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A16523	The doctrine of the sabbath plainely layde forth, and soundly proued by testimonies both of holy scripture, and also of olde and new ecclesiasticall writers. Declaring first from what things God would haue vs straightly to rest vpon the Lords day, and then by what meanes we ought publikely and priuatly to sanctifie the same: together with the sundry abuses of our time in both these kindes, and how they ought to bee reformed. Diuided into two bookes, by Nicolas Bownde, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.	1595 (1595)	STC 3436; ESTC S113231	229,943	300

doe stand in neede to sanctifie the Sabbath againe and againe in all the meanes of Gods worship and especially then in the most principall that thereby happily we might be recouered into our former estate Nay what a blockish presumption were it for a man to thinke that Adam was bound to sanctifie the Sabbath according to the Commandement that being holie and righteous still he might haue been preserued in the fauour of God for euer and that we our selues being through sinne fallen away from his loue might make lesse account of these meanes whereby he doth first of all offer himselfe to be recoÌ„ciled vnto vs and then neuer to fall away from that estate as though it were not so needfull for vs to sanctifie the day by them Therefore let vs confesse that these are though not all yet the most especiall parts of Gods seruice wherein wee are to bee occupied vpon the Sabbath and without which we are nothing neere that manner of keeping holie the day which the Lord requireth at our hands And so I conclude this poynt with the saying of Master Gualter Dei bonitatem exosculemur Gualt in Mark 1. Homil 11. Let vs thankefully acknowledge the goodnes of God who hath consecrated vnto his seruice that rest which wee stand in neede of for the refreshing of our bodies least that it should degenerate into filthie and hurtfull idlenes And here because wee speake of the Lords seruice which onely sanctifieth the day wee must consider All these parts of Gods seruice must be performed with our whole hearts and not onely outwardly of a custome Ioh. 4 24. that he is a spirit and therefore will be worshipped of vs in spirit and in trueth and therefore in all the aboue named parts of his worship we must performe a spirituall obedience if we will serue him so that whensoeuer the word is read preached or heard the Sacraments ministred and receiued and prayers made vpon the Sabbath of custome and not for conscience sake because we would doe as others doe and would not be noted to be singular and so in doing of these things we as it were doe them not For hearing we vnderstand not reading we conceiue not praying we desire not and all is done in the letter and not in the spirit wee serue our selues rather then God and so though the day bee holie wee make it not holie to him and for his sake Thus many when they haue seemed most of all to haue kept holy the day haue done nothing lesse theÌ„ that Therefore as wee must repent vs of all our hypocrisie in Gods seruice so wee must at all times endeuour that the holie exercises bee not vnhallowed of vs least the Lords seruice being neglected which is spirituall in al things we be found breakers of the Commaundement in that very thing wherein we did most of all presume that wee had kept it and if the best things that wee doe bee thus iustly refused what shall become of those which in our owne eyes carrie not that credite with them much more in the eyes of the Lord who examineth all things more narrowly Furthermore And so as by them we may be furthered in our saluation because the Lord in commanding vs to serue him hath not so much respect to himselfe who hath no neede of vs as to our owne good which may by this meanes be procured we must so behaue our selues in all the parts of Gods worship as may bring greatest profite to our soules health 1. Cor. 14.26 For in the Church of God all things must be done to edifying that al may learne and haue comfort as it is in the 31. verse of the same chapter And therfore in the 11. chapter finding fault iustly with the abuses that were in their meetings generally he chargeth theÌ„ with this 1. Cor. 11.17 that they came not together with profite Therefore both minister people must so behaue themselues in Gods house that they may depart with profit to themselues others Which that they might attain vnto they must vse all such good meanes priuatly both before and after the publike exercises as might make theÌ„ most profitable which what they be we shall hereafter see more particularly and in the very worship it selfe behaue our selues so reuerently and attentiuely as whereby greatest commoditie might redound to vs. And indeed as Master Caluin sayth Caluin in Exod. 20.8 in this Commandement is included a promise For God promiseth that as he hath sanctified the seuenth day for his seruice so he will thereby sanctifie them that rightly keepe it and therefore the promise of this blessing should be a principall motiue to our obedience And if in all other things we are carefull not so much to vse them as to vse them to the best aduantage why should we not put that out to the greatest gayne which in it owne nature is most gainfull indeede For seeing that there is nothing in the world that hath so great a promise made