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A43869	A short but cleare discovrse of the institiution, dignity, and end of the Lords-day upon occasion of those words of St. Iohn ... / written by George Hakewill ...	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing H209; ESTC R18460	22,776	41

faintly or formally but attentively and devoutly as knowing that God is a Spirit and will be worshipped by us in Spirit and Truth with a perfect heart and with a willing minde as the good King David taught his Son Solomon Withall we must remember that works of charity are not to be neglected on this day they being the marks and effects of the Spirit And that we may the better intend these Spirituall works in a Spirituall manner we are still to carry in our mindes that this Day is the Lords Day and not the devills or ours and that not a part onely but the whole day is his the devils day we make it if we employ it in sinfull acts our own if in the servile works of our particular callings or in bodily recreations which further not but hinder the practice of our Spirituall duties For sinfull acts we must be carefull that we incurre not justly the censure of Tertullian Siccine exprimitur per publicum gaudium publicum dedecus Haeccine solennes dies decent quae alios non decent Malorum licentia pietas erit Occasio luxur●…ae religio deputabitur Is our publike joy thus expressed by the publike disgrace Shall that be thought to become an holy Day which doth not become any day Shall wicked licentiousnesse be accounted Piety and occasions of luxury Religion If wantonnesse if drunkennesse if fighting if railing if reviling if swearing if cursing be sinnes on every day surely much more on the Lords Day Saint Hierome likewise in his Epistle to Eustochium seems much to mislike excessive Feasting and feeding upon these dayes as being the occasions of luxury and consequently of quarrelling and wantonnesse Valde absurdum est nimia saturitate velle honorare Martyrem quem scias Deo placuisse jejuniis It is most absurd to in●…end the honour of that Martyr with excessive Feasting whom we know to have pleased God with Fasting and if it can be no honour to the Martyr who lost his blood for the Lords sake much lesle to the Lord who redeemed the Martyr by his blood Of servile works is that noble Constitution of Leo the Empe. to be understood We ordain according to the true meaning of the holy Ghost and of the Apostles thereby directed that on the sacred Day wherein our own integrity was restored all do rest and surcease labour that neither Husbandman nor other on that day put their hands to forbidden works for if the Jews did so much reverence their Sabboth which was but a shadow of ours are not we which inhabite the light and truth of grace bound to honour that day which the Lord himself hath honoured and hath therein both delivered us from dishonour and from death Are not we bound to keep it singular and inviolable well contenting our selves with so liberall a grant of the rest and not incroaching upon that one which God hath chosen to his own honour Were it not wretchlesse neglect of religion to make that very day common and to think we may do with it as with the rest Which religious Edict of his though it were indeed chiefly bent against bodily labour yet may it well be extended against such pastimes and recreations on that Day as cannot but withdraw us from the keeping of it inviolable That unlawfull recreations may not be used on that day no Christian I think will deny since they may not be used on any dayes so as all the doubt is touching lawfull recreations whereof some also there are which I think no man will affirm to be lawf●…lly used on the Lords Day as Hawking Hunting and the like which are not unlawfull in themselves but unlawfull on that Day because it is the Lords D●…y And for other recreations if bodily labour which on other dayes is not onely lawfnll but necessary be forbidden because it is the Lords Day methinks by the same reason even lawfull recreations should be forbidden on the same day as tending no lesse to the violating of that Day than bodily labour If on that Day I may nor sow nor reap nor carry my Corn no not in the most uncertain and catching weather though it carryes a fair shew of keeping those precious fruits of the earth from spoiling which God of his goodnesse hath sent me shall I presume to use those recreations on that Day which commonly end in the abuse of those good bl●…ssings Manlike exercises are doubtlesse very requisite but co●…sidering the number of other holy dayes in our Church under favour be it spoken I see no necessity of putting them in practice on the Lords Day nor of ranking the Lords Day with-other holy dayes Some reformed Churches in other parts may perchance give way to the use of them on the Lords Day which in them is somewhat the more excusable because they have none other holy days though for mine own part I think it better if they had yet that the very same Pastors of those Churches who admitted or connived at the use of such manlike exercises as severely cryed down effeminate sports on that Day let one speak for all If we employ the Sunday saith Calvin to make good cheer to sport our selves to go to games and pastimes shall God in this be honoured is it not a mockery Is not this an unhallowing of his Name And if you please to Calvin we may adde Bellarmin the great Champion of the Romish Church who in his explanation of the title of the 91. Psalm according to their account which is a Psalm or song for the Sabbath-day thus writes Errant Iudaei qui otium Sabbati sibi datum esse existimant ad vacandum convivi●…s deambulationi The Jews erre in thinking that the rest of the Sabboth was given them for feasting and walking abroad wherein he seems to have followed Saint Augustine in his Enarration upon the same passage who in particular there censureth them for their dancing holding it more allowable to plough then to dance upon the Sabbath Melius est arare quàm saltarc these be his very words and then goes on Illi a bono opere Vacant ab opere nugatorio non vacant they rest from honest works from vain works they rest not Et Iudaeos imitantur Christiani saith Bellarmine and those Christians imitate the ●…ews who do the like Nay Saint Augustine in another place comes fully home to the same point where speaking of the Lords day Ideo Dominicus appellatur saith he ut in eo a terrenis operibus vel mundi illecebris abstinentes tantùm divinis cultibus serviamus therefore it is called the Lords day that abstaining from earthly labours and worldly pleasures we may wholly intend Gods service And again in severall places of that Sermon The holy Doctors of the Church decreed to transferre all the glory of the Jewish Sabbath upon this day That what they in figure the same we might celebrate in Truth Let us therefore my brethren observe the Lords

