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A73593	An abstract of the doctrine of the sabbaoth Briefly, yet fully and plainely set forth; together with the vses of the same doctrine; with the vsuall obiections and answers therevnto. All which for the helpe of memorie, are drawne into sundry chapters.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1606 (1606)	STC 4165a.5; ESTC S124659	39,562	132

vnto the Lord bake that to day which ye will bake c. c Luke 4.16 And hee came to Nazareth where he had beene brought vp and as his custome was went into the Synagogue on the Sabbaoth day and stoode vp to reade d Acts 13.14 But when they departed from Perga they came to Antiochia a Citie of Pisidia and went into the Synagogue on the Sabbaoth day and sate downe ver 15. And after the lecture of the Law and Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent vnto them saying Yee men and brethren if yee have any word of exhortation for the people say on Then Paul stoode vp c. verse 42. And when they were come out of the Synagogue of the Iewes the Gentiles besought that they would preach these words to them the next Sabbaoth day verse 44. And the next Sabbaoth day came almost the whole Citie together to heare the word of God Chap. 17.2 And Paul as his manner was went in vnto them and three Sabbaoth daies disputed with them by the Scriptures e Sixe daies thou shalt d ee thy worke and in the seventh day thou shalt rest that thy Oxe and thy Asse may rest and the sonne of thy maide and the stranger may be refreshed Deut. 5.14 But the seventh day is the Sabbaoth of the Lord thy God thou shalt not doe any worke therein nor thy sonne nor thy daughter nor thy man servant nor thy maide nor thy one nor thy usse neither any of thy cattell nor the stranger that is within thy gates that thy man servant and thy maide may rest as well as thou Marke 2.27 And he said to them the Sabbaoth was made for man and not man for the Sabbaoth Of the day that the Sabbaoth must be kept vpon CHAP. III. AS there must be a Sabbaoth or day of rest continued in the Church of God while the world continueth so this Sabbaoth must be vpon one certaine day of the weeke and that is the seventh day for so God hath appointed first at the creation a secondly at the giving of the Law in Mount Sinai b But not that seventh day which was from the first creation of the world for that was once changed vnto the first day of the weeke the day after the Iews Sabbaoth which we now keepe for the Sabbaoth day Acts 20.7 concerning which change three things are diligently to be considered 1 That it was made by the Apostles could be made by none so fitly as by them and that for two causes 1 Because they had the best gifts for they had the spirit of truth to leade them into all truth c And therefore could see further into things thē the rest of the church 2 Because by reason of their great Apostolicall authority they could prevaile more then thers 2 That the Apostles made this change of the day vpon good reasons made knowne to the Church and those were cheefely two 1 In memorie of the second creation of the world by Christ because on that day the Lord Iesus did most gloriously rise againe and so conquered death sinne and hell and finished the worke of mans Redemption which was a second creation 2 Then the Lord Iesus having as it were made the world new againe hee did 1 Cease suffering as God at the end of the first creation ceased working 2 Begin his glorious rest and so continueth in rest and glorie for ever In which respects 1 The time of the Gospel is called the world that was to come d The heavens and the earth are called New e and all things men all are called new f creatures 2 This new Sabbaoth also is called by a new name viz. the Lords day g of the Lord Iesus concerning which name two things are to be noted 1 That it must be retained with the day because part of the honour and estimation of the day consisteth in giving it his right name 2 That it dooth no whit abate the glory of the first creation nor of the first Sabbaoth but being added vnto it as a further honour doth increase the dignitie of it even as Iacob was more renowned of God when he was also called Israel 3 That this first day of the Iewes weeke which we now keepe for the Sabbaoth is that Sabbaoth day which was ordained by the Apostles through the direction of Gods spirite and therefore must remaine for ever and never more be changed For 1 Vppon this day the Primitive churches with the consent of the Apostles vsed to assemble and to exercise all the parts of Gods worshippe which were proper to the Sabbaoth day h 2 The Apostle Saint Paul willeth that to be done vpon this day which is most fit for the Sabbaoth day and that is collecting for the poore i as more at large is shewed in chapter 10. 