vnto it as the publike seruice of GOD should we not so behaue our selues in it that wee might be made partakers of it And whereas it is blessed for our sakes with the full treasure of all Gods graces in this life and eternall happines in the ende can it bee but a most grieuous sinne by our negligence to spoyle it of that honour and to make it vnprofitable to our selues Wherefore though I am not ignorant that the proper place to speake of the manner of Gods worship is in another Commaundement where also it hath been handled at large yet because all things comprehended in the other Commandements must bee practised vpon the Sabbath we must vnderstand that it is not impertinent to this treatise and that the Sabbath is then onely truely sanctified when of Gods worship there commeth some fruite and commoditie vnto vs. For this cause the Prophet Esay telleth the Iewes that then they shall haue truely sanctified the Sabbath and made it holie to the Lord when thereby they are made more able to rest from vanitie and sinne both in word deede and be made more fit to serue the Lord in all dueties afterwards Esay 58.13 If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath from doing thy will vpon my holie day and call the Sabbath a delight to consecrate it as glorious to the Lord and shall honour him not doing thine owne wayes nor seeking thine owne will nor speaking a vaine word Where his meaning is not that the whole sanctifying of the Sabbath consisteth onely in these as though he would exclude all the Sacrifices the reading and the preaching of the lawe prayer and the whole ministerie of that time established by the Lord whereof he speaketh not a word but he rather aimeth at this to correct their hypocrisie in these things and to shewe them that all was to no purpose vnlesse this fruite followed of it for which cause the whole worship of God and

whereof there are so many kinds as appeareth by the diuers words hee vseth in this place Whereunto agreeth that which hee writeâ—h vnto the Ephesians Bee not drunke with wine Ephe. 5.18 wherein is excesse but bee filled with the spirite 19. Speaking vnto your selues in Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs singing and making melody to the Lorde in your hearts 20. Giuing thanks alwaies for all things vnto God euen the Father in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ Where in like manner hee sheweth them howe they should behaue themselues in the aboundance of al Gods blessings that whereas the wicked are ready to abuse them and by ouercharging themselues with them doe fall into an immoderate profusion and laughter they should in the middes of these thinges being guided by Gods spirite burst forth into the prayses of God through Iesus Christ and testifie their holy mirth not of the flesh but of the spirite by singing Psalmes whereof there are so many sundry kinds that for euery time wee shall bee fitted with some one or other Let vs not therefore deny so manifest a trueth but acknowledge as the word doth teach vs that the Lorde requireth of vs in our priuate meetings vpon the Lordes day and when we are alone by our selues to sing Psalmes as well as in the Church And though I doe not binde men vnto this for bee it farre from me that I should lay any heauier burden vpon any then the worde of God it self doth bind them I say vnto this that in all their mirth they should sing Psalmes as it might seeme the places alledged doe import Yet this the Lorde requireth of vs that in all our lawfull pleasures we should looke vp vnto him and so reioyce in them that wee especially reioyce in him and so from them to be led to him and by them to be made fitter to serue him And whereas it falleth out thus with the wicked that all pleasures draw them away from God take away from them the remembrance of him and driue them into sinne we contrariwise should by all of them come neerer vnto God set him before our eyes and make our selues fitter to serue him praise him For as that is a godly sorrow that driueth vs to prayer a blessed heauinesse that maketh vs seeke vnto the Lord so that is a godly mirth that endeth with singing with Psalmes and an heauenly ioy that at least wise maketh vs more fit to serue God And otherwise as we may suspect our sorow to be but worldly so our ioy to bee but fleshly and carnall And this is that whereunto the Apostle Saint Iames hath respect saying Is any amoÌ„g you afflicted let him pray Is any merry Iam. 5.13 let him sing Where he telleth the dispersed Iewes how they should behaue themselues priuately in all estates namely that though the vngodly in their affliction doe murmure impatiently and breake out into blasphemous othes they should not onely abstaine from those things but in all humilitie should go to prayer that they might obtaine mercy at Gods hande and then being deliuered of him that they should auoyd the prophane carelessenes of the wicked and stirre vp themselues to sing prayses vnto God and so both commendeth this duetie vnto vs and sheweth whereunto all our mirth should leade vs. In which place though he doth not tye the singing of the Psalmes to the time of prosperity for there are songs of mourning no more then he doth prayer vnto the time of affliction 2. Chro. 35.25 yet he sheweth which are the fittest times for both and besides that as no man can truely pray without the feeling of