be faire warnings to forwarne not only prophaners of the Sabbath but also all such as by their perâ—icious Doctrine teach men to prophane it Traskites SO called of one Mr. John Traske whom the Author knew well His opinions were that it was not lawfull to doe any thing â—orbiâ—den in the old Law nor to keep the Christian Sabbath One Theophilus Braborne endeavoured with him to bring back againe the Jewish Sabbath and to that purpose writ a Book in the yeare 1632. The Positions concerning the Sabbath by them maintained were these 1. THat the fourth Commandement of the Decalogue Remember the Sabbath day too keep it holy c. Exod. 20. is a divine precept simply and entirely Morall containing nothing legally Ceremoniall in whole or in part and therefore the weekly observation thereof â—â—ght to be perpetuall and to continue in full force and vertue to the worlds end 2. That the Saturday or the seventh day of every week ought to be an everlasting holy day in the Christian Church and the religious observation of this day obligeth Christians under the Gospell as it did the Jewes before the comming of Christ. 3. That the Sunday or Lords day is an ordinary working day an it is superstition and will-worship to make the same the Sabbath of the fourth Commandement Of this opinion was Theophilus Braborne As the Anabaptists will have no children baptised because there is no expresâ—e command for it in Scripture so these Sabbatarians will have no Sunday because they can find no expresse Text for the alteration of it Iohn Traske for his Judaicall opinions was censured in the Star-chamber to be set upon the Pillory at Westminster and from thence to bee whipt to the Fleet there to remaine Prisoner three years after he writ a recantation of all his Schismaticall errors Also Theophilus Braborne had his doome in the Star-chamber and afterwards renounced his Errors by conference had with Doctor Vhite Lord Bishop of Ely which caused him to write a book of the Sabbath For the observation of the Lords day we read there is among others a Treatisâ— of Doctor Bonners called A profitable and necessary Doctrine wherein on the fourth Commandement Sunday is oft called by the name of Sabbath and thereon saith he we must have our mindes quiet and free from all worldly cares and give them entirly and wholly unto God both privately and publikely and that wee must occupy our selves in thought word and deed as may be to the glory of God with spirituall edifying both of our selves and also of our neighbours and that every one must instruct his children servants and family in vertue and goodnesse and as Saint Augustine saith Serm. 251. Let us marke and see that our rest be not vaine or fruitlesse but that wee being sequestred from all rurall workes and from all businesse doe from the evening on the Saturday untill the evening on the Sunday give your selves to divine service Onely and after such sort we doe duely or well sanctifie the Sabbath of our Lord And to prove the Sabbath day to be kept he citâ—th Gen. 2. 5. Exod. 16. 25. Exod. 23. 12. Exod. 31. 14. Exod. 35. 2. Numb 15. 35. Some Some Christians there be that keep both Saturday and Sunday as the Ethiopians Of the Iesuites This sorâ— or Order is of a latter Edition then the Anabaptists and therefore not to be omâ—tted In descrebing of them I purpose to set downe 1. Their Originall 2. Their Government 3 Their Errors in which they doe not agree with other Papists 4. That they are of all Sects most pernicious and dangerous 1. FOR their Orignall the first Foundation was one Loyola a Spanish Souldier who was maimed by the French at the siege of Pampelona his right leg being broken by a shot and his left leg with a stone cast from the wall This Order boasteth much of heavenly visions and divine revelations not unlike the Coetanij the Anabaptists is that the blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Ignatius with her Son Iesus in her armes perswading him to erect this Order to which she promised to be propitious They will tell you that Ignatius was rapped up into heaven and that Almighty God shewed him the 〈…〉 or frame by which he created the world with many such like fancies Moreover whereas other orders beare the name of their founders as the Dominicans of Dominicke the Franciscans of Francis they beare the name of Jesus whereas saith my Author they came from the devill the father of lyes they being the last Engine and device of Satan to supplant the truth This Order was confirmed Anno 1540. by Paul the third Bishop of Rome Gregory the 13. Bishop of Rome gave to the Iesuites a place in Rome called the Island in which they demolished many houses turned many widdowes out of their dwellings and built themselves a most magnificent and sumptuous Colledge It is