to persons of meaner rank and amongst themselves at home 2 If the people are so satisfied yet is not this practice a satisfaction to the Law of God or to the Church nor will it be a satisfaction one day to a mans conscience In short Is the Lords Day to be kept holy Is the publick worship thereon a Christian Duty or No If it be How then dare any person to whom the Charge of Souls is committed be Author to them of Neglecting one or Prophaning the other Will not one Day all such his Peoples neglects and Prophanations all their Alehouse-meetings Revelling Drunkeness and other Debaucheries acted on the Lords Day be charged on such their Minister And lastly in case the people really be thus content it is a shrewd Argument they are grosly Lukewarm and Irreligious Now it would be enquired and will one day is not the peoples lukewarmness their Ministers sin Has not he been a Precedent to them therein Has not his neglect of his duty bred them thereto If they had been better instructed more constantly warned called upon they would have had more knowledg more warmth more sence of their duty more Faith and belief of its obligation than to have satisfied themselves with such slender attendance on God and so little minding their Souls But 't is time to finish this large Porch to so small a Fabrick What I have said is from a serious conscience of my own Duty and in the real fear of God If it have effect to amend any I shall rejoyce therein and bless God If it have not I have born my testimony in this great and publick concern of Religion I will not by Gods grace be an offender against my own rules And I trust one day that whatever my Defects and Omissions have been in other cases as they are and have been God help me very many yet that God through Christ will one day pardon them all and judge touching me as to this Matter that Liberavi animam meam God deliver us all from those judgments both here and hereafter which our Relapses after our late Repentance and vows in our Miseries or to speak it in Scripture language which our returning to our vomit may most justly bring upon us and for which I must declare before all the World I dayly expect yet a return of an over flowing scourge in one kind or other if not prevented by a sudden Reformation to which I know no one thing that will be of more general conducement than a strict and constant observation of the Lords Day the thing I have aymed at in this paper and in the following Discourse Cork Nov 17. 1696 THE Reader may be pleased to understand the whole Paragraph included in Crochets thus pag. 13 and 14. as also another out of Ignatius pag. 27 28. were passed over for haste 's sake at the delivery of this Sermon but were notwithstanding now thought fit to appear in their places ERRATA PAge 19. l. 21. for thereon read then p. 26. l. 7. for seen r. been p. 28. l. 26 27. the words namely by our Lords appointment as in other cases should not have been put in Italick letter for they are not the Fathers words p. 36. in the margin r. from ill imputations In Pref. p. iii. l. penult r. a Virtual p. ix l. 3. r. severely Other literal escapes crave pardon on course A SERMON Touching The LORDS DAY Revelation I. Ver. x. First part I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day FRom these words I purpose to The design of the Discourse assert First the Divine Right of the Lords Day Then the true Christian way of keeping it I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day which day I shall not doubt after some of the Fathers but especially after our own Church both in her Cannons and much oftner and more expresly in the Homily concerning the Time and Place of Prayer to stile a Christian Sabbath Sect I And first as to its Divine Right 'T is the Lords Day In the Original The style of the Text asserts the Lords Day to be of Christs appointment Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Epithet or Term but once more occuring in Holy Writt viz. 1 Cor. xi 20. where the Holy Communion is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Lords Supper Both equally the Lords because both by the same appropriative term styled such And if both equally his then both Instituted by him Touching the Lords Institution of his Supper none doubteth And why should any doubt of his Institution of the Lords Day when 't is the same Lord to whom both are holy And when by a word peculiar or which seems coined on purpose to assert his claim he the same Lord has avouched them both his and nothing else throughout the whole Scripture in the same stile avouched his Sect. II Yet are there amongst us I mean that call themselves Sons of our Of the term a Christian Sabbata Church too many who really place the Lords Day upon the same level with if not below other Church Holy-days they do so at least if we may judg of their Faith by their Works which some think surer both discoveries and tests of what men believe than any words can be I crave your patience therefore while I remove that insolent demand it is so at least as some use to put it How can you make out the Institution of the Lords Day and where find you or what ground is there for a Septenary Christian Sabbath The answer is A Christian Sabbath according as Christian Temples a Christian Priesthood and other necessary appendages of Christian Worship we cannot expect to meet with elder than Christianity it self But a Sabbath no less than Temples or places dedicated to Divine Worship no less than a Priesthood and such like adjuncts of Worship we find much elder even before Moses's Law as well as under it and all perpetual all positively moral though as the new Law came it must be confest all and particularly the Sabbath received thereby some new modifications as well as new names Sect. III Now the sum of what I shall advance to The sum of the further proof clear this matter shall be directed to those three Points A Sabbath or certain day of rest for Publick Worship is dictated by the Law natural A Seventh day by God's eldest Laws positive This Seventh day by the Law Christian I