his wants so no man can sing from his heart vnlesse hee haue some perswasion of Gods fauour and so as affliction driueth him to pray so mirth mooueth him to sing Therefore when the Lorde dealeth so fatherly with his children that hee tempereth their afflictions with the ioy of the spirit then he giueth vnto theÌ„ iust occasion both to pray sing vnto him Thus we reade that Paul and Sylas being in prison ioyned them together Acts 15.25 At midnight Paul and Sylas prayed and sang a Psalme vnto God Being first of all beaten very sore and then cast into a dungeon with their feete in the stocks it was then time to pray but considering the goodnes of their cause for which they suffered all these things and finding the Lord present with them by his fauour assuring them of his defence there was iust cause of ioy and in ioy to sing as they did So then seeing to sing Psalmes is a part of Gods seruice as we haue seene it in so many places of the word commended vnto vs it must needes be put in practise vpon that day which is dedicated to his seruice and especially when we consider that the fittest time for it is the time of ioy and there is no ioy comparable to that which we haue in Christ Iesus and we neuer inioy that so fully as by the meanes whereby he conueyeth it vnto vs and we neuer haue all the meanes so plentifully and so continually as vpon the Sabbath Therefore as the Lord then offereth himself wholly vnto vs and his sonne Christ Iesus to be made ours with all his merits in the worde the Sacraments and prayer and so thereby doth fill our hearts with the ioye of the holy Ghost euen that ioy that is vnspeakable and most glorious so then especially we ought to sing for ioye of the Lord if euer wee will doe it And not onely in the Church which we ought to doe especially where the greatest ioy is bestowed vpon vs but also because by the forenamed priuate exercises this ioye is renued and sometimes increased wee must priuately renue our thanksgiuing Singing of Psalmes testifieth and increaseth spirituall songs and sing vnto God againe especially when wee haue seene that these places of scripture doe commend vnto vs the priuat exercise of singing Psalmes And that we might doe it the more cheerefully let vs knowe for a suretie that though wee cannot sing at all where there is no whit of ioy so let this ioy bee neuer so little by singing we shal increase it For euen as al knowledge is increased especially by hearing reading and conferring about the scripture so all affections are most of all stirred vp by meditation prayer and singing of Psalmes And because vpon the Lords day we must labour to build vp our selues in both wee must neglect no meanes whereby we might attaine vnto our full growth in either Therefore euen then are wee iustly punished with deadnes and dulnes vpon the Sabbath because we neglect al those meanes or els doe not ioyne them together So then we haue great cause to be sorrie that wee haue so many times neglected this seruice of God vpon the Sabbath day and though wee had not spent away the time in a prophane mirth as many times wee haue done yet there is

disposed and euery thing in the Church so gouerned and so blessed vnto vs by his spirit as might make not onely for our good in generall and the good of others but in these speciall things that we stand in most neede of 2. There is great cause to pray before we come to the Ministerie of the word And so let vs pray for our selues and others and that we might be holpen by them but especially let vs praye for the Minister of Gods word that to it might bee ioyned the ministerie of his spirit which when we doe the Lorde that heareth our prayers that knoweth our wants will cause vs to heare that which we most of all desired and that which is spoken generally the spirit will applie vnto vs particularlie euen as many eating of one meate receiue sundrie kindes of nourishments from it and he will cause the steward of his house to giue vnto vs that meat which he most of all knoweth wee stand in neede and then we shall heare him speake as though he were in our bosome 1. Cor. 14.22 and the secrets of our hearts shall bee made manifest not that he knoweth what is within vs but the Lord knoweth whose minister he is for our good and the holy Ghost dooth which accompanieth Gods ordinance and in the word doth which is preached Heb. 4.12.13 For the word of God is liuelie and mightie in operation and sharper then any two edged sworde and entereth thorough euen vnto the diuiding asunder of the soule and the spirit and of he ioynts and the marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and open vnto is eyes with whom we haue to doe And that we might the rather be perswaded that wee ought thus in the feeling of our wants praye vnto God wee must remember that wee cannot so much as vnderstand the word vnlesse Gods spirit doe teach vs Ephes 5.8 For wee are darkenes it selfe And the naturall man perceiueth not things of the spirit of God for they are foolishnes vnto him neither can he know them because they are spirituallie discerned and besides the word of God is high and there are many mysteries contained in it and a wisedome that is hid which many princes of this world doe not know Vers 7.8 as it in the same chapter and all the articles of our faith are aboue our reason nay we account them foolishnes Therefore both in the inward