reported that it cost in building 25. Tun of gold in which the Pope placed 500. Jesuites of severall nations 2. For their government the Jesuites have a chife whom they call their Generall who attendeth upon the Pope in Rome their late General was Claudius Aquaviva his Office is to governe the whole Order and to make new orders and their Generalls commands the Jesuites receive as divine oracles They believe and obey their Generall as Christ himselfe Next their General they have foure Assistants who as their Generall attendeth the Pope so doe they attend their Generall The office of these four are to promote the Popes authority into the foure quarters of the world The Iesuites their Emissaries abroad signifie unto them in writing how Princes stand affected to the Church of Rome Moreover theie office is with the Generall to send Governors Visiters Recters and preachers to the whole Order and to send forth the inferiour Jesuites into all places of the world who take upon them all manner of fashions to doe mischiefe among souldiers they are arrayed like souldiers in Princes Courts like Noble-men attending forraigne Eâ—bassadors in Ciâ—ies like Merchants yea sometimes they beg of Protestant Ministers as men banished for religion And all this to dive into the secrets of State and to disclose the Counsells of Princes 3. For their Errors Chemnitius setteth downe 26. some sew of which I purpose to relate and especially those in which they differ from other Papists First they presumptuously arrogate to themselves the name of Iesus which is a name above all names 2. They place their Generall in equall authority with Christ saying the voyce of our Generall is the voyce of Christ. 3. The Jesuites generally maintaine the Popes temporall power as well as spiritual that he may depose Kings and dispose of their kingdomes which the French Papists doe not allow of viz. Their decree set forth Anno 1611. and among us Hart Bartley Preston and others disclaime this power given by the Jesuites to the Pope 4. They deny the lawfulnes of the Oath of
such as are not enlightned with true faith is â—â—lthy and polluted and to bee reputed for whoredome 9. Concerning Henry Nicolas 1. He is raised by the highest God from the dead 2. He can no more â—rre then Moses or Christ c. 3. He is the true Prophet of God sent to blow the last Trumper of Doctrine which shall be published upon earth 4. That he onely knoweth the true sense of Scripture 5. That his Books are of equall authority with the holy Scripture Through the service of H. N. his holy and gracious Word and our obedience thereunto we are led of the Father to the love of Jesus Christ. 6. That the Scriptures are fulfilled in H. N. and his Family 7. H. N. knoweth the secrets of our hearts 8. That all men must submit themselves to the godly wisdome of H. N. c. 10. Concerning their illuminated Elders and family 1. All illuminated Elders are Godded with God or deified and God in them hominified or become man 2. The young Disciples are Adams and the illuminated Elders Christs 3. The eldest Father of the Family is Christ himselfe 4. That the estate of all such as are not of this Sect is a false being the Antichrist the wicked spirit the kingdome of hell and the devill himselfe 5. The Family of Love is perfect in this life and therefore that they must not pray for forgivenesse of sins 6. That their illuminated Elders doe not sinne 7. They may ioyne with any Congregation and Church and live under the obedience of any Magistrate though never so ungodly 8. Whatsoever is taught by any other then by their illuminated Elders is false Such as despise their Family shall bee consumed with everlasting fire Moreover they hold 1. That he who is one of their Congregation is either as perfect as Christ or else a very divell 2. That it is lawfull to doe whatsoever the higher Powers command to be done though it be done against the commandement of God 3. That it is ridiculous to say God the Father God the Son God the holy Ghost as though by saying these words they should affirme to be three Gods 4. That every man ought first to be in an errour before he can come to the knowledge of the truth 5. That heaven and hell are present in this world among us and that there is none other 6. That they are bound to give almes to none other persons but to those of their Sect and if they otherwise doe they give their Almes to the divell 7. That they ought not to burie their dead because it is said let the dead bury the dead 8. That none ought to receive their Sacraments before he receiveth their whole Ordinances as 1. He must be admitted with a kisse then his feet must be washed then hands laid on him and so received 9. That the Angels Raphael and Gabriel and others were borne of a woman 10. That