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
breaking it and his Grace for inclining our hearts to keep it What to keep a Jewish abrogate Ceremony No no It s moral obligation is by our Church and us before God solemnly acknowledged in these very Prayers as oft as we make them and further as before hinted in the Homily of the time and place of Prayer to which I refer my self it is more at large asserted Now sure our holy Mother never intended both her self to falsify with God and Man and to breed her Children too to so hopeful a practice A hopeful practice I say to falsify with God in her Prayers even in her most solemn Office the Communion Service and with Man in her form of Doctrine or Homilies both which she does if this be not her sence It is then the Judgment of our Church what we have otherwise proved that by the eldest positive Law of God a Seventh day is holy to him Sect. XII And this Seventh day is now the Lords day or First day of the Week The Reasonableness of Christian Peoples observing the Lords day instead of the Jewish Sabbath by the Law Christian Here also the evidence is too long to give it in in full at present But. First a word or two for the reasonableness of the First day of the Week under the Christian state The very self same reasons with which God of old bound the Seventh day-Sabbath on Adam and on the Jews bind the observation of the First day of the Week upon us Christians The reason to Adam was on the Sixth day God ended his works that he had Created and Rested the Seventh In like manner the Seventh day of the Week being ended our Lord Jesus had finisht his work of the new Creation in that thereon by his resurrection he made Man again the second time happily immortal and having wrested from Death its Sting from the Grave its Victory opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers entred into it himself and began the everlasting Sabbatism of the new World Which work had he not finisht what had it advantaged poor mankind to have been Created once Alas had not the work of Redemption been compleated Mans first Creation had only capacitated him to have been eternally miserable This reason therefore from the Divine Rest thereon holds to us Christians much stronger for this Christian Sabbath The Reason to the Jews in speciall was because the Lord thy God brought thee out of the Land of Egypt through a mighty hand and an out-stretched arm therefore the Lord thy Deut v. 15. God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day On the Sabbath or Seventh day say the Jewish Doctors their Forefathers sung their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Triumphal Hymne to God at the Red Sea over the drowned Egyptians And on the first day of the Week while it was yet early Our Lord rose from the dead as out of a Red Sea of Bloud and brought with him the raised Bodies of many Saints which slept the Bodies of our first Parents saith an old tradition and having thus rescued mankind from under the bonds of Sin and Death and of him that had the power of Death the Devil he made a shew of them triumphing over them openly Thus also there is the like reason for the First day of the Week to be a Christian Sabbath as there was for the Seventh day to be the Jewish Sect. XIII But where have we any Institution for this day in the Records of the Of the Institution of the Lords Day 1. By Christ himself New Testament I answer our Lord Instituted it the most effectual way imaginable namely by his own practice His frequent if not constant shewing himself to his Disciples on this day during the Forty days after his Resurrection his meeting them in their Assemblies sometimes with some of them breaking bread with all of them always speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God was as solemn a dedication of this day to the Christian worship as well can be conceived John XX. 19. The same day which was ver 1. the first day of the week at evening the doors being shut for fear of the Jews came Jesus where the Disciples were assembled and stood in the midst of them and said Peace be unto you and shewed them his hands and his feet And on the Eighth day which reckoning after the Jewish use inclusively was the next Lords day they are met again ver 26. and now Thomas was with them for the course of Sunday-Assemblies was begun and Jesus came again the Doors being shut and said Peace be unto you Then addressing himself more particularly to Thomas for the satisfying his doubts and thereby confirming the Faith of them all he pronounces a Blessing not only on them but on all that should believe on him to the end of the World How often in those Forty days our Lord appeared to his Disciples it has not pleased the Holy Ghost precisely to set down Two Lords days apparitions to them in their assembly we have thus seen expresly on Record and on the same days several private apparitions to diverse of them apart are recorded also which we may not stand to examine Thirdly the most famous and often fore-appointed appearance