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Presented by Mr. Samuel Agnew of Philadelphia, Pa.
COLLECTION OF PURITAN AND ENGLISH THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE
LIBRARY OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ^3 C-f— PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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TREATISE
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CONTAINING,
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Orthodoxall Doctrine of the Church
^England, againjl Sabbatarian- - Novelty.
Dr. Fr. White, L.Bijhop of Ely.
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let*. 6. 1 6. Thus faith the Lord, fiandye in the wayes and fee, and as kefir the old paths, where is the good way, andwalke therein.
Tertul. Conflat omncm docTrinam, quae cum eccleiiis matricibus & j Mf onginalibus confpirat, veritati deputandam : id fine dubio tencntem, , fr^STquod ecclefia ab Apoftolis, Apoftoh a Chrifto, Cj^iftus a Deo iufcepit;*-*
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WILLIAM,
By the Divine Providence, Lord Arch- Bifliop of Cdrterbury, his Grace, Pri "
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of all England, and LMetropolitane •> one of d&^*§J^]ffl$$& Lords of his Majefties molt Honourable Pr'w'it Cotincell, and Cbanccllouroi the Vniverfuy of Oxford.
Moft Reverend Father,
VR blefled Lordmddiafter, m one of His Evangelicall Parables , compares the Militant Church,unto a held, id which the Husband-man lowed good (eede but while men flept, Dormicntibn* multis in do- Brin& fimplicitate * , the enemie a Tcrt c. Praxead came and lowed tares , Avenarnm cap-*. . fterilisfccni adulteriumK Alfo, He relembles the lame «*>€«.
unto a Net, which being call into the Sea, gathereth fibes, c fome gpod,and fome bad. The Apotlle hkewife relembles > the lame, to a great Houfe, wherein are Vejfe/s of Honour,
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and Vejfels of dijbonour. And the godly Fathers compare itt to Noah's ^J^, in which were contained Brails , clean* and uncleane , of each quality fome ; wherein alfo was an impious H<*/#, as well as a pious and dutifull Sent.
Now the condition of the Church Militant being fuch :
it cannot be other wile, but that in all ages there ihall be
found among thofe which proreffe forty ^ not °nty fuch as
are vertuous and found in faith :but alfo men of corrupt
minaes,ana reprobate concerning the faith : venimous Ser«
pents.noifome tares,peitilent weeds,and uncleane beads.
" • Oar Savidurs ownz prediction was; There (hall arife
falfeTrophets : and His admonition,vW;#Y tffidfe Tro-
sT<xt.c.H*reJ,e.4. phefs : andvHisdefcription, which come to you in Sheepes
Quxnam funt ifts cloathingjbut inwardly 3 they are ravening Wolves ; Men,
pclics ovmm, nn carryjna a femblance, and haviu& an outiide of verity and
m cxtrinfecus fu- hohnefle : but inwardly, corrupt, deceitrull,and ravenous :
perficies?Quj Lupi working under hand, . to infect and impqyfon the flock of
rap'aces, nifi fenfus C'hr I s t c. Saint ■'jpaul, a Mater-builder of God's
Sc .fpfrhus fubdoli, j10UfC) foretels : Oportet htrefes e[fe, there mail bee
ad infe tan u gre- nerefies amono you : ut fides habendotentatlonem^abeat
fecusdelitefcemes' & probatvonem \ that they which are approved, maybe
d Ibidem caplte u made manifeft. And in his exhortation to the Biihops of
iZ^u-d.unlt.Ecd' Ephefus : z/fftcr my departure grievous Wolves fball en-
Fieri haec -Domi- ter in among you jnot (barino the flock • -Alfo of your own*
patitur3urmanente Je/Ves &al1 men ^ if e freaking perverfe things, and [bail
proprio libertatis ^raw difciples after them.
arbitrio3 dum cor- Now thefe propheticall predictions- havebeene fulfil- da '& mentes no- led in all Ages, and in all itates of the Militant Church. fS^amin^ *or in the e^JW« owne dayes, fiindry Hcretikes, and probatorum fides achiimaticxes role up, Phige/Ius, Hermogenes, .7>hiletu*t manifefta luce da- Himiv<eus, ^Alexander, the Nicholaitans, &c. But rcfcic, then after the blefled company of the 'holy Apofties, by
e Egefip ?vn Eufcb. feverall wayes of death, had nnilhed their courfe *, die »*L?J C~2 •JUi folk anc* deceitriill confpiracy of impious errour, made a«p xopof. </W?o- entrance, fraud* & afiutia illorum qui doctrmam f«r t/AHf«Ci»7V- * veritate alienam diffeminare laborarunt : by the *o*j&c. fraud and malicious craft of thofe men, who laboured
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coibw a feedofdodtrine, difagreeing with truth. ^^althoughby the power of Divine providence,the evil of Herelie andSchifme, was converted in the end,to the be- nefit and good of the true Church : {for God , who ps onely good&ouldnot prmit evil to haffenj?ut becaufe He being ^$^^£0*' alfo omnipotent stable toturne it to good*; & Divine ve- ret mala fien>nifi oml rity, when it is difcufiedby the fubtill op/option, and will f^^tl^ of hereticall frauds with more diligence fearched into ,bet~ & Aug.<fc c^.Deiyii. UrunderfloodsndmorcwloHfy defi*JeJS:) 7Vf for the &££££*«; time prelent , the fame proved a grievous fcandall , and in tinenda, dum h*reu- theaiflictive times of perfection , itincreafed themifcrie K^JTrTS
of G O D'S people. adverfus cos defend*
The^ gentile Infidels infulted over Chnllians , be- S^SShStei caufe of diviiions , which by the fraud of Heretikes, were teJ1ig«n° >r darius, & railed among them h ; they fcorned and derided their fA^ltZl religion , imputing the bale opinions , and acf ions of He- « Hu*ftio'difcedi <rx« retikes, to the found part of the Church in generally;: \ cfemSx Strom. ■esfnd alledged tliis as a prime reafon, wherefore they l**-?'e*?*- Cyprian-, could not beieeve them, becaufe they were divided in- ^.In^Si^hl^i to fo many ra&ions, and for that their religion was a n-&i» *#-*&** confufed rardell, and nrleraife , of various and prod igi- lb&dkivTuMnficI
OUS Opinions ri Chriftianus , feJ
Nowthatwhichhappenedanciently, is fulfilled like- ^SSteSfr' wife in our dayes , botli concerning the entrance and ex- v»jogn*,(alirionofcJ iltence ofSchifmes andHerelies, And like wile the fcan- quoTdogma riigam, dail arifing from thence. - Hlloc* pt*ftram,fin*gd-
Therefore , if Schilme and Herelies have nfen up in nidico. ftvirpBeuu our dayes, it can be ho wonder ; For the Prophefies of & deridicuio fa& fu- .
h R i s t and His Apoltles concerne our times, as axis dum Ecckfia ih' well, (if not more,) thanthofe which are part : and all ^^A^f"^* the caufes of Schilme and Herelie are now extant, which ^n. i4's. ».4\ Qui, were in former aees. For the enemie that foweth tares , chrirt^infimfi^,
o » rant Gentiles, &e.
cjuscunq;crant Gno-
lUeorum portenta.vel
aliorum haereticorum turpitudines , omnia Chriftiani* afcribebant , nimirum infames illos coa-
Yentus* infanticidia, humanarum carniumefum,promifcuos concubitus , &c. Iufi. Mar.^pol.z.
Euftb. Sccl, Mfi, lib. 4. r«. 7. Terml. x/ipol. ra. 7. Athenag. xA^olog. trium flagitidrum inf arnit ru- mor de nobit ftarptuf1; imfHW <jHAVi9st9Uat , c£hU Thjeftt*t*conchbitikuiceJlit Minutjus f celix iM0ff*vj>,j>ag.3.&$, is
is neither lefle vigilant,nor leffe envi6us,than in oM time : ^/^ on mans part , blindezeale, vaine-glory , curioiity, felre-love , defire or' change and novelty, overweening of mens owne wit and learning, enuying of others which excell in learning or authority, offence for want of pre- ferment, diilike of that which is prefent, &c. Tbefe vene- mous rootes and feeds of Schiime and Herefie , are not wanting in theie perillous times : And the corrupt ibiie of mans heart , is no lefle fertile, to nouriih and bring them forth, than in the dayesof old.
73ut from this which is delivered, I dial! intreat your
Grace, and all other impartiall and intelligent Readers to
coniider the uncharitable conllrudf ion of Romilh Adver-
faries , who from the Rifing up of fomefehifinaticall ipi-
rits amongil us , conclude : That the mame body of our
Church is f chifwiaticall. For was the whole Church of O-
k ^oflus d*. fe*- rlntb reprobate and fchifmaticall k y becaufe fome branches
^^.'^ • * i. ** or members thereof, were fuch? Or was it heretical,becaufe
ta7ttu>machia.p.2. within it, fome denied the Article of the Refurredhon ?
Rtfcius mini fire- For if this had beene fo, Saint Paul could not have faluted
macbia. Stnphil. that Church , with fuch an honourable infcription : Vnto
4* Concord, nifu- t^e church of God which is at Corinth , to them that
utLTabuU cVo~ arcf«»a$ed »Christ h$u$, &c. *4 field a&-
*ograpk.[tcuto.\7. &tn noc t0 be a good cornc field , becaufe fome noyfome
p»g 82j.Sciopp. weeds, and tares fpnng up among the wheat: And a good
%. d. Antkhr. p . tree hath lome degenerous branches, which delerve to bee
** "*fi fCochcie^ PrUnCd and l0pped 0ff#
Ctrntiir Calv/p] 0fir Nationall Church of England is *A Vine-yard
#v * of the Lord ofHofies : A found body compacted \uni~
tedy and knit together, in an unirbrme profeilion of one
and die fame orthodoxall veritie, which was once gi^en
to the Saints , in the holy Apoflles dayes ; And which in
all fubftantials, was maintained by the holy Primitjue
I TeruiU. vtdfcr. Others : 1 Our publike forme of Divine Service and wor-
« $8, Antiquum ftip is in every part thereof religious and holy , (maugre
n*h)l alitcr hm the cavils of envious fpirits, who have depraved it: ) The
«pW furDus. Ecclefiafticall Officers and Miniiters of oik Churd:
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Bijhofs, Pr'teflf% and 'Deacons, fuch Officers ashave adminiftred facred things, m the Chriftian Church, yea, in all Chriftian Churches, for fifteene hundred yeeres, ever fince the Iioly Apoftles dayes : and the di- vine benediction, providence,^ protection of our great God and Saz '*V#r,hath preferred, comforted and honou- red this Church and State, more than a man could have wiflied or expected, ever (inceour reformation ; and that which S. tAxguftine delivered long fince of Con- ftantine the Emperour,'hachbeene fulfilled in our Kings and ?rmctS',Conftantinum Imperatorem nonfupplican- tern ddtmonibus ,fed ipfum verum Deum colentem, tan- tisterrenis implevit muneribm, quanta of tare nkllm auderet a. The Lord of Heaven replenifhed Cotiftdn- a Aug** cfo.Zfci, tine the Emperour, who duly ierved him arid not De- * ? ' . * % vils,with fuch abundance of temporall benefits,as a man durir. not have prefumed to wilh or expect .
Now this which is hitherto delivered , is abundant- ly futficient to juitihe our Mother Church q& England, again! t, the urijuft reproach and cenfure of any Ad verfa- nes, who (hail traduce the lame of being fchifmaticall ; for our Saviours owne predi6tion is ; Necejfe eft ut fcandala vemant, it muil needs be that offences doe come : but when among us any offences happen, they Sander, d. vlf,h.~ are reproved, confuted, and condemned, according to Monarch. Talc dtt the direction of holy Scripture, and the forme and cu- mil"a«<is EccUfir itome of Primitive umes. quia am ^ogl
It is not within comp&ffe of humane power, either quara bonos pifces* wholly to prevent, or in an inftant to reftraine, the ma- comprehends, ini lice of Satan, and his fchifmaticall internments, from tcr<jum ftmditur , vexing, renting, and difyuieting the Church; and there- irumpuur. fore if our adverfaries were guided with the fpirit of charity (as they that" will be judges of other mens acti- ons ought to be) they would forbeare to cenfure or con- demne us. Por Charity envieth not, it thinketh no fVt£, it re]ojceth in truth, I Cor. 1 3 . 5 ,6\
Having delivered thus much in juft defence of
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our Mother Church, againft the uncharitable calumni- ation of Romijh adverfaries , I hold it meet in the next place to offer unto your Grac es confideration, a view of the deportment of rafiftoufand fchumaticallipiritSj who have beene the authors and rbmenters of the fcan- dall, from whence our Adveriaries before mentioned> have taken occafion to traduce our Church and religion. There ftar ted up in Queene Elizabeths raigne,a new » lfa™»p%taZ ?resbyterim-feZt, which tendred a forme of Difci- eft, fed nuper inven- /?/i#<?cothe Queene, and to the State. And concerning SftSSSK?? *** platferme .of their EccleliafticaU Difcipline, they q*»miu*dipfim9cu- affirmed thefe things following : g££3SZ Firft, that the onely Officers b (Magnates they ^ciTim.4.1. tearme them) who are to lexercife thisdifcipline, are iSR3?f£ %&mP&*i> and (VeiHe) Elders £ Second- v»*») Ecdcfiaftico- lyy this forme of difciplinarian Regiment, is the Seep" &S$S?£ *<r ofChriJl's Kingdom : The Standard of Chrift : temperandum. The Sonle of the myftkall body of Chrift & : and a
fticus senatus coctus f^p^r Character, of the true Church. Thirdly , a* |rcsbytcrorum, &c. the old Canoniits fay of the Papacie, GOD had not jjufyum DiawnS^n beene difcreet, if hee had not made a Pope e ; fo like- senptura tribuitur , wife fay the Presbyterians , Christ had not
fed Paftonbus , Do- , y-. r ., J / /•/ , , r - >t
<Soribus, & qui pro- proved Him! elte a Prephet like unto Mofes %n all , S^an°eiiannu-r€sby" t^Ss f» nor yet an ablolute King, had heenotordai- <J s'ioL Pka. '.Jag* y. ned this difciplinarian Senate in his Church. Fourthly, jf the Hierarchic bee thefe divine Ma ^iftratesaixlSenators, muftexercifefo-
fiat removed , and the *> "' I . , r . n
Scepter of chu^s go- veraigne authority, over all people; and eipecially,over
w£&JE&\ 9>&> ,***fj#*!*t« Flfthly> aI1 oth«
^.;. uo. it 1* the formes or difciplme aad Church government, areun- sceptertfcbuftjnaj- lawfun ^nd AntiehrifHan, becaufe they are not com. «^ *0 /i# *#«rrj • manded and appointed by. God s Word. Sixthly, the, $F$8&& Kin§ and.nsnponll State , have no authority, or
in the Qampe Royaii , &c> e Extra, d. Major. & tbed. gUJft*. Non videretur Dominu* fuifte' difcretuinifi unicum talem poft fc vicarium rcliquilTet. f Trav. d. Difcip.Er.fi, p. y. 'Quosiodo M(yfi flmilem fuitfe dicemus , n" tam nccetfariam doftrinarn de Ecclefice gubematione , aut ommno prxteroiiferit , aut non a-que perfpiaie & perfccle cxplicarit ? Uhm aut a Chrifto tradicam fated necelTe eft , aut eum non folum Prophccico, fed etiam Regio rnunere ipoliarcv g Id. pagr 142, 143. liH^difcipUn* omncs oVbisVrincipcs & Moaarcbasfaftcsfuosfulr t&t « parv« »«tf fa ctfi
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command in matters Ecclefiafticall * : (no more than J«»wT/w.M.i^ they have to ■ adroiniftcr the Sacraments) but their on- i ^&tiqfnSrp^i ly ferviceis, to bee the executioners of fuch decrees, authority, it is quick- as thefc ^Presbyterian Senators (hall affirmetobethe %$%*&**<& Lavves of Christ. Seventhly, the prefent forme of E> power is not to wea- clefiarticall government, by Biuiops and their Officers S fo^dmg is sAntichriftia* ». Laftly, the Liturgie and common and making good ail Service of the Church of England, and the Rites and rlcfwo^&c?**1 Ceremonies appointed therein, are popiih and fuperflr* h '^Ps-*'1- Th*
r , Ir /- i F i • l t>- Church hach kef
tious, ror they were compoled or brought in, by Bi- iaw« from the senr^ fhops, who are a limbe of Antichrifl : and confirmed bv """M"* ™? "3
• r ,' i c \ -A ' fi K*™* make lawes rt»
the humane authority or the Prince and temporall the houfe of G^.forif State : whereas no common lervice is lawfull in the Jcyflfi^ 3JS Church, but fuch onely as is formed by their Eccleiialti - fca . call Senate, and after their owne ^Presbyterian Lawes. i?""', Plea-Pa^}^
_, ' , a ,, . J ..,, They derive their au-
Fruits and coniequents or the former dictates, are thority from the h^p thefe which follow: /• 4f *** bci"| %
t- /r ! v i • r If •• nw Antichrilhan.fi?*.
rirlt , concerning the King himielre : his royall Ma- The sons of the moa* jetty according to thefe <Tresbjterian-xw\&, mail have %°^*nt^z Ui% no power to command his Clergy to keepe a Na~ tionall Sjnode : he (hall have no power at all, over thefe fld*
Ecclefiafticall Senators , to judge of any of their abufef, id.pas.nt. AnaW^; or to reforme and correct them: And if his (acred Ma- Paftor n^' jN /"/•> jefty (hall deny obedience and fubje&ion to their claf- ^pleading 'for 4? (kail Mandates, thefe Senators have foveraigne Power formation, u"ac[/*~ under Ckrift, to deliver liim to Satan, and to lay the exTomudwtc thing? fearerull cenfure of Excommunication k upon him. told u$ inh^latl{JV
Secondly, concerning Bitriops : whereas, in all reli- main thing was,Thac ; sious A°es, and amon« all people profeilirie Chrift, !?a,5naJ5!tHiexarci^ the Biihops or the Church were highly honoured and made no matter of refpe&ed becauie of their Office and Order: and their finking church and;
t /»■'•/•'»*•' *i r State, fo they might
Doctrine, Precepts, Counlels, admonitions, reproores, fwim in honours and and cenfures, were of great authority! Theie Sena- £^^**)k Ecd" tors, and their Camerades, witli their barking, bar- Excommunicato eft,
cenfhra Hcclcfix qaa
aliqui* gravioris fceleris reus, fineccrti temporis prsfcriptionc a facris txclafus fidelium comtritf- jjioni privauir^&c. Hnic fummoi Magiftratu* & Reges parere.&c. Vhtlipput & Theodtftu* ImpC- tatojc1 ^M* «j^ fvhetkef tktKing himfitlf 'yeas fubjeft toexc9rnrm(nic4ti9r,:.aHfrtTitit; ;
' Thai ext 9mmHni(Ati9n jjcthli rt9t b< txenifed upen Kjngs , / utterly mijlike*
*+ a rating,
rajtiog? a&d libelling, have brought^ not onely their persons, but their venerable calling, into much con- tempt and hatred, as though it were iome prophane and noiiqmeeyili. , . Thirdly, they have with bitter clamors a, defaced the
Vcnemim m den' publike lervice of our Church {being a forme of divine tifeus bibent. Op- Wwfhip.>,of fo good quality , as that (ince the holy ■ tat.Mi/evit.c.lhr- Apofiles dajes, the Chxiftian world never enjoyed any rncn. /. i. Incordc m&re reverend and religious \) and by thismeanes, the
SfflffiS^ folemne worfhiP °f Gffd™*ch"fi> arcnegleftedin many congregations : and inftead thereof, anindige-
. fted forme and conception of extemporall prayer is
brought in.
Now I humbly defire your Grac *,and al benevolent
and indifferent 'J^qders^to conlider the ungracious dea*
ling of thefe men.
Firfl of all, the generall ground of their proceedings
h sionspka.pS?' by which they juitihe themielves, and their owne pre-
Iiitheia.Com^- cepts ancUondemne others, is this which rblbvvetln cement is forbid- ,_r *LS ~ \ ... .a : , w ,
den all will-wor- ^° °fficer mHr governe or Mmtfler in the Church: (hip, all rites & ce- neither any forme of divine worfiip, or Ceremonies be zemo.ues of mans ufedjbvx. onely fitch 04 are commanded fa the Word. \t deviling in Gads wijj ^c over-long to relate in what manner they prove wor(hip: and fur- ^ whether by theiecond Commandement*: or by rhcry every calling _ - * /_. r j i - > r
of Mittiftcr*. and £*■ 7. J I. or by Exod.z$4o: Looks that thou make Elders that is not them after their pat t erne which was, Jhewed thee in the appointed and ap- Mount : or by Cmnis Planta, every plant which my proved of God p. heavenly Father hath not planted, [hall bee rooted up>
V*lrSt thc , Matth.1%. 13. But in conclufion they refolve us not. cond Commande- f . ' ■ *, n , ■ , J 1 c 1
ment the due ex- wnat they underitand by the commandement or the
tent: tins Iron if Word: Whether a literall and formall (fommande-
a be wel plied, wil ment 1 or a Commandement inferred by any neceiTary,
bow dovvne the inftrence . 0r an example and prefident. which luth thet
backe of the Preb- P ,- T xi \\ 1
ci? andbreakethc force of a Law, Now we are cercainetlut their owne;
iron finew of all Presbyterian platforme, is warranted. by no Command fnperftitious vYor- dement in any of thele tliree fenfes. For we reade of net fliiP- literall or formall Commandement. for their Veflry
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Elder s ; Neither can they prove the ordination of this new generation , by any necefi'ary inference of hoJy Scriprure : Was for example. of Scripture, we find none having the force pf a law. 7^plainetruchis, we fade no example at all : For the Elders mentioned, i Tim.5. 1 7. were Priefls in holy Orders, as appeares plainelv,by the eighteene and nineteene verfes of that Chapter;2?//t if fome example had beene extant , Vnleffe they cande- monuratively prove, that fuch example hath the force of a perpetual! law, This will conclude no more for the perpet aall continuance of Veftry Elders: Then the holy Apoltles obferving the Jegall Sabbath; Or their abiti- nence from bloud and ilrangled : Or their unci ion of the ficke with oile, will conclude for extreme unction : or for the keeping holy the fcve*th-day Sabbath: or for perpetuall abitinence from bloud or llrangled.
Thefe imperative men mightily forget their owne principle : For they create new Senators* Veflry-El- ders, without any commandementof the Word: They command whatsoever their own working- heads affect, without commandement of the Word, to wit, Omni- parity of Church-men ; fathers topre/ent their children in their owne per/ oris, at B apt ifme :Clmftia.ns to dreame religious dreames on Sunday nights ; Parents to give fignificant names to their children, to wit : The Lord is neere : More trial! : Information : Colore fruit : More joy : Sufficient : Deliverance : Dufi, Sec. But their negative precepts are fance number : no Private Baptifme : no Kneeling at the Communion : "Bowing at die Name of \ e s u s : Communicating with a rea- ding Minifter : Keeping Chriftmafle-day.,and other Ho- ly-dayes : reading Homilies: Reading Apocrypha '.long- ing more Bells than one upon a Sunday, or fetching a pint of wine out of ones owne houfe : Standing up at the Creed : Looking towards the Chaneell in Common- j»rayer : Often rehearfing the Z<WV-Prayer : Reading tfaeLetany, andEpiftlesandGofpels, &c,
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.ff/wthefefanctified Senators will % : 7*jfctf the fe- cond Commandement {which they have made n Ci« tholkon, to prohibite what their will dilliketh') con- demned all things before rehearfed. £*Ht is not fuffii <*****•&} ■ TbetmA demonftrmiveij prove out of the Word, their afiertions.
Kno the fecond Commandement prohibited none of the former aftions Verbatm,Qt jn exprefle t . Nor yet by neceflary illation ; For the fenfe of the Com- mandement is : Then (halt wonljipno Idoil. &cLev 26. t. But the Sonne of G O d, and His ble(TedName are no Idol , : The Son of God, in the b/efed Eucharifi ffvmg ut Ha body and blond, isno Idol/. Therefore rel.g.ous adoration of Chrilr, in the holy EucharUL and at the rehearfing the Name of WisnonS • fbtiousafit, prohibited m the fecond Commandement. But die Author of Sum /Y^w.ll have Court Bijhops Cathedral! Churches, Varijb pcrkes, and ChJhl
™nt4ndWhynotkywe,reftrv Elders ? Forthefc grave Senators are no where commanded in G 6 n's Word, euherformallyorvirtually: ^therefore I* ituhTEHerfr ' L« ^ beP^gto the Concerning ^,, and their authority.thefe men affirme, that the iame is not ordained m the Word But condemnedby Chrift, See. 2?*/ouranfweris that the holy Apoftles themielves ordained %i in al eminent Chnftun Churches, to wit, TimothjKt III fns: TttHttn Creta , Evoditu at Antioch-. Poly L,
to^wlvf f ^ t,K Ap°'HeS ^^.ccLni
r I ?$, \tiKy :,Were men ^FtedbytheJ^/,
G*#. And the Apoitles ordination is nroved hv &ff»
a Wcfcnk-ch. U nefles ;, againlt whofe tertm .ony none can Scent"^
»££££ ica0wSrXT1,y SW4^SS6&&
^/a.iCot..j... ^T/^J5- ^ey«emariv in number, v# cloud of mtneffes : Alfthe ortliodoxall Fathers ilnce
the ApoiUes age : Some of chem lived in the Apoftles times,and were their auditours *. and fome of them fuc- a i,en. lib. j M, ceededthofe which were ordained Biihops by theApo- Eufcb: C>°»i'cJnno
flies; r^wcretaitlifiillwitneffes, even unco death *>: bfth^ d.immm
They content and accord in their teftimony : And they "*'-Vetl''Pai-59>8c
are fuch, to whole teftimony the Chriftian world gi- c^^Tdl'itlol
veth credit, for the waightieft matters in religion : to ™<e™™ ? quot a fu-
mt9 concerning the number and integrity of the Bookes confuc^d^e^ad!
of Yanonical I Scripture : The holy Apoflles Creed: and ra°nition'kns com-
next unto the holy Scriptures concerning The eternall duxemnt chriftofer-
Deitie of our blefled Saviour, &c. ™* ^
1 The fubferiptions of two oi Saint Paul's Epifiles fe^bifcjfo* ^ teft ifie c, that Timothy was Bijhop of EvheCus ; and ^5 "*'! Timotheus,
«-- V-n > / 1 7 ri- 1 4 1 ^,, . ordained the fir d Bi
T it us of C ret a. And the ancient Hiitory or the Church Jbop •fth,chmcb of teftifies the fame d. Ianatiut the Martyr/ who livtd at £ EPheCia»>- Titus j.
11/1 <* n • r /• "i t- 1-,i 7' *rf' *""'* "Titus
the lealt thirty yeares in Saint John the Evangehfts »d«i»ed the fin-E^ dayes* :) Tertullianjrendtus, Cyprianus.diC. teitihe %£rUuL ** °* the like concerning Evodius ,V oly carpus , Linus ,V api as , d Eufeb. BifX\^ Clemens, See. And that Billiops ordained by the Apo- Iim?hf? fanc ***
fl, . . , r. ,, , / n f nuisEpheiunarparce-
iiles, were not titular and nommall onely, but luch as cis , Sicut & TirUS liad power of jurifdidion, and power of ordination, is ™!Trn^rm FccId*a~
■ rr m r • il* it- ^ c »'*i nim tP"cPpatum f or-
Witnelied by Ignatius, Tertulhan, Cyprian*, and by musfcribitur. the whole Catholike Chursh : zAnd Saint Hierom hhSnZSSnL. himfeife g, whofe teftimony fome men have laboured V,T»f »>*'««■*/« 7ki to draw another way, confirmes the fame. $j? ' ¥¥?'-. Jj?n»-
_. . c r-H 1 r ii- 11 • tlus* Eufeb. i» £>**.
2 This forme of Eccleiialticall government is agree- ~*«. -ewi04. fgnat. able with the prefidents of holy Scripture, both in the tot^^^b^S" time of the o/^Teftament : and with the Apoftles forme Paftons veftrf ! Sq™i of government, who in their owne perlons exerciied ffim]$^£**Z authority over all other Paftors, and at their deceafe ap- Antiftes. Tcitul. c.
Hat.ca. 32 Smyrnco- rum Ecclcfia habens Polyarpum a Ioannc conlocatum Epifcopum. Ircn. lit, 3. c. 3. PoJycarpus non folum ab Apoftolis edodus & converfatv\s aim multis ex iis, qui Domiuum noftrum vidcru'nrj Scd cuam ab ^paftolu in Afiia , incaqus eft Smyrnis Ecclcfia , conftitums Epifcopu* : & ^ucm «s miiimut in prima noftra xtate,<frr. lb. Ab Apoftolis Epifcopacum foxticur Clemens lb, lUbemus cos qui ab^f«^»/»ordinati Cunt Epii'copi. Eufcb. Hifi.lib.^. caffj. Hieron. Cttalag. jn'toljcarpo. Cypr. Epifl. 6$. f I^nac ad Trail. Quid aliud eft Enifcoptis qium is qui omni principaru & porcfta:e fupcrior eft ? Id. adMa^nef. Dccetvos (Presbyteros $ Diaeew) obc- JlireEpifcopo, & in nulloilli refracari.ct»7iAl>i-r. id. «rf Smynenf. pug. 6%. *d Ephef.pag.iA7i 2 ij>. g Hieron, a4 NtfQtUn. fcfto U\bj«;ftii5 Pontifiti mo^ quafi anim* pareutcm rufotp^.TCTii^. JfBapi.eap.tT*
pQWtftl
1 ■
h Cyrian. £p. 41. pointed Bijhops, to be principall Rulers, in all eminent
».4. Riev.Com.tn C^'/JW Churches h.