they ought not to say Davids Psalmes as Prayers being righteous and without sinne 11. That there ought to be no Sabbath day but that all should be alike 12. That Christ is come forth of the flesh as he came forth of the Virgin Mary 13. That there was a world before Adams time as is now 14. That the Law of God is possible to be kept of every man that will endeavour himselfe thereto 15. That it is â—â—pedient that they should make manifest their whole heart with all their counsels minds wils and thoughts together with all their doings dealings and exercises naked and bare before the children of the Family of Love and not to cover or hide any thing be it was it is before him and what their inclination and nature draweth them unto In a word their doctrine is perverse blasphemous and erroâ—eous it openeth a doore to all wickednese turning Religion up-side-downe building heaven here upon earth making God man and man God heaven hell and hell heaven not accounting of the Law of God and making but a jest of the Gospell of Jesus Christ leaving no manner of sin uncommitted yet affirming they sin not at all for venome and poyson which will bring present death to the soule he hath dispersed over every member and Article of the Beliefe so universall is the poyson of his opinion as you may see in their confession set down by Mr. Knewstub 3. The Confession of Familists I Doe believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth They say the same is a true living God a mighty Spirit a perfect cleare light a true being and that the same being is God the Fathers name and his love it selfe And they perswade their good willing ones that by the beliefe of this Article which they call the Baptisme in the Fathers name that here and now they do attain to the perfect obedience of the Law of God and of the beliefe of Jesus Christ and love of the holy Ghost which they make to be all one with the perfect righteousnesse of the Law 2. And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord. Some of these words they alter for instead of his onely Son they say the onely Son of God c. Whereby Jesus the only Son I mean Righteousnesse for there is their generall Tenet and conclusion that Righteousnesse is Christ and Sin is Antichrist The seed of the woman is righteousnesse and holinesse and the seed of the Serpenâ— is sin turning the person of Christ into equality 3. Which was conceived of the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary As we confesse the thing done so we speake of the present time as of the thing doing saying which is conceived of the holy Ghost meaning every one that comes to take in their Belief as they term it is then conceived of the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary calling the conception of their fancy the first or Virgins estate of Infancy so making the Article intend all and every one of them in generall and hot one in particular as we beleeve 4. Sufferedunder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried and descended into hell In the former Article they confesse the conception and birth of the blessed seed of Abraham according to the Promises and here they beleeve their sufferings according to the Scriptures And Jesus Christ is borne and conceived in themselves under Pontius Pilate and so is incorporated into the death of his Crosse and this they call the Baptisme under the obedience of the Beliefe in the name of the Son and they fâ—y they bury through his Belief the old Man which state they call the youth or young Man the renewing of the Spirit in an upright life wherein this Article both of suffering crucifying death and buriall and discention into hell are fulfilled in them the rest you may see in Mr. Knewstub 4. Their lewd Conversations OF this holy Family we read that most shameful corruption of life hath alwaies followed corruption of Doctrine as Rom. 1. 24. God
righteousnesse This Prophesie the multitude entertained and proclaimed Iohn of Leyden King of Zion with great acclamations The new King being a Tailor made use of his skill and translated the Copes and Carpets of the Churches into Robes and set forth his Majesty in gold and silver his horses were also sutably harnessed with saddles and foot-cloathes embroydered with gold he rode abroad in very great state having his chiefe Officers before him next before him were two young men the one carrying a Bible the other a sword He himself wore a great chaine like the Collar of some Order his Motto was Rex justitiae hujus mundi the King of righteousnesse of this world After him followed fifty Pensioners well clad three times a week he kept Court sitting upon a high Throne in great Magnificence under him sate Knipper dolling Governour of the City and lower his foure great