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A15864	The art or skil, well and fruitfullie to heare the holy sermons of the church written first in Latin, by a godly minister named Gulielmus Zepperus ; and now truly translated into English by T.W. ...	Zepper, Wilhelm, 1550-1607.; T. W.	1599 (1599)	STC 26124.5; ESTC S5001	76,549	165

it selfe corrupteth the rest of the bodie as we may easily see in the stomacke for if it alone keepe the food to it selfe it both killeth the rest of the bodie with famine and destroieth it selfe with it owne neuer satisfied corruption whereas on the other side if it receiue that which is sufficient for the satisfying thereof and sendeth the rest to the other members it preserueth both it selfe and the rest of the bodie in good state and health euen so thou also if thou keepe to thy selfe the things which thou hearest from vs The reddition with the reason of it and doest not communicate the same vnto others thou both hurtest them and also corruptest thy selfe because thou dost foster within thee these two sore diseases of slothfulnesse and enuie for it will suffice for thy destruction either through wickednesse or enuie or if ye will through sloth not to communicate them to others Thus farre Chrysostome Fiftly men after the Sermons which they haue heard vpon the Lords daie 5 Vpon the Lords daies after the Sermons are done men must not meddle with any profane businesses must not vndertake or treat of worldly and profane affaires belonging to this life as vpon markets mariage feasts dancings pressing or swearing of souldiours vnlesse the enemies power and presence and as we may say assault vrge and presse the same bargaines of buying and selling diuiding of inheritances casting of accounts about money matters or other things and such as be like to these by which the Lords Sabbath is profaned and the Lords day is not dedicated to God as it should be but to our selues and to the world No these things must be left and the Sermons which we haue heard must at home be repeated and rehearsed againe and againe Priuate exercises on the Sabbath and we must read the holy Bible and other profitable bookes touching Christian religion we must exercise holy singing of Psalmes and parents must vndertake to repeat with their children the points of the Catechisme and these things must be performed in euerie house and familie The preuention of an obiection But if in some houses there be not any that be learned or can read some of the neighbour families which can doe that dutie shall meet there and lend them their labour and aide as in this behalfe For as we take vnto our selues and imploy about our owne businesses A iust and a verie weightie reason all the rest of the sixe daies of the weeke and that many times from daie peepe as we say till it be verie late in the night so surely it behoueth vs no lesse to dedicate and consecrate the Lords daie wholly to God himselfe to holy actions and such exercises as are good for the health of our soules For what if God had claimed to himselfe and to his holy seruice sixe daies and had left vs only one for our vse and the affaires of this life what would we haue done then A worthie inference vpon the premisses As therfore this is a great argument of his singular goodnesse and mercie that here yeelding much of his owne right and authoritie he hath appointed but one day only for himselfe so of what great ingratitude vngodlinesse and of neuer satisfied couetousnes is this a testimonie that we will not or can not leaue no not the seuenth part of our whole life to God and our owne soules vntouched and vndefiled For good Lord with what deceits crafts vsuries lyings A vement exclamation thefts bankettings drunkennesses wanton songs blaspemies cursings by the holy name of God braulings blowes fightings whordomes adulteries wantonnesses vanities murthers and ten thousands besides of most grieuous wickednesses doe faires mariages markets dancings and the other things aboue rehearsed pollute and defile the Lords daies in so much as we may say that they are rather consecrated to Venus and Bacchus yea to the diuell himselfe than to God God verily will haue his people on the Sabbath day to cease and rest from earing from haruest worke Exod. 34.21 August in Psal 91. August lib. 10. de chordis And yet Augustine vpon the Psalmes and in an other peece of his workes affirmeth that it is better to goe to plow on the Sabbath day than to daunce that it is more meete for women to spinne then than that whole day to daunce vnchastly Yea God would haue the Sabbath vnder the old Testament to be sanctified with so great religion that he would not haue the Jewes so much as to kindle fire thoroughout all their habitations Exod. 35.3 And vpon paine of their soules or as they loue them he commaundeth them to take heed of this Iere. 17.21.27 that vpon the Sabbath day they neither bring in nor bring out any burthen by the gates of Ierusalem But notwithstanding this if they will do otherwise he threatneth that he wil kindle a fire in their gates that shall deuoure the houses of Ierusalem it shall not be quenched Nehem. 13.15.16.17 Wherefore Nehemiah seeing certaine men of Tyrus that in Ierusalem did buy and sell vpon the Sabbath day he reproued the rulers of Iudah and calling to their memorie this threatning of God denounced by Ieremiah he prouided that the gates of Ierusalem should be shut vpon the Sabbath day and set some of his seruants at the gates to watch that there should no burthen be brought in on the Sabbath day Nahum 13.21 Yea he was so zealous in this behalfe that he would not suffer chapmen and merchants no not without the walles of the Citie but protested amongest them that if they did so once againe he would lay handes vpon them There is a notable law of Leo and Antonius the Emperours touching the Lords day In Cod. lib. 3 tit de Feriis and it is this We will not haue holy daies dedicated to the most high maiestie of almightie God to be spent in any pleasures or to be profaned with any troubles of exactions wherefore we decree that the Lords day shal be alwaies so honoured and regarded that it shall be exempted from all executions A worthie and verie religious law no summons shal vrge any man then no demaund shall be made of suretiship all appearance shall be silent all pleading shall be hushed that day shall be farre from taking knowledge of causes the rough voice of the crier shall be silent the parties contending shall cease from their controuersies and haue a space of agreement the aduersaries may come together not fearing one another c An excellent caution And yet giuing libertie to the ease and rest of this religious daie we doe not or will not for all that suffer any man to be detained with filthie pleasures Stage plaies and Theater sighes shall chalenge nothing that day feates of wrastling running c. as also the pitifull spectacle of wilde beastes yea though the solemnitie thereof should fall to be kept for

