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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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