Counsellours of State In that Court he judged all Controversies most of which was about Divorces for by their new orders any man that was weary of his wife might put her away and take another Among other memorable acts of this new King I read that one of his wives offending him he tooke her into the Market-place and cut off her head causing the rest of his wives to dance about her and give thanks to their heavenly Father and then the King began to dance himself commanding the people to dance with him Againe Thuscocurer the Prophet came to the King sitting in his Throne in more than ordinary Majesty saying to him King Iohn the Gospel must be renewed by thee Thus saith the Lord God goe and say to the King of Zion that hee prepare my Supper in the Church-yard of the great Church and that he send forth Preachers of my word into the foure quarters of the world to teach all Nations the way of righteousnesse and to bring them by the spirit of their mouthes into my Sheep-fold So a publike Communion was celebrated which they made a full meale a great Feast it was both for persons as also for meat for there were about foure thousand Communicants and three courses of meat but between them saith my Author there was an entercourse for the King accused a man of Treason and cut off his head and returned againe and with bloudy hands he tooke upon him to administer the body and bloud of Christ assisted with the Queen who did the office of a Deacon the like did the principall Officers of State After Supper the King asked the people whether they were all heartily disposed to doe Gods will and to suffer and dye for the faith To whom the people answered with one voyce that they would Then rose the Prophet and said Thus saith the Lord chuse men among my people to send to the foure quarters of the world to doe wonders among the Nations and to publish my wondrous things among strange people Then he read the names of 28. of whom himselfe was one these Apostles went to the Cities to which they were sent crying in the streets that they should repent or else shortly be destroyed these men were apprehended in the Cities and put to death and so there was an end of their Apostleship All this while the City was besieged by Count Waldeck the Owner thereof and so fore oppressed with Famine that they were faine to eaâ—e Dogs Cats Rats sodden Leather yea some their owne children The Princes of the Empire assembled at Coblents pittying the seduced people sent letters to the people of Munster representing to them their fault and danger they were in and that if they did not submit to their naturall Prince they should draw the whole force of the Empire upon them this was about December 1534 Hilversum also one of their Prophets being taken by the besiegers writ out of the Camp a most sensible Letter to the people of Munster wherein he acknowledgeth that his former Prophesies were impostures and entreated them to open their â—yes to see how they were deluded by a company of Rascalls what a beastly life they lead having violated all Lawes of pudicity and honestie These Letters moved the hearts of many who were weary of their lives that they lived in and were also pinched with hunger and they began to murmour against the King who calling them together made a fine speech to them saying that he would never have thought that they being born again by a new baptisme would shew themselves so impatient for Gods cause whereas they should have followed St. Pauls example bearing nakednesse hunger and cold to attaine the heaven of salvation That God was powerfull enough to send them Manna and Quailes from heaven That he had great Troops in Holland and Freezeland that would certainly come with great provision of victualls and beare the enemy back That God had revealed to him that at Eafter they should be delivered for certaine Finally the Towne was taken Iune 1535. having endured a siege of eighteen moneths after the taking of the Towne it was ordered that the innocent people should be spared and that all the good Citizens that were come out or kept in by force should have restitution of their goods The Citizens that yeelded were spared but the fierce Anabaptists who could never bee tamed and lay hid in severall holes were sought out and killed The King resisted to the last and being taken with Knipperdoling and others was sent prisoner to a Castle drawne thither tyed to a horse taile hee was condemned and executed as a Traitor being tyed to a stake and pulled in divers parts of his body with hot pincers for an houre and more and then stricken to the heart with a dagger with him suffered Knipperdoling The King abjured his Errors but Knipperdoling dyed like a mad beast After their deathes they were put into Iron Cages and hanged upon