I ^ Vnuwm m 1 Aa£ Now wllCMas the ad verfaries of the Prekcie contend, inifai U^Pro pa- c^at Epifcopall gubernation is prohibited by C h r i st,
*)^ tribus ' tuis nati Afatth. 20. Marke 10. Luke 2, 2 .They have no minde funt filii, &c Pa- to confider, that the holy Apollles themfelves, to whom JSdT5 fUIA o" our Savimr?s worcls were ?<rfonally directed, ^ all flolis hifufat iU r*ieir ovvne dayes exercife junlUifrion over all other ln> id elijconllitu. .Ecclefiafticall perfons : And therefore their great Lord ti turn Epifcopi. and Mailer prohibited not fuperiority and governement ^ over Prieits and Deacons, but fuch forme of govern-
i SionsPIea.p.i^. ment as was meerely fecular, and not conformable or ' ^ J&KPM* ab" Subordinate to the rules of the Evangel icall Law.
SiitoP ,leTh°de In the &\ Place> after thefe Se"ators have .ln fuch bookes are* fluffed manner (as your Grace hath heard) battered Epifcopall withall, cfpccUHy Governement, with their paper-ihot, Then they fall the Service Bookc pell mell upon the Service books *.
t^'\7 . ' ■? • ieilf One of this Novell generation, in a Tractate, intitu- gious worilup or , , . & »
&ed is overlaid ied> ^ furvay of the ^Uooke of Common-prayer, makes with the rubbiih ^^w^and hath no lefie than two hundred double quar- of idolatry, and fu- ?•*//, againft our Church- fer vice, and the Ceremonies ?l*LtTnG\\it thereof- ^.C. in his dayes, and his difciples named in k'EoemmJV my mar&lne k> are confederate in the fame gall of bitter- Zp.Admon.i.p 9. nelTe, and bond of iniquity.
Admonii. a. ad p. Their prime objections are : The forme of the Com- 4.1. Fall olBcibcll, m0n Service, is not commanded in the Word *, And p>ig. Altar Da- rQme materials thereof, are tafan out of the %pmi(h Plea, ft. 19, ?i6 Breviarie, Portuis ana(Jvla[Je-booke m. ? 17. Touching thefirft, they declare not, whether their
j tEiton onthecohjf. meanine is, 7W every lawfull forme of Divine Ser- t£fccond c»r»mande- vice, mult be taken verbatim out of the Scripture t 0 r p£a * £2w HThu whether it be not fufficient, to have the fame conforma- fitve'r u hildet the ble to the rules of holy Scripture. If the y fay thefirft'
m
Sen
titallfsnd Maffe ho/^. 'n Nullvis fox jncntij^iwt domi rtcoBiilu h*b*t/u.4tUicit*crcpi«- bcndit, fcU/iusaiufuueftvcc. ' '
/ 1 •
owne
©wae praying, Tinging, preaching, and faying, for the fame are noc word for word in holy Scripture : but if they requite onely the latter, we are able to maintaine agamll all Tresbyterian backbiters , that our Ea- plilh Common Service, and our Ceremonies, are con- formable to the rules of holy Scripture.
And their lecond objection )>oi' owed from the heretiks the Donatifts, makes an impetuous found & lmpreflion in popular auditoiies,but it is vain and of no force, with the. judicious. * For if the materials received out of the lift!' £/,,r?' <**?*«
-r> ' nyrra Jn \ ■- elt > "t q»U hoc No-
Romane Aitjjaa^nd Fortutspxe m their pr per quality, vacianustacerwudet,
true and holy , then the Lord himfelfe is che prime Au- J^^m f noncir«
thor of chem : and our Church hath watvant , from the -<*«gd>&*ttc. d»». t.
example of godmd Cbrifi of ufing them. £ ^J*^
W e may not dillike the Magnificat ,or Te Dcum Uu- C1 perverfe fucnnt i-
d*mm, or the Lords Prayer, ouhe Affiles Creed : the S^o?^
EptfllesSc Go/pels: Baptizing of Infants: Bread and Wine Suia Hfi fiaiiUtcr ft*
w £0/7 Eucbartfl: fmpoftion of bands in ordination : Re* tmm$
2/#Y*£ C^ decent habit, ge ft are >& formality in divine wor-
fbip ; nor any other action, in quality good, oradtapha-
row9 convenient and fubfervient to Gods outward wor-
fhip ; We ought not( I fay) abhor re or reject fuch things,
becaufe the Romane Church hath ufed them : for \^inJf^\t the Chriftian Church it felfe received the bookes of the vium mdat tanquam
Old Tdfament from the Synagogues of the Iewes » .• SSS^fi '^ and S. Auguftine c faith, If the Gentiles had any thing cesportant. Codiccm
good wdottrine (or manners) holy Chriflians did not LX ^tiftia"^! rejector di ft afte the fame. Our Lord and Saviour made Librarii noftri lafti. water which had beene fuperititioutly abufed by the c""^ift. d. i^r. r. Pharifees in their Lotions, Matth. 15.2. Mark^ 7. 3 . D»n.u.6. f^.44. ipf» the matcriall element of Baptifme : and Bread and „BmU&\ilum/v£ Wine prophaned by gentiles in their idoll lervice d, doarinis fuis hat***- tke materiall Elements of ihe Holy Mxcharift. Info- f^^oST00*™5 jlua, the Jilver and gold of Iericha, was by ^^'s com- dluitin. Mart. A- mandement put mto his owne treafury, Chap, 6. 24. J£?Klm »**?**'•* The CV„/,r, of reUlioH* C°r*h,6«. w.rebyGods V^SC* mandate, made Plates, tor the covering of the holy Al- ^^^ /wupw,'
* * tar, &c
*.. M II — I ),U
tar, Num. 16.38. De Inco atienorumDeorum (faith • AHg.W.154.^ \ Afignliine *) wood growing in Idol! Groves, by Pukiietiam, Gods appointment was made fewell for facrirlce ; and
when things prophaned and abufed, are converted to holy ufe : hoc de Misfit quod de hominibus, cumde fa~ crilegis & impiisy in veram religionem mutantur : the iame is done to them, which is done to men, when they from being prophane and facrilegious, are conver- ted, and made religious.
The Bi.liops therefore of the Church of England did no wayes o!iend,by receiving from the Romane Church into our divine fervice,fuch materials, circumftances or ceremonies, as were religious and good.
But now, whereas thefe Zelots complaine of us, for partaking with die Romane Church, in things lawrull and good : they themfelves comply with the fame in Articles and A6tions, which are of no good quality. For example. Firft, as the Romifts make their Church, the onely Spoufe of Chrift, and their Doctrine onely Orthodox- -all verity ; So likewife the Presbyterians efteeme them- ielves, and their pure Seel, thz onely Kmgdome of Chrlfi: they ltile none Brethren, but their owne fe&a- rians : all their doftrinals are the pure Word of C h r 1 st ; they ftile their extemporall preaching, per eJcce/Ientiam3The'W ord: and as learned Papiite make their Churches preaching, the fole inftrument of b Eoilus d.fy. Ted. working grace and faving faith b: So likewife do tfiefe \'f.fidCcafui Vtta- men>c°ncerning their owne ecclefiaiticall fermonizing • pkton. Relea. Con. and whatfoever quality or erTecl, facred Scripture afcri- id ^ntx^itffr'it beth to Jpofloticat/preachingy or to the word of divine «*i 1 8A * inffiration, 'Rom. l.\6.& ihttf. 1 0 . 1 7. Heb. 4. \ 3 ,
thefe prefumptuous Senators afcribe the fame, to their owne private dodtrine and forme of preaching.
2 Theft Presbyterian Dictators, without any mani- feft and demonstrative propfe, make their oyfne forme ifdifcipline ihefceptrr of ' ChriftS ktngdome, tFe$*n~
dard
ded, and rightly applyed, is a compleate and fufficient rule, to direct our judgement and beleefe, concerning ail verity meereiyfupernaturall.
Alfo it delivered! maximes, rules, canons, and it con- taineth many presidents and examples, for the better or- dering and perfecting of civill,morall,and Ecclefiaiticall duties and actions. The fame likewifeis fofarre forth fufficient, in propounding the Articles of faith, 2nd the precepts of good manners, neceffary to bee be- Jeeved and obeyed by Chriftians m generall : that if they (hall duly oblerve the order and meanes appoin- ted, they may rightly attaine the fenle and uncleritand- ingofthem.
Now the meanes to attaine the fenfe of holy Scrip- ture (upon which I (hall touch for theprefent) are ;
1 A true, right, and perlpicuous tranilation of the Scriptures, out of their originall tongues. And this is a worke of great skill : and required! much diligence, good conicience, and many helpes, of learning, art, and reading.
2 Holy Scripture hath formes, phrafes, and expreffi- ons of matters iupernatural], peculiar and proper to it felre. Chrifl is called \by@-y The Word, John 1 . 1 ; G O D is faid to be Three, and One, 1 . lohn 5 ,7. The Wordwas made flefh, lohn 1 . 14. Divine predeftina- tion : By nature children of wrath : Iuftification : New Birth : the Church the Body of Chrift, ofhisfle/b^ and •fhis bones. Ephef. 5.30.
3 Some prime Articles of faith,are not delivered in i literati or catechlfiicall forme of fpeech, but they are ■collec~ted and concluded by argumentation, out G&n- tences of Scripture, and by comparing of fundry Texts, one with another, -^Wlometimes there is a feemuig difference between one Text of Scripture and another, i^.<ra;3©. and M. 14.18. \ff<?**.3. 28. and Iama.2^t
flow the Presbyterians fbaUnot finde the holy Scrip* tares in thefe and many otberfoch M^hiag*,faperfr*-
a Hicron- Tom . 3 . ^. cuous % as that every private peribn,by helpe of the Spt« ^^fidonctu*" rit,andbj their mother jw>,may eatily underihnd them, dam vd obfcuriuima and rightly judge of controverted articles by them. And Aug. in ?f. 140. suae chefe new men, undervaluing all humane learnings and i* scripturis fan<ais rejecting, and crying downe the teftimony, and tradi- qu°a Ta4 hoTabta' **«» '/ ^ ^«««* Catholike Church ; have fet open ft ckintur, ncviufcant, Wide doore to Hereakes, and Schitmatikes, and among
&c Id deTr in. U . 1 J. , (1 tW • • o • • / • m / «
c.17 LUsm^f^ thereit, to new Phottmans, Soctnt*wstJemi-cPelagt~
£b»fine.c.t4.Gxcgot. ansy Anomians, Anabapti/ls, &c. ^«^ if any hereafter fupd Exech .«»*! 17. will proceed further, and queltion the Canonicall au- ifidor.PciufJi.a.*/. thonty of Saint Johns Revelation, or the Acls of the .ft/: Aug.advtiufiAn. Apoitles, occ. / d<?<? not as yet conceive, whatthfieMa- vir k d rters (having difannulled all Tradition and autiioricy of
jia^.zL. siiz^ix- the ancient Catholike Church) will bee able co plead
a^mbu^niUwK- aSain^ taem-
ftacui poteft! l ° "' ^^ Qhurch of IT flg/W hath proceeded, a right and id.ztyfc^, u. i .tf 1 3 . orehodoxall way : iV we have juftly rejected all coun- »on omnia aDcrur& terfeit and adulterous Traditions, namely, all fuchas paiarn expoiua Tunc , are not truely ancient and Catholike: Ttor yet fubfer- di^a muiw funt. vient to the doctrine or holy Scripture : But on the con-
Par€us}w Gtnsj.^a. ^y^ we maintaine the unirbrme teftimony and tradi- tion of the Primitive Church, complying with holy Scripture, and being fubfer vient to true fcutb and god- Iineffe.
It falleth out many times, that fome verities, which are evident enough, to peaceable mindes, out of holy Scripture, are notwithstanding oppofed by Adverfanes, as namely, (fhildrens B apt if me : Communion in both kindes : Church-Service in a knowne language , &c. In iiich cafes, when we have the teftimony, example and b Athanaf.**/^- Tradition of the Primitive Church, confirming our delpb. ^ inferences from thofe Scriptures, which wee alleage ;
iufrAvhifXhv j-fa addeth reputation to our do£trine and practice, "jk.1 Ja/'^a^to- *nc^ vei y muc^ confoundeth our Adverfaries.b km op/u*tAi'r*, w H°w tne Presbyterian faction proceeding a contra- myAvnoH TV™, ry way, are eafily brought to a non-flu* ,even when they ^u? MxiKfrt'vn. baveagoodcaulc; But concerning their maine caufe,
CO
to- wit, the external] government of the Church : When v(iipon their grand principle, that no ordinance mufi 'take place in the Church, but fitch at is verbally, or by necejfary confequence commanded in holy Scripture,) They reject that forme of government which is appro- ved by the perpetuall teftimony of the true Catholike Church: They utterly damne their owne confiftorian Regiment, for die fame can neither be proved by any fi« terall Texts of holy Scripture ; Nor yet by neceflary in- ference out of Scripture : Becaufe all Texts and ienten^ ces, which they make foundations of this new Fabricke, doc no$fo much zs probably conclude that which they require.
By thefe mens poiitions , and irregular proceed- „ings , many of our people are infe&ed with dlllike and hatred of the godly forme of our Church-Service, adminiitration of Sacraments, ordination ofMinifters, and with our Ecclefiaitical Rites and Ceremonies : and are perfwaded, they are Superftitious , and that it is un- lawfoll, to oblerve them, <*yfnd this conceit hath quen- ched the devotion of many good people, towards Gocts publike worlhip : It hath caufed a fraction and divifion in the Church and State: And brought forthanovell Ipawne and frie of Donatifts, Novatians, Separatifis, iAnabaptiftsy&c. Alfo many are become contentious and factious in civill affaires: And the ancient love and refpecl:, which our Englijh Nation was wont to beare to Soveraigne Authoritie,is much cooled and decreafed. !»*f-one rniichiere befides, is remarkable : Namely ^t %™™ ■ Fal«« many people, pioully affected in their general! intenti- dull circumvcnilllr. ons, Men and women fearing G o D,loving His Word, tur ab iis, quos bo- fob.er, cliaritable,and vertuous in their morall converfa- nos putaverunt. tionyA>* made a prey to fchifmaticall Leaders »: And * Hicron .c.Luci- wbereas, had they exeicifedreligion,andother vermes, Jjj^ ^^ mVmty and obedience or the Church, whereor they Vcnkns fcrvoDei We members, £asall religious peribnsin ancient time videbatur^qium u- were wont to doe*) t hi* would have beene honour and mtatemfequi.
A comfort
comfort to themfelvcs : *And their vermes and good jife, would both have honoured the Religion proreffed in our Nation, And likewife have beene exemplary to others: But it now fallethout , That thepoyfonof Schifme hath corrupted all the former: They bring fcan- dall and dilhonour to our religion : Their outward ver- tuous deeds are thought to proceed from hypocrifie and blinde zeale : and they are rather fcorned and contem- ned,than honoured and imitated :And they themtelves, in (lead of receiving honour and comfort, are fallen in- to difgrace, hatred,danger, and laffe, and iome of them into great mifery. The remedy of the former evils muft be thefe things which follow :
1 A true and plaine difcovery of the falfitie and de- ceitfulnefle of Presbyterian principles: And the Rea- der (hail jfinde fome paffages in this enfuing Treatife,ve« ry uiefull and matenall for that purpofe.
2 D ivines muft become ftudious, of fiotu and ve~ tier able antiquitie : And in their judgement, and their do&rine, they muft not vary from the fame, unlefle evi- dent and convincing reafons (hall enforce them.
3 lAnd there is one thing more, of great moment^ co perfwade people to live in conformity and unity of , the Church : To wit, the holy and religious con- vention of conformable men. when people (hall ob- ierve conformable JMinifiers, diligent and induftrious in ferving God, and promoting the falvation of Chri* ftian foules, committed to their charge : When they be- hold in them, peaceable, fober, and vertuous convert a- tion : And that they are no leffe diligent in lowing the feed of grace, than Heretikes and Schifmatikes are, in fowing tares : This will prevaile very much, to per- iwade them to honour the prefent Church, and the <fi& cipline thereof.
Now on the conttary,no one thing hath beene a grea* ter fcandall, andoccaiion of withdrawing many from conformity : Then the prophane negligence of fome
conformable
conformable Minifters : Then their loofenefle of life \ Their avarice and ambition, in heaping together Bene- fices andpromotions : And then a grofle negleft in dis- charging their duty, either in their owne peribns, or by entertaining and rewarding able and fufficient Curates. Tour grace in your Metropoliticall Vijitation ,hath begun a good worke, in taking tins into your religious c -*«j«/**». c»tfefi, confideration,andyouhaveendevoureda reformation. Nos confcflion6 r«< God Almighty vouchfafe to give a blefTing, and good ter^/S^/q^ fucceffe to your pious intention, and that bv vour Gra- 5ftrvcrb,um D?' ^uod ces authonty,this icandal^berore mentioned,may be re- Dmna, promitiat po. moved out of our Church. Ym%c}£t*T£d?l
There might alfo (my Reverend good Lord)be a very privatum abfiiJhXm profitable uie,of lbme private form of paftorall collation ''*'■!•• Neqa qui<1 * with their rlocke, tor their direction and information in ?« potcftas clavium particular Spiritual duties: fuch as was private confi/sion, '^SmB^SSiSt n the ancient fchttnb. Now the Presbyterian Cenfors, fp^antur. upontheirPara/ogifmetaktnfhmafaje, have with fuch f^^^L loud and impetuous declamations , rilled the eares^a nd Ecdefix miniftro c6- prepoiTefled the minds of many people,that they are ex- ^^3Sfe ceedingly averfe, from this fovereigne, and ancient me- no« ^a^eat cxpreflum dicme of confolation, prevention?and curing the mala- £ pKc non t at'
dies of the foule. c foluta: neceffitatis, ta-
Having new proceeded thus fane, in declaring tSEESffi. the fcandail, which by the factious deportment or pii»*<c<-W«(iic*par4 Presbyterian /pints hath beene railed in our Church ; fij&HKK and like wife having vindicated our mother Church recepta, ideonequa- from imputation of T^yelty: I JbaU at die 'lift apply 2^^%^: my felfe to the fubjeft of the Treatife following, and ^if^pit,acin%eto deliver the occafion, by which I was induced to handle ab \iiis °^i ITfZlam this Queftion of the Sabbath . hTZndi^ifT* ' ""
sA certaine Minifter of Hvrthfolke, (where I my ApoLpXvlv'iFct feJreoflateyeareswas£*/W,) publiuied a Tra&ate of 7-PaS- 1?1- „ . theSabbath : and proceeding atter the rule or Presbyte- Trid.p. 2. pag. **i. rian.principles,among which,this was principal! : That *
aa religions observations ana. actions, and among the 2g. zawb. d. 0pcr: rtf, tbt *r<l*ini»£ and keeping of Holy-tUja, m»fi Jg^gWj^
A 2 have up»ijthtJei(kjT««f
have m fpeciall warrant and commandement in holy Scripture, otherwife the fame is fuperftitiotts : Conclu* </«tffromthence,by neceflary inference, that the feventh day of every weeke, to wit,Saturday,having an exprefle command in the Decalogue, by a Precept (imply and perpetually ^Morall (as the Sabbatarians teach) and the Sunday or Lord's Day being not commanded, either in the Law, or in the Gofpell: The Saturday mufl bee the Qhriftians weekely Sabbath, and the Sun* day ought to bee a working day.
This man was exceeding confident in his way, and defied his Puritane adverfaries, and loaded them with much difgrace and contempt . fBefidesy he dedicates his Booke to the Kings Majefty himfelfe : He implores his Princely ayd,to fet up his old new Sabbath : He admo^ siiflieth the 'Reverend Bijhops of the Kingdom, and the Tempor all State likewife, to reftore the fourth Com- mandement of the Decalogue to his ancient poffeffion :' and profefleth that he would rather fufTer Martyrdom*^ than betray fuch a worthy cauie, lb firmely fupported by the common Principles of all our new men, who have in preaching or writing treated of the Sabbath.
But while he was in this heate marching furiouily,'
and crying in all places where he came, Vitloria^ vitlv-
ria e He fell into an ambufcado, and being intercepted,
he was convented and called to an account, before Tour
Grace, and the Honourable Court of High Commiffton*
At /?/* apparance, Your Grace did not confute him
with fire and fagot, with halter, axe, orfcourging fas
zM*rtinMar-prel. a certaine Hot-fturre, a lybelling difcipJeor7^w^
Ptoteft. 1 3 .Btfidcs Cartwright's, traduceth the Iudges of that honourable
*>borifhimpudency3 Court*) But according to the ufuall proceeding of
baiter, axe, bands, your Grace, and of that Court, with delinquents,which
Hng four &jhops are 0VCrtaken witn err e»r, in fimp licit ie,\h&e was yeeU
have nothing to At- ^ unt0 him> a deliberate, patient, and full hearing,to-
find tbcmfehes gether with a fatisfa&ory anfwer, to all hisniaine ob-
witbaU, jedions.
The
TVflua perceiving chat the Principles which the* Sabbat aria* Dogmatifts had lent him, were deceitful!, and that all which were prefent at the hearing (of which number there were lbme Honourable Lords of His Majeities Privie Councell, and many other perfons of qualitie) had approved the confutation of his errour : Hee begaruo fufpe6t that the holy brethren, who had km him his principles, and yet perfecuted his conclufi- on,might perhaps be deceived in the firft, as he had been in the latter. And therefore laying alide his former con- fidence, he fubmitted himfelfe to a private conference which by G o p's blelfing fo farre prevailed with him, That he became a Convert, and freely fubmitted him- felfetothe orthodoxall doctrine of the Church of Eng- land^ both concerning the Sabbath-day, and likewife concerning the Lor D*s-Day.
Now becauie his Treatife of the Sabbath was dedi- cated to his Roy all Majefty : and the principles upon which he grounded all his arguments, (being common-. Iy preached, printed , and beleeved , throughout the Kingdome,) might have poyfoned and infected many people, either with this Sabbatarian errour, or with - lbme other of Inequality : it was the King, ottrgra-- cioitj Mafier^ his will andpleaCure, that a Treatife ihould be fet forth, to prevent future mifchiefe,. and to lettfe his good Subjects, ^who have long time beenedi- ftra&ed about Sabbatarian queflions) in the old and good way of the ancient, <tyd orthodox all Cathotikg Church.
Now that which his facred Majeftie commanded, J have by You* graces direction, obediently performed : and I lhali now defire Your (jrace^ and all other Rea- ders, to take notice- of thefe particulars following :
Fidl, I have with much diligence, weighed and examined thole mens arguments, which ground the re- ligious obferva';k>n of the ; Sunvlay, upon the letter of thefoutth Commandement ; and 1 1 we proved by de*
A 3 monftrative
monftrative arguments, that they are of no force. Anil therefore I have grounded it upon the unirbrmepra&ice and cuttome of the Ancient Catholike Church, which a Aug. rf. Ternf. received the fame from the holy Apoitles a. iji. Dominicum Alfo touching the manner of keeping it holy, I have ^emftAPofto^ 3 & walked in the old and good way of pious antiquity, and ided wUeiofa1"^ Jhweraade cleare remonilrance, that die EccieiiauH- lemnitate habendu call and Civill Lawes and Conititutions,of our Church fanxcrvnt, quia in and State, accord, and come folly home, to the ancient codcmRcdempcor decrees, Canons, and Precepts of the hoheft Gover- ac°iCrcxk &TUiS npurs of former times.
?N«/tf fc/V fanxc- The keeping holy die Lord \r.day,and of other Feiti*
imt, bos *ft i facte vals, ordained by the Church and State, is a worke of
t> firmittr flam- piety, a nurfery of Religion and Vertue, ameanes o£
wit. Tr.Sonhi. de- (owing the feeds of grace, and of planting faith, and la-
mon r./>.4.^.4-) ving knowledge and godlineffe in peoples mindes: and
our blefled Lord and Saviour ,being duly and reiigioufc
ly ferved and worihiped upon the Holy-day, imparteth
heavenly and oemporail benedictions, to the King, the
Kingdome, the Church, the publike, the private, and to
the whole State.
Prophanation of the LWj-day,and of other folemne Feftivall dayes, which are devoted to divine and religi- ous offices, is impious, arid haterullinthefightof GW and of all good men, and therefore to be avoided by iuch as feare GW, and to be corrected and punifhed in thote which (hallorrend.
And there is one kinde of facriledge,ufually commit- ted in our Kingdome, which had his beginning from the 'Presbyterians ,and hath infected innumerable mul- titudes amongft us : to wit, a proplmneandlhamefull negi'ecT: and contempt of the folemne forme of divine Service , appointed to bee duly ufed and frequen-» ted, by the publike conftitution of our Ecclefiaitioall and Temporalllawes. Many of our Pneits and Mini* fters, being infected with the Presbyter*** drug, *f (iefpifing ouf Church-Service, doe either mangle if, and
transform*
transforms it, according to their owne phancy ; ©r wliolly negle6t it, preferring their own devifed formes before it: and our LeEture-men&ndL ibme others whom precife people, thkpow erf ft// Teachers, doe feldome honour it, fb much as with their owne prefence : and whereas (if they were the Jnen they defire to be estee- med,) they (hould not onely honour it with their pre- sence, but alio with their ailion (not holding it a bafe office, to offer up to Gad in the name of the Church tbefacrifice of publike grayer, thanksgiving, and wor- ihip)they in .theu! Sermons and Lectures and when they create of Prayer, Ata at no time commend trie tffe of it, nor declare the fruits and benefit of it, nor make k a neccflary act of religion. And now lately fmce I have beene reading many Engli lb Pamphlets and Ift&t aces of the SabbaA, fata baldly findeany Treati/e wherein theufe of f.he Common Service by theMihi- ller, and the due frequenting thereof by the people, is once named among the duties or offices of fan&irying the Lords-fay. Certainly/men doe not cotofider that it is a lacrilegious a6f, to rob Cjod of iuch worfhip and fer- vice as the Church and State have devoted to him : and why may not men rob Gad of his Church,and Church- men of their Tythes, afwelbis of his Service ? but be- iides this,it is a common injury to the whole kingdome, to the Kings Majefty Himielfe, his Gracious Queene, and lovely Children, to the Lords, Nobles, Bithops, Magiftrates, the fick, the whole, and to all eftates of people, to bee deprived of the publike fuffrages of the Church, which amongft all religious and holy men were ever efteemed as a common or univerfall Sacri- ficefme more pleating to God, (being offered up by the generall vote of all the Land, in an uniforme confent, as it were with one heart, and with one voice) then tiie lingular and affected devotions of private fpirtts.
And now, mod reverend Father, having thus far pre- fumed of your patience, in reading thele former para- ges;
ges : I dull in the laft place humbly intreat your (jracey to receive this Treatife of Mine, concerning the Sab- bath-day, and concerning the Lords- day , into your fa- vourable Protection. Many things perfwade mee to dedicate the Tame to your Grace ': namely, Your digni- ty and authority in our Church ; Your religious care and affection, to reforme thole evils of which I juifly complaine : Your vieepe judgement in matters Theolo- gicall : Your reverent etteeme of venerable antiquity f and Your diilafte of novelty: and laitly, Your long continued good affection to my lelfe; all thefe have moved me, and tome of them have obliged me to com- men4 thefe my labours to Your graces Patronage. I am auured, Your Grace will lovingly accept this Treatife, becaufe it tendeth to the publike edification of die Church : and if it ihali be truly underilood, and impar- tially examined by fuch as reade it • it may be a raeanes to fettle the Sabbatarian Controverfie, which ever fince Tht Cartwright's unluckje day es^thdiic^etedboth Church and State,
.
||&ZgftE '' Ton Graces in due obfervAncc^
Ufidlovcunfained,
^nasYl/ ' Bn. Eli ins.
The a.d/£agiands T>oSl. of the Sabbath:
T! B. His Do&rinc,conccrningthe per- n pccuall morality of the Saturday- ; Sabbath, is repugnant, to the pub- like (entence of the Church of Eng* I land : and to the fentencc of Di- vines who lived at the beginning * Qf the Reformation. >*»
i
The Rubrickof our Liturgy, at the foot pf the Calendar, rehearfeth all, and every Fe- ftivall Holy -day ,to beobfervedinour Church throughout the Yeare : and it nameth all Sun* dayes of the yeare, the Feaft of Circumcifi- s on,Epiphany,Purification, &c. and none other are ordinarily ,to bee kept holy by any Law of S^ our Church.
Alfo the Curate is commanded, that he de- clare openly in the Church upon every Sun- day, the Holy-day es ( if any bee ) of every weeke : but the Saturday,is none of thefe.
