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<P>THE
DOCTRINE
OF THE
SABBATH,
As it hath been believed and taught,
by ancient and eminent Chri&s;tians, Col|lected
word for word out of their own writings,
AND
Now Tendred to the Con&s;ideration
of all the Godly, e&s;pecially
TO THE
PARLIAMENT,
To direct them in their intended Act,
for the due and &s;trict ob&s;ervation
Of the Lords Day.</P>
<P>By a friend to Truth, and to the pre&s;ent powers
of this Common-wealth, in the way of Truth.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Giles Calvert,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his
Shop, the Sign of the Black Spread-<HI>Eagle,</HI> at the We&s;t-end
of <HI>Pauls.</HI> 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>The Doctrine of the Sabbath, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_THere is nothing more <HI>dangerous</HI> (and yet more
<HI>common)</HI> among Profe&s;&s;ors, then <HI>Zeal without
Knowledge,</HI> for by this, men have many times run
headlong, again&s;t the <HI>power</HI> of godline&s;s, pretend|ing
the <HI>Form,</HI> and again&s;t the <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Spirit</HI> of
the Word, pretending the <HI>Letter</HI> of it, yea
through this they have killed the <HI>Prophets</HI> and <HI>A|po&s;tles,</HI>
and <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elf, thinking thereby they did God <HI>good &s;er|vice:</HI>
And even godly men them&s;elves, having in &s;ome things more
<HI>Zeal</HI> then <HI>Knowledge,</HI> have gro&s;ly erred and mi&s;taken in very weigh|ty
matters; <HI>Peter</HI> of a good mind (as they &s;ay) rebuked Chri&s;t, for
&s;aying he mu&s;t go to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and there &s;uffer death; and the &s;ons
of <HI>Zebedee,</HI> out of the like blind zeal; would have had fire to have
come from Heaven to de&s;troy the <HI>Samaritans,</HI> &amp;c. And I doubt not
but the <HI>Parliament,</HI> out of a great Zeal are providing for the &s;trict
<HI>Ob&s;ervation</HI> of the <HI>Lords</HI> Day.</P>
<P>Wherefore that they may take <HI>Knowledge along</HI> with their <HI>Zeal,</HI>
or rather in the <HI>head</HI> of it, as its guide and Leader, I have thought
good to admoni&s;h them, that they &s;earch the Word of God in this
matter, and that without the Word they pre&s;ume to do nothing,
though it &s;eem never &s;o glorious, &s;eeing whatever is done without
the Word, though it &s;eem never &s;o holy and good, yet is nothing el&s;e
but plain Idolatry. And becau&s;e none &s;hould &s;ay that I had per|verted
the Word, and given a fal&s;e &s;en&s;e of it, and am come forth
to trouble the Church with new Light and Notions, I have therefore
produced in this matter only the Te&s;timonies of <HI>Others,</HI> yet &s;uch,
who&s;e names are pretious in the Church for their Wi&s;dom and &s;pi|rituall
under&s;tanding in the Word, as well as for their Faith and
Love, who though dead, yet &s;peak to this matter in the&s;e following
Quotations.</P>
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<HEAD>Te&s;timonies gathered together by that pretious Martyr,
Doctor Barnes, which are extant in his Works to be
read pag. 367.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">That the true Ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath con&s;i&s;teth not only in ab|&s;taining
from bodily labors; And that to a Chri&s;tian man every
day is the Sabbath, and not only the Seventh day.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HIerome</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Super <HI>Gal.</HI> cap. 4.</NOTE> Therefore be certain dayes a&s;&s;igned, that we
&s;hould come together; not that that day in the which we
come together is holyer then another, but all dayes be alike and e|quall.
And Chri&s;t is not alonely crucified in Para&s;ceden, and ri&s;en
only on the Sonday, but the day of Re&s;urrection is alwayes, and al|wayes
may we eat of the Lords Fle&s;h, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Epi&s;t. 19.</NOTE> We mu&s;t ob&s;erve the Sabbath day, not that we
&s;hould reckon our &s;elves not to labor, but that all things that we do
work well, mu&s;t have an intention to the everla&s;ting re&s;t. Where|fore
we mu&s;t ob&s;erve the holy day, not by corporall idlene&s;s, and
unto the Letter, but &s;piritually mu&s;t we re&s;t from vices and concu|pi&s;cences.