the high steeple of St. Lambert Thus dyed this imaginary King and Anabaptistrie was suppressed in Munster As the Anabaptists had surprised Munster so they had the like projects in many other places but with ill successe As one Iohn of Geles was sent to Amsterdam and finding the people fit objects for his delusions hee told them wonders of the new Kingdome of righteousnesse at Munster their liberty of living their pillaging of Churches and the inriching themselves with the goods of the ungodly and of the great designes of their King of the prophesies of the propagation of his Kingdome with such discourses In their private Conventicles they filled the mindes of the people with a frantick zeale and made them long to be fingâ—ing Church-Plate and the goods of the ungodly pretending that it was an easie matter to surprise Amsterdam which Town with others God had given to the King of Zion as the first fruits of his Reigne over the world Hereupon they enterprised the taking of the Towne and to kill the Magistrates as they were feasting in their Towne house but by the providence of God they were
this Sect. 7. The abjuration of certaine Familisâ—s at Pauls Crosse. THe first author was one David George of Delfe who fled out of Hollâ—ndâ—â— Basill giving it our that he was banished out of the low Countreyes he changed his name called himselfe Iohn of Bridges he affirmed that he was that right David that was sent from God and should restore againe the Kingdome of Israel He wrote divers Books as one called the Wonder-booke he broached his damnable Heresiee as â— All the Doctrines taught by Moses the Propheâ—s and Christ himselfe were not sufficient to salvation but only to keep the people in good order till the comming of David George but his doctrine was able to save all those that put their trust in him 2. That he was the right Messias the beloved Son of the Father not born of the flesh but of the Holy Ghost and that when Christ was dead according to the flesh the Spirit of Christ was left by the Fathers appoyntment untill the comming of this David George and given him 3. That he would set up the true house of David and the children of Levi must raise the Tabernacle of God through the Spirit of Christ not by the crosse and suffering but through meeknesse and love 4. That whosoever speaketh against this Doctrine shall never be forgiven in this world nor in the world to come he dyed the 16. of August 1556. at which his Disciples were much dismayed for he promised them that he should not dye or if he did that he should rise againe and fulfill all his former Promises whereupon some forsook his heresies The Magistrates being informed of his doctrine and manners caused his house the houses of such as were suspected to hold such errours to be searched his books to be burnt forseiting his goods and lands â—o the use of the Town causing his followers to recant After him rose one Henry Nicholas borne in Amsterdam a Towne in Holland of many called Henry of Amsterdam who took upon him to maintaine the same Doctrine yet not in the name of David but in his owne name as a Prophet sent to rebuke the world of sin and iniquity naming himselfâ— restâ—â—râ—toâ— mundâ— the restorer of the world Mr. Iessop describeth H. N. after this manner page 89. They call him the new man or the holy nature or holinesse which they make to be Christ and sin to be Antichrist because it is oppâ—â—iâ—e to Christ. They say that when Adam sinned then Christ was killed and Antichrist came to live They teach the same perfection of holinesse which Adam had before he fell is to be obtained here in this life and affirme that all their Family of Love are as perfect and innocent as hee and that the Resurrection of the dead spoken of by St. Paul 1 Cor. 15. and this Prophesie then shall be fulfilled the saying which is written O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory is fulfilled in them and they deny all other resurrection of the body to be after this life They will have this blasphemer H. N. to be the Son of God Christ which was to come in the end of the world to judge the world and say that the day of judgement is already come and that H. N. judgeth the world now by his Doctrine so that whosoever doth not obey his Gospell in time shall be rooted out of the world and that this Family of Love shall inherit and inhabite the earth for ever world without end onely they say they shall dye in the body as now men doe and their soules goe to heaven but their Posterities shall continue for ever This deceiver describeth eight through-breakings of the light as he tearmeth them to have been in eight severall times from Adam to the time that now is which as he saith have each exceeded other The seventh he alloweth Iesus Christ to be the publisher of and his light to be the greatest of all that ever were before him and he maketh his owne to be the eight and last and greatest and the perfection of all in and by which Christ is perfected meaning holinesse he maketh every one of his Family of Love to be Christ yea and God and himselfe God and Christ in a more excellent manner saying that he is godded with God and co-deified with him and that God is hominified with him These horrible blas hemies with divers others doth this H. N. his Family teach to be the everlasting Gospell which the Angel is said to preach in the Rev. 11. 