The Homily of our Church, faith: Rev.u \ i o . 7 was in the Spirit, on the Lord's Day : Since * which time God's people have in all Ages without gain faying ufed to come together upon the Sunday % to celebrate and honour the Lord's bleffed Na?ne, and carefully to keepe that Bay in holy reft and quietnefe, both Man, Woman, Childc* andSer- *
B % *vant
The Church of Englands
want. Ibid. We muft becarefuH to keepe, &c. not the [event h day, which the tewes kept, but the Lord's Day, the day of the Lord's Refurrettionjhe Day after the feventh da), which is thefirjl day of theWceke.
Canon 13. Anno 1603. All manner of $er- fons within the Church of England, fhall front henceforth, celebrate and keep the Lor d's- day, com- monly called Sunday , and other Holy-dayes, &c. (among ft which ,t he Saturday of every Weekeis none.)
Sx2X\&*$>dward. Regis, ^Anno 5. and 6. HeL ther is it to be thought, that there is any certaine time,or definite number of dayes prefcribed in ho- ly Scripture, 8cc. but that the appointment both of the time, and alfo of the number of the dayes,is left by authority of God's word to the liberty ofChrifts Church*
Be it therefore inatttd, that all the dayes here* after mentioned, fhall be kept Holy-day es and no other 5 that is> all Sunday es in the Teare, the dayes $f the Circumcifion of the Lord, of the Epiphany, Purification, Sec.
Si /hop CranmerV Catech. Anno. 1548. The lew QS were commanded in the Old Testament, to keepe the Sabbath-day, and they obfervedit> every feventh day, called the Sabbath or Saturday : but we Chriflian CM.en^ in the 'Kew Tcftament are not bound to fuch Commandements of MofesV Law : and therefore we now, keepe no more the Sabbath, or Saturday, as the Ievves did, but weobfervetht Sunday , and fome other dayes, &c.
Vo&rine of the Sabbath:
John Frith declar. of Bapt. pag.pd. our forefathers which were in the beginning of the Church, did Abrogate the Sabbath, to the intent that men might have an enf ample of ChriJlianlL berty ; and that they might know, that neither the keeping of the Sabbath, nor of any other day } is ne- cejjary. Howbeit, becaufe it was neceffary , that a Day fhouldbereferved,in which the people mirht come together, tohearetheWordofGod^ they or- dained in ft ead of the Sabbath, which was Saturday, the next day following, which is Sunday . And al- though they might have kept the Saturday with the Ie wes^as a thing indifferent, yet didthey much better to overfet the day} to be a perpetual/ memory that we are free, and not bound to any day, but that wee may doe all law full workes to the pleafure of God, and the pro fit of our neighbours, Sec.
Will. TindaL Anfw. to D. More. ca.z<$. We be lords over the Sabbath, and may change it into Afunday, or any other day^ aswefeeneede. 'Or may make ever) tenth da) Holy day, onely if we fee caufe why : we may make two every Weeke, if it were expedient, and one not enough to teach thepeo- ple.-'Ksither was there an) caufe to change it from the Saturday, then to put difference betweene us and the lewes , and lefl we fhould become fervants to the day , after their fuperfition .
D. Barnes Arricl. p. 206. Therefore bee cer- taine dayes afigned, that we fiould come together } not that, that day in which we come together, is ho- lier than afttither^ but all dayes are alike equaH : And C H*fN s t is not alonely crucified in the
B 3 farafchmc^
5
The Fathers Do Brine of the Sabbath*
j— ,.11
Parafcheue, and riCcn on the Sunday, but the day, of Refurrettion is ah ayes : and ai ]w ayes may wee eat ofonr Lord%sfleJh.
Now from thefc teftimonies, it appcareth that T. B. HisPofition concerning the perpc- tuall morality of the Saturday Sabbath, and our new mens aflertion concerning the Sunday Sabbath,are repugnant to the ancient and pub- like fentence of the Church of England.
a Trypb. Noncft opus cclcbratione Sabbati,poft nlium. Dei. Ge ft tes ctiam- fi Sabbatum non cbfervent j omnmo fanftam Dei harre- ditatcm adibunt. bc.Ind.ca. 4. Sc- cjuitur itaque uc quatenus Circum- cifio & veteris Lc- gis'abolitio,expun- <$aeft: itaSabba- tiquoquc obferva- tio temporari.i fa- ille demonftratur. Jb.ca.6. Novi Te- ilamcnti haeres 5c le^iflaror circum- ciuonem veterem cum fuo Sabbato compefcuit. Id. d. Idol. cap. 14 . nobis quidem Sab- b.naextraneafunt, n Deo aliquando &Lc£a.
Tl?efes. z\ T.S. HisTcnent is repugnant to the unanimous Sentence of the Ancient Bifliops and Fathers of the Primitive Church.
Iuftin. Martyr. a After the Sonne of Cod's ap- pearing, we have no neede to obferve the Sabbath- day. The Gentiles may attaine God's holy inheri- tance,without obfervation of the Sabbath-day.
Tertull. b Tht obfervation of the Sabbath was temporary ,and 'it was blotted out, like as Circumcu fion>and other Kites of the old Law.
Ixenx\\sli<^ca.i9.& ca.30.fr ca.31.
Origen in Gen. Horn, i o.Et inExod.Hom.j. drin^um.iS. H9m.23.pag.163.
Concil. Laodicen.ca. 19.
Eafeb. Hift. Ecclef.li. 4. ca.i$.
Attwtt£<d.femente,& d. Sab* & Circumcif
Bafil.
The Fathers Voftrine ofikSiibbxhl
Bafi I . in Efaiam. vif. 2 />. 8 3 7 .
Greg. Naz. Orat. 19. infunerePatris.
Greg. Nyflen. Orat. i.d. Refurretf.f.8z6, & d. Pafch. Orat.^.f. 86 j.
Epiphan. Haref. 30. & Hdref. 66.
Cyril. HierofoL Cat. 4.
Phylaftrius. d. Htref. tit. 8 8 . fag. 616.
Chryfoft. Enarrat. in. ca. 1. E/a. & m Mat. Horn. 4. & Imperfect, in Mat. Horn. 11.
Ambrof. i»ca.$ . Luc. fag. *)$.& li.^.in Luc. fag. 98. & Epift. J2.& Epift.39. a a abijtille dies y*;
HierOn. gu/tft.Hebr.W Genef.pa.853.Crin tcns Teftamenu &
ca. 44. Ezecb. & in proa m. Epift. adCalat. vemc diCS nov'^ Remig. in Epift. ad Rom. ca. 7.
Machar. Horn. 35. h Julius qilld c A-
^ Hilar. taAg .*» !•/*/. Mi9-&i*W*tb. ^%Z^
Can. 1 2 • vel prasfentis , in
Leo d. jejuniofeptimi menf. Strm. 1 7. "«P° non .labof c
,' ' / * _ J r ' . . docere^antiquae lc-
ihtOaWtt. tHlO.Ca.Ezech.f. 569. & in Ca. gisonera depofita,
4. Epift. ad GaUt. f.152. * omnia J& <Iuf
Auguft. r. J^/*/. ManichM.6.c.^d.Gcnef. nVuTprxaS^
ddlit.li.q.ca.lj.d. Jpir.&lit. cap. 15. r. Z>/*^ "*eft, otiumSab-
r*. 12. a. *tf//. Credendi.cap. 3. b rum & mum pec
Hefich. /» Lev.ca.26. annum folennitam
^ r» «/i /• recurfus, gratia E-
Gxegor.mag.RegiJt.lt.il. ep.}. vwgclij 4repenw
Ifidor. ///#. 0/7>. //. 6.<7*. l8. tc ccflaffe.
* Cejpttionm Sib*
batorum jam quidem rupervacaneam ducimus, adobforvandum, ex quo fpes rcve- lata eft quietis seternar. lam vcro tempore gratia? rcvelata? , obfavatio ilia Sabbati, qua: unius diei vacatione figurabatur, fublata eft ab oblervatione fidelium : mutato tempore > jam fuperftitiofum efle fignificavit- lnttr omnia ilia decern praecepta3 So* lum ibi quod de Sabbato pofitum eft, figuratc obfervandum prxcipitur. Ifidor. Poft- quam Chiiftusinfepulturafuaejus figuram adimplcYit, obfeivatio ejus quicvii,
Anaft,
T. B. His Tenent Henticatt.
,i ■ . .
Anaft. Sintita. contempt, in HexamJi.j.
Damafcen. Orth.jid. li.^.ca.i^.
Raban. Manr. inftit. Cler. li.i.ca.qz. An* dronic.conft.c.jud c.jZ.Concil.Parif.CA.So.CQri* cil.Jquifgran.p.^ 69. Concil.MAtifcon.i .ca.i.
Thefts, y. T. <B. His pofition concerning the leventh day Sabbath , was both in ancient and fucceeding Ages, con- demned as h&reticall.
•*%**• Maftr. * It was thus condemned, in the 2^4- d. Hxxct.Epipban. r exes, and in tntCennthians : in the Hebionites :
Sr^EccT Euflb' and m the Hypfi&*rii'
Nkep.HitiEc'.i.t. 2 ^e ancient Synod of Laodic*a, made a
cap.ij. Grcg.Na^ decree againft it,^.2p.Alfo Gregory the Grear,
1? i£i!*% affirmed it was judaicall.
judaic pVputum 3 In S. Bernard's day cs it was condemned
*W*fe *'**?- in the Petrobufiani.
rruo^er^coiiTun 4 The fame likewife^ being rcvived,in Lu-
sabbatum. thers time, by CarolaftadinStSternebergitiSy and
Hswf 1 7&T!o' ^y f°mc Se&aries among the Anabaptifts ^hath
Hiftor. Auabapt.l. both then, and ever fince, becne cenfured, as
*&»*L Iewifli,andHeteidalK
d. S.10. AAAAAAAiKAAAA 4fcA
17;e/ij- 4n.The Do&rine of the Church of England , both concerning the Sab- bath-day, and the L o r d's Day, is
grounded
Tl?e Doci.oftk Cb. a/England of the Sdbl 9
grounded upon the holy Scripture : and upon the confentient Teftimony of the ancient Catholike Church : and therefore the fame is to bee received, and the contrary ought to be rejected.
1 The fame is confirmed by fuch Argu- ments of holy Scripture, as cannot be folved or anfwered , but by devifing and affixing a cdv.\nd\t\ 0.4: new fenfes, and novell expoficions, or by in- ^Sm^S; venting diftindions, which were not in ufe be- quod vocatur col fore t he prefentqueftion was afoot. lumna & fi.rmi-
2 The confentient and unanimous jentence of «dom«Dti.Qui- the Ancient Catholike Church of Chrift, ought t>"s verbis tignifi- Hbepeferred, before thefintenceof private men, %££%£& unleffe the holy Scripture jhall 'apparently contra- inmundo, ecded* diet the fenfe of the Church. am * fidam ci«*
The reafons hereof are many. miniftcrio & oper*
1 The true Church of Chrift, and ef pedal- voiuk Deus puram ly the holy Primitive Church, by Office and "S^S£a. divine CallingDis The ground & pillar of truth a. &c. Eleda fegrc- 1 Tim. 3 . 1 5 . and The holy Apoflles in a plentiful £f <lf . toirjl meajure^porvren into the jame, as into a rich [tore. quz e{fet fmc ru°* houfe, all neceffary and faving truth, to the end & m^ula, corpus that every one that defmth, might receive from tt^iTc\; thence%the drinke or water of life. b in cam ami; m de ■
It is evident (faith Tertullian) that all fuch 5flgjf*2i& Duftrine as accordeth withthofe ApoftolicaB^ Fri- m^° °ontuIcram , mitive, and mother Churches is to bee reputed qu*funt verintis, found andtrue: 6ecaufethofeChurchcsyreceived "^Z£™1 this I)offrine,from the Apoflles , and the Apoflles powwow*.
C i from
10
The authority of Fathers.
^^ul»,*Con- from Chri s t> and C h r i s t from Cod. h &Tomncm do- Clem. Alex. The moft perfect knowledge and arinam qua? cum ^ ^ election of opinions, mujl be received from lEmtX *** atom, and from the ancient Church \ & oiiginalibus fi- Orig. Thatveritj onely uto becredited^which f«UeSaSd differs innothing from Ecclefiaftica/l authority, d
fine dubio tenen- S. Auguftine : e /» 1^#fr£ EccUfl£ Veritas W4-
tem, quod ecclefia ^^ &c. intheWombe of the true Church verity ftboUP<a ChnftPo" remaineth^andwhofoever feparates himfelfefrom Chriftus a Deo f/^ Wombe> he muft of necepty erre from truth L
e'e/ew -*/ /?««. ^nc* *n anoc'ier P^ace : irunca nobis limes f ana /.7.cT*'F*™.~ fideitenetur^quando termini qnos pofuerunt fanfti d orig. <w£ «'?;#*. patres,nontranfferuntur,imoobfervantur ejr de- eA»ghpf.i7.&c fenfantur. The border of right faith is pre ferved i Hypogno/t.tibs. inviolate, when thofe bounds which the h ly Fa- I<fd*fll-Cre'(;A7' thers have fixed, are not removed, but obferved
ConCll.JE.pb. 10.4. , 1 r J J J
c*. z%. Qui nulla and defended.
Apoftoiicae & e- 2 -piie Church Primitive was planted and nbiafetamS watered by the Do&rine of the holy Apofles. novitiam men- The fame received an ample meafureofDi- ^fnSlu- vine Grace: many miraculous and fupernatu- bem, hiiabomni- rail gifts were conferred uponit: 1 Cor. 12. bus audnnt : Ne 2 cor.S.j. Tou abound in every thing, in faith 0 mlno^ antiquo?" and word, and knowledge. ThcBiflhopSjPriefts, quospofucmntpa- and Fathers of thofe Times>vvereeminent,and ^thm^T'jrian. excelled men of later Time in fan&ity, chari- ot, a QMpdnon ty,and venue : their zcaleand love of heaven- dftatfcbdUnur°refa tyvcritY'> was admirable, and they honoured vcntum.qSeTJ and preferred the profeffion and maintenance aiiudexiftimaride, thereof, before all humane and tranficory g^S&t good: they expofed their lives, their honour,
mentionem fecit : in novifllmis temponbus deficient quidam a fide , adhxrentcs JfpifliibuscrrorisAc. their
The authority o/Fachers. 1 1
their liberty, and vvbatfoever elfe the prefenc a Wm.Mtrt.Di~ world affords, to all kindes of danger: and they ££$£$& endured the mod miferable, and terrible pref- «$, nemo tawe furesand torments, that bloudy Tyrants and aLtTquUdfl" Perfecutors, yea, and which Satha* himfelfe cL.obtruncemar! could infltdt upon them, for theteflimonyof cru««igamur,obji-i the truth oicbrift. »Andchereforc/Aw«^i- SffJS^S mous fentencey concerning matters divine, hath mentis cradamur j al waves bin efteemed in the Church of Chriffl, ^ASJf*^
r J n . i r i ne non difcedimus,
of greateft authority , next unto the lacred fed quamo magi$
Scriptures. in nos f*vitur,tan-
r toplures pietateaa
fidemq;pei: nomen Iefu profitcmur. AmbAnVfal. 118. Cum nihil rrnli freer int, p'ejora lat'rorubus fubire>tormenta coaSi funt. Cbryf. in Mat. Horn. 3 9. Flagellis caefr uncisferieisianiati,infartaginemimmifli3&c. Profper.J.vocat. Gent.li. z.ca.i ?„ Aag.de civ. Del, l.iz.c.6. Ligabantur^ indudcbaniur, caedebantur, torqucbantur> urcbantur, laniabantur, trucidabantur, &c. Non erat eis pro ftlute pugnare > nifi, falutem pro Salvatore contemncre. Tbeod. Ser.^.^i^mvJ. Minut.Feelix.oftav. I'ag'.io. Pneri & muhercula? noftra?, cruccs & tormenta, feras, & omnes fupplicio- rum terriculas, infpirata patientiadoloris illudunt.
Forthereafons afore(aid, The Church of Eng- 2 \, Aug.de civ. Del land,inhcrfublike, and authorized Dotfrine ^^^S^ and Religion y ttroceedtth in manner following, canonica appelh-
tur,eminentiflima»
1 It buildeth her Faith and Religion «f- ^tfbritatis.Cfc^
on the Sacred l and Canonic aU Scriptures , of the EUamT'm^rTuus holy Prophets and Apoftles, as upon her maine "pwfeij etianifi and prime Foundation.* SfeSSg
omnium credendum eft Scriptutis. Amb At fid. ad Gratian.li.i x .4.Noloargumeii- to cicdas, fan-cte imperator,& noftrse difyutationi : Scrjpturas intei*rogemus3interro- gemus Apoftolos, interrogemus Prophetas, interrogemus Chriftum. Clem. Alex. sir om.fr. 7. c. 9. Non abfolute horn inibus enunciantibus, fidem adhibucrimusjqui- bis licet etiam annunciarc contrarium, fed voce Domini pro bamus quod qua?ritur, frc. qua; eft fola demonftratioj &c. puocipium indemonftrafcile, &c, Dominic* Scnpturaa&c. ipfa judicc utimur.
C 2 2 Next'
u The Tejlimonj of the Ancient Q)urcK
'jmbrof. Epifi.*7.. 2 Next unto the holy Scripture, it relieth hjec%Tfickino^ uPon ^ie confentient teliimon^and AMthority oi fl«e. the Bilhops and Pjftorsof the true and ancient
AJiSf'EJ^M Catholike Church: and it prefcrreth the fen*
Adclpb.c. Avian. />. , r * , 11 £
3 n . Noftra fides tence thereof, before all other curious or pro- reAaeft, &«do- phane novelties.
ft^iX^ Thc ho[y ScriP;ure is the Rwptainc , and confirms. lively Spring, containing, in al fufficiency, and
Meifner.vbiifobr. ab0undance 5 the pure Water of Life, and jwum nobis facit whatloevcr is neceilary to make Ooi>s peo-
Becanus fcribendo pie Wife Unto/i/v^/^,.
^>$rdocedrc Jfoiam The confentient and unanimous testimony icnpturimeflcnor. ofthetrue Church of Chrift, in the Primitive ■am & judiccm A cs hereof, is C<tnalis,z Conduit-pipe, to dc- ■fci. imovcro & nveand convey tofuccceding Generations,the spitkom sanaum celeftiall water3containcd' in holy Scripture. S^m^S: Th= firft of thefe, namely the Scripture, is mus: &Eccicfiam offovcraigne authority, and foricfelfe, vvor- ceu judicem inferi- fay 0f an acceptation. The latter, namely, the
orem lubenrer ad- J. 1 /*• r 1 n • • • a*m t_
mittimus: ideoquc voice andteftimony or the Primitive Church,, foli fcriptur* offi- isaminifteriall,andfubordinaterule,andguide, SS £SS& to prefervc and dired us , inthe rightunder: aione-nonaffigna- (landing of the Scriptures.
mus.
Stlneccer. In 1 Cor. ■ — -
SS;^f"/; fit Vnfefhn of the Qmnb of Eng- *"* land, concerning the former po-
ceeding.
Prtftt. To Bi(hop/<r»v#hisworkes. This ' #, and bobbin the ofenpofefton of the Church
€
The Ch. ofEng-foflowetb the frim! Church]
of England, to defend and maintaine no other a Caufab.*^ (*,</. Faith, Church, and Religion, fat that which is ^°^c[Xru^x truely Catholike 5 and for fuch warranted, not ££« pratmcil; tntly by the written word of God, but at fo by eamdcmumfcdo- the tepmonj and confent of the Ancient and god- K&£§£
ly Fathers • fecre, qua? c fotuc
King Iamej of ever happy memorie : ***** s^r!^ The King himfelfey togtther with the Church of fumJfcJSL *««> England frofeffeth : that hce will acknowledge tls> ficut pcrcaru- /i*A Boclrineonfi, for true and necefarytofal- JESSE vation, which [fringing out of the facred Serif- b impi'mit. Vidi- tare* as from a FountaineJs derived to thefe pre- bunt Conci°n:uo-
Jt * ■* , * /^/ /* /»/ . „r f r res, ne quid unqui
/>«* *//»£/, £j( *fo consent of the Ancient Churchy pro condone, do-
4* £jf 4 Conduit -fife. a ceant,quod a popu-
rfc Arch-b.fhop of cAy , at a fo- S*SS38 lemneVifitation, heldintheyearc,i57i. fets quod confentancu forth this Canon following: ^// Preachers ^/^^VertT h>/7/;/7j fA/* Province, (ha&take [feci all care >t hat menti,q^dque^ they teach y or deliver no other doclrine in their illa n£ fcaipww Sermons , to bee religioujly embraced, and belee- t^\ 5S vrt/£jr. fAm* hearers the feofle : but fuch } as be- Epifcopi college- we confentaneous to the holy Scriptures of the ^t , , ,•
tj j ckt rr> A r i i vVititak .dicplic.fi .
Old and j\ewTejtament, was formerly taught x%7 piusmcmo and cottetfed from thence, by the Ancient Fa- tribuendum eft, fi thersandgodljBi^s^ SgSBC:
Andinthishcrpraaifc and profemon, the uvx, qaam fubfe- Church of England, confenteth with the pra- ^g^1***^ &ife3and rule of the Ancient Church. doquidl quo cnSc
ipfi-. Apejhlis pro- piorcs, eolongiuj ab erroribus abeiamSnepf.Annot.in Aug.c0nf.c7 .& ^.pagt6S^. Patrum fcripta & interpreenciones non modo non abjicimus fed adminmur,etiam cxiftimamus ipfos utilcm opcram praftitiiTc ecclcfia:, & lUuftratTc etiam fcripta pr<>- ohetica & Apoftolica fins lucubratiornbus.
C 3 Cyril..
i| Vie authority o/"Fathcrs."
c cyrti. Nos divi- cW. of Alexandria, in the Ephefinc Coua- aorlr^It cell. Wthe Fathers tf this CouneeUfoUwng quimur fidem : fie the faith of Divine Scriptures >and of the holy Fa- emm iupems vo- thers ofthe Church, /hall ebtaine thtCrowneofce-
cationis palraam ,„,,/,, /r j /r ■ V»l. /i
lucrabtour in lefttaU blejftdneffetn Chnit. Chrifto, Vincennus Lyrincnfis, d Hu that defies to'
cSSt^ continue firm, and found jn right &T™»gf*b} in fana fide, fanus mitjl fence and fortifie his faith, fir jt of au, with nere%e!lucntlIdu" the authority $ Divine law : and next to that, plk! moJUomunire with the authority ofthe Catholike Church. iidem fuam debet: The fame is affirmed by the Fachersof the &$&3l m Councell of Cenfiantimple^p.i9. By tatc, mm deinde S-Baftl e. Ep*6o.p. 835. And the Ecclefiafticall Catholicx Eccie- ftor rcporteth of Gw. Naz>. and of S. '.Bafil,
has authontate. • J , v . . n , . *\ „, r 1 r r, •
e B^.Fidemnos That in their ftudymg the Bookes of holy Scrip- nequc reeentiorcm turesjhey collettedthefenfe of them, not fom their
nequc ipfi, mentis mony and authority ofthe Ancient, who badrecei* noftrx feus, ah- j tfo rule of the true intelligence of Scriptures,
1$ obtrudere aude- _ , . . ' . „ , . r ° „. r * l
imis, ne hum™ from the holy ^pojtles by Juccepon. ■
pmentur pietaus Jhe obfervation of the former rules Js both
ftnt; £Lg e- Profitable and neceffary, for prefervation of
doch fuaius, ea nos interrogantibus .innunciamus . f RuffiK tcci hift. lib. t cap.g. Bafitius Sc Gregorius, &c. omnibus Grxcorum fjeculariv.m libris remotis, folis Di- tmx Scripture voluminibus opcram dabant, carumque inte'lligentiam, non ex pro- pria pra?fumptk>ne, fed ex ma joiutn fcriptis 3 & awhoiitate loquebancur : quos & ip- iosex Apoftolica fuccefsione,mtel!igendi regulam (ufecpifle conftabat. g Aug. de bap'dib. f czp.z 6t Quod nos admonet ut ad fontcm recuriamus, id eft, ApoftoliCAmi traditionem, & inde canalcm in noftra tempoia dnigamus, optimum eft, tv fine du* •ouatione faciendum . Clem. Alex. from. lib. 7 . cap:$ . Inter eos viros qui tanti crane in-ecelefiafticacognitione, quid reftabatdicendum a Marcione aut Piodico & fimi- . libus qui non funt ingrefsi recta via? ncque cnim eos qui pra?ccflerunt fupenre .potuerunt fapientia, ut aliquid adinvenirent iis, qua; ab illis verc di&a funt : fed .icnc cun isa&itoa cfiet, fi-fcire potuiifent ea qua; prius funt tradita • is ergo nobis Tofus qui eft cognitione pra?ditus, cum in ipfis Scripturis confenuerk, Apo- ilolicim & Ecclefi.fhcamfervans dogmatumieft;;^dinem} reciifsime vivit,conve •ntcrevangciio,^. v ioun^
iProhable arguments infirme. j \
found faith and holy religion, and for repref- fing of Schifme and Herefie: it frceth the Church from fcandall and imputation of no- velty : and it addeth reputation and efteeme to the Dodrinc and Religion, profefiedand re- ceived upon the faid two grounds: and laltly, it comforteth Chriftian people in their holy profeflion, and augmenteth their love and obe- dience to that Faith and Religion, which is both confonant to holy Scripture, and which likewife hath approbation from the ancient Church.
Thefts ^.Topical or probable arguments, either from confequence of Scripture, or from humane reafon, ought not to bee admitted or credited, againftthe confentient Teftimony^and Authori- ty of the ancient Catholike Church.
i Arguments and obje&ions of this qua- lity, may be falfe as well as true: and the Phi- sZffi^Z: lofopher well obferves, that many rimes, chdora mendado- Falfa Cunt probabtliora <veris , Things falfe are ru? r°,Phifma">
' J / /V j t * ° J r quam documenta
moreprobableyan4 have a great tr apparence of ve- vematis. rity, than things really true3, 1r ox Khz Medium b cUm.Aiflrom. or ground of fuchobjcaions, isnorncccflfary, JE&JSJS but contingent b : And contingent propofiti- babiliu argumeiu
torumJ& aliavcro- rum; Aug. dcBapt.li. 4.C.6. Rarioraes anipuit,qua> venfimiles potiiis,quam veras ciFeinvenimus. ^mbre/.ti, io.ejt.Si. Fuco quodam probabilium difputationuin ca colorare Yoluerum.
ons,
1 6 Topicall Arguments infirmi.
oris, are of a dubious quality: and they caufe opinion onely, and not divine faith,
2 The admitting, and crediting of Topicall
arguments, hath in all ages, opened agapto c cum.Ai.ftrom. moft peftilentiall Herefiesc: Namely, to the Sta7S£ Herefies, againft the blefiTed Trinity: and a- or^, it fedamur gainft the eternall Deity of Chrift. ThePela* h*rcfcs.Migisdc- gjan Herefie, concerning Grace and FreewiHy (unT opfnabaiaqi3 and concerning originall fin,was grounded up- sV^cuamfifiu 0Q probable reafons : and fo likewife the ^mm^imZd herefiesof £*«Vm*,& manyerroniousdodirines
of Pontificians, are in our dayes wholly fup.
ported, by verifimilous, and probable reafons.
And as Clemens Alexandrinm hath well obfer-
ved : Men are more apt to beleeve things probable^
than verity.
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jiQmclufion from the Tremifes.
T. B. His maine Pofition, concerning the Sabbath, being contrary to the authorifed do- (Srine of the Church of England; and to the confentient and unanimous fentence of the An- cient Catholike Church 3 Is to be condemned, as falfe and erroneous, if it (hall evidently ap- peared the Anfwers following,that the fame is totally grounded upon Obje<ftions and Ar- guments, which are onely of a probable, and dubious quality.
T. B.
T. B. TJ)C Sahbatb mbrati.
17
T. B. His Arguments and Objections, exa- mined and anfwered.
In the folucioti of the Sabbatizers objecti- ons, my method (hall be, to examine in the firft place, the maine grounds and principles upon which hebuildeth, and from whence he deduceth his conclufions. And this being performed, his particular arguments being in number 24 . and beginning at the 40 1 . page of his booke, will eafily be anfwered.
T. B. His principall ground , thereupon be maintainetb btiTojition, for tbe necejjary and perpetuall obferVation of tbe Sabbatb-day.
All and every one of the ten Com- mandements are purely, entirely, and properly morall : and there is nothing delivered, or commanded in any one of them, which is Iudaicall, or legally Ce- renioniall.
His maine tf{eafons.
1 All and every one of the ten Com- mandements were pronounced, delive-
D red,
T. B. The Sahhath Moratt,
red,and promulgate^ one and the fame time, and in one and the fame manner, namely, by the immediate voice of God, with thundering and lightning, and in the common audience of al the Ifraelites, Exod.io.x8. Dent.*}, n.
2 Xhey were all and every one, writ- ten or engraven in tables of ftone,by the finger of God Himfelfe, Exod.^i. 18. Deut.y.xo* Exod.p.i6*&' J4.1. Dent 10,4.
3 According to G o ds owne ap- pointment, all and every one of thefe ten Commandements, were placed in the Arkeof the Teftimony, within the mod holy place of the Tabernacle, T>eutA 0.2. 2 Chron. j.io. Heh.y.q.
4 O&eandthe lame proeme, contai- ning agenerall motive to provoke peo- ple to obedience of all and every one of thefe Precepts, was prefixed before the Decalogue, Exod 20.2.
