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A64622	A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.; Body of divinity	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Downame, John, d. 1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing U151; ESTC R19025	516,207	504

our businesses in the six working dayes that our worldly affaires enter not or incroach into the possession of the Lords day Not only willingly but not so much as by any forgetfulnesse As when through want of foresight or forecasting the payment of mony due by obligation or any such businesses that might be prevented shall fall out on that day 2. We should sanctifie our selves and those that are under us to keep that day What is contrary to this The neglect of Preparation for the Sabbath before it come and of fitting our hearts for holy service when it is come What are the parts of this Commandement They are two First to keep the Lords rest Secondly to sanctifie this rest For it is not sufficient that we rest from worldly businesses but it is further required that it be a holy rest The first sheweth what works we are to decline upon this day the other what duties we are to performe What are the workes that we must decline and leave undone on the Lords day Not onely the workes of sinne which we ought to leave undone every day but also the workes of our ordinary callings concerning this life and bodily exercise and labours which upon other dayes are lawfull and necessary to bee done Marke 3. 4. Ezek. 23. 37 38. Num. 15. 32 33. Exod. 31. 10 11 12 13 14. 34. 21. Nehem. 13. 15 c. Esa. 58. 13. What instances have you in Scripture of the performance hereof The Israelites ceased both from those works which were of the least importance as gathering of sticks Num. 15. 32. and from such also as were of greatest weight as working at the Tabernacle and building the Temple on the Sabbath day and consequently all other workes betwixt these extreams as buying and selling working in seed time or harvest were forbidden unto them Are we as strictly bound to rest from all our outward businesses and to forbeare all worldly labour upon this day as the Israelites Yea so farre forth as the morality of the Commandement reacheth but by the Ceremoniall Law there was enjoyned unto the Iewes a more exact observation of outward rest which to them was a part of their Ceremonial worship whereas unto us the outward rest is not properly any part of the sanctification of the day or of the service of God but only a meanes tending to the furtherance of the same even as in Fasting and Prayer Fast is of it selfe no part of Gods service but a thing adjoyned thereunto and so farre forth onely acceptable in the worship of God as it maketh a way and readier passage for the other 1 Cor. 8. 8. What did that most strict observance of outward rest signifie unto the Jewes Their continuall Sanctification in this world Exodus 31. 13. Ezek. 20. 12. and their endlesse rest in the world to come whereof this was a Type no lesse then the land of Promise Heb. 4. 4 5. 10. How was the latter of these specially typified In this world Gods Children are subject to the fiery tryall but after these troubles rest is provided for them 2 Thes. 1. 7. and no fire to be feared in that after world For a more lively representation of that there was a charge laid upon the children of Israel that no fire might be kindled throughout all their habitations upon the Sabbath day Exodus 35. 3. though it were for the very preparing of the meat which they should eate Exodus 16. 23. which was allowed unto them even in the two great solemne dayes of the Passeover Exo. 12. 16. Is it then lawfull for us to make a fire and dresse meat upon the Lords day Yea certainly because these were proper to the Pedagogy or manner of government of the Children of Israel under the Law as may appeate by this that there was no such thing commanded before the Law was given by Moses and consequently being not perpetuall must necessarily follow to bee Ceremoniall Now after the Sabbath that Christ our Lord rested in the grave the Ceremoniall Sabbath lyeth buried in that grave together with those other Rites which were shadows of things to come the body being in Christ Col. 2. 16 17. Therefore we being dead with Christ from these Ceremonies are no more to be burthened with such Traditions ibid. verse 20. Nor to bee brought under the bondage of any outward thing It is a liberty purchased unto us by Christ and we must stand fast unto it that blessed houre being come wherein the true worshippers are to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth John 4. 23. To leave then the Ceremoniall Sabbath and to come to the Morall How is the Rest required therein laid downe in the fourth Commandement By a Declaration First of the Works from which there must be a cessation Secondly of the persons that must observe this Rest. How is the former of these expressed In these words In it thou shalt not doe any Worke Exodus 20. 10. What is required of us hereby That for the space of that whole naturall day we cease in minde and body from all our worldly labours yea from the workes of our lawfull Calling and all other earthly businesses whatsoever more then needs must be done either for Gods glory or mans good What gather you of this That all exercises which serve not in some degree to make us fit to the Lords worke are unlawfull upon the Lords day Why doe you say that we must rest in minde and body Because this rest must be of the whole man in thoughts words and deeds Esa. 58. 13. Is it meerely unlawfull to doe any bodily or outward businesse on the Lords day No. First for such works are excepted as are presently necessary either for common honesty or comelinesse Secondly the actions of Piety requisite for the performance of Gods service on that day Acts 1. 12. Mat. 12. 5. Thirdly extraordinary exigents of Charity for the preservation of the Common-wealth 2 Kings 11. 9. Fourthly the preservation of our owne and others life health and goods in case of present necessity or great danger of their perishing if they were not saved on that day Mat. 12. 10 11. Marke 3. 4. Luke 13. 15 16. What be the speciall breaches of this part of the Commandement 1. The making of the Sabbath a common day through common labours in our ordinary callings Neh. 13. 15. vaine speech and talking of our worldly affaires Esa. 58. 13. thinking our owne thoughts and no other but a common use of the Creatures 2. The making it a day of carnall rest unto idlenesse feasting pastimes c. which draw our mindes further from God then our ordinary labours Exod. 32. 6. Whither are referred all recreations which distract us as also excessive eating and drinking which causeth drowsinesse and unaptnesse unto Gods Service and Worship 3. The making it a day of sinne or the Devills holy day by doing that on the Lords day which is no day lawfull Mar.