Wherefore among all the ten Commandements, that of
the Sabbath day is alonely commanded to be figuratively ob&s;erved,
&amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Tertullian</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Adver&s;us Judaeos.</NOTE> The carnall Circumci&s;ion is put away, and ex|tincted
at his time. So likewi&s;e the ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath day
is declared to be for a time, for we mu&s;t keep the Sabbath day, not
alonely the Seventh day, but at all times, as <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> &s;aith, &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">De Con&s;ec. Di&s;t. 3 cap. pervenit.</NOTE> It is come unto me, that certain men, which be of
an evill mind, have &s;owen certain evill things among you, and con|trary
to the holy Faith, &s;o that they do forbid that men &s;hould work
on the Sabbath day. The which men, what other thing &s;hall we call
them, but the Preachers of Antichri&s;t, the which Antichri&s;t &s;hall
make the Sabbath day and the Sonday be kept from all manner of
work, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>Te&s;timonies proving the &s;ame Article, Tran&s;lated out of
his Book De Doctorum Sententiis.</HEAD>
<P>AND it &s;hall come to pa&s;s from Moon to his Moon,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 66. 23.</NOTE> and from
Sabbath to Sabbath, all Fle&s;h &s;hall come to wor&s;hip before
me, &s;aith the Lord.</P>
<P>For the Son of Man is al&s;o Lord of the Sabbath.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 12.</NOTE></P>
<P>Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in part of
an holy day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. 2. 16.</NOTE> or of the new Moon, or of the Sabbath dayes, which
are a &s;hadow of things to come, but the body is of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>After ye have known God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 4 9.</NOTE> or rather are known of God, how
turn ye again to the weak and beggarly Elements, whereunto ye de|&s;ire
again to be in bondage? Ye ob&s;erve <HI>Dayes,</HI> and Moneths, and
Times, and Years; I am afraid of you, le&s;t I have be&s;towed upon
you labor in vain.</P>
<P>The Jews were commanded to celebrate the holy Sabbath one
day in the week,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ambro&s;e ad Irenae. Epi&s;t. 77.</NOTE> that they &s;hould be &s;ubject to no burden: but they
being loo&s;ed from worldly bu&s;ine&s;s, I would they had &s;o pa&s;&s;ed, that
they had carryed with them no burden of grievous &s;ins unto the
everla&s;ting Sabbath of the world to come. Let the Synagogue of
the Jews ob&s;erve the day, let the Church ob&s;erve it to Immortality.
In the Law therefore was a portion, in the Go&s;pel is the perfecti|on,
&amp;c.</P>
<P>Who&s;oever ob&s;erveth that day hitherunto,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. de Spiritu &amp; Lit. cap. 14.</NOTE> as the Letter &s;oundeth,
judgeth carnally.</P>
<P>For if Chri&s;t hath taken from us that grievous yoke of many Ob|&s;ervances,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. ad Bonifac. l. 3. c. 4. cont. 2. Ep. Pelag.</NOTE> that we &s;hould not be carnally Circumci&s;ed, that we
&s;hould not offer Sacrifice for our &s;ins, that on the Sabbath of the
Seventh day we &s;hould not ab&s;tain from nece&s;&s;ary bu&s;ine&s;s, and o|ther
&s;uch like, if we ob&s;erve them being &s;piritually under&s;tood, and
&s;etting a&s;ide all &s;hadows, &s;ignifying the true light of tho&s;e things.
Let us take heed whether we &s;hall therefore &s;ay that it pertaineth
not to us which is written, that what&s;oever one findeth of another
mans, he re&s;tore again to him that lo&s;t it: and many other precepts
whereby we learn to live well and godly, and e&s;pecially that Deca|logue
which is contained in the two Tables of &s;tone, the carnall ob|&s;ervation
of the Sabbath only excepted, which &s;ignifieth a &s;pirituall
&s;anctification and re&s;t, &amp;c.</P>
<P><PB N="5" REF="3">
Fir&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. in <HI>Gal.</HI></NOTE> mu&s;t a man know that the works of the Law be of two &s;orts,
for they partly con&s;i&s;t in Sacraments, and partly in morall precepts.
Unto the Sacraments are referred the Circumci&s;ion of the fle&s;h, the
temporal Sabbath, the new Moon, the Sacrifices, and all &s;uch like
innumerable ob&s;ervances. Unto moral precepts are referred the&s;e,
Thou &s;halt not &s;lay, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Te&s;timony of others in this matter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>TIndal</HI> the Martyr &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tindal.</HI> p. 274</NOTE> And to &s;peak of the Sabbath, which was
ordained to be their &s;ervant &amp; to preach &amp; be a &s;ign unto them,
that God through his holy Spirit and Word doth &s;anctifie them, in
that they obeyed his commandments, and believed, and tru&s;ted in his
promi&s;es, and therefore were charged to leave working, and to
come on the holy day to hear the Word of God, by which they
were &s;anctified unto it, al&s;o they became captive and bound to &s;erve
it, &s;aying that they were ju&s;tified by ab&s;taining from bodily labor
(as ours think al&s;o) in&s;omuch that though they be&s;towed not the
holy day in vertue, prayer, and hearing the Word of God, in alms|deeds,
in vi&s;iting the &s;ick, the needy and comfortle&s;s, and &s;o forth,
but went up and down idle, yet what&s;oever need his neighbor had,
he would not have helped him on the Sabbath day, as thou maye&s;t
&s;ee by the Ruler of the Synagogue, who rebuked Chri&s;t for healing
the people on the holy day, <HI>Luk.</HI> 13.</P>
<P>Again the &s;ame <HI>Tindal</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tindal.</HI> p. 287</NOTE> And as for the Sabbath, a great mat|ter,
we be Lords over the Sabbath, and may yet change it into the
Monday,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&rindx;</NOTE> or any other day, as we &s;ee need, or may make every <HI>tenth</HI>
day holyday only, if we &s;ee a cau&s;e why: We may make two every
week if it were expedient, and not enough to teach the people.