5 Many Divines of our own Nation^ in Sermons, and written Tra<5htes of the Sabbath, and in their Expofitions of die fourth Commandement, maintaine
the:
r. B. lhebabbatb Moral!. ip>
the forcfaid Pofition , affirming with much confidence, that all and every one of the ten Commandements are intirely, properly, and perpetually moral!,
T. B* His ajfumption.
The fourth Commandement y Remember the Sabbath-day to keepe it holy, Is one of the ten Commandements y andit is a Pre- cept of principal! note } placed in thefirH Ta- ble : and the observation thertrfis required in the Law, and in the Prophets "frith great rbehemency : and the tranfgreflion punifhed "frith much fey erity^Exod. 35 2. Whofoever doth any work therein fhal die, Num.i'). 32. they found a man that gathered flicks upon the Sabbath-day, &c. And all the Congregation brought him without the hoaft, and ftoned him with (tones, and he died, as the Lord had commanded.
ISlow from the premijpsjhis conclttjion is inferred by nrceffary confequenceiTherefore the fourth Commandement, Remember the Sabbath-day to keepe it holy, Being one
D 2 of
2C
T.B. TbeSabbath Moral
of the tenuis purely and properly moratl,an£ , „ * * itoblireth fhriftians to the obedience there-
«*. 5tffr.ro rfce *ea- $/ (M IP ell 06 the Other W, *ter. Some in their J
(ittafprtffi D. B. Oftfce Sabbath, pag. 40. The ltd\Lhnkc p«$- fourth Commandement can bee no more ^JSLbX partly morall and partly Ceremoniall , wmoreceremomau tkan che fame living; creature, can bee obfervathn of the partly a man, and partly a beait, \ftg. 50* (S a^perpe- The obfervation of the fevench day , and '£$»& alio the preciferefting from worldly af- £*£ •"'*• 5^" faires is morall,neither is there any thing
b*tb : there is as J J 5
much difference be: in the Commandement that might intu
tweene the Sabbath '•""%'*+ • 11
and other dales, mate ltto be Ceremoniall. ^ZZI'Z- R. B. againft Br pag. 9o. The fourth fotvitt^^. Commandement in every part thereof, ftir.ii.Tbeobfer- an(j as jt [s contained in the Decalogue,
vation of the j e- , t| 1 r r r /*<vt
ventbdayisoftbe is Morall , and 0/ ffce L*tt> of Nature, ^tfcvnisfond Vag 88.The fourth Commandement is 2£^^ K' °/ *'* L^ of Nature, and thus part [fNlmrV&^l °t C^e Image °f G o d, and is no more tag. 13* ne obfer capable of a Ceremony to be in it, than
vaiion of the fe- ^L J J
ventb daywascfia- VJ 0 D IS.
Mhcd before cbrifl
was promifed : and therefore it is not Ceremoniall but of the Law of Nature, and per-
,f/ul.Jd«npag.x8 G.W.dSab.pag.iS.Tbe Decalogue beingtbe fame with the Law
of Nature ts one and the Came for ever : itfollowetb necejftrih that the Sabbath being
*.pATt ofibat 'Decalogue^ is to remake for ever. Idem pig. z6,
R. C,
T.B. The Sabbath MaraB, 2,
R. C. Of the Sabbath, pag. 54. This fourth Commandement participateth with the three other before, and the fix next following, in all the honours and prerogatives, wherein they goe before all the Leviricall conftitutions, for more glorious promulgation and eftablifli- ment. Ihey were pronounced by the voice of God Himfelfe,immediatcly un- to the peopie : So was this. They were written in Tables of ftonc, with G 0 d's finger : So was this. They were put into the Arke : So was this. They were writ- ten by the Holy Ghoft, in the Booke of Exodus joyntly together without any mixture of any other with them : So fbts this alfo,and fee in an high place, be. fore all thofe of the fecond Table. iBut nothing of this is affirmed of the Law of Ceremonies.
I. D.Vpon the Comtnandements,pag.\ic}. . Thefe reafons doe mod evidently con- firme to the hearts of all God's children : That the keeping the Sabbath-day, is a Morall Law, and bindeth us, and all
D 3 men.,
2i T- B. T7;e Sahbatb MoralV.
1 ' " ' ,r ----ir
men, to the end of the world,as much as it did the Iewes, before Chrift.
D. D. ^4/>z/?Heathering. (Paf. 54, The morality of the Sabbath may be pro- ved from the manner of writing the fourth Commandement. For it was not written in paper or parchment, or upon leaves of trees, but in Tables of (tone, as the reft of the tenne Commandements were, to fignifie the perpetuity thereof.
Idemy The morality of the Sabbath may bee proved by G o d's owne pla- cing of it, for the Law of the fourth Commandement, is not placed among the Ceremoniall or Iudiciall Lawes, as though it had beene Ceremoniall,orhad concerned onely the tradition of the Ie^es, or them efpecially : But it is placed among the morall Lawes,yea,it is made one of the ten Lawes : fo that if it were abrogated , there would remaine but nine Commandements : and fo the Law of G o d were imperfect, which were blalphemy to affirme.
H. B. Dial Manufcript. Thefe ten
words
T.B. The Sabbath MoralL
words, or Commandements , God Himfelfe by His lively voice fpake to the people in the Mount, face to face • Not Co the Ceremonial.Thefe ten Com- mandements were written in two Ta- bles by G o d's owne finger, and that twice : NotfotheCeremoniall. The ten Commandements were kept in the Ark, in the Santlum SanFiorum, within the Veile : Not fo the Ceremoniall.
T.B. His inference from the Premifles.
The Fourth Qommandement , according to the Principles of the Authors aforefaid, is truly , intirely, and properly morall :for it is a precept of the Law of Nature : a part of the Image of God: and no more ca- pable of a Ceremony to be in it, than God is: and it is as grofle anabfkrdity to fay /tt is partly morall, and partly Ce- remoniall, as to fay, The fame living creature is partly a man,& partly aBeaft.
But the fourth Commandemeht
. fpeaketh.
^ T.B. The Sabbath Mor all
fpcakcth of a Day, which by divine im- position , was called the Sabbath-day : the fame day of the weeke , on which God Himfelfe refted : and which was obfervcd by the lewes and Israelites un- der the old Law.The Day in which no Manna (e\\ : Exod \6.
TS[ow from hence it is manifeft,. and can with no apparence of good reafon be denied: TWthe Saturday of every weeke, ought to be the Qniflians Sab- bath-day, as well as it was the lewes . And on the contrary, chat the Sunday is, according to the rule of the fourth Com- mandement, one of the fix working- day es, and no more the Sabbath-day, commanded in the Decalogue, than Thurfday or Friday.
T. B. Was Jo confident in his Tojitien, of the Saturday Sabbath} becauje he Juppo- Jed the principles upon lohich he grounded his arguments tobaVe beene undeniable ■, that he breaketh forth intopafiion^ and deliver eth two dejperate jpeecbes, One concerning his Adverfaries, inborn bejiiktb Putitanes, that
they
The Sabbath pojitive] 2<
tktyyeilding and maintaining bis Principles, and yet denying his Conclufion y deferveto be anlwercd with clubbes , rather than withreafon : The other concerning him- felfe y that his conference Tfras fo pofjcjfed, toith the certainty of this Doctrine , as that he "toonld rather loje his life y and all that bet enjoyed in this Ttorld 3 than depart from the teaching and maintaining fucb an apparent verity.
mmmm nmnuumm
<^>4nfa. The Reader may perceive, by the former difputation, that the whole weight and ftrength of the Sabbatarian caufe, leancth up- on this one pillar, to wit : The fourth Commit- dement of the Decalogue, is properly, intirely, and perpetually Morall, and in every refpett, both for quality and obligation , equal! to the other nine Commandements.
But this Poficion , ( which for many yeares hath raignecf, in Pamphlets, Pulpits, and Con- venticles, and is entertained as an Oracle, by all fuch as either openly profefle, or doe leane towards the Difciplinarian FadHon : ) is deftU tute of truth : And to make this appeare, I will inthefirft place deliver a defcription, and divi- sion of the Morall Law 5 and of Morall pre-
E cepts:
i| Defcription ofMorall Treceptr.
cepts v And in the next place fet downe the for- mall and effentiall Chara&ers of Lawes and Precepts,fimply,and eternally Morall: Laflly, I will demonstrate out of the former, That the fourth Convmandement of the Decalogue, wanting the formall Chara&ers of Preceprs purely Morall, is in fundry refpe&s of a diffe- rent quality from the other nine.
A Declaration concerning the quality ofDhine Trecepts,
called Morall.
d;
ivine Law, called Morall, isajuftruleor meafure, ienpofedby God, directing and obliging to the obedience, of things holy, ho* neft, and juft \ and to the avoiding of the con- trarie.
The fame is two- fold : Simply Morall, Or
Morall only by fome externall conftitution, or
impofitionof God.
AUx.Hai.i.q.i. Divine Lawfimply Morall, commandeth
S^H&te. or prohibiteth adions^good or will, in refpeft
quod omni tempo- of their inward nature and quality.
Tt3 & ab omnibus
femndum eft : Et eft morale fecundum a^id, five ex coocritionc , loci, poputi,
temporises.
"Divine
tpofttive (Precepts'. \y
- — ■ i ■ ■ — . ■ _ . i
Divine Lavves 2nd Precepts, Morallonely, **ug.rMtAttegim by external! conftitutiop, command or prohi- cepra i4fs''fcrip bite a&ions, which before chepofitionofthe t*>aUafuntmobi- outward Law, are adiaphorous, inrefpcftof S^JJJ^ ^if" their inward nature and quality, orelfegood fumordinata. Alia orevilloi>ly,by rcafonoi fomecircumftancc. pmobilia, qua i ForexamplcyTGQatthebloui<)iBza(is, or to vcHurummaiafc abftaineirom earing : To worfhip God at the nuiio tempore line Temple,or in a private houfe.or in open fields: c»U« poflunt fica:
«- i r i i r i r n vel lta bona, ut
To lay afide almes ror the poore, upon the tint nuiio tempore pof- day of the wceke, or upon thefecond, or third {int fine culPa 4i» day. ■ mmi-
^£4/'w,Lawes positively Morall, are either a Greg, tamer: Fcrfonall oncly a. Gen. 12.1.&22.2: 1 Sam. 15 ^.fr.Quxdam' IJ. II. 19. 1 Kinrs 12. 16. Matth.io.g. Luke F«ePta Dei funt
£ ^1 11 • f r communia omm-
18 22. Or common ana genc-rall, cither tor urn : Qiuedam fpe- all mankinde, as the Law of Polygamic b, and cialiaaiiquoru,&c% wedlocke wichinfome degrees mentioned, Le- m$£j?%\ vit. 20. 2 0,2i« Or elfefor one Nation, Re- -Alia funt peccata publike, or community of people: Exod.n. JSSS*1*''
**3 7? °^C* alia contra pra?cep-
ta. Qua? cumica fint, quid tandem criminis eft, quod de pluribus fimul habicis uxoribus objicitur fan- fto viro Iacob ? Si naturam confulas,non lafciviendi,fed gignendi caufa,illis mulicn- birs utebatur. Si morcm, illo tempore, atque in illis terris fiebat. Si prjeceptiim j nulla lege prohibebatur. Nunc vero cur crimen eft fi quis hoc ficiat,nihquia & mo- nbus $1 legibus nun licet ? Idem, de bona conjugal, cap. 17 . Piures fsminas uni viro lcgimus conjunc*hs, cum genus illitts focictas fine bat ,& cemporis ratio fuadebat ; aeque cnim contra naturam nuptiarum eft.
E 2 Proper
2 8 MoraU Preceptsl
Proper Characters of Lawes and Pre- cepts; (imply and intircly morall.
Character i. In all fuch Lawes and Pre* a Arift. Ethic. #. cep*si the aff ions commandedor prohibit ved, art in $.ca 7. Eftaliquid their inward nature and 'quality ,good} or evilly be- ;uftum,cnamame f0rea„y external! covflitution paffeth upon t hew,
conditam legem. J J .. , jA ^- riJr-r
caftropaUto. mor. andfecluding and attracting thepojiUve Law} or ir.s.dijp.6.pvnfl; cxternallimpofition of the Lawgiver* a
intnnfci habcnt For example:
bonitatem & ho- To Honour Father and Mother^ was an a&rofr
neftatcm,pcrcon- j10neft vertuous,and julhand the contrary was
torrnatione ad re- . , ' . . Z. . 'r 3 , T r .J
dam rationed fe- vicious and unjuft, bcrore the Law or the Ten
clufa omni lege Gommandonems was given at Mount Sinai}
ITcTn'l'.cap.io. Gen- 9*2U unto 28.Sem, Ham.znd Iaphet^to-
iuftiPatrcs, virtu- wards their Father Noah. Ho{J>itality6 chafiity%
tein decalogi con- Fide lit y^wwz inwardly vertuous and good m
^SusAani- AbrahamJofeph,&c. Genefis 18. 8. Heb. 13. 2;
mis Cms, diligences Gen. 3 9 * 6*8,9* -To adore and worship the true and
fclicet Deum cun j • ■ Q^ j h %b % ^ %h j • j j
tecit eos , & abiti- .0 * . . 7.
jientes crga pioxi- torebuke vice, were pious and righteous actions Hiumabmjuftitia: fr0m the beginning, 6^.4.4.26.^ 8. 20,21. ^Tccfle aim^S* 1 2,7.^ f 8>i9*dr Genef. 5. z^with the Epu
r.erceos correpto- ftle of I tide V . 14.
tSSSSX-. SVhe contl7ry: ETe> Friic> uknfcs
115 juiliuam. kgis. ^Adultery , Mart her i evillConcupiJcence, Thefts Aix-M lib arb.u.i receipt. opprcfion/falfe-Witnelfi, Super (lition,
&»•?• Non lane , T ', , ll i •; j J*» l n
id^omaia eft, quia and Idolatry ,Sacn I edge $ were internally vici- tetaturlcgc, fed ous, before the outward Law, Gen,q..S. & 1 2.
d" 30.30. 6" 3 4- 2. 0*3 5 •22- CT 37- 2 0.28. £r
38.16.^39.7. 9. 15. 17.-EW.1.11. cJ*y»2>
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Moratl Precepts.. 29
CharacJ. 2. Good or evill actions, commanded, or prohibited by Law es and Precepts jimp ly morally may be refolded intofome dictates and principles of the Law of Nature? imprinted tn man s heart at the Creation.
The Precepts of the firft Table require./^- lity> reverence, honour, and fervice in due man- ner, to be rendred to God Almighty : 3 and <i Aquin. r. 2.^. they prohibit idolatry , fuperJliuon,bU[phemy , ^qu^ oldimn- and prophaneneffe. Now all and every one of tur ad Deum,pn- thefe duties, are grounded, andmay be refol- ££S3&££ ved into the Dictates and Principles of naturall datur3 nulla parti. morality. For becaufc the true and living ci^joneaimej* God, is- the lupreme Lord and Governour, secuadum,ut rev*. both of the World, and efpecially of Manrand Kntfem eiexh&e- becaufe Man receiveth his being, his power, ^gSKS.1 his prefervation,comfort,and happinefle from pendat. him : and befides, Man is in fuch manner fub- Aurcols^>i/f^7. je&to God^ as that this great Lord and K big habku^^uo^ms hath abfolute power over him, and over all volimme irtcifaa- his anions, and he may. fave ordeftroy, re- £$££$£ wardorpunifli him, according, to his own will tfi eft author om- and pleafnre : up en thefe grounds and reafons, wumbbhoi^nviit itismoft juft, fafe, andbeneficiall,according mofSum^Lbe- to the rule of naturall underftanding, that Man, « fuperiortm, & being God's Subjed, Servant, and Creature, £«SiS»fe
nomra. pot eft at:- tem confiderarij ut omnium produftor, lit omnium provifor, uc omnium (peculator Rich. Med. 5. i.37.9.4. Ad hoc ut bene ordinctur homocd Detfmjoportetquod in Deo obfervet hare tru : fidditatem > ita ut quantum in l'e eft, nori trans re rat honorcrn principalis ad alium, & hoc eft quod continetur in pnmo praeccpto. Opirtet etiam ut tantam revcrcntiam ci exhibcat, ut nihil injuriofum in cum committ it^Sc hoc pra> cipiturfecundo prxecpto. "poriet etiam quod fibi exhibeatr\imulatum3tanquatn me- ■ m or bcncHciorum rcccpcorum ab eo : & hoc praecipitur teitio prxcepto ,
E 3 doe
jo Xlorall Precepts.
doe render unco his Supreme Lord and Gover- nour, fidelity, fervice, feare, reverence, obedi- ence and love. \^ind the holy Scripture very frequently, upon the former, and upon other fuchlikenaturall principles, exhortech man to his duty towards God: and reproveth him for his ingratitude and difobedience, MaL\%6. i^d Sonne honoureth his Father, and a, Servant his CMaJier : if I then be a Father, *vherc is mine honour? if I be a Mafler, When is my feare f faith the Lord of Hoftes^Efay 1.3 & $.$.Itr.S.yjDttii. 30.6. CMd.-$.%.Mat.i%.^.
Thedurksotthe fecond Tabic may bere- folved in like m inner, into di&ate:: add p: inci- ples of morality. Children receive from theif Parents their narurall life and bfchtgjtheir edu- cation, lively-hood, &c. "Korv oaturall reason and affe&ion enclines mens hearts to love srra-
o
b T%oPh. Antu titude, and due refpeft, towards grand Ikne-
ocb. ad Antolyc.il. fa(SorS. b
feSfthS ^*tur*11 rcafon pervades mnn to love his foium apud Dcum, neighbour facaufc of fimilitude of kinde : be- fedapud homines, CAUh mutuall love is neceifary for mans wel-
fubici parentibus. c 1 r J j r
Anit. Ethic n.s. fire ^nd prelervation ; and every one defires Ckcro. in orat. another (hould love him : now it is a maxime Pott red. Diis & f 'mxmc that one doe to others, according a* hce
parcnttbus nemo ni. Vi// i S
poteft redderc a> would himjelfebe done to. <l iaie.>^e/fxcha. *rhc negative precepts of the fecond Table, ken™; ^uod at are aH *n^ evci7 onc grounded upon natural! has nobis vita, p - principles : and S.Augufthe difTwjdrdi people trimonmm hber- from ;u concupifccncc by rhis maxime of
tis,amas data eft, f T ,,VT x ^ / . . ,
&c the Law of Nature: £01 not thou covet thy n*tgh .
hour's
Morall Precepts.
hours wifcjr his goods ,ejrcbecaufc thou thy felfe art offended, if another man (hall covet thine. a 3 Auguft. in pfar Charatt. 3. Divine La.es ^d pncc^Jmply £feg£ and formally morall, arc univerjall, in rcipc<fi ot imi mi,quia fi quis perlbns, and in regard of their perpccuall obli- ?rn<fupifc:ik- ?f^J
r • k *•* 1 lp u J difphccttibi.Id.rf.
gatic A For they oblige to obedience or pu- nb.arbiii\.cap.i. nifliment, all and every humane Creature ha- **oc rcio maia™ ving the ufc ot reafon: snd rhey oblige in all £&*.{$&
Ages of the world, and under all religions, or noiicm. Quifqms mutations of Temporal!, or Ecclefufticall T'?d]T hcit
. . r. r J , , . <3"od lifai hen non
government: that is berore the Law, under vult, maleN imquc the Old Law, under the Gofpell. The Iewes, ^timerMGaij the Gentiles, the Cretans, the Barbarians, the aB^iS^S^ Bond, the Free, Princes, htdges^ Nobles, Pie. Uterine fecemis' beians, Rich-men, Beggars, &c. are equally &c-nol°^ukeran
r l • A 1 r n/ l ir -t J uxorem meam:nc-
iubje ct to them: Laflly, they oblige without k> fubftanriam di- cxternall promulgation, by ameaeimprefli- riP,:i^iomcfai(o on of Nature, feared by G o d3 in the confei- ^ T&u^ cunal ence: and no authority of Men or Angels can brevi feimonec5- privilcdge or exempt any from their obli- [^*dJ£* $*?•
gation. hi fieri, quodTft
i jtifrum. b Gulielm. Parif. d.lcgxa.\ . Nunquam poflibilc fuit, aliquem exemptura effe a de- bito, & obligationcalicujus iftorum. Nulliemm unquam licere potuir,non dili^ere reltimcreDeum, & ita de unoquoque ahoium. Hac lgitur lex eft qua:non recipit abrogationem neque dcrooationem, neque exemptionem, necdifpenfationcm ullo modo. Ibid. Lex eft fimpliciter, Temper, &ad orwnes acujusobfervationc non eft execptio. Ex quo manifcftuai eft , quia prxcepta & prohibitiones qusecunque fiuntj vel£z£aefuat,pra:tei: ha..c, non funtlex £mplicitei-,fedcui& quando.
The
$0 fitly e Lawes.
The Characters of Lawes and Precepts
pofitive.
i star. d. teg. Ilia That Law is c Ailed pofitive, which is not in- kx vbcaturpoGti- bred \ imprinted, or infufed,into the he Art of 'Man* ZSS2SSS* h»*t»reorgr*ce: but it is mpfaij anexur- gmtia; fed ulcra il- nAll mAndate of a LAwgiver, having authority to U, ab ■ai.quo prin- command \ And it harh the namepofrtive, from tcihtcm pofitacft. externall impoimonor conftitution : andbe- Ueo enim pofitiva caufe it is added to the Law of Nature,& doth W&&I& notneceflarilyfpringfromit. aon er eo aece&u The Charadiers of Pofitive Lawes3are thefc H^V which follow:
5 v . fndi^crentia^ Char aft, i . T^f matter and things commanded ii efface bo^i3nee or prohibited, by fuch Lawes and Precepts, areei- £fo, w - .pro f^** '» * *«> */W W quality jr in refpeci of their yariantuf. M^ru. Circumjtances, adiaphorous ^ that is, neither ver- )V7)rhmtr'd' tU0H5 **or virions , but thej become good or evill tfi p&iva'prat- meercly by the Law and command of the Law
ceptis fuisaffirma- giver. ^
S^Tob" " -P^ example: the Fruit of the Tree of know- ^o iadifocntu &%*, was in it fclfc, or in refpeft of the natu- runc: vd fi bona, rail quality, good for meat, and pleasant to the SS?S! «)"'• The Lord himfclfe created it. ^^7 ceffario facicn<bj creature of God, being rightly u fed is good in it kittiwTlt- felfe->Andg°odtom*n> Gen. 1. 31. & 2.9.1 Tim* bcrc fine peccato^ 4*4' Manstafting thereof was a finne3becaufe Soto .&]*/?.& jur. of the negative precept of G odc. Gen. 3.17. Lad^/in^fu! ^ was not the natur all quality of the fruit, which
tionc vim habent :
idcofimt bona, quia jufla;3cmah, quia prohibita. c Aug. de civ.De\tll.\+x.\i.d. Gen.adlit.l*$ . c<*/>.6. (£■ i# pf'jo. Thcoph. Antloch. ad ^HtolAi. Nonut quidam •pinantur3alicjui«| noxu vci lctifcri ea arboi tuiir/ed inobedicntia moms caufa fuit.
The cbara&er ofpofitive Trecepts] 35
made Adam and Eve [inner s ; but onely G O D'S prohibition. Adamum non cibus^ fed prohibit us abtti perdidit. The fame may bee (aid of Lot V Wife looking bade to So dome, Gen. 1 9 . 2 6. and of f.fo Prophet ■, fent to Hieroboam^ who was killed of a Lion:for eating bread in Samaria. 1 King. 13.22. Char aft. 2. The material objett, or actions commanded or prohibited, by precepts meerely pop* five, if one Separate or abttraci the exttrnall Uw , ^ff^nTbe.i.t cannot be refolved into any of the naturalipmctples Pofiuva lex eos t a-
Of morality. tu o]>lig?re poteft,
For example: The Law of Nature teach- fSZfigg etb, that every man flia 11 love, feare, and obey, no formatter con. the Lord his Creator, and Governour: But ffc^ai^°pe- that Abram muft obey God^ by departing Lvaautfrnkx,^ out of Vr in chaldca, or by offering up his on- imperiototaconO. lyfotmelfaac, Gen.i2.i.& 12. 1.2. depended f^M&fr meerely upon the Lord's will,and pofitive com- *. iLc^.umie^. mand, Vafa- m Thoff!- l
Alfi, the Law of Nature, prohibitcth one *^£^&^ neighbour,to rob or defraud another,and if any modum regui*, & offend in thiskinde, hee muft make reftitutiom ™^r*' *9j* but thai one Ifraelite robbingor defrauding ano- imponitur per hoc thcr,(houldreftore fourefold tor one Sheepe5or j|uod appH«tur five Oxen,for one that was ftolne5was meerely &^SfaSr!S
pofitive, £*W. 2 2. I. 3,&C. dead hoc quod lcr
Ck*f. 3. Lams and Precepts merely tf,. SS^gJ f/itf, w/zg* onely the Per fins, the State, or Nati- propnum legis, o- on7and Republikc, upon which they are impo fed by porter qu6d appli- the Lawgiver : * or to whom they are publijhed "Xkc^Lexk
regulari debenr. Talis autcm appiicatio tit per hoc,quod in noutum eomm dedacitur.ex ipfa promul- gationc. Vnde pvomulgatio ipfa ncceflaria eft ad hoc, quod lex virtute fuam habcat.
F bj
;4 The Sabbath net ftmfly MoraU.
by a legall promulgation : and tbej continue in fine, during fuch time only as the Lawgiver hath fixed and appointed. Alio in many cafes they may be di/penfedrvithal,asz^Q2ttQth in David's exam- pic, i Sam. it. 6. Mat.n.^. andinthc Man cured of his infirmity, carrying his Bed upon the Sabbath day, contrary to the divine Law, Ier.ij.2i. Uhn%. io.
An application of the Premifles, to the Law of the fourth Commande- ment.
The fourth Commandement of the deca- logue, in refpeft of the luerall and particular objed thereof ; tvanteth all the effentiall cha- racters of divine precepts (imply morall.
i The day of the Weeke, which is comman- ded to be kept holy, by refting from fervile la- bour, is the fame day, on which God him- felfe refted, Gen. z+ i. and which the lewes and Israelites obfer ved from CMofcs, untill the voca* tion of the C entiles.
But fecluding and abftra&ing the divine po- fitive Law, there was norcallholineflcinthis Day, more than in all the reft. Every day of the Week, had one and the fame efficient caufe* namely, Divine Creation : and all times and things created by Go d, were very good.
Cenefis
Tlx Sabbath notjlmply moraB. *#
Gencfis 1.31. The Prophet Z>4i>/Wfpeaking of all dayes and nights, faith : The day is thine ^ And the night is thine, thou haft prepared the light and the Sun, PfaLja.. \6. Every creature of God is good, 1 T/w.4. 4. and as Chrift is Lordof the Sabbath, CMatth. 12. 8. So 1 ike wife all day es and times,and all other creatures are fubjedl to his providence and dominion. G OD'spofitive precept onely, either immediate, asm the Old Law , or mediate by his Church, as in the time of the GofpelI,makes one day more holy than another: not by infufing any reall fandlity in- to the fame, but by applying it to a facred and religious ufe.
The Sabbath therefore of the fourth Com- mandement wanteth the firft Character of a precept (imply and intirelymoralh
2 If the Divine pofitive Law (hall bee ab- ftraded, the religious and neceflTary obfervati- onofthe feventh day of every Weeke, rather than of the firft or fecond,&c. cannot be con- cluded, or inferred from any principle or di- date of the Law of nature.
Tor the Law 0 future teacheth, that the true and living God, ought to be worshipped : and that * Efficient and convenient timers to be fet apart for the fame*
But the fourth Commandement appointeth the feventh day of the Weeke, to be an Holy- day, in memory of the Creation, and becaufe God Himfelfe refled on that Day : and it pre-
F a fcribeth
3d The Sabbath apofitive frecepi.
fcribeth the manner, to wit, by ceflfation and abftinence from weekely labour : Wnoneof all thefe particulars, to wit, neither the fixed- Day, nor the end, nor the forme of obfervatu a i\\sC'm\.£a.d. on^areconclufions of the Law of Nature, but ¥uofvaiafieges' they depended meerely upon Crfi pofitive jabcntur , cum in Law, and inftitution,
commune fx&x 3
Sot^j^&jur. 3 The Law of the Sabbath, wanteth the a.Lqutp.uart.*. laft character of Divine Precepts formally and ^vtrtusiegts fimP!y moral!. *For it was not publijhed and in eo confiftit , revealed by promulgation to aUmankinde, but on* f od wtowgpi* iyft0 tfa ievves. m£ ifraelices WProfelytes: dirigat.Rcgukau- the oblcrvation thereof, according to the rule tem & meafura, of the Law, obliged not perpetually, for in cafe ?£*Sm£ of urgent ncccfficy it might be omitted, and plicctur rebus mc- the lewes themfelves might labour, and warre,.
teiT^c-uh^tunc ancl ^&ht: in batte,I> anc* carry burthens, and ckmumclvjbu^p- performe laborious workes,/^.(5. 15. 1 Kings plicatur /•quando 20.29. lohn 5*. io. But Precepts (imply mo- ^ffSTnt «M refpeftof their negative part oblige per- titiam. petually, and they may in no cafe be tranfgref-
b chryf. in Mat. fecj . for [t \s an infallible maxime touching ^Tpe4c0c'itaomni- Precepts purely marall: Pr&ceptanegativa It- no funt, nulla un« gantfemper & adfemper^. Negative precepts SffiSC have a perpetuall Obligation, and they may ncq; homicida, a be tranfgrefTed at no time, and upon no occa-
pcr iracundiam fe
ftcifledicctj ne que Adulter li per cupiditatem fccommiluTc a{Tcv'crabit,unqu.im-fa- nsfaciet, &c. Hie autcm (Cbuftm) in lege Sabbati, cum famisneccflitatemadft- tisfactionem attulerit* ab omni illos (Aifciptdos) crimine vindicavit. Aquinas, 2,2. q.-$l . ar 1. IVxeepta negativa legis prohibent actus peccatorum, $tc. Adus autem peccatorum funt fecundum fe niah jnec ali^uo .tempore vei loco bene fieri pofluntj&c.. Uieo obligant fempcr & ad fempcr.
fion
The Sabbath not Jttnply Morall. 37
fion. Rude the Hiftory oilofephyCen. 39.9.