on the mountain in Galilee a place distant enough from Jerusalem that none might fear disturbance from the Chief Priests and their Partisans is by some very great men placed on the Lords day at which time he was seen of above Five hundred Brethren at once speaking no doubt as his use was of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God And being that this his appearance cannot consistently with St. Paul's account be 1 Cor. xv 6 7. coincident with that at his Ascension there is little probability all circumstances being considered for placing it on any other day Last of all our Lord chose to bless the First day of the Week by that most illustrious manifestation of his being the Son of God in sending the spirit of Promise Acts. XI 1. When the day of Pentecost was fully come Pentecost that is the Fiftieth day there is no reason to regard precisely the Jewish Festival or to make a proper name of a common one on the Fiftieth day I say which from the Resurrection must needs fall on the First day of the week reckon it at leisure they were all with one accord in one place continuing still their Assemblies on the First day of the week and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a mighty wind In a word the Holy Spirit most miraculously came upon them all as the Lord had promised Here is from our Lord himself another sanctifying of the Lords day to the purpose For indeed with it he miraculously sanctified the whole body of the faithfull assembled thereon Subsequent hereto or after the 2. By his Apostles mission of the holy Ghost the Apostles and Apostolical Churches constant observing the Lords day in
its weekly course as is most probable upon Apostolical Orders for it was a continued or reinforced practical Divine Institution of the same Divine I said For none will doubt whatever Orders proceeded from the Apostles as Planters of Christianity in the World were of the same authority as if they had come immediately from Christ who sent them As to the practice of the Church At Troas St Paul passing to Jerusalem upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break Bread preached to them Acts xx 7. St. Pau'ls preaching at that time might be as to that Church casual enough but it appears to have been the stated and usual course the Dies Natus for the Churches meeting together to break Bread Besides this solemn and continued practice we have the footsteps of the Apostolical mandate it self 1 Cor. xvi 1. 2. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia even so do yee upon the first day of the Week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when I come The Churches of Galatia were of a great extent He had given orders in those Churches and now gives orders also in Corinth for Lords day-alms The private laying aside at home if we will interpret it consonantly to what we are assured to have seen from the begining the usual practice was only in order to the depositing all in the Assembly with the Chief Minister of the Church called in Justin Martyrs days the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Bishop For if this had not been design'd the end he mentions would not have been obtained There would have needed still a Gathering of all when he came But at the celebration of the Eucharist styled in those days Breaking of Bread the Deacons collected what each person offered and delivered it to the trust of the Bishop as we read more at large in the Antients This collection therefore proves a Communion that day and the Apostles order being plain for what was Accessary must be acknowledged for the Principal Now if the Apostle gave order for the Communion and Collection thereat on the Lords day no doubt he gave orders for the Assemblies thereon at which the one was to be celebrated and the other made And then if we admit that the Doctrine and Tradition of all the Apostles was one and the same as the Ancients affirm and I know not on what good reasons any can deny it will follow that it was an Apostolical Order that the Lords day should be the day of publick Christan Assemblies Sect. 14 In this assertion of the sacredness of the Lords Day partly from the The Antient Fathers are Unanimous herein Institution of Christ and afterwards by the Order of the Apostles the Antient Fathers are unanimous Above all others memorable is that large Text of St. Ignatius an early Martyr of Christ who himself avows as his Text is commonly rendred that he saw our Lord Jesus in the flesh after his Resurrection and who was ordained Bishop of Antioch by the imposition of the hands of St. Peter himself truely therefore St. Peters Successor and an Apostolical Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he Let us therefore no longer Jewishly keep the Sabbath that is neither on the day nor in the manner the Jews do which manner he there exposeth But let each of us spiritually keep the Sabbath rejoycing in meditations on the Law of God admiring the works of his hand Let every one that loves Christ keep the Lords Day the Queen of days on which our life rose and victory over death was gotten with more Elogies of it there to be seen Now here the Jewish Sabbaths and Sabatising are expresly required to be laid aside and a Spiritual Rest and the Lords Day injoyned instead thereof But St. Athanasius in his Homily De Semente goes farther and teaches us the Lord of the Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. translated the Sabbath Day to the Lords Day And further The Apostles Apostolical Men did ordain namely by our Lords appointment as in other cases that the Lords Day should be kept with Religious Solemnity saith St. Austin And much more on the same purpose have others which I must wave Sunday then does not stand on the same foot with other Church Holy days It is more sacred truly of Divine Right the Lords Day or a Christian Sabbath Sect. 15 Now as to the true Christian way of keeping it I was saith St. John How the Lords day is to be kept in the Spirit on the Lords day Time will not permit me to present the various glosses on this phrase To shorten all I will readily acknowledg we now adays cannot be in the spirit any Lords day as St. John was on this in the Text. He was in a prophetick extasy But that which in all likelyhood led him into this exalted temper and which in our state of things bears analogy thereto may be and ought to be our entertainment each Lords Day St. John was now in Patmos a small Island in the Archipelago between Crete and Asia minor banisht thither by Domitian for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ Here was no assembly of Christians for him to joyn with But the Lords Day coming upon him in course we cannot well but conceive him taken up in this his Solitude with Prayer Praise and Contemplations suitable to the day and in these being transported to have had his Soul wholly possest by the Holy Spirit and to have received from our Lord all those Revelations which in this book he Records And thus past that whole day at least far the greatest part of it with the beloved Disciple For in one day as is conceived by very learned Interpreters had he all those apocalyptick visions They who cannot ascend into heaven may yet go up to the mountain We are not in the present state to expect Visions and Revelations each Lords Day St. John himself had them not that we know of but while in Patmos and when God made his Church amends as I may say for the want of his common Ministry by extraordinary Revelations which were to convince the World and all the Powers of Hell that their malice could not suppress the Gospel but only make it shine another way clearer and farther and that however Tyrants might drive the messengers of those glad tydings into desolate corners so as some Assemblies might for a season want their living voice yet should they not be able to hinder but the whole World should ring of their testimony wherever they were and thereby know in what methods and disguises the Grand Master of all the Tyrants on earth the Devil has and shall in the several ages of Mankind set them on work to the end of all things so that I say St. Johns being thus in the Spirit was not common
even to himself Waving then what was extraordinary Let us attend to what is ordinary and ought to be constant We may and ought on the Lords Day to be 1 in Spiritual Exercises and 2 in a Spiritual temper for attending them Sect. 16 Spiritual Exercises I call the offices of Worship or ordinary duties Of Spiritual Exercises on the Lords Day of Devotion on the Lords Day and those are either Publick Private or Secret which cannot commonly be omitted without sin Publick duties are those which are performed in Church Assemblies And they are chiefly four in their Scripture Names Praying Singing Doctrine and Breaking of Bread There is no reason to surmise from what we have extant in the Acts and in the first Epistle to the Corinthians that any Lords Day in the Primitive Church passed without each of these in their Solemnity What amongst us is most neglected give me leave to touch upon Of which sort is constant communicating The Christian Church while it continued in any tolerable purity never spent a Lords Day without the Lords Supper on which of old it was more Scandalous for any Christians to turn their backs than it is now for Men amongst us to live Excommunicate this I could easily prove at large but must forbear And that our own Church esteems the Lords day but half celebrated without the Communion appears by her having provided a Communion Service for every Lords Day in the Year The Communion as we have heard was ever attended with a Collection for the Poor now called Oblations Never Eucharist without Offertory And this we have seen to be as ancient as St. Pauls planting the Gospel Doctrine was subdivided into Prophesying or Interpreting of Scripture which we now call Preaching into Reading Exhortation Teaching and perhaps otherwise Now the word commonly used for teaching is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Catechise This Office was of