Neither was there any cau&s;e to change it from the Saturday, then to
put difference between us and the Jews, and le&s;t we &s;hould become
&s;ervants to the day after their &s;uper&s;tition. Neither needed we any
holyday at all, if the people might be taught without it.</P>
<P><HI>Bernardine Ochine</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ochine in Dialog. cont. Pap.</NOTE> Since Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s
appeared to the world, we ought to judge all times of grace to be a
mo&s;t holy Sabbath, and to take all the times of our life, without put|ting
diver&s;ity between one day and another, to be altogether holy &amp;
&s;o &s;pend them altogether in the honor and glory of God. But the
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Pope commands the contrary, that there &s;hall be a diver&s;ity beween
dayes and times in holine&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Luther</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luther.</NOTE> The eighth day &s;ignifies allegorically the life to
come. For Chri&s;t re&s;ted in the Sepulchre, the Sabbath day or whole
&s;eventh day, but he ro&s;e in the day following the Sabbath, which
is the eighth, and the beginning of a new week, <HI>nec numeratur ultra
eam alia dies,</HI> neither is any day numbred beyond that. For Chri&s;t by
his death <HI>conclu&s;it hebdomadas temporum,</HI> hath concluded the weeks of
times, and in the eighth day entered into another kinde of life, in
which there are no more dayes reckoned, but it is one eternal day
without any cour&s;es of night.</P>
<P><HI>Luther</HI> &s;aith, The Sabbath was commanded to the Jews in a
figure, as the Apo&s;tle expre&s;ly &s;ignifies, <HI>Col.</HI> 2. which is a &s;hadow of
future things, but the body is of Chri&s;t. The Sabbath &s;ignifies, that
very &s;piritual time which Chri&s;t the Sun of Righteou&s;ne&s;s hath illu|minated,
which hath no night, whence <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;aith <HI>Ch.</HI> 66. moneth
&s;hall be from moneth, and Sabbath from Sabbath: and the Apo&s;tle
reproves the <HI>Galatians,</HI> that they ob&s;erved days, and moneths, and
times, and yeers, according to the Jewi&s;h rite, that is only outward|ly;
therefore that precept (yea all) is cea&s;ed to perfect Chri&s;tians, for
the Law is not given to a righteous man. Notwith&s;tanding the
Church hath retained Fea&s;ts, becau&s;e of the nece&s;&s;ity of the word of
God, for their &s;akes who are unperfect, for a true righteous man is
&s;o like to God, that as God is indifferent to all days, to all places, to
all per&s;ons, &s;o is he; every day to him is holyday. But to the weak,
who are not yet mortified according to the old man, it is needful that
they &s;hould be occupied in watchings, fa&s;tings, labors, prayers, di&s;|ciplines,
<HI>&amp;c.</HI> in the u&s;e of which, they may attain to the profit of the
inner man; but when the body is cha&s;tened &amp; brought into &s;ervitude,
and the pa&s;&s;ions of it mortified, then they by degrees may cea&s;e, and
be &s;o much abated, as the inner man is profited, in &s;uch &s;ort, that if
he &s;hould be perfect, the&s;e things ought altogether to cea&s;e. This is
that the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>The Law is our School-ma&s;ter to bring us
unto Chri&s;t,</HI> for the Law made nothing perfect, <HI>Luth. tom. 1. f.</HI> 116.</P>
<P><HI>Luther</HI> on <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 66. Sabbath &s;hall be from Sabbath, that is &s;aith he,
I will change the rites and Fea&s;ts of the Jewi&s;h Prie&s;thood, and there
&s;hall not be in the Church, the di&s;tinction of the Sabbath <HI>&s;ed perpetua
Sabbata erunt,</HI> but there &s;hall be perpetual Sabboths; but the&s;e
are in the Spirit and in faith. For becau&s;e of this fle&s;h of ours, there
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is need of certain days, wherein we mu&s;t meet together, for the
handling of the word and the Sacraments.</P>
<P><HI>Calvin</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ad <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> ca. 2. v. 16.</NOTE> Such a divi&s;ion of dayes belonged to the Jews,