Out of the former defcription, of Divine . Precepts, (imply morall 5 and Divine Precepts meerely pofitivej This conclufion folio weth : r/jMftheLaw of the fourth Commandement concerning the religious obfervation of the fe- venth Day was not fimply morall: becAufelt wanted all the infeparable Characters of fuch r*
Precepts, and on the contrary,it was onely po* fitive, and temporary.
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\4n Objection agatnU the former Argu- ment.
Although it be granted, that the Law of the fourth Commandement conccr- Mt ningthe particular day fpecified therein, was pofitive: yet the obfervation there- of may be perpetuall/or the reafons fol- _ lowing. 1. The Law of the Sabbath was impofed upon Adam and upon all N*
his pofterity, Gen.z.i. 2. The whole Law of the Tenne Commandements obligeththeGe/zfi/ex as well as the lews. For Chrift himfelfe, and after him, the
F 1 holy
<u
XN
3 8 The Sabbath not ftmply Moratt.
—
holy Apoftles ratified and confirmed e- very jot and title thereof.
Therefore the fame may be pcrpetuall, although it be admitted, thatatthefirft inftitution it was pofitive. For the will of God the Lawgiver, may make Com- mandements to be of perpetuall obliga- tion, whatfoever their inward quality is.
A*[w. i. The former reply, deftroyeth the Tenent both of Saturday and Sunday Sabbat a- rians , who affirme, that the Precept of the Sabbath, is of the Law of Nature.
2 If it be a Precept meerely pofitive, it can oblige thofc people onely, upon whom it was impofed, and during fuch timeoncly as the Lawgiver hath appointed.
3 All arguments ufed, either by Saturday, or Sunday Sabbatarians, to argue that the po- fitive Law of the Sabbath, ought to be obfer* ved under the Gofpellareofnoforce, as will appeareby the particular examination and fo- lucionofthem.
jfn
GcncCui. Verfei,%. 19
An objection out o/Genefis 2. ^verf. ij.
T. B. <^*t the Creation, God fancJified the [event h day, and made it an Holy. day. And whereas other dayes were holj,onely by dejlination, This was fuch, both by Deflinatton, and alfo by Confecratton : For it plea fed G o d to fanttific this Day , at the very Creationofthe World, Ma- king Htmfelfe our Samplar and pre ft dent in it, and beginning it in his owne Per [on. And this Sabbath of the Creation was not onely exemplary, but alfo obligatory. For if the ground whereon Moksflood,becawe holy ground, becaufe of Gods
prefence there, What fha/l hinder it, but that in like fort, the day wherein God Him f el fe retted^ [hould forthwith become an Holy-day ?
D. D. Againft Heather. p*g. 54. The O.w.d '.sabj>ag. Morality of the Sabbath is proved, from the time **• *l°k*> before
it was firft infiituted and celebrated, and that in iuobejeptb^cld
Mans inmcency, before any Mofaicall Ceremony ***&&, Ocnef. *.
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D. B. of the Sabbath,/^. 61. It is in ex- pgnc and' figure of
prefle words faid in Genefts, rhat Cod blefed T' mf^bTrfu^o
the fevenrh day,and fan&ified it. A^ma/fo:fJr1h°e
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Adam had by the Law of Nature >to keepe a fo-
lemnetime to the Lord, and by Divine injlitu-
tion, to keepe tbefeventh Day* And the Gentiles
alwayes were andtotheendofthe world (hall (land
bound to keepe the Sabbath, by vertue offirfi in-
flitution
4o Tfo Text o/Genefis il
flitution, given to Adam, and to a/Zmankinde. loh.Sprint.d.sab. Rt b. againft Brierw.pzg, 198. // theSab- fag iz. The favm- y th fa j„ftjtuteJ in Paradife, andthisbeexem-
jicatioi of the ft- J , • r i rr t / »•
vtnth day, confer- far] to Men .how canit be IcJJe than obligatory,, tnctb us f the /- though it be not delivered in a forme of words, ex-
tcgrity. R. C. Or the Chrijtian Sabbath, fag. 83.
Maintaineth, that Abraham, Iacob, and the reft of the Patriarchs, who lived before the Law, kept
tj the Sabbath, &c.
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Anfwer to the former Argument out of Genefis 2. 2.
Three things are delivered in the Text of Cenefts, Chap. 2. verf.2,3.
1 God Almighty, on the feventh day of the Weeke of Creation, hadfnijbedtbeworke, which He had made.
2 0*the fame feventh day, Hee rejled from all his worke, which he had made.
3 He bkjfed the feventh day, andfanSiified it> becaufe that in ity He rejled from all His worke^ which He had made or created.
But this Scripture exprefleth not the man* nerhowthe Lord fan&ified this day, whe- ther by imparting any fpeciall vertuetoir, a- bove other dayes : Or by dedicating the fame to any religious fervice, to be performed by Adamy\t\ the ftate of innocency: or whether
by
The Text of Genejts. 23. 41
by an inward decree onely, Heedeftined that **?&,& poneum
tJ f. . rr • r s *'*]• Sanctificavit
day,to religious omccs,in future time. d/us sabbatu^ion
Eminent Dolors, both Ancient and mo- adu&reipfa, k±
% r> • • • decreto & deftina-
derne, are of contrary opinions , concerning tionQ{mjC{A^a
thisqueftion. quievit Deus die
Venerable Beda a, and before him , IuBin ^ptimo.-hmciUurn
>, «,-, * a . diem ordinavit ubi
Martyr,TertMtlian, lren&uty &c. and many o- faemm, utindke- ther Doftors, both Pontificians, and of the re- km* feftus con- formed Church maintaine, that (7*/fanaified t^thamf. the feventh day , Gen. 2. by His decree and de- *. Stooft, Bon. ftination oncly 5 and not by any prefent impo- ^SSiwSSt
fition. ctiiad Gcn.2.Va-
And the arguments upon which this opi- ^h[us An™f- Jj nion is grounded, are very weightie. SSSS!&
ficavit diem (epti-
1 There is no other meanes for us to under- ^jh^j^" (land, what the will and ad of Godwzs^Gen.z. & veiiraMemha'- butonly divine revelatidn : and the holy Scrip- *>eri voiuit. c^\t ture.neither makes mention, of any Comman- fo^sfah^ri* dement of God, given to Adam , concerning his data iege,no ante*! refting upon the Sabbath-day 5 neither yet Mufcuius,/<>r. ™». makes any hiftoricall narration , o£Adm\ or httn^X^/catl', of any other the Patriarkes obfervation of the verjtb.u.ca.xo. Sabbath-day. Tigw in cafes of this qualities- Sg^Jff: thanafius his rule is : £uia taciturn eft de ea re^ in Gregival.Azorius Scripturis fanttis, cert urn ell. nonprius eveniffe : f*%*nd<iS- .
_, r r uti ft / la J • / r r r/'b Hieron. mi Afar.
Becauje the holy Scripture ts altogether Jucnt in Cap.zi. Quod de this matter , we may be affured there was no Cue h Scripwris aiuhori-.
ijcitur, qua probatur. Iren.ll. 1 . c. \ z. Oftenfiones qua; funt in Scripturis non pufTunc oftendi3nifi ex ipfis Scripturis. Orig. in Ex. Horn* 1 1 . Hoc divinare magis eft qudm explicare,ubi quod dicitur, nonde Scnpturarum authoritate voaait\u.Ambtof.cp.64* ^uQdn^fqmm legetim nonaftw> nee vmm atbitror,
G X?S It
< **
42 The Text of Genef. i]
% It is repugnant to the common fentence of the Do&ors of the Church, that God Al- mightie,impofed upon Adamin the ftate ofin- nocencie, any other pofitive precepts, but one only of abftinence from the fruit of the tree of Knowledge : And from this circumftance,thcy aggravate Adams offence ; Namely, that he be- ing charged with one only negative precept of obedience, which was fo eafieto be obfervcd> c cbryfifl.mGe*. became notwithftanding a tranfgreflburc.
fiom-i^.& Horn-
16 BZn' de cJrm 3 The Law of the fourth Commandement, deciv.Dei,n.i%. was not agreeable to the ftate or innocencie. €m . n.Mandatum j:0r \n that happie ftate there was no toilefome n^ nretX hb™> forman orbcaft:Tfa earth required ubiaiiorumcopia, notthe worke of labot •ious hands , for f reel) by
TobferSJT Gods blefin£> and command it brought forth
tam breve ad in fwit > fo that man needed not bee meary in rvor-
inemoria ictinen- king <*, Sweat of face entered into the world
SjLi* after the fall, Go*. 3,19. And before the fall,
adAtttoiych.iib*. manslabour was matter of delight and plea-
Stl^orioSfh4" {uvc:R*fidesx being a free-man, hce might in-
mina mamis! nam termit labour at any time,when himfelfe plea-
foafponte exprx- fed. Either yet was there any nccefiitie ofha-
batfrudusfne^ ving one fet day in every wecke, for perfor-
mo operando bf- ming religious offices : For 3S Tertullian e ob-
Ttm«i dc rati- fCEVeCk- Vivebat homo in Paradifo , f ruins Deo,
int &}.{, de proximo amicus : Manlivedin Paradife , in a
fruition of God, and as a familiar friend.
JZuamdiu inConditorisfuiobedientiaper(litit, in
fuaviflmo contemplations Divine leclo requie-
mt : Nullam in ammo poterat [entire efuriem,
&
The Sabbath ofGcnef. i. 45
&omnem qua ex came nafcitur ignorabat papo- nem f. So long as he per fifed in the obedience of f Grc-or. M.in 7. his Maker , he enjoyed continuall reft, in the fiveet pfti- panUentui. bedef divine cot emulation. He could feele nofpirl- ****** rfal- * • tuall hunger , and he was ignorant ofallfe/hly and carnallpafion. Laftly , all God's creatures were as living books,to preach to man, the Majefty, andbountie of the Creator. The Law there- fore of the fourth Commandement requiring ceflation from toilefome labour, for man him- (dic7for beafl,for Oxe and Ajfe% for man-fer- g Anaftaf. simk, vant,andmaid-fervant, and for the ftranger f^6j['%^ within the gates 5 could not be in force , or of cameios,& afmos, anyufeinrheftateofinnocency:5^4«/^inPa- ^I™105 > iufnt:
j.r , r 1 j 1, ^abbatum aecre.
radife there were no fcrvants, or bond-men h, h Auguft. & c#v. no perfons or other creatures needing a weekly ne'hitb.w*-1 f • Sabbath, or day of reft from toilefome labour: gg* JJ* neither was there any neceflity of having a fet impofitapeccatori.- day,forfpirituallcontemplation. nullus n*uta ■ in
J k r qua pnus Deus ho-
minem condidit,
Fourthly, The moft Ancient Primitive Fa- Terms eft hominis thers affirme , that none of the Patriarchs , li- f^rn^^J^h ving before <JM$[esy obfervedthe Sabbath- cumciGonem/neqi
cJay# Sabbatum obferva-
Iuftin. Martyr*. In the dayes of Enoch , pet- pJrite^Ant"™-
ple tbferved not Circumcifion^ or the Sabbath, braham non fuit
Before Abraham there was no ufe ofCircum- "j£ <*»**&•
T 1 r *, r ri J / / / „ / oms * ne(luc antc
cijion, nor bef ore Mofes, of keeping holy the Sab' Mofen celebratio-
hath* nisSabbati. Adi^
Before Mofes, noneof the Righteous obferved nuHus omn^fjul the Sabbath ; neither received they any Comman- ftoru fervavit Sab- dmmmbfirvcit. he^%^-
vr 2 TCrtUl- yandi accept
44 The Sabbath not obferVtd by (patriarkes.
)7*T&Au&°6 Tei rnl,iafl k> Enoch, Noah5 Mclchifrdecb, S'cq; Sabbatiwn- Abel, &n obferved not the old Sabbath. rem d^ms Adm Mclchifedech God's High Priejl ywas elecled t$ Z^ZImu- the office of Priefihoodt being uncircumcijed, and jus Abel Sec Noah without Sabbatizingjr keeping holy the Sabbath:
no Sabbatizantcm And i^ ^^ fl ^ fl^ ^ obfcrvation de diluvio libera- r r r t r t J
vit £»o^ juftifsi- <y '»* Sabbath- day was temporary, mu&nocircucisua Iren. l. Abraham -beleeved God , W*> n^ dehocamuado«anl ^puted to him for right eoufneffe ^ before hee was fiulit: Meicb'ifeduh circumcifed, and without obfcrvation of the Sabb.
S&SS2 2?* Farther inJhue Tame place treating of *an$ ad Sace^ouu Circumcmon , and the Sabbath , iaich as rat Deiaiuaus eft. loweth : *W ^ r^«4 omnis multitudo eorum,
ilren.M 4 f4.?o. . A , , r* . a . , /
i^ Abraham fine ^ ante Abraham fueruntjujti, &eorumPatn- ciicumafione , & archarum qui ante Mofen fuerunt , fine hijs qua
s"bbaf!'CrcV^t prf*B?f*»t, & fintUgt Motejufltficabantnr. Deo, & rcputatum Like wife the yv hole multitude ofjujl men > which eftei ad jiftinam. mrc before Abraham , and aU the multitude of frat" Ev'avgM.V. Patriarchs before Mofcs , were ju/lifed without a. 6. Meichifedecb thefe things y of which wee Jpake before (Circum- tr^tfcZ "fa"' Andthe S^bath) and without Mofe's Law. pore erat drcumci- Eufebius m. Melchifedech the (ervant of the jus, neq; quid Sab. moJl High God,&c. w as neither tircumcifed in snodo edo<fius,&c. h** body , neither was hee taught at all what the beams lob, Scad. Sabbath was : And in like manner bleffed lob. XiSffSd . ^^twasnoCircumeifionofthehdyymr$L uifa corporis circiV fervation ofthe Sabbath, among them (Patriarks)
Clfi° hisVn 1$ Ha. ^e ** f^erc ** mm am*& "**
batorfi Sh^rma, Damafcen n. Before Mofe' s Law , and Scrip*
«juia neq; nobis, &c. n Damafc.jfc Fid. Orib.lib.^. cap. *4» Quando non erat lex^ne- queScripmradivinitusinfpirata , neq; Sabbatum Deo facrabatur. At quando Scrip- tura divinitusinfpirara per Mo[cn data eft, facratum eft Deo Sabbatum /ut circa Seripcura? medicationcm in eo excrcitaientur,&c.
turc
Tl?e Sabbath not kept by Tatriarkesl 45
tun given by Divineinjpiration, the S Math was not confecrated unto God. But when the Serif- ture , divinely infyircd, rv as given by Mofes, the Sabbath was made [acred to God, and that people might be exercifedin Meditation of Scripture.
Now from the Premijfes , our Reader may well obfervc , that it is a queftion Problemati- cal! and dubious , whether the obfervation of the Sabbath was impofed upon Adam, and his pofteritieinParadife f For there are no com- manding or imperative words, nor any fen- tence declaring,or fignifying a Precept , in the Text oiGenefis the fecond : ^Wmany learned Authors, ancient and modcrne , both Pontifi- cians,and men of note and qualitic in the refor- med Churches , are of diverfe opinions touch- ing this queftion.
Alexander de Hales °, a famous and Anci- o Ai.Hai.part.^. ent Schoole- man, faith :Btfi ante legem ejfet vfM*>rnmbr.i., inftirala ebfervantia. Sabbati fecundum rationtm hone fit , hoc ejl digne fieri ; mn tamen fecundum ratknempracepti, hoc eft debit} fieri : fed hoc mo* doproponiturinlege. Although it was infpired before Mofes Law, that the obfervance of the Sabbath was agreeable to honeftie > and was worthy to be done : yet it was not delivered by way of precept , or as a thing to be done of dutie : but it was thus propounded in the Law»
FrancifcusdePetigian. P5a Scotifty faith, that pra.Petig.c^- the more common opinion of Divines is , that mentar. schouji.m thcobfervation of the Sabbath was not com- *^<«*M«f-. raanded before Mofe's time.
G 3 Many
46 71?e Sabbath of Gene f. £
Many Divines alfo of our profeflion affirmc
mldltulns h 4' tfie fame: M*fculm m his Common places 9: ?Gom^. mvefiig. Gomarus in two feverall Treatifes r, written orig. sabb. id. De- of that argument. The ProfefTours of Leiden f, ff^i£: make it doubtfull, whether the Patriarkesbe- *bc§i. Difo. ii. fore the Law obferved the Sabbath Jor not: M^ andthatitmay be, theinftitutionofit began,
Exod.16.5. and not before.
Being therefore a matter doubtfull and un- certain, whether the Sabbath of the fourth Commandement had his beginning in the fe- cond oiGenefis: It is repugnant both to the rule of good reafon, and of found Divinity, to ground the neceflary and pcrpetuall obferva- tion of this day, upon fuch a dubiousand con* troverted principle.
Laftly, if it could be clearely and effe&ually proved, that the Law of the feventh day Sab- bath was given to Adam in Paradife, before his fall , or out of Paradife , after his fall : And likewife,ifitwerecertaine, that the hoIyPa- triarkes, Abel, Enoch, 2iocy Abraham, &c. ob- ferved the fame : This affordethnot fufficient demonftration, that the Law of the fourth Commandement concerning the feventh day Sabbath, isfimply and perpetually Morall,or a precept,or a neceflary conclufion of the Law of Nature. F$r fuppofing Divine inftitution in Paradife, or out of Paradife , and likewife a continued obfervationby thePatriarkes : This can reach no higher , than to make it a Divine pofitive Law, neceflary to be obeyed , during
the
The Sabbath inVaradife. 47
thctime God Himfclfe appointed.
In Paradife there was a pofitive Law y con- cerning the Tree of Knowledge : Therefore, the imposition of pofitiveLawes, was not re- pugnant to the date of man in Paradife.
After the fall of man, the holy Patriarkes received pofitive precepts , concerning abfti- nence from the bloud of beads : concerning the difference of cleane and uncleane beads: Concerning facrifices , &c. For the Patriarkes obferved not thefe ordinances by chance-med. ly , neither did they forge or invent them by their owne imagination , or by their owne na- tural! and humane wifdome.-But they being Holy Prophets , (Efift. lud. v. 14. Gen. 9.25, i6.Gen. 20.7.^ 27.27.$ ^9. per totum) they received the Law of Sacrifices, and other pofi- tive Lawes by Revelation, by Oracle, and by Divine Infpiration.
If therefore it could be proved5that the Par triarkes living before the Law obferved the Sabbath : they obferved the fame , onely as a Divine pofitive Law , to wit , in f uch wife as they kept the law of abdinence from bloiad^ and the law of burnt facrifices K Readebefore * zMcb.in4.pt *• pag. 34. where I have made cleare demondra- aiun/pt'« ^ tion, that the Law of the old Sabbath was a legem ianaificaflfe pofitive law. d,cm t'F™™1 *
«^u quanquamhocnon
ftcile&aperte de- monftrari potcft ex facris Uteris s ego tamen non contiadixerim. Sed quod inferunt cfle igitur naturale , ita ut etiam ad nos pertineat, tam facile fequittir ac ii dicas : pa- tres ante legem orferebant aniroalia : item Circumcidebantur, ergo utrunquc eft na* turale3& a nobis prxftari debet .
T.ft If
4 g Holy ground , Exod. 3
T. !B. If the ground whereon Mkfes ftood , became holy ground , becaufe of God's prefence there : what fliall hin- der it,but that in like fort the Day wher- in God Himfelfe refted, fhould forth- with become an Holy.day ?
Anfw. The ground whereon Mofes ftood3
Exedfts 3. 5. was at that prefent time an holy
place, becaufe of the Divine apparition of the
Angell, whoreprefented the perfon of God
a Aug.foExod.q. himfelfe : a And becaufe the holy Angell de-
^ciamavitadcum clared that fa fame fhouid bee foeftcemed.
Dominus de K»u- . * f. w, , t
bo ; Dominus in But this holinefie, was onely temporary , and Angela anDomj- continued no longer, than untill the vifion and 5^&4£ Oracle of that prefent time was ended : and ni conciiii Aug*, then afterwards fa at the giving of the Law,
Cn^inh«ntClUgkUr lt was^an(aified againe, Exod. 1 p. 23. b AbuitnC. in ex. /# like manner , the feventh Day of every q. 5. Tem in fe Weeke was holy in the time of the Law , and ^X^ouh for the whole time it pleafed God to have
lancta dicitur, quia . r . . . . -,/ . - -.
Deus ibi apparuk, lt lo : but lt is lrapomble to prove , by the for- &u§cmibipoftea mer cornparifon, that the feventh Day muft be a perpetuall Holy-day, unlefTeitbe firft pro- ved that the Law of the Old Sabbath is eter- nall. For if it be onely a precept pofitive, then it can oblige no other people than thofe to whom it was revealed, nor for any longer time, than the Lawgiver hath appointed.
T.B.
The Text of Exodus 20? 49
T. B His grand Ob^eBion outofLxod. to- Dcut j. ire
The Precept of the Sabbath, wasde- ioh.5>r^.d,Sa&; livered in Mount Sinai, with the other &&%%£. nine Commandements. It was utte- ^r'V^AlZ
o/boDj and that
ted and pronounced by God's owne «^: and that
« . r .. . . ', 1 r . - two feverall time:
and immediate voice,with the lame Ma* immediately deti* jefty, terrour,and allcircumftances of the VZtiamsjudk^ other nine : to wit, with thundering , ^Sjf lightning, found of the Trumpet, fire, ™° ^ aaco/ and imoakc, earthquake, bxodAp. 16, 18. famine common* and in the Common audience of all the cmfi^%ph'
npr»n1*» *ng their permanen*
jjcupc. cy tvtn mdcr the
The fame was written and engraven %$b™*thl£f in ftone, in the firft Table, with the fin- **« G <> Ds tobiot
r J% them out) is as per*
ger or (j o d. ^ f/w# ** 0tb»
By the Commandement of G o d, it %snj&Z*£Z was afterwards placed within the Arke ^^^^1 of the Covenant, afwell as the other lennifefefM. nine. The generall Preface or J?roeme of the H tennc
^0 37;e Law prmounced by Angels^
tenne Commandei)6ents, was prefixed, and had the fame reference to this pre- cept, which it had to all the reft.
Therefore, if the other nine Com- mandements for thefereafons, are fim- ' ply and eternally morall, the 4th Com- mandement concerning the Sabbath , muftlikewifebefo*
i^4nfw. If this argument have any weighr, it concludeth for the Saturday Sabbath • and not for the Sunday ,or Lord's Day. It makcth fome noife in a popular auditory, but being ex- amined, it hath no more ftrength, than a bro- ken reed. For the antecedent or leading part, namely, that God himfelfe immediately utte- red the Tenne Commandemcnts, indubious, and controverted, and the inference like wile is notneceflary.
1 The antecedent is dubious for this reafon : many texts of holy Scripture, and many pro- found Do&ors affirme - That the Lord himfelfe did not utter and pronounce the ten Comman- dementswithhis owne voice,but by themkufte- riall voice of his Angell.
A<Ss 7. 38. This is he that was in the congre- gation in the wilderneffe with the \^dnge&y which /pake to him in LMottnt Sinai, and with our Fa* thers. k A&s 7. 5 3 f Which havi received the Law, by '-'•' the
Tlie Law pronounced by Angels.' 51
the Ordinance of Angels, and have not kept it. Gal. 3 . 1 9 . Wherefore then ferveth the Law ? it was added bee au ft oftranfgrefiions, till the feed fhottld come, to whom the Promife was made, and it was ordained by ^Angels in the hand of a Me- diator.
Heb 2.2. if the word fpoken by Angels was fledfaft, and every tranfgrepon and di f obedience a Aquinas t.%9. received ajuji recommence of reward, &c* *8' an •*• AP^o-
Iohn5.37. thtFMthtrHmftlfewbicbfent '££*£££ me, bath borne witneffe of me: you have neither legis ad vecciem, heard his voice at am time, norfeenehisfiape. %ml m no,vo Te-
, .J 1 r 1 tr • "amcnto locutus
Now whereas in many places of- the Law it eft Deus nobis in is fald 5 that Godhimklk uttered the words of ^fc^in vetere the Pecalogue with his owne voice, Exod. 5S|mS3Sii 20.19, Dent.}.!!. This proveth nor, that perAngeios. Cod Almighty pronounced them immediate- 9Mi Mofes. ly, for we finde in holy Scripture, that when jr?*3"^ 'TW
it a 1 r* 1 1 I- P'l-ca.ij. Nihil
holy Angels, or Prophets, were the immedi- now eft m Hbrii ate perfons which uttered and delivered the vo- rroPh««rum, «c call and externall found of words, the Lord ^J,J; himfelfe is reported to have fpoken unto men. nomine Dei roqnr* *Gen.iS.i.i3. Exod.3.i.6,7. ffiS^*^
Saint Auguftine b is refolute , that Al- b AuguiL*-^ mighty GOD Himrclfe, in the Time of **?'■ ma™ -€.9. the Old Teftament, did not fpeake to the 1SS^vm& lewes and Ifraelites, with his owne immediate od. <p*p.i, &qm voice, but onely by his Angels, and,by his *44 Ul9^^-u Prophets.
And when the Heretike objefted, Cur ergo
fcrmum eft^dixit Deusjt non dixit Angelas f his
anlwer was, £uia cum verba jttdicispraco pro-
H 1 wwciat
j£ God's fyeaking the Law.
ciaty nonfcribitur ingeftisjllepraco dixit, fed Me judex qui imperavitut dicer et. Wherefore then was it written, God f pake, and not rather an Angell. fpake? beeaufe, when in the place of judicature, the Cryer pronounceth the decree, and fentenceof the Iudgc, it is not recorded in the Ads or Court Rollcs, the Cryer delive- red this fentence and decree , but the Iudge who commanded the Cryer to proclaime it.
Andagaine inthefamepaflage: Stent ver-
bum Dei eft in Prophet a, & reBedicitury dixit
Dorninus, quia verbum Dei quod eft Chriftus, in
Prophet a loquitur veritatew^fic & in Angela ipfc
a Hkvom. in Gal. loquitur, quAndo veritAtem Angelus annunciat r
a . Qupd ait Apo- & refie dicitur, Deus dixit, & Deus appArnit,
gc°losdaueft,hoc CHm ^u^ diCAtur ex perfon a inhabit Amis Dei,
Yultintelligi,quod illud ex perfomfervientis creAturx. Even asby
&SY^aS reafonthewordofGodisinthe Prophet, it is
geius primus vi- truly faid , the Lord fpeakerh , beeaufe the
eamaafitUDeusPi°oft Word ofGoD Christ, fpeaketh verity queS* \ndudtuT, in the Prophet: and like wife when an Angell mediator loqueba- annunciates truth, it is rightly faid, the Lord fum S1^ ^eaketh, or the Lord appeareth i beeaufe the bam, see. one of thefe is fpoken in refpeft of the Divine
b pionyf. j4reop^ Perfon, who inhabited in the Angell : and the gdiST nomfn mc- other is fpoken, in refpc<5l of the perfon of the rueiunt, qma pri- Creature, who for the prefent was God's Mi-
Su^pefc nifter andEmbatfadour. To the fame purpofe fos nobis noflra: fpeake S. Hierome, a Dionyfitu Areopagita h9
revelationes tranf-
raittuntur. Sic igitur lex3 ut Divinus fcrmo tcftatur, per Angelos nobis data cft\ S. Maximus Scholia in bunt locum tfnmam legem per Angelos datam effc f.inctus ftcphamw tefhtur.