so great note in the Primitive Church that it was committed to some choice Person appointed purposely thereto but him commonly most learned And by Catechising I do not mean meer hearing young People repeat the words of their Catechism but expounding to them the Doctrine of it Examining them upon such Expositions and by all the several plainest ways possible inculcating these Doctrines till they understand them And for gaining reverence to this Office as well as for other reasons which I will not name Elder people ought to fit by In a word all forrein Churches outdo us herein And if we take not more care than yet usual amongst us as to this work we shall without a miracle in the next age go very neer to loose our Religion Private Duties I call those which are performed in private Families Parents Children Sojourners Servants joyning in Prayer and Praises to God and in reading his Word and other good Books as conveniency offers Secret Duties are such as every Christian should perform by themselves in the Closet or Retirements Such are Meditation self Examination Recollection of our improvements and in the close Prayer and Thanksgiving as occasion requires Section XVII Those who demand Proof for these being duties of the day will give me leave to ask them whether Proof for these Duties such practices in the Family or in the Closet be necessary and duties on any day If they be so there is no sufficient reason for their omission on the Lords day when by Law of God and Man there is most leisure for them Besides they will be pleased to consult Numbers xxviii 9 10. where they will find the peculiar sacrifice for the Sabbath both Morning and Evening was required of the Jews over and above the continual daily Burnt offering the like too upon the New Moons ver 24. and on other Festivals ver ult That which I infer from hence is that the publick Lords Days Worship and other Festival Offices must not supercede or abate our ordinary Private or Secret Devotions on those Dayes These are to be faithfully superaded to them Section XVIII This haply some will cry out is Fanaticism Puritanism Sabbatarianism and the like A Vindication of this Practice from ill imputations I answer there may be a Fanatical and perhaps a Pharisaical way too of doing these duties but the practice of the duties it self is not Fanatical or Pharisaical and much less is it Sabbatarianism We must make Fanaticks and Sabbatarians of the most Ancient Fathers of the Primitive Church and the most learned Doctors and Pillars of our own Church if we can find either Fanaticisme or Sabbatarianisme in spending the whole Lords day in a succession or holy exchange of such Duties as these mentioned Justin Martyr was no Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet in his second Apology he tells us the Christians of that age which was but one hundred and forty Years from Christ used to repeat at home what they had learned that day in the Publick Assembly Origen and St. Chrysostome were no Fanaticks nor yet Sabbatarians yet both nay the later more than once press the spending 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. This whole day in the exercise of Spirituals And to wave others of the Ancients and come neerer home I scarce think any Son of the present Church will adventure to brand the Reformation in King Edward the Sixths days with Fanaticisim or Sabbatarianism yet under that I find a Canon acknowledged for spending the Lords Day in private Prayer and Thanksgiving acknowledging our Offences reconciling our selves to our Brethren visiting the Sick comforting the Afflicted relieving the Poor and instructing Children and Servants in the nurture and fear of the Lord. But to be sure the Authors of the Book of Homilies we must not say were either Fanaticks or Sabbatarians For the Homilies we are bound still to subscribe and approve at least if not publickly to read yet they teach that on this day people shauld cease from all common and bodily labour and give themselves Wholly note that word to the exercises of Gods true Religion Arch Bishop Whitgift against the Admonitioners was no Fanatick Puritan or Sabbatarian yet saith he no man doubteth the meaning of these words Six days shalt thou labour c. to be this that seing God hath permitted us Six days to do our own works in we ought in the Seventh Wholly to serve him Bishop Francis White in his Book against the Sabbatarians was neither Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet he tells us our Church requires that upon the Lords day Parents and Masters instruct their Children and Servants in the fear and nurture of the Lord. Mr. Hooker was neither Fanatick nor Sabbatarian yet he teaches we are to account the Sanctification of one Whole day in the week a Duty which Gods immutable Law doth enact for ever Finally I believe no sober man will say that Excellent Book The Whole duty of man savours either of Fanaticism or Sabbatarianism yet Partit 2. Sect. 17. The Author teaches all in their Families the practice I have perswaded