15. They professe greater love to the Church of Româ— and to all her Idolatries and superstitions then they doe to any Church else whatsoever except themselves They wickedly abuse these words of Christ I must walk to day to morrow and the third day I shal be perfected and say that by to day is meant the time of Jesus Christ his Apostles and by to morrow all the time of the Religion of the Church of Rome and by the third day this their day of H. N. and his Family wherein they will have Christ to be perfected And they doe compare all the whole religion of the Church of Rome to the Law of Moses affirming that as God did teach his prople by these shadowes and types till Jesus Christ came so hee hath taught the world ever since by the Images sacrifices and heathen Rites of the Church of Rome till this wretch H. N. came and now he must be the onely chiefe Teacher Gods obedient man yea his Son as they blasphemously call him hee by his Gospell must make all things perfect One Christopher Viret a Joyner dwelling in Southwarke who had been in Queen Maries dayes an Arian being infected with Hen Nocolas his doctrine poysoâ—ed first the English with this heresie he translated out of Dutch into English divers of the books of Henr. Nicholas as Evangelium regni out of which and others these errors are collected 2. Their blasphemous Errors 1. COncerning God That there is none other Deitie belonging unto God but such as men are partakers of in this life 2. Concerning Christ 1. That Christ is not God 2. Christ is not one man but an estaâ—e and conâ—â—tion in men common to so many as have received H. N. his doctrine c. 3. Of Adam That Adam was all that God was and God all that Adam was c. 4. Concerning Baptisme That no man should be baptized untill he was 30 yeares old 5. Concerning the Word That there was never truth preached since the Apostles time before H. N. 6. Concerning the Resurrection 1. The resurrection of the body is a â—ising from sin and wickednesse 2. That the dead shall rise and live in H. N. and in the iluminated Elders everlastingly and reigne upon earth 7. Concerning the day of Judgement 1. That the day of Judgement is in this life 2. That the joyes of heaven are here upon earth 8. Concerning marriage The marriage of
and the Word was with God and the Word was God 3. The eternall generation of the Son to be against reason against truth refuted Mic. 5. 2. Thou Bethlehem Ephrata out of thee shall come to be a Ruler in Israel whose goings have been from of old from everlasting John 1. 14. Psal. 7. Col. 1. 15. 4. Christ not to be called God in respect of his Essence but by reason of his dominion which is refuted Iohn 10. 30. I and the Father am one 1 John 5. Heb. 1. 3. Psal. 2. verse 7. 5. The Holy Ghost to be God refuted Acts 5. 3. Why hath Satan filled thy hearâ— to lie to the holy Ghost 4. Thou hast not lien to men but to God Isa. 4. 8. 16. Iob 33. 14. Psal. 33. 6. From these false Doctrines and Heresies good Lord deliver us These Hereticks have been heretofore burnt among us as Anno 1611. March 18. Bartholomew Legat an 〈◊〉 Arrian was burnt in Smithfiâ—ld he refused all favour contemned Ecclesiasticall Government And in the monâ—â— of April following one Edward Wightman was burnt at Liechfield for the same Heresie Queene Elizabeth of blessed memorie heâ—â—ing of them said shee was very sorrowfull to heare that shee 〈◊〉 such Monsters in her Kingdome and truly it grieveth me very much to relate their blasphemous and devillish opinions Of Millenaries AN Heresie frequent at this time This Sect look for a temporary kingdome of Christ that must begin presently and last a thousand yeares Of this Opinion are many of our Apocalypticall men that study more future events then their present duty and more rules by Prophesies then Precepts This Fancie is most dangerous for all estates 1. For to promote that Kindome of Christ they 〈◊〉 that all the ungodly must be killed 2. That the wâ—cked have no property in their estates 3. That the promise might be fulfilled that the meek must inherit the earth This Doctrine filleth the people with a furious and unnaturall zeale which breathes nothing but fire and sword and