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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09813	Sunday no Sabbath A sermon preached before the Lord Bishop of Lincolne, at his Lordships visitation at Ampthill in the county of Bedford, Aug. 17. 1635. By John Pocklington Doctor of Divinitie, late fellow and president both of Pembroke Hall and Sidney Colledge in Cambridge, and chaplaine to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincolne.	Pocklington, John.	1636 (1636)	STC 20077; ESTC S114780	31,029	56

Scripture hath determined nothing mos populi Dei S. Aug. ep Cas 86. instituta majorum pro lege tenenda sunt the custome of Gods people and the ordinance of our Elders are to be observed as lawes And in this case for any man to doubt whether he should relinquish and abandon his owne new devices ita faciendum and that it becomes him to doe as he sees the whole Church of God to doe insolentissimae insaniae est is an insolencie with madnesse to boot saies Saint Augustine S. Aug aep 119. Ja. And to talke with such interminata orietur luctatio were to uphold wrangling world without end 3 If the first day of the weeke be the Lords day we must looke to doe the Lords worke on it and not trench upon him by doing our owne worke thereon For no excuse of businesse ought to keepe us from the service of God on that day No necessitie is a greater tyrant than poverty yet is that no good excuse for thy absence from Church saies Saint Chrysostome to say thou art poore and must follow thy businesse S. Chrysoft hom 24. de bap Christi For God hath not taken to himselfe the greatest part of the dayes of the weeke but hath given thee sixe unam vero sibi reliquit and left himselfe but one yet wilt thou finde out the thiefe povertie to steale that away from him too as sacrilegious persons doe consecrate things But what doe I speake de integro die of a whole day Doe but that in keeping the Lords day which the widow did in her almes that gave two mites sic tu duas horas so give the Lord two houres This if you doe not beware you lose not integrorum annorum labores the labours of many whole yeares Qu. May then no worke of our owne be done on the Lords day not so much as out of the times of the Lords service Resp Out of doubt there may yea though we should suppose that Christians are bound to keepe the Lords day as strictly as our Saviour kept the Sabbath For our Saviour saies Epiphanius non artem fabrilem lignariam S. Epip●●● 2. 〈◊〉 2. ber 66. p. 229. aut ferrariam did not follow the trade of a Carpenter or Smith on the Sabbath day though he was so poore that he used Josephs trade and made both Carts and Ploughs yet conversatione doctrinâ by his doctrine and course of life he shewed that some workes of our owne might be done on the Sabbath out of the times of divine service for himselfe made clay est autem opu● lutum subigere and to make clay is a kinde of worke a worke neither of necessity nor charity for had it so pleased him the worke of charity had taken place before the clay could have been tempered He commanded also the Cripple grabbatum tollere to carry away his bed which then needed not for the arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem would not have medled with it on that day The Disciples also by his doctrine and example saies the same Father spicas vellunt torrent edunt do plucke and parch their corne on the Sabbath day And there was no law saies Saint Irenaeus that forbade them so to doe 〈…〉 metere autem colligere in horreum lex vetabat but the law forbade reaping and carrying into the barne on the Sabbath day His reason is this continere enim se jubeb at lex ab omni opere servili i.e. ab omni avaritiâ quae per negotiationem reliquo terreno actu ●gitatur The law forbiddeth all servile workes wherein covetousnesse sticketh as a naile betweene two stones Some small chares then of our owne may be done on the Lords day out of the times of the Lords service Secondly meate may be drest and Feasts may be kept on the Lords day by Christs example S. Luc. 14.13 who was at a feast on the Sabbath day and none ought to blame us for doing the like For rectè Ecclesiae festa colunt S. Aug. de temp ser 253. 255. qui Ecclesiae filios se esse recognoscunt they doe well to keepe the Feasts of the Church that remember themselves to be the sonnes of the Church This doctrine Saint Augustine taught his people Novit sanctitas vestra fraires my brethren your holinesse knoweth very well that to day consecrationem altaris celebramus we celebrate the Feast for the consecration of the Altar in quo unctus vel benedictus est lapis in quo divina sacrificia consecrantur ac meritò gaudentes celebramus and wee doe well to keepe this feast with joy not with wanton lewd or unchaste joy Saint Austine is no Proctor to plead for Baal nor any that follow him For nescio qua fronte saith he I cannot tell with what conscience he can shew a cheerefull countenance in altaris consecratione that is not precise in cordis sui altari munditiam custodire to preserve purity in the altar of his heart The Lords day then is and ought to bee kept as a Feast as the Sabbath was Judith 10.2 For magnum scandalum saies Saint Augustine nay magnum nefas saies Tertullian it is a great scandall S. Aug. ep 86. Tert. de Coro Mil. and a foule sinne to fast on the Lords day Therefore we condemne the Manichees saies Saint Ambrose that fast on Sundayes S. Amb. ep 33. l. 10. We are bound to fast on Fridayes and of feast on Sundayes so have we a day amaritudinis laetitiae in illo jejunemus illo reficiamur to fast on the one to feast on the other The Jewes themselves saies Tertullian kept not their Sabbath with fasting for pridianâ paraturâ by their provision of two Omers for a man it plainely appeareth that they made as large a meale on the Sabbath as on any day else Ob. But they were commanded to dresse their Sabbath dinner the day before and the Commandement saies On it thou shalt doe no maner of worke Sol. Not to dispute it further S. Aug. ep 119. c. 12. how or to what the Jewes were bound upon their Sabbath however this nothing concernes us Christians if we understand the Commandement aright for though all the nine Commandements sic observantur ut sonant are to be kept according to the letter observare tamen diem Sabbathi non ad literam jubemur secundum etium ab opere corporali sicut observant Judaei yet we Christians are not commanded to observe the Sabbath after the letter by a strict rest as did the Jewes nor the Lords day after the maner of the Jewish Sabbath for of all the ten Commandements the third which concerneth the Sabbath figurativè intelligendum est is to be understood figuratively For this Commandement was given for no other end but onely for a signe saies Saint Irenaeus out of the Prophet Ezechiel ● Iren. l. ● c. 30. cap. 20. and out of the Law of Moses