seeing of our own blindnes and in a reuerent estimation of Gods holy word we had neede pray for the inlightening of his holy spirit which searcheth all things yea the deepe things of God Vers 10.11 and no man knoweth the things of God but the spirit of God as it is most liuely set forth vnto vs in this very chapter And so let vs praye with the Prophet in the 119. Psalme in a great many places O Lord teach me thy statutes and open mine eyes that I might see the wonders of thy law and make me to vnderstand the way of thy precepts and teach mee good iudgement and knowledge and giue me vnderstanding that I may learne thy commandements 16. and deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie and teach me thy statutes And when wee doe vnderstand thorow the blessing of God obtained by prayer we must pray further that our affections might be framed according to our knowledge which we had need to doe so much the more because it is harder then the other and yet our affections doe more ouercome vs then our knowledge in so much that wee doe not many times that we know to be best but which wee like best and so at some other time fo the daye wee must praye that these things might be called into our remeÌ„brance and that we might be transformed into not onely the knowledge but obedience of them which is the end of all and generallie that the fruite of all things might appeare in our liues to our owne vnspeakeable comfort the benefite of others and Gods glorie most of all which without the especiall assistance of his holie spirite wee cannot obtaine by the most excellent giftes and most painefull endeauors of his best seruants 2 Cor. 3.5 For who is Paul and who is Apollo but the ministers by whom yee beleeued and as the Lord gaue to euery man I haue planted Appolos watered but God gaue the increase so then neither is hee that planteth any thing neither hee that watereth but God that giueth the increase saith the Apostle Therefore as the Ministers pray much for his people if euer hee will doe any to them euen as it is said of the prince of pastours Luke 21.37 Marc. 14.23 that in the day time hee taught in the temple and at night went vp into the mountaine to praye so the people must pray much more for the ministers and themselues both before and after both that they might bee prepared obtaine and continue in that good which they haue gotten Many doe wrongfully complaine that their minister is vnprofitable vnto them hee dooth them no good they cannot conceaue him I doe not say but that the complaintes of some are iust yet let them consider whether some great part of the fault be not in themsleues We ought to read the Scriptures priuatly at home namely the want of prayer before and their negligence afterward vnto priuat prayer must be adioyned priuat reading of the Scriptures at such times of the daye as they shall finde it most conuenient both that they might generally bee acquainted with the bodie of the Scripture and also that they might haue some more speciall vse of certaine partes as they shall stand in neede either to bee confirmed in any poynte of doctrine publikely taught or might thereby receiue any speciall comfort humiliation or increase of such graces as they labour most for or might be quickened vp vnto prayer And hereunto may bee referred that saying of Theophylacte Theoph. in Marc. 1.21 The lawe hath commanded men to rest vpon the Sabbath vt lectioni vacent homines that men might attend vpon reading which is true not onely of the publike reading in the Church especially but also of priuate reading at home For so it is that in most places the people doe heare the scriptures seldome in the Church and then but certaine portions of them and not the whole worde reade ouer whereby it commeth to passe that they are vtterlie ignorant in and neuer so much as haue hard before of many textes that are alleaged in the sermons for proofe of any doctrine whereby they are not onely not furthered but hindered wondering at such strange and seldome hard things so the thing is more obscure vnto them theÌ„ it was before being proued by that which they vnderstand not Nay the coÌ„mon stories of the bible they are

great cause of humiliation for not stirring vp our selues by singing Psalmes vnto that spirituall mirth whereby we might haue been more cheerefully occupied in Gods seruice and comfortably to our owne soules And let vs not hereafter continue to prouoke the Lord and bereaue our selues of much comfort by neglecting to sing But when I so earnestly request this vpon the Sabbath my meaning is not to exclude it from other dayes no more then priuat prayer reading c. and the former places of scripture haue proued the contrarie but my purpose is to shew that if at any other time it is to bee practised then especially vpon the Lords day And truelie I am so much the longer in this thing would faine be as importunate in it as I might because as I knowe it to bee a thing of great moment The singing of Psalmes is greatly decaied in all places and amongst al sorts of men so I haue obserued it to be greatly neglected in our time aboue that which had wont to bee at the first restoring of the Gospell and is like to bee lesse regarded in time to come For besides that there bee too many which are of great yeares that neuer sung Psalme in their liues neither can do nor haue any care to learne though