day and sanctifie it as to them of old it was given in charge touching the Sabbath From evening to evening ye shall keep my Sabbaths Let us take care that our rest be not vain but from the evening of the Sabboth to the evening of the Lords Day being free from all worldly businesse Soli divino cultui vacemus let us onely intend the service of God non foris fabulis sed intu●… psalmodiae orationibus studete Do not spend your time in trifles and telling of tales abroad but in singing of Psalms and prayers at home and do not think unus punctus diei ad Dei officium c. onely one little part of the day is consecrated to Gods Service and the residue of the day together with the night to your own pleasures Thus Saint Augustine and with him doth Saint Gregory accord Dominico die à labore terreno cessandum est atque omnimodo orationibus insistendum upon the Lords Day we are to rest from earthly labour and wholly apply our selves to our devotions that if any sinnes of negligence have escaped in the six dayes they may be done away by our prayers on the day of the Lords Resurrection Somewhat more punctuall is Ephraim Syrus Festivitates dominicas honorare studiosè contendite celebrantes eas non panegyricè sed divinè non mundanè sed spiritualiter non instar gentilium sed Christianorum Quare non poetarum frontes coronemus non choraeas ducamus non chorum exornemus non tib●…is cytharis auditum effoeminemus non mollibus vestibus induamur nec cingulis undique auro radiantibus cingamur non commessationibus ebrietatibus dediti simus verum i●…ta relinquamus iis quorum Deus venter est gloria in confusione ipsorum Earnestly endeavour to honour the Lords holy Day solemnizing it not in a pompous but in a Divine not in a worldly but in a Spirituall manner not as the Gentiles but as Christians let us not hang up Garlands before our doors let us not be exercised in dancing or in the setting forth of playes let us not effeminate our hearing with piping and harping let us not be clad with eff●…minate apparell nor be girt with Girdles shining about with gold let us not be given to gluttony and drunkennesse but let us leave these things to them whose God is their belly and their glory to their shame In the same path with these great Lights of the Church doth Peter Martyr walk Vnum in hebdomada requisivit in quo reliquis oper●…bus valedicentes uni illi tantum incumberemus he required one day in the week in which bidding adieu to all other works we should onely intend his service He who gave unto Adam a free liberty to eat of all the other trees in Paradise r●…served to himself the Tree of the knowledge of good and evill which served much to aggravate Adams offence that having so large a scope to content himself withall he would notwithstanding fall upon the forbidden fruit which is our case if having all the dayes of the week save one granted to our use we presume to intrude upon that which the Lord hath reserved to himself for his own use It is to this purpose worth the observing that our Saviour on the very Day of his Resurrection which was the first day of the week and ●…ow the Lords Day appeared sundry times in the morning at noon and at night thereby to shew That not a part onely but the whole Day was his And again on the eighth day following which was likewise the Lords Day he appeared to his Apostles at night to instruct them and confirm their faith thereby to teach us that even then it ceaseth not to be the Lords Day And truely I see not how men can effectually profit by publike hearing who neglect private conference and meditation after they have heard Meditation being the concoction of our Spirituall Food without which the soul cannot well be nourished They who bought and sold in atrio Templi in the porch or utmost part of the Temple thereby prophaned the Temple it self and made it a den of theeves as our Saviour censures them and I doubt not but he is as tender of this Day and every part thereof as of his House or rather more tender his House being consecarted to him by men but his Day by Himself to Himself and besides in the Primitive Church he was long without an House but not without a Day from the very first infancy thereof which hath made me to wonder that they who are so zealous for the Lords House and the Lords Portion received by the hand of his Ministers should not likewise be as zealous for the religious observation of his Day especially considering that it may give men occasion to suspect though perchance unjustly that they pursue their own pomp and profit in being so hot for the one and their own ease and pleasure in being so cold for the other He who stands for the Lords House and the Lords Portion because it is the Lords cannot but stand likewise for the Lords Day because it is his his Day doubtlesse having as strong a relation to him as either his House or his Portion if not a stronger He who layes sacrilegious hands upon a part of that which is consecrated to the Lord thereby violates the whole and therefore were Ananias and his wife stricken with sudden death because the●… kept back not the whole but a part of that money they had received for their Land and was entirely d●…e to the Lord and his Church and if we per●…it men to detain from the Lord a part of his Day let us take heed lest thereby they be the more emboldened to detain part of his Portion both from him and us The people God knows for the most part are of themselves apt enough to take more liberty than is fit to take an Ell where there is but an Inch allowed them and having once gotten the rains loose to run away in a full carreer And if it be observed it will appear that more mischiefs have ensued upon publique Games on the Lords Day than on any other day of the week nay my self have observed more to have been drowned who went into the River onely to wash their bodies on the Lords D●…y than any other day beside In Cornwall not farre from Saint Germans are in a fairplain certain stones to be seen which the neighbouring people call the Hurlers because they stand in that order and distance each from other as Hurlers use to do and the current tradition among the inhabitants there is that certain Hurlers for the prophanation of the Lords Day in that exercise were by Gods Judgement turned into those stones which Camden calls a pious errour and so I beleeve it to be yet withall from thence I observe the respect which even in regard of manlike exercises was born to that Day and