our birth or birth day it shall be deferred He shall be degraded and neuer haue to deale with war The punishment yea he shall indure the open sale of his patrimonie whosoeuer he be that shall vpon any time of the festiuall day be present at shewes spectacles And the same punishment shal the apparitour or summoner of euery iudge indure if vnder the pretext of publike or priuate busines he thinke that the things which are established by this law may be violated By such a like constitution did Constantinus the great decree Const magn that all iudges and assemblies of Cities and townes and the seruice of all artes should cease or rest vpon the reuerend Sonday as wee call it or vpon the Lords daie Wherefore such in this behalfe offend that on the Lords day will not haue so much as a foot in the holy places of praier Profaners of the Sabbath or thinke that they haue well discharged and done their dutie if happily they doe superficially heare the forenoones Sermon or perhaps the halfe of it but spend the rest of the time of that daie in or about profane things only They also offend that supersticiously perswade themselues that the sanctification of the Lords day standeth in idlenesse onely and in doing of nothing and yet passe the same away in diuers follies vanities dansings drinkings and pleasures As indeed it cannot otherwise be An olde and true saying but that whilest men doe nothing they learne to doe ill But betwixt these two blameworthie extremities this is the meane namely to consecrate and to spend that day in those exercises which we haue spoken of alreadie and that not onely in the publike assemblies of the Church but at home in euerie seuerall familie priuately and aparte What worldly 〈…〉 Nay we say further let no worldly businesses or labours be taken in hand but such as necessitie it selfe doth force vs vnto that is such things as pertaine to our owne health welfare and defence or to the health welfare and defence of our neighbours and yet so to and in such things as could not either be taken in hand or dispatched the daie before or will not indure a delaie till the day after For in or vnder the commaundement touching the Sabbath such good works from God are not forbidden as the intermission thereof hath both ioyned with them the assured death and destruction of man and also is contrarie to charitie For in that case the sonne of man also is Lord euen of the Sabbath and the Sabbath was made for man Mat. 12.8 Marke 2.27 and not man for the Sabbath Wherefore the Macchabees did in this behalf through superstition offend 1. Macch. 2.34.35 c. that vpō the Sabbath day would not fight against Antiochus nor cast a stone at their aduersaries by meanes whereof they indured the slaughter of a thousand men or there about Wherupon after they had well weighed this errour and that by this meanes they might be rooted out of the land 1. Maccha 2.40.41 they decreed to fight against all that euen on the Sabbath day should set vpon them by battaile So doth our-Sauiour Christ defend that against the calumnies slaunders of the Pharisees his own disciples who for the beating backe of the necessitie of famine did pull the eares of corne and gather them on the Sabbath day Mat. 12.1.5 And further addeth haue yee not read in the law that on the Sabbath daies the priestes in the temple profane and breake but this he speaketh vpon supposition of the opinion of his aduersaries the Sabbath and yet are blamelesse where no doubt he alludeth to those holy workes and labours of the priestes who were constrained on the Sabbath day to slay sacrifices Num. 28.9 to bake the shew bread to set them in rowes before the Lord also to prepare incense Leuit. 24.5.8 to kindle the fire for the sacrifices to seeth the flesh of the sacrifice at the doore of the tabernacle Leuit. 8.31 and to dispose and set in order those seuerall instruments and vessels of the seruice and worship Exod. 26.33 which was prescribed vnder Moses all which surely required no small labour and businesse So if all the haruest time together the skie were rainie and onely the Lords day faire no man that is of sound iudgement could doubt but that the graine might without sinne both be cut downe and caried into the barnes Sixtly if we haue heard in the Sermons some certaine points which are dark 6 We must aske councell of the ministerie touching such things as are darke and we do not well vnderstand or which we our selues could not sufficiently attaine vnto we must not at any hand loath or neglect them vnder the pretext of this prophane speech things that are aboue vs doe not belong vnto vs but either we must aske councell concerning them of the ministers of the Church or if in this case reuerence of them or shamefastnesse in our selues which yet should not be doe hinder vs we ought to goe to them that are more familiar to vs and are indued with greater knowledge of Gods word and holy things For if we doe this in other things of this world and concerning our owne life how much more must we performe it in these diuine and heauenly things the right knowledge whereof is necessary for vs vnto saluation in the knowledge and iudgment wherof we should more and more abound that we may knew the things that differ Phil. 1.9.10 and that we may be syncere or pure And in this behalfe it is the duty of the ministers of the word not onely to teach euerie one in the publike assemblies of the Church but pruately also to instruct and teach As on the other side it is the dutie of faithfull hearers not to be content onely with the publike hearing of Sermons but priuately to lay open and poure out as it were into their ministers bosomes their ignoraunces doubts and scruples of consciences For the priestes lippes preserue knowledge Malach. 2.7 and the people must require the law at his mouth because he is the messenger of the Lord of hostes And Christ being exalted to the right hand of his Father doth not for any other respect vphold and preserue the ministerie of the Church than this Ephes 4.13 that we might all meet together into the vnitie of faith the acknowledging of the son of God that we henceforth be no more children or so should remaine alwaies in Gods matters wauering and caried about with euerie wind of doctrine but following the truth should grow vp c. So that Eunuch which was chamberlaine to the Queene of Ethiopia was not ashamed neither thought he it any whit hurtfull to his credit to lay open his ignorance to Philip Act. 8.34 and to intreat him to open vnto him that place of Isaiah which he was reading So the Apostles