Gregory
The Law hy Angels. jj
Gregory the ■Great % in MordmmprtfaU capi. c >
But if it ihall be granted that God Himlelfe^ fiapparuiflcdefoi-i Immediatione virtutis, & immediatione fupp&» jwur.modo Ange- fiti^ not- onely by hisfuggeftionybutalfoim- nuuss' mmVmor°ur7 mediately in his o wne pcrfon^ uttered and pro- Angeius videlicet claimed all the words of the Decalogue, and JSuSwS confequently all the words of the fourth Com- ferviebat: Domi- mandement: This will not confirme that Pre- nusautem didtur,
|L r t |, _, , quia mtenus pram-
cept to have beene limply moral!. For what Jens, ioquendi cf- fufficientreafoncanberendred, why CWhim. ficadam miniftra- fclfc may not deliver a pofitive Precept by his ^SS& immediate voice, as well as a Precept fimply regitur, &Perob- morall i God Almighty fpaketo Abraham nine ^j^^g10* feverall times in the Booke otGencfis. He fpake Dominus^omhla- likewife frequently to Mofes : and to lob, and to tarjd.mr.n*B.c. bis three friends, lob3*-*-& 4*-7- and to Eli. %£$»£& a*) i Kings 19.9. 12. and to David, 1 Sam. 23. ftinguirui :-3 aut pec
12. &30. 8.IO. nusC\o ^u?0^
At the delivery oi the Levit'c.ill and Iudjci- p^rA^elicamde! all Lawes, the Lord Himfelfe fpake to Mofes \ aturam ejus ad nos
»»fr D'33 /«« f f«" v >'■ -IK* *#' " &*#&& ^w/frtf to his friend, Exod. 33.11.and r\^h HD ¥iXm loquitur, fo- mottth tomouth. T^um.n.S. Deutt<$ .31. Stand l^J^sir^ ^Qrf thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the Com- pCntl£&; j° verbo mandements^ and the Ordinances and theLawes e jus, fine verbis & which thoujhdt teach them, Exod.20.2 1,22. ffiTftS! But this immediate and perfonall (peaking r«. 6. Viditocuh? o£God Almighty to Abraham, lob > Mofes, &c. C^M Dei gio-
, it&t • f r ft ii- mm,& audivit au-
madenotall his preccpts5and dictates, delive- ribus Dcivocem/ red inthis manner, fimply and eternally mo- Amb./.r.zr^.Ar*-
1 * /?;■ ille quo nemo
prxfentius Deum viditj ncq; furrciit in>plius in Ifrael Prophets qui Dcii feck ad fe- ciem ficiit Mofct videretaHe qui 40, diesis aim Deo jvtgicer, & noftibus ftiit, cum legem accipcrct in Monte, &c. • Q 1 rail »
^4 Tfo ^ritbig the Law.
rail : for fome of them were perfonall, Genets i7.x.and many of them were ceremoniall5and judiciall.
2 If the Lord's immediate 6r vocall pro- nouncing the Law of che fourth Commande- ment, proveth it not to be (imply and perpetu- ally morall: then the writing and ingraving thereof,'\vith the finger of God in a Table of ftone : and the placing of it in t he Arke of the Covenant, are notfufticient to prove it to bee fuch.
For thefe were onely circumftantiall acci- dents, which made no alteration of the inter, nail, and naturall forme or quality ofthema- teriall objeft of this Commandement : and Aarons rod,aad the Pot of Manna, were placed a Aug. in£xdd.q. m che Arke of Teftimony \ afwell as the Law 105. in Area .jaffa ofthefourth Commandement, Heb.g.q. The ^ncpo»i, Lex,& fi k f Btutmnomj alfo, not being totally
Minna, & Vnga . J rJ & 7
Aaron. Gngen in morall, was placed m the iide ot the L^rke ef jolb.kom 1. Ar- tfa Covenant, Deut. 3 1.26.
cam Tdtam. Do- r
mini , in qua Lexa
■H. B. (Dialog, manuscript.) writing the ten Commandements in ftone, was a note of their perpetuity, lob 19. 24. 0 that my Tbords Tvere now Written, 0 that they There Written even in a Booke, andgraVeq Tbitb an Iron Ten in Lead} or inflow for ever I Jnf.
The Troeme of the Decalogue] c^
Lsfnf. Writing the tenne Commandements in ftonc,was a figure and reprefent of baranefle of heart in the Israelites a,2 Cor.^.i^.Ezec.i U iP. & 36.16. andnoz of the perpetuall obliga- )!g£gg& tion of the fourth Commandemcnr. For i$- popuius legem di- Jhua, wrote upon Jiones arebearfall of the Law of S,t0 Dci ^riptam Mbfes, /* f/;* pre fence of the children of Ifracl, 55° fi^£id» IoB).S.32. But a great part oiMofes his Law, djrimm cordis a- waspoficiv'eandlegally ceremonial!. JTSSmSE
3 The proemc £/>A*2>cW0£//*confirmeth tun. not the naturall and perpetuall morality of the fourth Commandemcnr. For befides, that this Proeme had fpeciall relation to the Children o£lfrael\ whom God delivered out of /Egyp- bGW tianbondage,and was ufedas a fpecial motive, sab'pag'ii intbe to that ftifFe-neckcdNation,toperf\vade them M c^mand. i to obedience : Wee reade in Dm the fame Zt^Lt motive ufed by Mofes, to perf wade the ifra- thee out of the elites to obferve the whole Law, both morall, L^nd °J ^^: and ceremonial!, and judicial!, Bent. 6. i^ume* others-. When thy f on jh all asktheeintimeto come^ what btttwecmaymhtr mane thefe Teftimonies and Ordinances , and ^eftX Lawes, which the Lord our God bath commanded dageofftn.oroHtof jou: 21. Then thou /halt fay unto thy fonne, we tbe^ndageof Fq* were Pharaoh's bondmen in Mgypt^ but the Lord brought us out of Aigypt, with a mighty band. 21. Andthe Lord /hewed fignes and won- ders,great andevill^upon JE^y pr, and upon Pha- raoh, &c. 24 . Therefore the Lord hath comman- ds to doe all thefe Ordinances^ &c*
T. B,
5*
G o d s Writing the Law.
T< B. At a private Conference argued in manner following.
It is found in Scripture that Goo himfelfe wrote fomeLawes,andM)/^ wrote other. But Mofes wrote fiich Lawes as were temporary, and there- fore aboliflied under theGofpell. And God Himfelfe wrote not in Tables of flone any temporary Law, but every one of the Lawes written by Him were eternall
Now the Law of the Sabbath, was one of G o ds Lawes written in the very heart of the Decalogue, with his finger- Therefore this Law of the Sabbath was fimply and eternally morall.
Anfw.
God s Writing the Law] ^
Anfw. G o d's writing offorae Lawes, and CMofes's writing of other Lawes, made not a form all difference betwixt all the Lawes which were written according to this divers manner. For many Lawes written by Mofes in the Decalogue, were properly and perpetu- ally morall. Deut. 15.7,8. If any of thy bre- thren with thee bee poore, &c. Thou Jhalt open thy hand unto him, and J}) alt lend him fufficl- ent for his need. Leviticus 19. 17. Thou [halt mt hate thy brother in thine hearty but thou Jhalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour, andfujfer him not tofwne. Deut. 10.19. Love y e the fir anger >&c. Lev. 19. 14. Thou Jhalt not put aftumbling-block before the blinde.
2 Concerning God's own writing of Lawes, there can no fufficient reafon bee rendred: wherefore a temporary Precept may not as well be written with his finger, as delivered by his internall inspiration.
3 God's writing, was his forming and crea- ting, by his power, the externall chara&ers1, letters, &c. of the ten Commandements. But it appeareth by the example oilon^s Gourde Chap, 4,6. and by many other inftances,that all things immediately formed , and created by God, arenoteternall. \
4 If Gods immediate fpeakiog and wri- ting argueth precepts thus fpoken and written, to be perpetually morall: Then his not writing of Precepts, argueth them to bee temporary. Tor proper figncs and afif edtiofls conclude both
I affirmatively.
God'sVtf tfffg the Commahdimentsl
affirmatively , and alfo negatively. For ex* ample •• Micaiah the fonne oilmlah, was a true Prophet, becaufehewasinfpiredbyCfl/. But Zidkiah the fonne ofchenaanah, was not a true Prophet, becaufehe was not infpired by God, i Kings 22. ^aron and his Sons werePriefis of the Lord, becaufethey were called and anoin- ted according tothelawandcommandemeac of G o d : but Korah, Dathan, &c. were not the Lord's Priefts, for they received no fuch calling and un&ion.
Itflike manner, if the Lor d's immediate fpeaking, uttering, and writing, doth conclude by a neceffitry inference, that all Precepts ut- tered and written in this manner, are {imply and perpetually morall: Then on the contrary^ all Precepts wanting this, are meerefy tempo- rary. ##f thefalfity hereof is evident, by ma- ny inftances : namely, Be not drunken with wine, wherein is excejfe: Let not the Sungoedowne upon your math. Be not forget full to lodge ftr anger u Forgive one another y our trefpajfes. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouths, but that which is good^to theufeof edify ing.Mzt. 10.16. Be ye wife as Serpents, and fimple as Doves, lb. 12. 36. of ever} idle word that men fpeake, theyjhall give an account , at the Da^ofluagement. i Novo although' thefe, and many other fuch like Commandements, were not immediately tprcnounced,by Qod Almighty, nor written with his finger in Tables of (tone ±Tbey are not with- ftaoding fimply and eternally morall. And from
hence
Matth, 5. roerf. 17? jS
hence it is evident, that the Lord's immediate writing, &c. is not an infcparable property, of Precepts purely and perpteually morall : But notwithftanding this, they may be pofitivc and temporary.
T. B. His ObjeBion outoflAattK Chap. jr. vei i.iy, &c.
Matth. J. 17. Thinke not that I am come to deftroy the Law or the Pro- phets: lam not come to deftroy them., but to fulfill them,
18 For verily I fay unto you, till hea- ven and earth pafle, one jot or title fliali in no wife paffe from the Law^tili all be fulfilled.
19. Wliofoever therefore fliali brcakc one of thefe leaft Commandements ± and teach men fo, he fliali be called the leaft in the Kingdome of God : But whofocver flial obferve and teach them5 the fame fhall be called great in the king- dome of God.
By the Law here, Christ under fian^
detk the Morall Law : for the fame is it Be
I 2 expounded
£q Matthew 5.17^
txpoundetb, in the <verjes of the Chapter foU lowing : And fur e lam, the Sabbath-day is not lejfey than one of the jots and titles of the Law, pag.118.
I cannot devife what fhould be more plainc & pregnant, for the maintenance of this ordinance of God's Morall Sab- bath, than this Text, p^.451.
Christ in this Text ratifietb the Tvhole Decalogue, and every jot and title thereof, and He teacheth that the fame fh all continue for el>er7 or untill the World bee deflroyed.
The fourth Gomniandement there- fore,and every branch thereof ,being one of the Precepts of the Decalogue^is total- ly and eternally Morall.
l£$nS& R'C °fthe SabbatKpag.6^. I/i this commndement of Scripture, three things are confiderablc :
fancying one day r > c
w (even, is not ce- Firii, what is meant by thefc Comman-
ZTaTdferpetiZit, dements • And Interpreters deliver, they
fi?0ye*dn^%ttb. arethetenCommandements: Secondly y 517.
G . W . d. Sab . f »\ B . whereas fame fay, fo much of the morall Law Jhall/fand as Cbrijl hath re-eft abided in the Gofpel/herein they pant that the Sabbath Jhall rema'me. For Cbrift bath eftablijhed the whole Law > yea, and b uh warranted every jot and title of it>to be as durable as ibe Heavens. And therefore unle(fe we can Utnt Heaven & tart^ tpfede downtitet m btware to ta{e oneynt or title fram tbc law of God.
by
Matthew 5.17^ f:i
by the leaft Commandement, is meant any one of the ten ,which (hold be fligh- ted or difefteemed. X/^Vd/^this/peech was not confined to our Saviours naturall life only,but it is to be extended ro all fucceeding ages, and future times.
Anfw. to the grand Objection out of Matth.5.i7,&c.
The fubjeft of our Saviour s Do&rine, Mat. 5.17, 18. is not the Decalogue onely, but the whole Law of God contained in the Penta- teuch, and alfo the whole dodtrineand the pre- dictions of the holy Prophets, who lived be- fore Chrijl.
1 The words of the Text are, / am not come to dejlroy the Law and the Prophets. But the Law and the Prophets are of larger extent, and con. tainemore than the Decalogue, Matth. livrj. l^U the Prophets and the Law prophefieduntill lehn. Luke 24. 44. At things mujt hee fulfilled which were written in the Law of Mofes, and in the Prophet s, Luke 16.16. The Law and the Prophets endured untill Iohn. 1 7. Now it is more eafie that heaven and earth fhouldpaffe away ,t ban one title oftheLawjhonldfaik.
I 3 Secondly,
6£ Matth." 5". <vtr[. 1 ?l
Secondly , The whole Law and Do&rine which our Saviour came to fulfill, and not to deftroy, is the fubjeft of His fpccch, Id at. 5.17* But our Saviour came to fulfill the whole Law of the Pentateuch , and all things prophe- fied, and foretold by the Prophets. And al- though he disannulled the oldpofitivelaw, in refpeft of observation, in the time of the Go- a Auguft. cFaufi. fpcll : rtt he eftabliflied and confirmed the law- Mani€Ci „m' cf' fall ufe thereof in the Chriftian Church: and iir?Sabb«wm^ ^he obedience of all fuch fpirituall and Evan- figure noftrs & gelicall duties, as were fignified and prefigured S?%ftS bythe Ri^s,and Ceremonies of that Law ».
folvcre, fed adim- xO.5.8. Rom.l.lp.
pieic vcmt, cum ea Thirdly, All the Commandements Specified ?iabanmrimpk^ by Ch r i si, Matth. 5. were not delivered jdmserm.Dom.in by God Himfelfe inMount£//w>.E#&/.2o. MoHt.iib.i.ctp.s. For vafe .p.it is thus written: I fay unto yen*
Quod ait, j ota unu >».- " . . ^ /»///•• / y
autapexunus,non rejijt not evia : but wbojoevcr /hall J mitt thee on
tranfibit a lege3ni- ffy r^ (T^fo., f 0>W f 0 A///I ffo 0f ^ alfo : And
telli«4" n^vehd if any man will fue thee at the Lnw, and take away men? cxpreffio per. fA) ft?<tf> let him have thy cloake alfo : Andwho- feaioms, qua? per focver wi/i 'compeS thee to roe a mile. ?ot with him
literas tingulas de . ' . . ' . , .^ i r » /• r •
monftrata eft : in- twame. Give to htm that asketh, and from him tcrquas litetasjo- thatwould borrow of thee, turnenot away. Love ^a°unodX y^r enemies, hleffe them that cur fe you, doe good fit : apex autcm eft to them that hate you yand fray for them which hurt
etiamipnus, aliqua y0uandperfeC»tt )0U.
in iumma particular J > l J J
Qubus verbis oftendit, in lege ad erTefhim minima qusque pcrduci. d. util.Cred.
cap. }. Evacuatur in Chrifto, non vctus Teftamentum, fed velamen ejus. Amb.
Epift.76. Plena menfura in Evangclioeft: femi-plcna in lege, cu jus plenitudo eft
novum Tcftamemum. Siquidem ipfc Dominus ait : non veni legem folvere fed
implere.
Icurthl
Chrift s fulfilling the Lawl 6* b
/H
Fourthly, The verbe **W*w, Matth.5.17. £*,
1 am not come to de/lroy the Law », &c. fignifieth s
in holy Scripture, to annihilate, to demolifh or // 1 1£
pull downe, and to make fruftrate. ^
Mat. 24.2 . Tkrc (ball not one fone he left upon another, which jhall not be demolijhedjs ivrf t$ar flof
Efdr. 5 . 1 2. The King of Babylon deftroy ed} dc- ^W/L
rnolified this hovfe, k*Mmo*. £l t-ff^
A<3s 5.3 8. If this counfellcr this rvorke be of
mtn^ x*l*\uM7i-mb it will be fruftrate, and come to ^ }/
nothing : But if it be of G o T>>you cannot kat *kv- muJuTop* dejlroy it, or bring it to nothing. Now this being the fignification of the word £&*& ca/3 to deftroy, it is inconfequent to argue, That becaufe our Saviour came not to deftroy the Law and the Prophets ^or any jot or title there- of, by annihilation, or making them fruft rate, or of no ufein the Chriftian Church.* Therefore a Suir d i(g,n9. He maintained the Morall obedience, and'ob- eap.n. Nonfoi- fervatjon of every part and precept thereof ». J^ggSE For after He had fulfilled the whole Law, and gredi. nuere le- Prophets by his owne perfonall obedience: scrn Pofl imPlctii ±And performed likewifc all things , which £J^,^3 were foretold and written of him, in the Law oanfettffio^ecii^ andthePr6phetsb: He freed and delivered the ^tl%Xo- Chriftian Church, from the externall obfer- ris^moaii5ipfum vation and obedience of all fuch legall pre- jftypto* i*p»- cepts, as were not limply, and formally Mdnicb.n.xp.t.s. Morall : 2QvertbeIe(fc , Hee maintained the QnodinProphais
JJ Sivc aperte 3 five
per figuras vel locutiondm vcl actionum prommebatur, abillo itnpleuim cft? qui aoa YenitfolYcre legend (schmplere.
honour
64. Chti&s fulfilling the Law]
c ncoph.inMat. honour of the old Law c: and of the Do&rine ipftnoT^gclln- contained therein: alfo, He infpircd his Apo- troduftums cwt, flies to teach his Church the true fenfe and v^SSSi underftanding, and to declare the right end, fct,dixit,quodnon and ufe of that Law: and he maintained the deftnut legem, fed reading and expounding of the Law and the IZwq^peL-- Prophets: And by his Divine providence, he fecit omsh qu* preferved the Scriptures of the old Teftament,
^TTomrua atld eVery J0t atld titlc ther^of &°™ b^g loft
mandata legisim- or deftroyed, by tyranny ofPerfecutors,fraud pievie, qmapecca- 0f Hereticks, or by negligence of prophane
turn non feat >^r J a -o r r
cunq8enimiiuad- Ltttlj, Our Sabbatizers muft firfl of ali
mm££& makeremonftrance^thefourthComman- piftomoncorrum- dement of the Decalogue is limply and for- ma l(eTm e?a if" ma^y Morall before they prefume to affirme, &m&im$x! U" that the fame is a parr, jot, or title of that eter- nall Law which Chri $ t commandcth to be obferved in the Chriftian Church, to the worlds end, Mattb^.ig.
>/fr'rs:---$UL—
f T.B.
An Objett.from Qbrifi's Example, 65
T. B. His <iArgumentfrom the example, orpraBife oj Chrifl: and the atJpoftles.
T. B. Our S aatiour Himfclk during His abode in this world, conftantly ob- ferved the Sabbath day, to wit , the fe- venth day of every weeke , the old Sab- bath day. Solikewife the holy Apoftles both before, and after the Re(urre6tion of C h r 1ST, obferved the very fame day : ^#.13.14,44. ^Chapt\6.i^ <& Chap. 18.4. ^w^they did this conftantly, AR. i7<2.2Wjas his cuftomc was,*? t* *?«**?, went in unto them three Sabbath-daies, and dilputed with them by the Scrip- tures.
D. B. Of the Sabbath, pag. 23 , 24. Our Saviour Christ and all His Apoftles eftabliflicd the Sabbath by their pra&ife. For they upon the Sabbath ordinarily enter into the Synagogue of the U^es . and preach unto the people , doing fuch things on thofc dayes as appertaine to the fan&ifying them according to the
K Con>
Iolin Sprint dSah* pag.it. As the' A- poptes Conflltuti* onst which are cah ltd Commandemets of the Lord, Aft as* i8 . wuR needs lye the Confcknce: So their verypraftife and example im matter religious * moraUtminifteriaU, direclly tending to God's publilpwor- /hip , and folcmne Service, doth tye the Confc'WKC*
66 thrift obferyed the Sabbath
Commandement. And this they did y not once or twice , but continually and ordinarily , fhewing the ordinary con- tinuance of the Sabbath, and the fan&i- fyingit.
Anfw. The Reader may obferve by this lat- ter paffage of D. B. out of what armory T. 3± borrowed his weapons to fight againft the Church, forthefetting upofthefeventh day Sabbath. For if the praftice of Chrijl him- felfe whiles he was under the Law, and of the Apoftles before our Saviour's Paffion,and for fome fpace of time after his Refurre&ion, (hall beaperpetuallmorallrule, obliging all fuc- ceeding Ages to the obfervation of the Sab- bath of the fourth Comm&ndement. Then it cannot bee denyed , but that the Chriftian Church tends bound , to keepe holy the fame Sabbath which Chrifi obferved.
But pafsing by this grofTe Paradox, my an- fwer is :
i That our Saviour in his owne Perfon , du- ring the time of his Humiliation, duely obfer- ved the Sabbath of the fourth Commande- ment, and all other legall rites and obfcrvan- ces5becaufe he was under the Law, Gal. 4. 4. He was circumcised, Luke 2. 2 1. He went up to the Pajfeover>andto other legaS FeIiivals,iMat.i6. ij.Iohn 2.23.3* Chap. 5. l.'&Chap.f. 37. He fern the Lepers Uthe Priefi,to tffcrfor their clean-
■
Qmjl kept the Sabbath. 67
>- ' ■ ' * ' — ^ '* — - ■ ■■■■"" ' '-
fingy as Mokshad commanded, Luke 5. 14. and therfore D.B. might from our Saviour's exam- aChryf. \nM<mh. pie, afwcll have concluded for the obfervati- *?°m •*?• s*hb"a on of all legall feftivals,and the whole Law of ^1^™? & in CMofes , as for the feventh day Sabbath of the circumcifione & m founbCommanJemnt S^SSR
Be fides it is oblerved by the Fathers, a and in Hiericho hoc it appeareth by many fpeeches and a&ions of cfr%fa<aum iic«
* • fori i n!t**p i'p
Chrift, thatheefteemed not the Law of the Matth.n'.j.ifye Sabbatfcf, to be ancternall Law :or of the fame had knowne, what quality with the other precepts of the Deca- Lt"S^S loguc :i^r it is fimply and univerfally unlaw- ftcrificcyee would full, to tranfgre(Te,or to commit any thin^re- no^hfe c°n.dcF-
\ \ r /y & , ned theguiltlcfifc.
pugnant to the three nrft precepts, or to the Here dm like- fix latter, Namely, to worfhip any other Gods^ neth the obfervati- ortoufe God's Name irreverently , or tofetup °t^%^t Idols , or to commie adultery , or to beare Sacrifices : he°bia- falfe-witnefle, &c. j?«\ the Phati-
-> , r • > tn o • ices, became when
But on the contrary,our Saviour sDoanne, God would have andhispra&ifeteacheth , that it was in many mercy before facri. cafes, and upon fundry occafions law full to fcfiBg performe fervile and fecular workes,and to do being of like qua- things repugnant to the letter of the Law of ^withfacrife the 4th Command. John 5 . 9, 1 o • Mat. 12.1,2,3. b^h^Haref. %.Marktz.ziAohn 7.27. And from hence the ?°« Apoftoiicxe- Fathers ioferrethis oblervation : Thar drift gSSjS by his words concerning the Sabbath , and efTe Sabbati legem by many of his anions upon that day, did fa- ^ud /g^bant
ir Jj r u 1 rr • r • • S n Tertul. c.Marc. I.
ntfic ana foretell tbecefjation and expiration of 4#r. ,x.i>eriefum the SabbatkaULatv , in the time of trace. b (Na>e, qui typus
J J * Chrifti)tuncquo-
quc concuflum e£
K 2 Concerning sabbatum.
6$ The Apoftles obferVtng Legale
Concerning the Apoftles ebferving the Sabbath.
c Clem. AiexmJ. Theholy Apoftles after the Refurre&ion and T^i7;M,EiCe Afcenfionof Christ, preached the Go- ru?arc'umdcfkCA- fpell in Synagogues upon the Sabbath day es: poftoius5cu voafe- nottofignifie the perpetual! morality of the SSSb£& Seventh day Sabbath 5 but to the end that they nu faftam nihil complying with Lewes and Profelpes , in this pemi &,ftd nc rc" °bfev20tt might obtaine familiar acce(Te,and ^icgcaveTien^ad gain opportunity toinftru&theminthe Chri- sm quafeftexfi- ftian Faith, and by little and little, to teach SL23S5S thcm thcccffation.of the Old Law. Webber «os qui audiebant did they dealethusinthe matter of the Sabbath ^d*«s abrompe- onely, ^ foratime they condefcended unto mo/anj fe^uTcft ttie^, in the ufe of fome other legal! obfervan- iuda?us> ut omnes ces. c Fer Saint Paul, himfelfe, who was mod
•wcrifaccret.
XJfaryf. fer M virg. Expe&avit dum fides prius hsreret in animis, Veritas nc fi cirius quim rei tempus aut maturitas verufietj ad zizania? fibras evcllendas acccfiifiet,Calu- taris difciplina: femina,unacura radicibus extirparet. Tert. d.pr*fiript. ca.i+.Adeo pro temporibusj & caufis & perronis.,qusdam reprehendebant , in qua: & ipfi xqud protemporibusj & perfonis, & caufis coromittebant. Quemadmodum fi & PC tries veprehenderet paulum, <\uod prohibens Ciicumcifionem3Circumeiditipfc Timothcum. ^htyi,ferm.6i . Cur in Pentccoft. Aft, Apofi.pag. 94^.. Acque ut inteHteas cos id-. cited tempora obfervarc, non ut fe obfervationis necefsitati fubi jciant , feaquod im- *>ccillionbu$ fcfe accommodate conentur , audi quid dicat paulm : Dies obferva- tis&Mcnfesy&c. Jam verb fivideamus cum qiu Qies &Menfes, &c. obfervarc vetarj h#c obfervare quid qusefo dicemus ? Num eum fibi repugnarc , &c. Abfit : fed cum, quod vellet eorum tollere imbecillitatem, a quibus tempora obfervabantur, "lis fefc per obferyationem iftam attempcrare. Ita quoque faciunt Medici, porrec"tos Jgtis cibos prius deouitant, quamvii ipli minime cjbis indigeant , fed illorum ftti-? deant infirmitati mederi. lta quoque paulus egit, cum obfervationc temporum nihil £gcret, tempora obfervavit 3 ut coj qui obfervabant, ilia obfervandi imbecillitatc li- towci , fiipottM (3aJL j,
^dverfe
Tl)e Apoftles ohftrYingLegals. 6p
adverfe to legall ceremonies, faith in manner following : Vnto the Icrves I became as alew3 that I might winne the Iewes ; to them that are under the Law, as though 1 were under the Law, that I may winne them that are under the Law, i Cor. p. 20.
Saint AuguUine renders another reafon, for which the ^poftles obfervedfome legall rites, and uremontes for a time. Namely^ to fignifie the difference betwixt legall rites, and Heathe- nifh fuperftition, God Himfelfe being the Au- thor of the one5 and Satan of the other : And he addeth : that becaufe God Himfelfe was the Author of all xhzlegAll Ordinances, the holy Apoftles were willing to yeeld unto them an *Aus -*Pm* **•
t't j r _, /# r i • i i_ • Cur mihinon licet
honourable Funerall, after the time that their dicere Apoftolum obligation was fully expired in Chrift. a Pauium , & alios
& J r retfa: fidei Chri-
ftianos, tunc ilia Vetera facramenta paululum obfervando commendare debuifle> ne putaremur ilia? Piophcticas fignificationis obfervationcs a piiflimis patribos eufto- dita:, tanquam facrilegu diabolici a pofteris deteftanda: ? lam cnim cum veniflec dies, quae prius illis obfervatiombus praenunciata, poft mortem & rclurreChonemi Domini revelata eft, vitam amiferuit : veruntamen ficut defun&a corpon>ne..efla-* riorum officii5> deducenda quodammodo cram ad fepulturam : non autcm defcrenda cominuo,Ycl uumkonimobtjec'tationibuSj tanquam Caninis morfibus projicienda,
T.B.
7© The Sabbathkeptfince Chrift.
T« B. His ObjeSlionfrom thepra&ife of the (Primitive Church, for fundry .Ages after Chrift.
The more pure Primitive Churches, To long as they retained their beft or fpotlefle purity, obferved the Sabbath- day, Mg>7?-& 4^8.
It was in ufe in the Primitive Chur- ches after Chrift, for three or foure hun- dred yeares : Namely,, fo long as the Church retained her beft purity : and untill corruption and Popery came in.
This Day was obferved at the Coun- cell of Laodicea : and this Councell was the firft, that did caft an afperfion of Iudaifme upon the keeping of that Day, Pa&4%l' This Councell made a fchifme and rent, from the moft ancient and pu- reft Churches which lived before them : and the religious obfervance of the old Sabbath, hath now lyen buried 1100. yeares, ever fince that wicked and fchif. maticall Decree, of the Councell of Lao* dicea, pag. 611. Jnfto*
Primitive Churches Kept not the Sab. 7 1
„ — ■ — —
Anfw. It is formerly declared, in thefirft parr of my anfvver, that T. B. his poficion con- cerning thefeventh day Sabbath, is repugnant to the unanimous fcntence of all the Primitive Fathers. Andic is impoffibletodemonftrate, that any Ancient Churches or Fathers, favou* red the fame.