3 This day hath beene kept of all Churches ever since the Apostles time and in all the new Testament is nothing found to controle the same neither was it ever resisted by the Apostles but hath beene by their writings approved and by their practise confirmed vnto vs. THE PROOFES a Gen 2.3 So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it c. b Exod. 20.8 Remember the Sabbaoth day to keepe it holy c. verse 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbaoth of the Lord thy God c Iohn 16.13 Howbeit when hee is come which is the spirit of truth he will leade you into all truth d Heb. 2.5 For he hath not put in subiection vnto the Angells the world to come whereof we speake e Esa 65.17 For loe I will create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembred nor come into minde verse 18. But be you glad and reioyce for ever in the things that I shall create for behold I will create Ierusalem as a reioycing and her people as a ioy f 〈◊〉 Cor. 5.17 Therefore if any man be in Christ let him be a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new g Apoc. 1.10 And I was in the spirit on the Lords day h Acts 20.7 And the first day of the weeke the Disciples being come together to breake bread Paul preached vnto them i 1. Corin. 16.2 Euery first day of the weeke let every one of you put aside by himselfe and lay vp as God hath prospered him that then there be no gatherings when I come What manner of rest must be kept CHAP. IIII. IT is not enough to keepe a rest but we must keepe a most precise and exact rest and that may appeare vnto vs two waies 1 By the manifold Commaundements even for the keeping of the Sabbaoth 2 By the vrging and repeating of the word Rest in so many words so often and so a particularly All the Commandements given for the keeping of the Sabbaoth are two fold Generall whereof some be without b penalties expressed and some be with c penalties annexed Speciall wherein the Lord forbiddeth his people to worke

An Abstract of the Doctrine of the Sabbaoth Briefly yet fully and plainely set forth Together with the vses of the same Doctrine with the vsuall Obiections and Answers therevnto All which for the helpe of Memorie are drawne into sundry chapters AT LONDON Printed by V. S. for Nicholas Ling. 1606. To the right Worshipfull and religious Knight Sir Francis Knolys one of the Lievtenants and Iustices for the Peace in Barkeshire and to the vertuous Lady his wife W. B. wisheth increase of Gods favour in this life and full fruition of the same in the life to come RIght Worshipfull having had so long experience of both your sincere affections to true religion and your religious dispositions to the exercises of Gods worship both publikely in the holy assemblies and privately in your family I knew not to whose Patronage I might better commit this short Treatise of the right observation of the Lords Sabbaoth than vnto you both It is for matter substantiall and sound for memory short and methodicall for vnderstanding perspicuous and plaine for vse most necessary and profitable and in all like vnto the meate that Iacob provided for his father Isaac which was so savory that his father both loved it after a more speciall manner than he did other meates and also blessed him that brought it vnto him So will this doctrine of the Sabbaoth be vnto the religious taste of your inward man so savory yea so savoring of the spirit of God that I am assured your soules will delight in it and blesse God for them that have prepared it for you As for my part I have but gleaned in the fieldes of other godly and learned men who have more copiously laboured in this argument neither is this my Abstract any other than the fragments of their sumptuous feasts yet through the blessing of God it may proove like the remainder of the five Loaves and two Fishes in the Gospel which being reserved at Christs appointment to the glorie of God filled twelve baskets full that is were aboundantly blessed to a greater quantitie than the former And as for your parts without flattery be it spoken seeing God hath given you both the hearts to honour him by a more carefull and constant observation of his Sabbaoths than many other yea than any other I might say of any note amongst vs I see no reason but notice should be taken thereof that as God by you is glorified and his Church by your good examples edified so others also hearing of the same may by your examples be stirred vp to the like zeale and to give you that commendation that is due to those that love the truth For him that honoureth me saith God I will honour And sith God hath awarded you Honour for honouring him by walking in the religious steppes of your honourable father How can I deny it you or others envie you for it And as the blessed Apostle tells Philemon so I may not vnfitly vsurping his words say vnto you That both thanks and prayers are and shall be rendred vnto God for you by many which heare of your love and faith which you have towards the Lord Iesus and towards all his Saints that so the fellowship of your faith may be made fruitfull and that whatsoever good thing is in you through Christ Iesus may be knowne for we yea all we in this populous Towne of Reading and the Country about which vnfainedly feare the Lord and desire in truth of heart to make streight steppes to godlinesse and to profit in his waies have great ioy and consolation in your love to the Gospel of Christ because by you also the Saints hearts are not alittle comforted It is pittifull to see in divers places how many which are advanced by the bountifull providence of God vnto places of dignitie and honour in the Common-wealth of our English Israel doe beare themselves in hand that having beene at the House of God to heare common Prayer or a Sermon are for this their eare-service and lip-labour notable Sanctifiers of the Sabbaoth And whereas they ought to sanctifie it also at home by conference with their families prayer and meditation singing of psalmes and other holy duties both of pietie and charitie yea and to carry themselves in all grave and sober manner as having authoritie in their hands to terrifie vanitie and profanenesse and not to countenance them do suffer themselves to be made companions to all vaine men a thing which holy David detested * Psal 15. Psal 26. Psal 101. and like Esopa blocke to lie drenched in the love of vaine sports and smoakie recreations vexations indeede to a sanctified heart with the losse of pretious Time and checke of their owne conscience Whereby it oftentimes commeth to passe that their base desire of winning other mens mony is recompenced with the losse of their owne substance to verifie Gods Proverb by Solomon Pro. 21.17 He that loveth pastime shall surely be a poore man their hearing of Sermons is also accursed their soules grow barren in holy knowledge and heavenly wisedome and when time serveth they have not so much as one arrow in their quiver to shoote at a treacherous Papist or a wicked Atheist or any other hereticall depraver of the Truth which are too rife in every corner with popish perswasions and divelish sophistications watching where men are weake or faint-hearted to resist there to breake in and make spoile of all or if they have a peece of any argument in store to give an assault withall or can make some answer to repell the ill-affected in religion yet through their want of practise or through their inexpertnesse in the word of Truth either they have no heart to incounter with them or else they want strength to continue the conflict or for want of holie wisedome they vtterly shame themselves and the Lords cause in the handling But you right Worshipfull have not so learned Iesus Christ And if I have found favour in your eyes as I am sure in times past with thanks I acknowledge that both I and my poore ministry have let me be bold in the Lord to exhort you still to continue constant in your holy courses for the honouring of God in the sanctification of his Sabbaoths and by your godly examples and zealous perswasions to be a meanes to stirre vp others that lie securely asleepe in the opinion they have of an outward formality in religion and to draw on others amongst vs that be Masters in Israel yet too backward in these holy duties and are in danger of losing their first love to holy religion if ever they had any whereby the fame of our Towne beginneth to be at a low ebbe in comparison of that it hath beene yea we begin to be like the Church of Sardi that had a name of living to God but indeede was dead Revel 3. ● many keeping the Sabbaoth to the halves in the fore noone at the Temple in the

not so straitly to be observed To this obiection we answer three waies 1 That no man can perfectly fulfill the Law of God and yet every one is charged to keepe it perfectly purely and perpetually because it is all mens dutie so to doe 2 The harder it is the more wee must strive to keepe it Luke 13.24 3 By this strait and exquisite rule of resting we see first our deserved miserie by the infinite breaches of this Commandement besides all the rest of our sinnes Secondly we see Gods vndeserved mercie in Christ who hath both fulfilled the Law for vs as also freed vs from the curse of the Law and purchased for vs the blessednesse of heaven Of whose benefites we are assured to be partakers when we are perswaded of the forgivenesse of our sins by him alone 2. When we have power from him to die vnto sinne and live vnto righteousnesse in some measure as well in this Commandement as in any other 2 Obiection The world is hard say poore men we have a great charge of wife and children and little earnings we may not starve wee hope God will not be against the earning of a penny or two on the Sabbaoth day c. To this Obiection a double answer may be framed 1 We cannot serve God vnlesse we cast away those worldly and distrustfull cares For Sathan would make men believe that if they serve God they shall famish or beg c. 2 We must have faith to beleeve 1 The Generall promises of d God 2 The speciall promise that is made to the strict keeping of the e Sabbaoth Where also