they can sing some other vain songs very perfectly and though they cannot reade themselues nor any of theirs yet will haue many Ballades set vp in their houses that so they might learne them as they shall haue occasion but as for the booke of Psalmes it commeth not once into their thought to make prouision for it Besides these men I say of whom it is a lamentable thing to thinke we may finde that the neglect of this duetie hath ouer spread it selfe farre and neere for euen amongst them which are giuen most to sing this is the least thing that they doe and indeed many of the common Singing men are so vngodly that it were better for them to haue their mouthes stopped then once to open them to pollute such holy and sacred songs And as for others though they haue al varietie of Musick both vpon Instruments and with the voyce and that euery day yet many of them very seldome or scarsely once a yeare doe heare a Psalme sauing in the Church I doe not finde fault with this kinde of Musicke but doe esteeme of it as I ought euen of the most exquisite that may be I confesse it to be the especiall gift of God in any I knowe it very well to bee commended in the scripture and that it hath had wonderfull effects in time past as in Saul and Elizeus 1. Sam. 16.23 2. King 3.15 and that men might stil haue great commoditie by it if it were rightly vsed only this I complaine of with griefe that the best Musicke is not cared for and that the singing of other things hath cleane shut out in a great many of places the singing of Psalmes And that you might vnderstand the complaint to be iust you must not onely looke into the houses of great personages where this musick hath ioystled out the singing of Psalmes or rather kept it from euer entring in but also in the shops of Artificers and cottages of poore husbandmen where you shall sooner see one of these newe Ballades which are made only to keepe them occupied that otherwise knowe not what to doe then any of the Psalmes and may perceiue them to bee cunninger in singing the one then the other And indeed I know not how it commeth to passe but you may obserue it that the singing of ballades is very lately renewed and commeth on a fresh againe so that in euery Faire and Market almost you shall haue one or two singing and selling of ballades they are brought vp a pace which though it may seeme to bee a small thing at the first yet I am greatly afrayd of it For as when the light of the Gospell came first in the singing of ballades that was rife in Poperie began to cease and in time was cleane banished away in many places so now the sudden renewing of them and hastie receiuing of them euery where maketh me to suspect least they should driue away the singing of Psalmes againe seeing they can so hardly stand together of which I am so much the more iealous because I see that in other places also where these be not receiued in What is the cause why singing of Psalmes is so decayed yet the singing of Psalmes is greatly left ouer that it had wont to be But if we would search out the cause of this euil disease in our selues and others that so it might bee cured wee shall easily finde it in those places of scripture where this duetie hath been commended vnto vs before For the Apostle sayth to the Ephesians Ephes 5.18 Be not drunke with wine wherein is excesse but be filled with the spirit 19. Speaking one vnto another in Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs singing and making melodie to the Lord in your hearts Coloss 3.16 And to the Colossians Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plentiously in all wisedome teaching and admonishing one another in Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs singing with a grace vnto the Lord in your hearts In which places he first of all forewarneth vs vnder one kinde that we bee not ouerfilled with the pleasures of this world but vse them as though wee were readie to leaue them otherwise wee being wholly giuen to our bellies and to our backes shall haue pleasure in nothing but such as will serue them al heauenly mirth shal be sorrow vnto vs as to be called to the word and prayer it shall be a vexation vnto vs and then shall we bee most merrie when we are furthest off from God and then he sayth our mirth shall be excessiue and beastly Secondly he would haue the word of Christ dwel in them plentiously that being perswaded of Gods fauour their harts might not bee vainly merrie but thereby moued to sing vnto him Lastly that they should bee filled with the spirit that should prepare them to spirituall songs for in our flesh dwelleth no good for as the flesh hath no taste of spirituall things so the spirit hath no taste of carnall things and therefore being filled with the spirit it will stirre vs vp to all spirituall exercises Therefore it is no maruell that men are so barren in this thing seeing that they are so drowned with the pleasures of this life that they haue no pleasure but in them and being too ful of them there is no roome in their hearts for the word of God and for his spirit of which they are emptie and therefore can take no delight in the exercises of the word and of the spirit So then howsoeuer the neglect of this duetie may seeme small in our eyes yet it must needs be great when it bewrayeth that we are voyd of Gods word and

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