Some Primitive Churches, which had levoes and Frofelytes in their Chriftian affemblies , made the Saturday of every weeke an Holy- day, upon the fame reafons the holy Apoftics a Aubafpina> 0L h^d formerly done : a But thefe Churches did feTvat.moptat.& in like manner obferve the Lord's-day, for a ^^fff^'1^1 weekely feftivall : and as I (hall afterwards poftoVommTeml prove,they preferred the Lord's-day^and eftee- poribus,Sabb^um med it more honourable then the Sabbath: nei- &Sgs*jgJ; ther did they obferve, either of thefe dayes, veram & gcrma- after the Laworruleof the fourth Comman- J^f^f*^ dement. Tor they ceafed not from all world- Stcr fraTrw &l£ ly labour and negotiation, by thefpaceofthe da?os, diflemmari whole day: but when religious offices appoin- ISSSfe^ ted by the Church were finished, Chriftian tc non audcrcnto people had liberty, tovvorkeandtolabourin frfnx)niasromr}cs
J, .* n. J Judaicas lelcinde-
their callings. re.Eam i^Sr^u*
Ignatius b ad<JWagnef. Let not us Chriliians ad Sabbatum per- obferve the Sabbath after the Jewilh manner, by *!nebat' ^U2^ rejoycinginialenejje : becaujc the divine Oracles fublatafuiffct, ex- Piy : ffee that mil not labour, lei him not eate : citawra foiffct, ne and thou (halt eate thy bread in the fipeateofthy facrisa avei-tercm*
face, retinucrurt.
b I gnat. NeSab- batifemus more Iudaico^vclut otio "audentes; qui enim nonhbont,non edat : & in . fudorc vultus tui vefceris pane tuoy habent Dmna Oracnta.
Saint
j l Tlie old Sabbath a Working-day i
tj*mb. Nuncdi- S . kmbtokc Epift.j 2. Now under the Go/pell, bus&fsAnc: iveobferve,thatthtsdah (to rvit the Sabbath day) gotUs obcundis.fi- is deputed and made free, to carry burthens, and to ne psni animad- cxerCtfe worldly buCineffe. vertimus dcputan. « a i_ r a j r ■* •
b Athan^obis & S. Athanalius. d tr. d. J entente. It ispermtt- univcL-tisfimulper- tedunto us, and to all people elf e, totvorke and la- SlSSum bour on the Sabbath day Jby reafon that all we are in nos omnes fimus thefe dayes a royall Prieflhood.
c^m^ReVt 2 Thc Sabbath was noc made a weekcly Fe - it i^jl^fjf ' ftivall, univerfally, or in all primitive Chur- c innocent, i. Ep. ches, but onely infome of them : for at Rome, ^6Hi£jP)T& Alexandria, and throughout Africa, it was a tfrfLucin.caffian. working-day. c
toU*t. $ ■ '-^ £j£ /##/* tMartyr, was an inhabitant and Pro- nunqu^i Sabb^ feflbr in the Church of Rome : f and at Rome tum coiuit. the Lords-day was obferved for religious Af- 2S;StoS[; femblies: and likewifeat Alexandria: andin incatatiit i*jHu§: Africa : and in thefe Churches the Sabbath-day m*m? £ i»*«i wasafafting-day: and therefore it could be no rb^'canonA- Holy-day, becaufe of the precept of the Pri- joff.$J-Tertul.f m{tivc church s, which prohibited that any *Z*;tlffii feftivali day, fhould bee an ordinary fading
Catb. mm: »*. day. Ambtof.^^3,
Tlie Synod of Iiodiceai ?}
Concerning the Councell of Laadicea.
i r. B. Affirmeth that this Councdl was held in the yeareof our Lord, $6%. but both he, and the Authors which heiolloweth, are deceived in this matter of Chronologie : For this Councell was held before the firft 'Kkenc, and in thedayes of Pope silvetfer the firft: as the Authors cited in the margine have pro- ved. h b Baron; Amid.
i This Synode, as it is very ancient, fo like- EccUem+.mjp- wife it hath ahvayes beenereputed Orthodox- ^aisyXol all, and fundry good Decrees and Canons Longis coua/an, are bund therein : ^ by name, one Canon &^r£2 touching the Caoonicall Bookes of the Old eft fynodum hmc Teftament c : and another which condemneth akbratamcffcdri the invocation and religious adoration of An- fuiTp^E Liierli
gels. d finalibus annis t
3 The Fathers of this Synod , were not ^^^1 fchifmaticall, ornovelliftsinthei-natterofthe terNec-Catfarien; Sabbath: for they maintaine no other Do&rine £m & Nicen^ concerning this qucftion, then hittin Martyr , sttoffe^'&c. ° Tertu/lian, Origen^&c. have in fubftance deli-- '<= Condi. Uod, ca, vered concerning the fame. And lujlin Mar- \9'Ib cx Jh^ tyr^viho lived 150. yeeres before this Synod, o&.mz'.ca*. color. reportcth , that a queftion was made in his '•***• time, Whether a Christian* which obferved the SjJiJjJlg Safibaib^might Me admitted to thihotjmyHeries or not t Therefore the Fathers of the Councell of Laodicea, were not thefirft Authors, who condemned the religious obfervance of the Old Sabbath.
L T. B>
y-j^ Igtt^tiiiS ad Magnef.
T.B. His Obje&ion out of S. Ignatius. Pag. if p. Grjfifl.
Ignatius in his Epiftle to the Magnefi- ans, exhorteth them to keepe the Sab- bath-day : and he calling the Sunday or Lords-day, the Queeneand Princefle of Dayes : fignifieth thereby, that hee lea- veth an higher roomeforthe Sabbath- day, and that hee accounted it, the King, and Prince of dayes.
Anfw. S. Ignatius the Martyr in his Epiftle ad Magnef.vtnxzihzs followeth:^ 4 ca£Q*iU<u> &c. after the Sabbdth-dAy, or inftcad of the Sabbath-day, let every friend otcbrift <p.-\*x?w> keepe h$ly day nh Kuptaxtw the Lor d Christ His Day,in memory of C h r i s t'$ Refur- region : For the fame is Q^eene, and Lady PrincefiTeof Dayes : that Day which the holy Prophet expe&ed and longed for, when hee faid in the Title of the Pfalme, Infinemfro $£tava ? the Day wherein fpirituall life recei- ved beginning, and Death wasvanquifliedby Gbrifl.
This Encomium which the holy Martyr Ignatius hath damped as an honourable Cha- ncer
Ignatius honour* Sunday] ?j
rafter upon the Lord's Day, declareth what
cftceme the Primitive Church entertained of
this Day* For tgnatlm lived at lead thirty
yeeres in the dayes of S. lohn the Evangelift, ^fX^
and was his Auditor %(as (hall hereafter fur- chia/feomdus e-
ther be declared)andhcwasafaithfuIlobfcr- pUcopus ordinatur
r^ n I- 11 n- • u Ignatius, /oanne:
Ver Ot apOltollCall COnltltUtiOnS b. reicgatur in Path-
And whereas T. B. iraaglneth, that Ignatius mon.An.Dom.97. filling the Lord's Day ^ €<,**» the Queene, J— ZZs intended thereby to exalt the Sabbath Dajy and ejus fuerunt,Papia& to make the fame the'ehiefe and King of dayes: *^°uf ^fl Thii conceit proceedcth from partiall igno- ?a^usmym*°,& ranee: For the ^Rabbins who doted upon the Ignatius Amio*. Sabbat hMh ftiled the fame nn^D the Queene fumma.m. of dayes: and the Poet intending to (hew the /i.^rf^i.Horu, exceflive efteeme which money was in, faith, tur Ignatius ut a«
« . j , r»i_ -i r 1 . /i. , poitolorum tra«U=
Regma Pec»Ma$and the Philofopher, lnftttta dom mordicus a4« Reginaommumvirtutum ; and the O rat or, Re* h*refccrent9 gin a tloquentia^ Queene money , J2u,eenejujlice9 gncem eloquence^ &c. Therefore the Title of Queene is given by Ignatius to the L$rd9s-Day, not by way of derogation and diminution, but to (ignifie the eminent and tranfeendent ho* nourof the day.
Lz T.B,
?$ S. jithanafiwl
T. B. His authorities out of S, Athanafius examined.
T. B* Mhanafius who lived in the yeare jqc doth not onely and barely avouch, that Chriftians in his time, kept the Sabbath-day : but he doth moreover, juftifie their keeping of it. For whereas fome might object unto him, That the keeping of the Sabbath is Iudaifme ; this godly Bifiiop forefeeing this obje£tion? faith • We affemble together on the Sab- bath-day, not as we were infected with Iudaifme : but therefore we affemble on this Day, that we may worfliip I e s u $x the Lord of the Sabbath.
The judgement therefore of this god- ly Bifiiop was, that a Chriftian Church might fan&ifie the Sabbath-day, with- out any taint or tin&ure of Iudaifme.
Saint
AthahaH touching the Sabhath. pj
Saint Athanafius is orthodoxall every way, both concerning the Sabbath., and the Lord's Day. For in a fpeciall Treatife, ^/><rc«w*; jfoiiidfc #** maincaineth , that the Sabbath- day,and circumcifion are both of them legall obfervances: And that neither of them is in a Xthanaf.^: force under the Law of grace 3. bat . & cm .Atquc
During the time and continuance of the firft £inF .eft iuod Sab- Age, the law of the Sabbath and of Circum- ptL»^^ cifion was in force at Hierufalem : Ut&ri*$'*ft vai«us: fed Qera- *** mUtto &c. But when the new Generation Sl£S came in, after the RefurrecSion of Christ, quibus fincm non the old Sabbath ceafed to be in force. Here- ^bit n°vacrc^ #^#, fince the new Creation ■•*wc*tt*'i%°*ft>'»- SiStpnoribustc^ p«fP<*r'a>f OT77 TniaepTi* wee Christians obferve not poribus Sabbati di- thc day (of the Sabbath) as in former times : SJSS^fr butweexpe<5ianeternallSabbath,whercinthe nispriorum : /** new creature (hall never end. Wherefore, the Domi"i«:um diem Lord commandeth not the new creature to SSSm 2^1 keepe the Sabbath-day: for the. LpR r>'s-day found* reparation in which thenew creation began, hathputan n,i3, oNT0Tn f^tir^a
j i c t_ i_ i_ dies Satibatum eft,
end totnebabbath. fedjrcmifliopccca-
The fame Father in an Homily ^-Aveaa^v d. torum, cum quis Scmcnt.dellvereth the fume dottrine touching the reclulcvu * ^ccw:is Sabbath: his words are: When wee Chrifiians aflTembleyOr come to Church upon the Sab- bath-day, we doe ftot thus> became we are any wayes ficke, or infetted with Iudaifme,-^ **& *«*%£*!#{) but to honour the L a r d I b s u s3 who is Lordof the Sabbath. • J# the old time of the. irncs, the Sabbath was highly efteemed :
L 3 ftjtfj
7# Athanafius of the Sunday]
Sftt now under theGofpcll, uniQwav '**&*&&
tW wf jculU: the Lord hath changed or tranfla-
ted it into the Lords' s day. For the old Sabbath
appertained to the pedagogie and rudiments of
the Law : and therefore when the great Mafter
came and fulfilled all that was prefigured by
it, it then ceafed,cven as a candlcis put forth
i u8$vtG- £ cH- at the rifing and appearing of the Sunne a.
&CKAM KA-mryn- No w it appeareth by thefe teftimomes o/Atha-
¥lT*?%U* mdus.thatwhisage, thecbfcrvationoftbeSab-
•j»o* kSyjffr & bath-day >byvertue of the fourth Commandement^
flsVcwTt. pas condemned of ludaifme : and that the Lord's
day, upon which our ble/fed 'Saviour arofefiom the
dead, to enlighten all people fitting in darknejfe^
vfas obfervedwetkely for religions and ecclefiafii-
cali offices in the Church.
T. B. Hi* Objection out of the Ec<* cleJiatticaUHittory.
Socrates Bed. htft. lib. 6. cap. 8. Attenu blies were wont to be held in Churches upon the Sabbath-day , and upon the Lot d s-day.
Ibid.lib. 5. cap.ii. At Qefarea, Cappa- docia, and Cyprus, theBifliops and
Priefts
Socrates ofFeflivdsl -9
Pfiefts did ever interpret and expound the Scriptures upon the Sabbath-day ^and upon the L o r ps-day.
T. B. Vag. 488. Although they kept two dayes in a wecke,yet one onely was kept for the Sabbath : The other l?™l\Hin*e' was kept lightly and partially, as a light b So^men, &#. Holy-day, or a Leaure-day. ftaminuijegem w-
lit, ut turn die Do- minico, quern He-
^Anpvcr 1. No Author ipeaketh more bran appellant pri- fully, concerning the cetfation of Iudaicall ^azTei^abl Sabbaths and Feafts, then £*#**« a. No Law bati3Grxdeautem (faith he) made by Chn&^gave leave to Chrifti- s°lJs nomine mm- ans to obferveanjludaicall rites, hut on the con- ^oZS- trary, the Apoftle plain ely prohibit eth the fame, diciis danfkSi& all- #£//*/ £* #0/ Wy abrogatedCircumcifionJbut ex* j* *eJ °tiis obeun- A^tti 4//i, f /;>4f j£<t? /&0#A/ ^ no diffention about bufquc &obfecral Holy- dayes. It was not the intention of the holy tiombusiXumco- Apoftles, to mAkt Lams for kufing Holydaya, %£*£ Tnt but their ftudie was, to be authors unto people, of raws eft, utpotcin leading a vertuous and holy life. quo Chriftus refm-
r^ ^>i_ n- 1 1 j a /T if iexit amortuis.di-
2 Even as Chnltians held Aiiembhes,upon Cm vero Veneris, the Sabbath-day, and upon the Lord's day, in utPo:c "?qu° erae fome Cities and Countries: fo like wife in raa- S5&SS ny parts of the world, and in the mod eminent 1.7 x.m .Sabbaum Churches, they kept holy the Friday, and the * dominicum fc-
n » 1- r 1 • /? 1 n <& • 1 itoS "ies 3g»ta:e*,
Sunday. Euieb 1///. ConftJ.L\* c. i8.Epiphan. quod iiie quidem to. 2. 1.3. Expoflt.Cath. fid. num.22. Sozomen. teteeoiibdo fit A//?, £cc/. /. 1. c.8 b. Conftanr. f A* Graf made di :^J££3»! a Law? f£<tf Chr':tfians under his dominions, reaioni*,
1 1 The Sabbath kept in Jome Qtircfosl
jhould tveekely kecfe holy, both the Sunday y or Lord's* day ,and the Friday : The Sunday ^becauft ofchrift Hi* Refurretfion, andthe Friday fecavfc of His F of ion.
3 The Sabbath-day was preferred by no or -4
thodoxall Chriftian Church, or more honou-
5 Greg. Nyten. rec* thanrhe Lords- day .-but the greeted number
Om&cfifiiQd-t of Chriftians, preferred the Lord's-day before
bus ocuiis Diem the Sabbath, in thofe Regions, where both
Domirucum intue- , , r j j l i • i i
ri$, qui Sabbatum dayes were oblerved : and they which ho- ^ dedecorafli ? An noured the Sabbath moft, fay onely,that thefc ' m^^e5?? twodayes, were Germanifratres, likecwona- Wiwis ? & G in turall brethren b : For the one was founded up- aiterum injiirnis, onthc Q\$ Creation of the world, and the o« •
lis, in alterum im- « ,
pin3es, ther upon the new.
T. B. His Argument for the Seventh-day Sabbath, from the Tborke of Man's Creation^ and <l{edet?iption.
VVe muft have fuch a Sabbath, as the rcafon of it doth belong to all men, and to every man, none excepted.
And fuch is the Sabbath-day of the fourth Commandement, to wit,the Sa- turday Sabbath, which is kept in me.
mory
The benefit o/Qreathu 81
mory of the Creation. For all and every man, hath a benefit by the Creation,and therfore all, and every man,have reafon to obfervethe Sabbath,w:hGod himfelfe ordained co be kept holy, in recognition of chat common and generall benefit
But it is not fo with the Sunday Sab- bath : becaufe Redemption , which is the motive why Chriftians obferve the Lords-day, is nothing at all to 1 uch peo- ple, as are not elected to falvation.
Well then, fee how thefe things hang together : the thing they muft prove is, that we Chriftians, that is, all we Chri- ftians, even every one within the pale of the Church , that is baptized, all thefe ought to keepe the Lord's-day for a Sab- bath , in memory of the Redemption : when as the one halfe of thefe is not re* deemed : and the reafon to bindeall,and every man, thus to keepe remembrance of this Redemption,is becaufe the work of Redemption is greater unto fomc on- ly of thefe men.How abfurd is this,that every man fliouldbeboundto keepe a
M joyful!
%i Tk benefit of Ademption.
joy full memory of that thing which dothbelongbut tofome of them onely, as not to one halfe of them.
This is, as if they would undertake to perfwade , not onely Englifl?-men > but 'Dutch-men, and French-men y tokcepea yearely joytull remembrance with us, from the invafion of thtSpaniard, in 88. wch concerneth not them, &c. p.i$iy&LC.
Anfrv. The fumme of the former objeflion is, that the ground and reafon of keeping holy the a Rait* d. vol sMath. days wmfi be a reneralland univerfall be- i. voliintis ante- nept .common te all that profej] e Chrifl. And there- cedensj eftvolun- f$re ,becaufe the benefit of Creation is univerfall^ ^pKmixvx ™d common to ah1 and every one, and Redemption ipfeDeo, & ejus U peculiar to the elect only : Chriflians ought to ob- nawa propenfione f^ve the fevcnth day in memory of Creation : and uitncns occafione not the Lord s day , in memory of Redemption. ex nobis, My anfwertothis obje&ionis: i. That the
L^Tl'r^; ground and reafon of keeping holy a feffival! Dei prior fecun- day | may be iuch a benefit, as by the antcce-
du:»naturam,fcYc. £m Will of Chri/l 3 IS COtnmOQ tO all mCH li-
nus poiterior le- . « in i r r l -
oHiducaufam.iiia ving> thoughall men by reafon or their owne ingenue hxeacci- demerits , doe not a&ually receive the fruit of
£?',££& '«• ** the benefit of Redemption, by the an- iUaedka, h*cad- tecedent will of Chrift > is common to all men mob?' rVfg' ^ living which profcfleC^ri/f.' and none are cx- iiiqufnd moncm eluded from it,but only they>wch by their own animxprimamno demerit have nude thcmfelves unworthy. b
ttjntprsdcftinat: * t.
(Jhrift redeemed all mtn-kinde. 8j
It is the exprefle Dottrine of the Church of England \ that Chrijl hath redeemed til man* kinde : and chat upon the Croffe be made a full, f erf ett> andfufficient Sacrifice , Mat ion, and fa- tisfattion, for t be Jinxes of the whole world. And this Do&rine is confirmed by many fentenccs and arguments of holy Scripture, and by the teftimony of the orthodoxall Fathers,
i Sentences of Holy Scripture are thefe which follow : Heb. z.p.He taftedof death for every man, i Tim. 2. 6. Who gave himfelfe 4 ranfome for oilmen. 1 Iohti 2.2. He isthepropi* tiationnotforourftnnes onely , hat for the finnes of the whole world. 2 Cor. j . 1 5 . He died for aM. 2 Pet. 2. 1. There were falfe Prophets alfo among the People .which (hall bring in damnable her -eftes, 2*J* * ** even denying the Lord that bought them 5 and oraacs jfcbrte ho- bring upon themfelves fwift damnation. minc$ mifliim eft
2 There are delivered in holy Scripture ma* ck^m^.9^1
nv weighty arguments for this Doctrine. Qy* Redemptio
'i.Our bleflcd Saviour, who is Yea,and Amen, fe un/verJ"° intul*
. 11,. /, // mundo, & omni-
Apoc.i.^.IohniZ^'j. commanded his GoJpeU bus homimbus m- which is a word of truth, Eph. r.i $.to be univer- Bremer inn°- fally preached f not onely to all Nations % Matth. ™ l)'yca t ?< Prin, 2$. 1$. but to every humane creature, Marc. 16. cipem germs im- 15. and the fummeof the Gofpeli issitfw P«».fanfti ™«*
^, / • n • / t 1 r r ^-- mentis lnvidcn-
Chrijt CAme into the world to javepnners ', 1 Tim. tem,cxdemq;eju* 1 . 1 5 . 2 .He likewife extiorterh all people to re- p^ncidaii «o*ft pentance b, andcommandeththem tobeleeve n3ettt"Dominus-p£'
terno miti^are confilro, dicens ad Cain>Vt quid triilis fadus e$ ? «c.Cum ergo ai Cain tain Toq.ieretur Deus3numquid ambiguum eft, voluific cum , Quantum ad xllur* medendi riiodum fufficiebat, egifle, ut Cain ab illo lnnpietatis furore re fiptfee re malicia pertinax2tnde fafta eft inexcufabilior, unde fieri debuit corrc&ior.
M 2 his
84 Redemption common to all.
his Gofpell,and to honour^ worihip,and obey
him , upon this ground, namely,that he is their
Saviour and Redeemer, 3. The holy Apoftles
Creed requireth all people within the pale of
. 0 ' the Chriftian Church, to beleeve in G o d the
c Aug. znpfa. 6%. p , f.z.Juths proctor "UK-1--
punituseft,&cferi. But KChrist by a previous, and an- ^S&Sl tccedent dccree hath excluded the greatett guine fUOj & punt" number of Chriftian people living, from all vie ilium deprctio poffibility of reaping benefit by his Paffion, F^end!^ and if he hath payed no price at allforthem<: ab iiio Tpominus thenhis Gofpcil may be preached to infernall vcnditus eft,. nK fpirits, with as great fincerityasto the greateft quTipt /Domino partofman-kinde ; The Devil! and his Angels rcdemptus emt. may with as good reafon bee exhorted to be- Ta^L^l leevein chrijl, and to call God Father,. as tis eft Dominus Chriftian people, which have no fpeciall alTu- icfus,ut&iPfi(/«. ranee and teftification from God, that Chrifi
aa) donaretvenia, _ r , , . r » • r> i •
fiChnftiexpeaaf- Iej ™ payed the price or their Redemption. fet mifcricordiam. 3 The Orchodoxall Fathers maintaine uni- i!i^lpi\ verfaIity of Redemption, bypaimm ofaphce , Quod remedium and S, AuguJiine c with many other Fathers,af- mVade m^1' ^nne, even of //^ lfcariet , that hec was not jiitemismeaconm" excluded from the price of Redemption made gUTes, qua; te rcvo- by Chrift's bloud, but he might have obtained rSS P^don of his finne, if hee had repaired to the adhqueum. " Mercy-feat of Chrift* d Cyril, in h. ijb a i. 0ur faffed Saviour, like unto a Royall, ,and dvtor punter a- magnificent Prince , havingmany or his tub- liisDifcipuiis Sal- je<5ls , in thraldome and captivity 5 under afor-
vatoris auxiliu non
habuiflet, fruftra haec dicercmur.j &e. ftri^f/hhominem,, nifl ultro lllcinpcrdi-
tionem infiltifle*,
nine
Redemption common to di. 85
raine enemy, paied a full,'perfed,and fufficient *«£■ «* 0""»-
/ 1 1 t r 1 .J ^LUltr:l mortuus eit
ranfome, tor all and every oneof them, a and cimftus/iaiiquos then fending forth his Embaffadours, inviteth wjfaie nonpo- them to returne our or captivity : Now many anncs Baptifta & of thefe captives defpifc liberty, and make digko Chnftum choice rather tofcrve the enemy, thantore- ^°^nd^; turne to the freedome cf their Lord : alfo fome &c.a fat adhuc in of them being redeemed, and releafed out of fecul" su°ra pcc-
, , • • 1 j u cz™ Chultus non
bonds, returne againe into bondage. b tuierlt<
It cannot be denied, but that all and every b Piofp. ad cap^ one of thefe were redeemed, by a full and free g*£f£g£ paiment of a ranfome : and that by reafon muni Rcdempd- of their owne contempt, or negleft, they re- one fal^tor n6fl
. r . 1 1 /• P 1 • cltcruahxus, non
cave not the runt and benefit or redemption. adSacramcmivir-
Now thefe things being declared, concer- tutem, fcdadinfi-
ning the wotke of mat* redemption, my an- jg ^"^
fwer to T. B* his objection, is as followeth. Domini nofln ie-
As the benefit of Redemption, in regard of fu chrifti,pKciiim
.... , . r.r r - rr rt tonus mundi fit. A
application , and the ultimate fruit or effect qno pretio extra_ thereof, is not common to all mankinde,by neifunt^uiamde- reafon of their owne infidelity anddjfobedi- ggj 3**g ence : fo likewife mans forming, creation, and afc poft redempu* comming into the world, is a forerunner of his ?nem> adean<km.
,. D v . . 'r r.. . iervitutem funt re-
ctcrnall perdition, by realonot his owne vvic- vera. id. d. voc. kedneffe 5 and it had beene good for many people I'nt.n.i. ao. vif- never to have beene borne : but from hence it is doming™ on S confequent, that there is no more reafon for unius tantum p0- many peopletoobferve a Sabbath, in memory ^ rede™Ption^ and recognition or Creation* than or redemp- onum impendic ra- tion 5 becaufe, neither Creation, norRedemp- lwenuwu.*!*. tion, are finally beneficiall to ungodly and b^morLTchri' difobedient people. ftus ? fed prorfus
l^f 9 All pro omnibus mor-»
fyi * n* tuu5 eft Chrifius.'
8<£ Chrijl redeemed all mankindel
All the Israelites in Mofes daies, were redee- med out ot Egypt : in memory and recognition whereof, they were commanded to obferve the weekely Sabbath ^Deut.^.i^. Butnotwith- ftanding their redemption , many of them through their own infidelity and difobedience, periflied in the Wildernefle. In like manner all Chriftians arc redeemed byChrift, in manner aforefaid : and all obferve the Lord's-day in a Hicr. h La*, recognition of thisgracious benefit, which ac- urm.c^- NuII° cording to our Saviours Do&rine proceeded ™%$c£. from the generall and impartial love of God, torclcmeatiffimus to all mankinde, lehn 3. 16. caafi Ctpcrdmo- Butwhenthe holy Scripture defcehdethto ZoZT^it the declaration of the proper and effe&uall umperpoenitemi- caufe of mans failing, of receiving the fruit am^noluntwv^rii. ancj benefit of compleatc and atfuall redemp- Gmli^'nXo- tion and falvation, it referres the fame tohis »itas Dei, nC uii ownc malice, infidelity, difobedience,and irre-
qwdem parti defu- n-nrince X4at 17 2H * it, qu« in charita- PenCanCC3^/r,J.3o 7*
te non ftetic & ab The goodne/fe and fount y of the Almighty was initio fui veneno mt deficient (faith Profber Aquitanicus *) to that intumuit.#.f*.t9. part of mankinde, which abode not in char tty^ but Qui exortcsgra- # ^ corrupted and infected ]with the venernous gall
.j&mur.
r. b.
T. B. Objection agrinfi the Lord's-day. %?
<£*
ewp a
T. B. His twenty foure [peria/IAr-- guments, in maintenance of his pofition concerning the Jeyenth-day Sabbath.
Argument i. pag. 401.
T. ©• Every man fearing God mult maintain and defend, either the fcventh- day Sabbatb to bee ftill in force, or the Lord's-day. Other wife there (hall be no^ Sabbath-day in the Church : and we muft live prophanely and impioufly in the breach of one of Go ds ten Comman- dements,
Butnomanthatfeareth God muft maintaine the Lord's-day Sabbath: 1. Be- caufe a man cannot defend this day in. faith :And whatfoeyer is not of faith, it Jin, (l{Qm. 14. 23. Now a man cannot fpeake for the Lorcb'&day in faith, became hee
hath
God's Commandment necejjarj.
hath no word of G o d for the ground of his faith . and fo it is not faith, but phanfie, fuperftition, and preemption.
Pag 195. When the old Sabbath was fet up, it was done by an exprefle Com- mandement : and can there a new &*£- bath come into its room without a Com- mandement ?
Pag. 402. Chrift hath left no Com- mandement for us to fan&ifie the Lords day.lt is no where faid to us in the New Teftament, remember the Lord's-day to fan&ifie it. Neither can it be proved by any collection or confequence, from any Text of Scripture, &c.
Pag. 283. When men will doe that in G o d's f ervice, and in obedience to God, the which he hatlv no where comman- ded them : what is this but a necdlefle religion and (uperftition ?
Pag. 619. It is but fuperftition and will-worfhip.
Pag. 629. All humane inventions^ thruft into Divine fervice or worfliip of G o p, are plains idolatry.
Pag:
T7;e Sahbath without a Qmmandemenu 89
m ■ ■■ ■ 1 1 ■ ■ ■
Pag. 618. The Lord's-day is a Popifli tradkion,becaufe there being no ground for it in the Scripture, yet for all that the Patrons of it doe urge and prefle the ob- (ervation of it as a neceffary thing, as ty- ing mens confciences upon paine of damnation.
tf^.S. ag. <Br.pdg.u7. It is a matter of infinite comfort to us, whodefire to do the duties of the day Tfitb faith f and in Gq£s blcfting and acceptation, that God fan&ificd our Sabbath-day by the words of the Commandement written with his owne finger.
H. B. Dialmanufcrlt is truc,that only Gois Commandement bindetktbeconfei- ence : and unlefle wee finde the keeping the fir ft day of the weeke for Sabbath, to be commanded, &c. the divine autho- rity of it will not appeare, &c,
N Anfo.
Jji'd , %he equity of the fourth Qommandemintl
<*/£nfwcr to the precedent Argument.