maketh them to look upon their Countrey-men with such an eye as the Anabaptists cast upon Munster when they came first to it viz. a malignant and covetous eye discerning their prey and marking the rich men to ruine destruction God deliver us from such a Reformation brought by a multitude missed with a frantick zeale and giddy Revelations This was the ancient Error of Cerinthus who was a Jew and lived in the time of Domitian the Emperour about the yeare of our Lord 96. Among other Errors he taught eternall life to be here in earth where we should enjoy all pleasures of the flesh That after the resurrection Christs kingdome should be upon earth and corpâ—rall and that men should live in carnall concupiscence and lust for one thousand yeares He dyed oppressed by the fall of a Bath when St. Iohn the Evangelist with some of his Disciples were bathing at Ephesus and saw this Heretick Cerinthus in the Bath he leaped out saying let us depart lest the Bath fall upon us Cerinthus being here the enemy of truth which came to passe as sone as Saint Iohn was gone out of it as is set downe in these Verses of Stigelius Impia Cerinthus sansto convitia Christâ— Dum facit stulta garrulitate furit Concidit rando blasphemum contudit ictu Collapsae subito facta ruina domus This ancient Heresie condemned by the Church and long agoe buried is now revived in these latter times You shall finde this heresie confuted in the Chapter of the Anabaptists Hetheringtonians THE Author of this Sect was one Iohn Hetherington a Box-maker 1. This Hetherington being a Trades-man cast off his Trade and betook himselfe to be an Interpreter of the Scriptures to many persons keeping private Conventicles 2. He maintained and published the Church of England to be no true Church of Christ. 3. He was a man dis-affected to the Government and Discipline of the Church of England and agreeth with the Familists holding with them the perfect purity of the soule 4. He maintained and published the Sabbath since the Apostles 〈◊〉 to be of no force and that every day is a Sabbath as much as that which we call the Lords day or Sunday 5. He maintained the Books of Esdras was part of the Canonicall Scripture and that they ought so to be esteemed For which erroâ—â—ous opinions tending to the disturbance of the peace of the Church to the seducing of many silly soules he was adjudged for a dangerous Sectary and among other 〈…〉 upon him this was one that he should recant his Errors at Pauls Crosse. His Errors before named are confâ—ted by Doctor Denison in a Sermon of his which he preached at Pauls Crosse at the recantation of the fore-said Hethrington He recanted them at Pauls Crosse and hath lately written against the Familists The Anti-Sabbatarians THese Anti-Sabbatarians hold the Sabbath day or that which we call the Lords day to be no more a Sabbath in which they goe about to violate all Religion for take away the Sabbath and farewell Religion The Morality of the Sabbath doth consist in a mysticall resting from sin but in celebrating an appoynted day in seven to the worship and service of Almighty God 1. The Sabbath was instituted in the time of mans Innocency 2. The manner of promulgation of it in the Decalogue is worrhy to be observed God saith Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day 3. This Law is not placed among the Ceremoniall or Judiciall Lawes but in the Decalogue it selfe 4. The reasons for keeping it are expressed in the Commandement viz. Six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thâ—â— hast to doe but the seventh day is the Lord c. Reasons why the Lords Day is to be observed 1. BY Morality of the fourth Commandement because the Morall Law is not abrogated by the Gospell but established Rom. 3. 3. 2. Because this day on which our Lord rose hath been observed by all Christians It was kept at Ierusalâ—m Aâ—â—s 2. 1. It was kept at Troas Acts 20. 7. At Patmâ—s Rev. 1. 10. And in all Christian Churches in the whole world 3. The ancient Fathers have pressed the observation of this day Ignatius saith Let every one that loveth 〈◊〉 celebrate the Lords day St. Basil saith when as 〈…〉 dayes prescribed by the Law are abolished yet ther◠〈◊〉 one great day of the Lord which never shall be abolished Their Testimonies are infinite 4. God hath from time to time shewed his feâ—refull judgements upon prophaners of his day as you read in the Practice of Piety A certain Husband-man griâ—ding corne â—n the Lords day had all his meale burned to ashes another carrying corne upon the same day had his Barn and all his Corn the next night burnt A certaine Noble-man usually prophaning the Lords day by hunting had a child by his Lady 〈◊〉 had a head like a hound Many exaâ—ples of Gods judgments are there set down all which may