that they &s;hould devoutly ob&s;erve the dayes commanded, by &s;ever|ing
them from others: but among&s;t Chri&s;tians &s;uch a divi&s;ion is
cea&s;ed. But &s;ome will &s;ay, we do yet retain &s;ome ob&s;ervation of
days. I an&s;wer, we in no way keep dayes, as if there were any reli|gion
in holy dayes, <HI>aut qua&s;i fas non &s;it tunc laborare,</HI> or as if it were
not lawfull to labor then, but only re&s;pect is had of politie and or|der,
not of dayes. And a little after, on the&s;e words, <HI>The body is of
Chri&s;t,</HI> he &s;aith, That the &s;ub&s;tance of tho&s;e things which the Cere|monies
heretofore did figure, is &s;et before our eyes in Chri&s;t, becau&s;e
he conteines in him&s;elf what ever they did foretel &s;hould be. And
therefore he that recals the Ceremonies into u&s;e, either overwhelms
the manife&s;tation of Chri&s;t, or &s;poils Chri&s;t of his vertue and
makes him void. And therefore if any mortal man &s;hall u&s;urp to
him&s;elf the office of a Judge in this matter, Let us not obey, &s;eeing
Chri&s;t the lawful Judge ab&s;olves us.</P>
<P>Again <HI>Calvin,</HI> on <HI>Gal.</HI> 4. 10. &s;aith, when therefore proper holi|ne&s;s
is attributed to dayes by them&s;elves, when one day is di&s;tin|gui&s;hed
from another for Religions &s;ake, when holydays are reck|oned
part of the wor&s;hip of God, then dayes are ob&s;erved ami&s;s.
We now, who have a difference of dayes, do not impo&s;e the &s;nare of
nece&s;&s;ity on mens con&s;ciences, we do not di&s;tingui&s;h between days,
as if one day were more holy then another, we do not place there|in
Religion and the wor&s;hip of God, but we only provide for or|der
and concord. And &s;o the ob&s;ervation with us is free and pure
from all &s;uper&s;tition.</P>
<P><HI>Zuinglius</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Articul. 20.</NOTE> <HI>Fides docet, operante Deo omnia bona fieri, &amp; hoc e&s;t
Sabbatum no&s;trum.</HI> Faith teaches us that all good things are done
by Gods working in us, and this is our Sabbath.</P>
<P>The &s;ame <HI>Zuinglius</HI> &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">bel. ad Va|lentin, Com|parem.</NOTE> Now here my <HI>Valentine</HI> how the Sab|both
is rendred ceremonial. If we would have the Lords Day &s;o
bound to time, that it &s;hall be wickedne&s;s in <HI>aliud tempus transferre,</HI>
to transfer it to another time, in which re&s;ting from our labors
equally as in that, we may hear the word of God, if nece&s;&s;ity hap|ly
&s;hall &s;o require: this day &s;o &s;ollicitou&s;ly ob&s;erved, would obtrude
upon us a Ceremonie. For we are no way bound to time, but
time ought &s;o to &s;erve us, that it is lawful, and permitted to each
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Church, when nece&s;&s;ity urges (as is u&s;ual to be done, e&s;pecially at
Harve&s;t time) to transfer the Solemnity and re&s;t of the Lords Day
or Sabbath, to &s;ome other day; or on the Lords it &s;elf, after the
fini&s;hing of the holy things, to follow their labor, though not with|out
great nece&s;&s;ity. <HI>Ad Valent. Compar. p.</HI> 254.</P>
<P><HI>Picus Mirandula</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Chri&s;tus finis legis, e&s;t no&s;trum Sabbatum.</HI>
Chri&s;t the end of the Law, is our Sabbath.</P>
<P>And <HI>Paul,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb. 4.</NOTE> <HI>Heb. 4. 3. We which have believed do enter into re&s;t,</HI> and
he that is entred into re&s;t cea&s;eth from his own works, as God did
from his.</P>
<P>The&s;e te&s;timonies pre&s;ently came to my hand, to which many more
might have been added, if time would have &s;uffered, but the&s;e are
&s;ufficient to hint thus much to men, That the Chri&s;tian Sabbath is
&s;omething more, and el&s;e, then the world commonly doth e&s;teem it,
And therefore it concerns the Parliament, to take heed that they
do not impo&s;e Jewi&s;h &s;uper&s;tition on the Common-wealth, under
pretence of Go&s;pel-Reformation.</P>
<P>1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2. 15. The &s;piritual man judgeth all things, yet he him&s;elf is
judged of no man.</P>
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