of God is to bee had partly by his Works namely so much as may serve to convince man and make him unexcusable Rom. 1. 19 20. Act. 14. 15. but most sufficiently by his Word contained in the holy Scriptures which therefore are called his Testimonies Psal. 119. 14. because they testifie of God Joh. 5. 39. what hee is and how hee will bee served of us Lastly that forasmuch as all that is writen in the Word of God is writen for our instruction and learning Rom. 15. 4. therefore we being prepared by true Prayer sanctified by Faith and seasoned with the Spirit of sobriety and humility may safely learn so much as is revealed in the Scripture for our profiting in the knowledge of God What is the first point of Religion that wee are taught in the Scriptures That there is a God Why doe you make this the first point Because the Scripture saith hee that commeth to God must beleeve that hee is Heb. 11. 6. Have any called this into question at any time Yea so saith the Prophet David but hee sheweth also that it was by wicked proud and foolish men Psal. 14. 1. whose lives were nothing else but abomination and corruption Psal. 10. 4. What pretence of reason might they have for this wicked imagination Because no man ever saw God yet by which foolish argument they may deny also that there is any wind or that man hath a soule for no man yet ever saw them But how come you to perswade your selfe that there is such a God Beside infinite testimonies of the Scriptures as Gen. 1. 1. Psal. 19. the common consent of all Nations approveth this Truth who rather worship any God or gods then none at all and though man by nature doth desire to bee exalted and in respect of himself despiseth all other creatures as Wood and Stone yet when a peece of wood is framed out like a man and set in the Temple and man conceiveth an opinion that it is a God hee falleth down and worshippeth it Esa. 44. 15. 17. How then commeth it to passe that the wicked say there is no God Psal. 14. 1. First though upon a sudden passion they may seem to say so as the Devill laboureth to tempt them yet their very Conscience after doth check them Secondly they deny rather Gods providence then his beeing as appeareth by Psal. 10. 4. 11. What other reasons have you to prove that there is a God Gods works of Creation and Providence both ordinary and extraordinary For first the glorious frame of the World the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and all that is in them must needs argue that their Maker was God Rom. 1. 19 20. Act. 14. 17. Zach. 12. 1. it being evident that the world could not bee made by the Creatures that are in it neither could it make it self as when a man comes into a strange Countrie and sees faire and sumptuous buildings and findes no body there but birds and beasts hee will not imagine that either birds or beasts reared those buildings but hee presently conceives that some men either are or have been there The Creation of the Soule of man indued with Reason and Conscience doth specially prove the same Zach. 12. 1. The preserving of things Created together with the wonderfull and orderly government of the world Day and Night Sommer and Winter c. manifestly convince the same For example Bread is no better in it self then Earth yet man is preserved by Bread and if hee eate Earth hee dyeth the reason whereof must bee attributed to the blessing of God giving to the one force and power to nourish more then to the other By the order of causes even the heathen men have found out that there must bee a God seeing that of every effect there must needs be a Cause untill we come to the first Cause which is the universall Cause of the being of all things and is caused of none If we shall observe in Gods Works an infinite multitude a wonderfull variety Psal. 104. 24. as amongst so many millions of men never a one like another in the compasse of the face a most constant order a seemly agreement and an endlesse continuance or pleasant intercourse of things comming and going and what exceeding Majesty is in them we must needs attribute these things to a God The consciences of wicked men after sin are perplexed with feare of being punished by some supreme Judge who disliketh and detesteth dishonest things and exerciseth judgements upon the mind which maketh the most ungodly miscreants will they nill they to acknowledge and tremble at him c. Rom. 2. 15. Esa. 33. 14. 57. 20 21. 66. 24. Psal. 14. 5. 53. 5. for a man that commits any sin as murder fornication adultery blasphemy c. albeit he conceale the matter never so close Gen. 38. 10. 13 14. that no man living know of it yet oftentimes he hath a griping in his conscience and feares the very flashing of hell fire which is a strong reason to shew that there is a God before whose Judgement seat he must answer for his fact There is a devill that suggesteth a temptation against God into the mindes of men and sometimes also really possesseth their bodies which is a sufficient argument to prove that there is a God The death of the wicked with Gods apparent Judgements upon them besides the terrour of their conscience and the dreadfull punishment executed even in this world upon many Atheists that have laboured to deny it Psal. 58. 10 11. prove that there is a God this is Davids argument Psal. 9. 16. The same appeareth by the rewards of the godly and the mercifull preservation of those the trust in God above and against naturall means By the wonderfull miracles which God hath wrought for his Church By the foretelling of things to come so many thousand yeers before they were accomplished By the divers revelations he hath made of himself to men as to Adam Noah Moses c. This ground being now laid that there is a God what doth Christian Religion teach us concerning him It informeth us first concerning his nature Act. 8. 12. Secondly concerning his Kingdom and that respectively as they have relation one to the other Act. 28. 23. What is to been known concerning his nature First vvhat his Essence is secondly to whom or what persons it doth belong In the first he is considered in his unity in the second in the Trinity the former whereof in the Hebrew tongue is noted by the singular name of Jehovah betokening the simplicity of Essence the latter by the plurall term of Elohim importing a distinction of Persons in the God-head Can wee understand what the Essence of God is Very imperfectly for all nature is not able to teach us what God is in himself neither can man in nature comprehend him Job 36. 26. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Why is not all nature able to teach