The firft propofition of the precedent argu* merit, is not neceffary : for although men fea- ring God, fliould neither obferve the feventh day, nor the firft day of the Weeke, for their Sabbath : yet they may be free from prophane b Aurcol. in i.d. and impious tranfgreflion of the fourth Com- 37.art.unk. De mandement : by keeping, holy fame other day, quod Xjuo tem' or ^ome °^ct convenient and fufficient time- pore,veiaiiquaho- For the fourth Commandement, in refpeft of oa cw frfvZm vt* any one definiteand fpeciall day of every week, cotus Deo: & hoc was not fimply and perpetually moral l;but po- pacec quia tam fum fitive and temporary onely,as isiormerly pro-
naiur* & ratio di- The common and naturall equity of that aat quod pro aii- Commaodement is morall : to wir, That Cud's
quo tempore oc- . , ... , r r . ,
fcovacascmihi,% p&fS art miged, to obferve a convenient and procurare falutcm Efficient time, for pMike and folemne divine riuTmiKo & ™r(hip, "'fir religious andEcdefiaJticall d» Deodebco vacave, ties b : And abftinence from fecular labour ^^ncfciad° c" an4 negoriation, and keeping holy one day of TchYyuTcencp. every weeke, both for mans temporallandna- Hom.io. iam hinc turall refrefhing, and for the fpirituall good of tJnZ°c SSi his foule, is very agreeable both to natural!, jiobis Dens, eru- and religious equity, and it is grounded upon diens in arcuio the ancient cuftomeandpra&ceof God's mq+
hebdomadal diem . r - T * - ^^f *
imuintcgru ip& ple\ in time ottneLawc: and we Chnftians cm Zmmrydv*- having obtained a larger meafure of divine &fe&*™. %x^> and our obligation to.ferve G o d, and jwTiwi irM*- Chrifiy upon his heavenly promifes, being
greater
The Lord's day an Apottolick TraAitiw. $H
greater than in the time of che/tuw.-if in thofe former times of greater darknefle, the Lord's people obferved a weekcly Sabbath-day: The* furely we fhould be ingratefull, and negligent of our owne falvacion, if we yeeld not to God& weekelyday.orafufficienttimeforhisfervice. . w . .
u t , j- j j d Novel. 4. Lew*
as well as the lewes did d. c*p.%*. Siquium-
Lafily, our weekly obfervation of the Lord's tram quondam & day, in the time of the Gofpell, is not fupcrfti- S^^SS rious, but an holy and godly pra&ife. .Fwitis bati diem venera- warranted by the example of the holy Apo- j^> J*- ££ (lies , and thofe Primitive Churches, which hcem ipfam|/ve"^ were planted by the Apoftles: and which re- tatem eolunt, hos," ceived their Ecclefiafticall precepts and con- ^ d^tS ftitutions, by Tradition c from the Apoftles. nofq, abexididc-
decorc Iiberaric 0 noa venerari par eft ? e Ifich.i* Levit.lib. i.eap 9. Nam & nos illorum fequen** tes Traditionemj Dominicam diem, divinis conventibus fequeftramus. Irenajus lib. $. cap. 5. Ordinationc,&fuccefljone, eaqua* eftab Apoftolis mEcclefiatraditio venit ad nos. Cap. 4. Nonne oportebat ordinem fequi traditionis* quam tradiderune iis, qiubiw committebant ecclciias ?
N z Anfw.
9& ^wf.14.2^
Anfw. to the AJfumption- of the Argument.
T. !B. A Man cannot maintainc the re. ligious obfervation of the Lord's day in faith, becaufe he hath no ground of God's Word for his faiths and fo it is not faith but fancy : and if the obfervation of the day, is not in faith, it is finne^ Q{pm. 14.2J- '
Anfw. 1. By TrithyRm.i^i. the Apoftle underfiandeth the d'ittate &nd yr attic all )udgt~ a chryfoftsm.Am- ment of the confeience, concerning the quality rftS^ oi theadion, which one is to doc, or to leave occummus. Cm- undone a. Therefore this fentence or faying of pr^fimTfidt the Apoftle conclude* nothing for the Obje.
id eft,ex diamine (Sor's purpofe.
confciemix , quo Secondly , But if by Faith, (hould be under*
SE&lffS ft°od> <*#«« *,/«/< riptrfiMfi*; groun- hie & nunc l.ccre ded upon the written Word ofG o d; my an- pcccatumcft.^ fvver is that the keeping holy of the Lord's
cnim agit hie Ape- . ' • 1 X 1 /•
iUus de fide c^- day, is grounded upon a Commandernent of
#i4»<! naturalise- (JqD(
^tdlcffit Fordivineprcccptsareoftwoforts.-i.^r
rail, parricuhn,8c
praSica , quae nihil aliud eft quam di&amen confeientia?, feu judicium rationis* quo
judico, mihique pcrfuadeo3me ;e&e agcre,ncc Deum offcndeie.
of
T)iv. Comntandements gencrall . p?
of them, are exprefle, immediate, and particu- lar, Epbef.6>l* Children obey your parents (na- turall)/* the Lord^ i Thejf.4.3. Abftaine from fornication, Ephef 4. 18. Bee not drunke with wine wherein is exceffe.
Some are generall precepts , which com- mand by a mediate and fubordinate law s 1 Pet. 2.13. Submit your f elves to every ordinance of mm, for the Lord's fake. Verf. 18. Servants be fubjefi to your majlers, with all fear e, not onely to the good and gentle , but alfo to thefroward, Hebr. 13.17. obey them that have the rule over yo*,8zc.
Now Parents, Matters, Princes, and Rulers, command children, and fervants, and people under their fubje<flion, to performe worldly and temporall bufinefles, as to labour in this thing, or that thing, totravell,to goetowar, tofaile,ro fovv corne in fucha Held, &c. The Centurion in the Gofpell, Mat. 8.9. 1 amaman under authority, having fouldiers under mt : and 1 fay to this man, Goe} and hegoeth : and to ano- ther. Come, and he commeth : and to my fervant, DoethU,andhe doeth it. Gen. 24 2 . Abraham / aid to his eldefl fer v ant >8zc. Put thine handundtr my thigh, and I will make thee fweare by the Lord, &c. Thou (halt goeuntomy Countrej, and to my kindred^ ejre. ifaac called lacob, and [aid unto him, Anfe,goe to Padan Aram^ See. Gen.iS. 1 ,2 , King David commanded Ziba^Thou, and thy fonnes, and thy fervants, /ball till the Land, and bring in the fruits, &o 2 Sam,?.?,10'
N 3 lit
p4 c ^Precepts of the Church.
In all thefe examples, and in thoufands more, children, fervants,fubje&s,fouldiers:&c. performed fecular and cemporall fervice and bufincfle, in obedience to the precepts of fuch perfons, as were their govemours, and their obedience unto the Commandements of Men was done in faith, and was pleafingto God, * cyprU*. Ep. 69. atl(* warranted by the generall rule of Divine
Ncch3Ecjifto,fed Law»
doledicPm£De,C& In ^e manncr> ^e a°b Ghojl delivereth a chrifticonftituas, generall law to Chriftian people: Heare the qui didt ad Apo- church*. Be obedient to them that htve the rule
*t2^2- «>« 1»» < ^»d ** fpirituall Fathers and
:tos,qui vicariaor- Rulers, command them, to repaire to fuch a titTcccduntP0Oui Church, keing a convenient place for God's auduvosXeauSc publike fervice: to obferve fuch a day of the &e. inde cnim weeke, to wit, the Lord's day, which is a con- foi^fc venienc day, and timefor Divine Service, and oriutur, dum Epif- Ecciefiaftical duties,and a time convenient for SKfi^rLcft' cel^ationfromfeculart>uiineffe. In thefe, and fupcrba l^r*fump- in all other the like cafes, the Rulers of the tonecomemnitur, Church command that which is reafonable, *KST, andfubfervientto the honour of God, and fub- indignus homini- fervicnt likewife to the Divine Precept, con- bus judicmn.idem cerning Chriflun edification b : And people o- t1ionomioInioqu1l beying their Precepts, have warrant to to doe, turDominusDcus from the generall rule of G o d's Word: and
dicens : Et homo
quicunqj feccrit in fuperbiaa ut non cxaudiat faccrdotem aut judicem, quicunque fu- erit in dicbus illis, morietur, &c b Putcan. in. primatn fearada quaff. 9? . art.i. T>nb. I. Fieri potelfc, ut quis confcquatur finem legis Divinar, media aliqua lc* gc pofitiv.i. Media enitn Icgedc non fumenda Euchariftia, nifi a jejunis, faciliori modo confequimur fru&um Sacramcnti., ad cwjus rcceptionem tenemur perdivi- mim prjeccptum,
their
OfWM&orJhif pj
their obedience (if other things be anfwerable) is an a& guided and commandded by Chrijtian faith.
T. fBJPag.ifft. When men will do that in- God's fervice, and in obedience to God, the which he hath no where com- manded them : What is this but a need- lefle religion, and fuperftition f Tag.6ip., It is fuperftition and wiUworfhip.
Anfw. This Objection is borrowed from the DifcifUnarian Majters*: But it is like the h^^eS reft of their Divinity. For in the very rime of Pami&ih: wb*> Mofes Law, when Cod's fpcciall Comman. %%J°l/^Z dements were moft of all .required, Some fefti- ?wt/2/^ vail dayes were ordained, and duly obferved m"fi dH 'n t0 the among.thefcww, by authority of the Church tl^/o" and State, and the fame was not fuperftitious, fe g o d in any for our Saviour Himfelfe reforted unto them, thin§ but ]n°hQdl- -
T. __ » . ^ ' a y encc i and there is
lohniO.ZZ. I MAcb.4..56.HeJl. 9.17,2J. no obedience buc
The holy Patriarkes performed fomercligi- *n refpeci of the ous adionsby command from Cod, declared ^Sooa unto them by revelation:and fome aifo by the Therefore it Foi; rule QichriJtUnpYudtnct without fpcciall com- iovvet,h \ thifc *
j ^ r, / ^roo Word of GOD \
mand,6#/. iq.lO. Hebr. I.I.Cw. 28. I5322. direct amanin.-.
The Rechtbitts likcwife^tow/.j 5.6,14.-/^^ aiiius aftioiw..
new
$6 i What is fuperftttlous,
new Teftament, divers did the like, and are highly commended, Igh. 12.3. OMarkej^ 6. x*hh"i?yov H>y£e*To tts i^\,Let her alone, tv hy trou- ble you her, [be hath wrought agoodxvorke on me : This is che fpeech of Cbnft Himfelfe.
Socondly, The religious obfervation ofthe
Lor d's day by che Christian Church, can be
b Sim. de RtiigJl rccjUced co no kinde or branch of Superttitienh :
i.wp.i.Adlcgiti- „■■;•• . . , f l rr
mum.cukum rdi- For ic is neither an undue and exceflive wor- giofun duo reqiii- fl1ip5 inrefyeft of the object, bccaufe ic is obfcr- mSsfiTkg^- ved in honour of che true and living G o d, and nun ex parte* rei of Cbrift our saviour i Neither is it fuch in re- cuk*: Aliud eftj« fped: of any undue for me ofworfhip : for ic is not
in modo colendi .r ., . J r >r J * ,i • i ...
Htprudcns & mo legall,as burnt iaenhces were : N at her is it mi- deratus. vnde du. pious, as when men offered their Sonnesand ££%!& Diughtcrsinfacrificc,/**. n.2j>.f4fek* fa : yd ex parte not repugnant, but every way conformable, co
cuius v*f Drifcd ^UCh faCred RuleS5 atld Can0nS5 3Sthe H&b
fai^racx parte Ghoft had delivered, concerning che ordering modi obfonrandi cheex -email circumftances, andexternallma-
0^SS& terialls oi Divine W0l(hiP> which are not ex- tig.1ib.4ca. zs.su^ prefly fee dovvne in the written Word. perftkioeftmcui- Thirdly, It is a wonder to mee, that T. B. rum^mfu^erftitto" fliould call the Lord's day an IdU, andtheob- appeiiatus eft, eo fervation thereof an idolatrous adion: For it is
ml and ^S,& no-c an Ido1 rAtiom urmini> inrdpeftof Tit* vero D:0,rup°erfti. mination^ for the religious obfervation thereof tem fuorum Oeo- js referred and fubfervienc to the honour of 12£ZZ™ ' G o d and C h r 1 s t : ^cither is it fuch r* tione modi, in refpeft of th€ manner of obfer- vation, for it is kept holy, bytheexercifeof Evangelicall duties , which arc taught the
Church,
cce^erunc.
All Traditions not rtjefted. p7
Church, by the HolyGhoJl intheNewTcfta. ment. Lajlly, Saint John the holy Evangeli^ 4nd Profhet of the NewTeftament, ftileth it wj&*xM>* the Lord's day : and the holy Apoftles themfelves, at fome times: and the Primitive Churches (planted by the Apoftles) constant- ly obferved it : And where (I pray you) did ever any man reade, that an Idol was (tiled by the Spirit of Gody the Lord's Idol^ Orthatthe holy Apoftles, or their godly fucceflburs,had any communion with Idols? i Cor. 10.14, x 7*605. 21.
Fourthly, It is a contumelious and ignorant fpeech,to terme it a Popifti Tradition : For po- pi(h Traditions had not their beginning from the Apoftles, neither were they honoured by Apoftolicall men. h Ocmmtlxam.
Reformed Churches reje<5t not all Tradici- c**£ji- *vtf. p^ ons h>Butfuch as are fpurious,fuperftitious, and tradide7u °vi™ v * not confonant to the prime rule of faith,to wit, ce,& ApoftoUci ab the holy Scripture : Genuine Traditions agree- ^^ITlt^ able to the rule of faith, fubfervient topietie, muita acceperunt . confonant with holy Scripture: derived fro the v* fuis m«p^1*
* * rurfustradidenmt:
Scd, Irentus inquit,omnia ilia av^etvet tu; y^axi : Et no: nihil corum rci jamus, Sed omnia quae Scripturis confentanea fimtj mfcipimus & vencramur. Calvin c . pigb. de lib. Arb. Non difficulter pofiet, inter me & Pigbium convenire, fi modo Ecdefia; traditionem, ex certo & perpetuo San&orum Oitnodoxoruai confenfu, non ex tefti- moniis hinc inde male excerptis demonliraret. Beza ad Repet. Sanh.cao.7- Vbi tandem invenies , ullam Ecclefiatticam Tradirionem Dei Verbo accommodatam, & Ecclefiz utilem, a nobis reprehenfam ? Gefncr. [up. i Timothy .16. cap. 7 . Si Pon- tificii fuas Traditioues eadem via, per teftificationem antiquiflima: & Apoftolicar Ecclefia; , ad noftraufque tempora deduxerint , admittitnus eas. Zanch. de op. Red. lik i.bu deTradit. Hofiand. c.Analyf. Gretor.de Vaknt'ia pag. 116. Meilher. Confult. c. Lefiium. pag. f $0. VVhitakcr. de fcript. Perfett. qn*0, 6. cap. f. Serran. Concord. pag.S,
O Apofto-
$>8 Traditions] WtU^orJhijf.
Apoftolicall times, by a fucceflive current,arid which have the uniforme teftimony of pious antiquity , are received and honoured by us.f Now fuch are thefe which follow : The hifto- ricaR Tradition , concerning the number , inte* gritie, dignitie, and perfe&ion of the Bookes of Canonicall Scriptures. The Catholike expo- sition of many fentences of holy Scripture : The holy Afofiles Creed: The Baptifme of In- fants : The perpetuaU virginity of the blefled Virgin Mary : The religious obfervtfion of the Lord's- day, and of fome others Fcftivals, as E&* fter, Pentecott, &c. Baptifing, and admini- ftrationoftheholy Eueharift, in publike ajfenu hlies and congregations : The fervice of the Church in a knowne language : The delivering the holy Communion to the people in both k fades : The fuperiority and authority of Bi(hops,over Priefts and Deacons, in jurifdi&ion,and power of ordination, &c.
5 T. B. His branding the inftitution and ob- fervation of the Lord's-day, with the black charader of will-worfliip , procecdeth alfo from rafli and prefumptuous ignorance.
For will-WOrfllip, £$gXo9ptf<rx«'a, Colof.i.2$A$
a religion and fervice proceeding meerely frdm the nftion, invention, and phanfie of mans braine, having no foundation in the will of G o d, or in any juft Law of man.
The fame hath evermore8either all, or fome of thefe properties following : i . It is vaine wdfoperfaow, having no profitable ufe. zJt
is
Superjtttiom Tradtttons. pp
u erroneous , as when thcPkarifeeshppokd, that meat being eaten with unwaflied hands , defiled the foule. 3. It containes fomething repugnant to Gods Divine Law , or JYiS, as that children might defraud their parents of necef- fary reliefe , by offering a gift in the Temple, and faying, it is Corban a, Mat. 1 5.2,5. Marke * Dkitis, lege*
. TT Qrr dc honorandis pa-
7 vV t J u • / a rci1tib«s ^undtf
Now I wonder, whatvaine, fuperfluous, inpice, & gratis erroneous , or impious obfervation, T. B+ or ©bfcquiumDeoof. his adheres, canfinde intheinftitution of the ^JSTS^ Church , concerning the keeping holy the affimo, veimatri,
num feumunus i
dttttHiittttHWHtNt rS'Sfc
fed tibi proderit d
An Obfervation concerning the quality ^^^ of Ecclefiafticall Precepts and Con- damnum. ftitutions.
Thef. 1. Although the Ecclefiafticall pre- cepts, and conftitutions of the Rulers in the Church, are not Divine by miraculous and im- mediate infpiration,in fuch manner as the Pre- cepts ofGoD's written Law : yet when they are compofed according to the Rules and Ca. S^^ nons of holy Scripture, andareaptandconvc- autnovitia res eft, nient meanes , to the better fulfilling of the f^^ jj^£ Commandments of God, delivered in holy riotfedTprimisuf- Scripture s they are by conformity and fubor* q«e paribus pec dinacion to the Divine Law , and by Divine HSufta t'
O z appr9: *ff*
too Trectpts ofcbe C bur an
a Zanch. d tper. approbation , facred and venerable a.
SiiekMMxCutt for l* Their immediate authors and com- h* iege$ Verbo pofers, arc facred perfons , called and authori- £^S fed by the Holy Ghoft, to rule and order the ijcit. Si non pug- Church of Chrift , Atfszo. 28. Luke 12.42. mnt,c5temnitEc- 2 The matter ofthefe Precepts , being or- uUomcmn^on". dered and framed according to the Apoftoli- temrtusaucm Ec. call rules, Rm. 14. 19* i Cor. 14.26,40. and Jar* TappaKtTx accor<ling to precedent examples, and prefi- W18..7. dents of holy Scripture, and the equitic and Caivia. com.h 1. analogie of former Divine Lawes, i Cor, 9 p, ^oihgere4prompca 13. and maximes and conclufions ofnaturall crt/ha$pofteno- reafon, redified by grace, i Cor. 9.7^ 10. &ch. ZSgESGe If-I4.'y* andtheendoffuchprecepts being bendas pro huma- godly edification, order, decency,and reverent ^"adit!^lbus* adminiftration of facred and religious things: 3«* ZTingene- The precepts and conftitutions of the Church raiiiegeiomnfadc- (I fay,) being thus qualified, are facred and ve- ™™ot.Ma?lfc. nerable> and their obfervation is an ad of rcli- i&t'. Eockfiafticx gion , and of obedience , tothegcnerall Com* conftituuoncs.non mandement of God. For the Holy Ghoft com- legL^fcdeuam^r- mandeth : obey thtm that have the. rule over vmae : mm quia au- you, and fubmit jour felvcs, Heb. 13.17. He are the
£££&' chHrch> Mmh' l8' '7- And if children, fer- tum qun fundame- vants,and fubje&s,are bound by Divine Law b,
tumhabecinfcrip-
tum : mm quia ad divinum honorem, Ecclefigque decus, divinxq; legis faciliorem ii^pletioncmfunt ordinate, b P. Arrag. d. ju{?.& jxr.q. 6i.art.^. Duplic iter die i fiotu/t.quod ahquis ad culpam obliget. Vno modo ut agens priucipale j & hac rati one iVemopptcll aJ culpa obligare nififolus Deus. Alio modo (icut uufa fecuda,quje m- «it»cur vi & efficasia prima: caufa?:& hoc modo homines fuislegibus pofiut obligare ad culpam, quaccnus fubfunt potcftati divina?. Molin.d.jittt,tr.i. difp. 27. Licet qua? i "Bfgia &aliis legitimis infenoribus potcftatibus rite praecipiuntur , funt de jure pofi- tivo:quod tamen illis,poftquam ita coftituta: funt, par emir^ell de jure divino3mediis rcrii naturiSja Deo ipfo itaconftitutum : cum legitime poteftates omnes a Deo fint, Dciq; vices mfuo ordine tencant:dumq- illi$obedimus,earumq; pra:ccpta fervaiiius, Ecopar,i;erin illis parcmu5aDciq:. precept u & Yoluntate exequirmir. natli*
(precept* <f the (lurch. loi
natural and pofitive, to obey their Parents, worldly Mafters , and u rnporall Princes, in things humane,and ficular, when the fame are reasonable, honeft, and jult : and by perfor- mance thereof, they ferve and obey the Lord Chrift, Colof^ \^Ephef6. 1. 1 Pet. 2.15. In like manner, when Chriftian people fubmit themfelvcs co conformable observance of the lawfull and religious conftitutions of their fpi- rituall Rulers, this conformity and fubmiffion of theirs, is pleafing to God.
3 The holy Apoftles common Rule to all Chriftian people is^Phil.^ S.Whatfoever things are true, vohatfoever things are honejljvhatfoever things arejuft, whatfoever things pert dine to love, rvhatfoever things are of good report ^t he fe things doe. But peaceable and conformable obferva. tion,of the lawfull conftitutions of the Church, touching decent and reverent exercifing religi- ous offices, ishoneft,and juft, and appertaining to peace, and love.
Therefore the Apoftles common rule, given to all Chriftian people, Phil. 4. 8. obligeth every one to a peaceable and conformable ob- fervationof the Lawfull precepts and confti- tutions of the Church, afwell as it doth to the obedience and obfervation of the Commands of temporall Lords3 Mafters, Officers, Gover- nours, ParentSj&c.
4 In the Primitive Age5when Chriftian peo- ple excelled in vertueandpiety, they generally obferved the conftitutions, and precepts^/ the
O 3 Churchy
102 Precepts of the Cburch\
a B&id.ftir.fanc. church } which were ordained for decency, or- ™^NSSc£ d*r> and good government*: and if any fro w- quifquis fane vel ardly, and contemptuously difobeied the fame, c^T funrTa they were ce°furedas Malefa<3ors. It was a Eccieqfia1iicam ^^ Law of the Church in Ignatius and Tertu/lians b TcnJ.cor.mU.c. dayes, that people fhould not make the Lord's- ij&ififi day aFafting-day : and the-wilMidl tranfgref. cimus. Ignatius ad fing this Ecclefiafticall conititution was eftee-
mta&^2v DX med a nefarim offence. b
rit?DommHnter- Betwixt Eafier and Wbitfumide, and upon
fcaoreft.ta«i.4p. every Lord's day, the Law and Canon of the
InrZl'lT^' Church was : That people at publike prayer, cone. Gang. Amb. andintimeof DivineOfficcs, mould ftaad up-
Xp'lfftch Im *' ri§^lt on theiriegs3 and not fit or kneelc. c txpojj . a**, t* jt was jjkew^ a generall conftitution, t%
c Tat. d. cor.mii. adore Chrift with bodies and faces turned to-
?££3B$ wardstheEaft.**
Bjwph. expof.fid.i. To receive the holy Eucharift in the forenoon,
3lr/pr4/HIai* anc* w^en PC0P'ewere fading: and to receive din™ Mm. ^.ai the fame from the Bi(hops,Pricfts,or Deacons **bod.Ta.Ap$i-c. hands, & not for the people being participants, 7M™£$e!™ to take it from off the Altar or Communion 3er. in Amos. c. 6. Table with their own hands e,Mixing fome wa- T>iony(.bi€rar.c. i. tcr wjtj1 fa wine Q(fa faty communion. f
c.j. iuft. Mart. In theadmini(trationofBaptilme,fr*/M «wr- jipoidg.-i. fio, thrice dipping or fprinkling in water, s
*2JJxS?i Obfervation of certaine yeerely Feftivak *$. and Holy-day es, among which were E after
I TCDifnCf mi* and Mi*/*****!* •• and likewife annuall, and Amb.HlXon.* weekely times of fafting, h Wfigning with hEpiph./d.2.i.j. the figne of the CrofiTe.'
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Contempt of the Precepts of the Church. ioj
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In all thefe, and the like Ecclcfiaftcall ob- fervances, Chriftiati people were very obfe- quious,to the precepts and conftitutions of the Rulers of the Church.
But in our times it is ot her wife : for our Dif- ciplinariaq Guides, with their arguments, Ab authorifatc §criftur* negative: The holy Scrip- ture hath commanded none of thefe. Rites, and Obfervations in particular : Therefore they are Popifh traditions, will- worihip, and fuper- ftition : have made our people wilde s and ma* ny are fo perverfe, that they efteeme it an high degree of purity and fan&ity, to performcall religious duties overthwhart to the way of the Church. And whereas in times paft, it was a generall maxime among Chriftians, ^ion kabet Dei Cbaritatem, qui Ecclefia nondiligitunlta- tem b .• The love of 6Wabidethnot inthem, b Auguft.f.z>^: which doe not love and obferve the unity of if^f'^'^iL the Church. Now , they are reputed mod dicabii et$ quT pure and holy,who with greateftboldncffe be- khifmata operas quarell and cavill againft the authority, go. SS£S? vernment, and lawfull Precepts and Conftitu- dUeaionem,&c tions of the Church. But Irenaus cfaidlong 3scr j110"1^ fince, of fuch : That the I\o r d will judge coVusChrifti"11 thofe which caufe fchifme, and who wanting confeindum, & the true love of Cod, upon very fknder excep- SISS,*^ tions and occasions, (to wit, draining at a liquantes cuiicem* Gnat, and fwallowing a Camellj teare and '* ^gi«tkmes divide, and as much asinthemlieth, kill and Camelum'&c' deftroy the body of Chrift.
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1 04 dhregation of the SahhatK
\ T. B. Argument 2.
Either the (eventh-day Sabbath muft be aboliflied, or elle it muft continue ftill in force.
But the feventh.day Sabbath is not abo- liflied; For there is not in all the New Teftament any Commandement, or any prohibition, as a countermand to the 4th Commandement $ where it is exprefly written, Thou flialtnot fan&ifie the feventh-day Sabbath : Neither is there any Text of Scripture out of which it can be neceffarily proved. Therefore the feventh-day Sabbath is ftill in force.
i^4 *[w. 1. By the terme dolifhing, the aLcge. i io.jf. d. Obje&or underftandeth Abrogation of the Law, ^wxz^oi °l™m byatotall mutation and dcficion a : qrancx- faKdctXmLX prcffeand formal! revocation of the Law, by rogawr let; cum Qtds countermand. ^^r.v-emp- But abrogation is not the onelymeanesto ftur.juil$i^.c.i4 make a Law ccafe : for a Law may ceafe to be
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in force, without an expreffe revocation of the Lawgiver^ nd that many waies b : of whch thefe h ^hol^,^Ij following belong to our purpofc: 1. If a Law totaiU! Xnoa bcena&cd, to continue for a certaine timec, abrogate. Msrat, when that rime is elapfed3the law ceafeth with- *£* Hbl£ Vfc out any further abrogation,£.W.i2.22. 2. If a debet, qmn pofHt
Law bee impofed upon a certaine State and totakxaUtcrdeh- community of people, whiles fuch a forme of "e^tSnwif01 gubernationlafteth: if that forme of govern- c ibid, simul ac meat be changed, the pofitive Law ceafcth uq. ^u™ &€££ lefle it be revived under the new forme. proP<p> data fait :
The major propofitiontherfore of the Argu. *cx lpo,n:cfuqu^ mentis denied: for the Law of thefeventh-day e^feipfa0 dSnit. SabbAth, was onely a temporary Law : and it Quando wmpus was to continue in force of obligation, untill exPintp^?°!nc£
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thecommmg of the Jif (/SwA,and during the Lt- fc toiiit3 nccfoivi- gall Covenant, and no longer : and therefore be- «* f^d ^pietur. ing not revived under the Gofpell, it continues voaucft impiicuc not in force d5 although it were not abrogated & vktute per rub- or aboliflied,by any negatiue fentence3orGod 2ltulio?em lc§um
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the Lawgiver; Auguft.In umbra
The judiciall Lawes of the Old Teftament, data eft %nifica*te to Wit, That aTheefe ftealtng a Sbeepe, jkattre- ££*g£ eft lu" Jlorefoure fold, &C.Exo.tl2* 1. That a man (hall Athanaf. Sicute» notgleanehis Vineyard, Lev. 1 p. 10. norgoe hacke oa° fole* candsl* agww, to fetch a fheafe of corne, rvhich hee'had Epiphw.tf.a.7#». forgotten, at the cutting downe of his barveH, 2. #*r. «<••/* **£• Deut.24. ip. andjPW /fc*tf not deliver unto his $*™,j>y*v» M After thejervant which u eje Aped from bis Ma, *c'mi v*xvn <h% ffrr.Deut. 23. 1 j. Thefe and fuch other like €xJwt3<«W«7oij judiciall Lawes, are not repealed, by an ex- $^$£,
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