this verie doubt is taken away 3 Obiection Our servants must have some time of recreation they worke hard all the weeke c. Answer It is true indeede and some recreation sometime is almost as necessarie as their meate drinke and sleepe but then be bold of thinke owne and not of the Lords allow it them in the sixe daies and not vpon the Lords day 4 Obiection He that is bound saith the servant and hee that liveth at the commandement of another must obey if we doe not we shall lose our maisters good will and get their displeasure Answer If thou be a servant fearing God and desirous in truth of heart to sanctifie the Lords day then doe this 1 Consider with thy selfe whether it be a worke of necessitie that thou art commanded to doe if it be then thou must obey thy master if not thou must take another course But thou wilt say perhaps that thou seest no necessitie in that thou art commanded What then There may be a necessitie apparant to thy master and not to thee neither is he bound to give thee an account of all his purposes and businesse as for example thy maister commaundeth thee to carry a letter for him or to fetch home and make ready his horse or to goe with him abroad or the like thou not knowing the matter nor occasions of those thy maisters businesse art bound to obey him not demanding a reason of his so doing but conceiving both in reverence and charity of thy masters doings that if he saw not some great necessitie in the matter he would not so imploy thee for charitie dooth ever iudge the best where it knoweth no evill it thinketh no evill 1 Cor. 13.5 But if thou be assured that it is no worke of necessitie which thy maister would set thee about when thou shouldest rest vnto the Lord but that it commeth onely of a greedy desire to get the world c. as to plow to carry wares about the towne to keepe open the shop to set rackes and to worke vpon clothes vsually vpon the Lords day or the like whereof others can iudge as well as thou then thy course must be this 1 In all dutifull and reverent sort on Gods behalfe expostulate and reason the matter with thy maister and intreate him not to compell thee against thy conscience to violate the Lords Commandement but to give thee leave to keepe the holy Rest as the Israelites craved leave of King Pharao to goe and serve the Lord. And surely if thy maister hath any feare of God at all in him or any sparke of desire to please the Lord and hath not seared his conscience as it were with a hote yron or sold himselfe to worke wickednesse in the sight of God hee cannot choose but grant thee thy request 2 If thy maister be so hard hearted and voide of religion that he will not heare thee in thine humble suite then solicite the Magistrate and the Minister and make them iudges of thy cause and see if by their meanes thy maist ermay be perswaded to let thee serve the Lord in keeping the holy Rest and cease not thou all this while to pray vnto God that he would by his spirit move and turne thy masters minde 3 If the Magistrate be of thy maisters minde as many are that have as little religion as who have least so that thou canst not be releeved at his hands then I thinke thou oughtest to venture thy maisters displeasure or else change thy service knowing that it is better to obey f God than men Actes 4.19 Therefore seeing as God commandeth thee to keepe the holy Rest and thy maister commandeth thee to breake it thou must in this case obey God rather then thy master For the keeping and sanctifying of the Lords Sabbaoth is no matter of circumstance and ceremony as some would have it and therefore to give place vnto the obedience of masters being a matter of substance in the fift Commandement but it is also a matter of the substance of Gods worship and service vnto which both thou and thy maisters will must give place And in this case the godly minded servant is not so much to stand vppon tearmes of losing or inioying his masters good will or service but rather to feare the Lord whose service is the best service and freedome it selfe and whose displeasure is more intollerable than the weight of all the world neyther will he ever forsake those that trust in him Reply But where shall I become if my master turne me out of service Answer Comfort thy selfe with the answer of Abraham to his Sonne Isaac Gen. 22.8 God will provide a sacrifice my Sonne so God will provide a service for his servants and indeede God did provide a sacrifice for Abraham though he knew not of it till it came Vers 14. whereupon the name of that place is called God will provide to this day and such a place hath God in store for all that in truth of hart obey his will as Abraham did THE PROOFES a Exod. 16.23 Bake that to day which ye will bake and seeth that to day which yee will seeth and all that remaineth lay it vp for you till the morning c. b Exod. 35.3 Yee shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations vpon the Sabbaoth day c Deut. 5.15 Remember that thou wert