SUNDAY
NO
SABBATH
.
ACTS
20.7
,
8.
7
And
upon
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
when
the
Disciples
came
together
to
breake
bread
,
Paul
preached
unto
them
,
readie
to
depart
on
the
morrow
,
and
continued
his
speech
untill
midnight
.
8.
And
there
were
many
lights
in
the
upper
chamber
where
they
were
gathered
together
.
THis
Text
,
I
conceive
,
is
not
unfit
for
this
time
.
In
the
text
is
synaxis
,
a
meeting
;
and
at
this
time
there
is
synodus
,
a
meeting
.
In
the
text
is
a
meeting
of
Disciples
;
and
such
is
the
meeting
at
this
time
.
Hee
that
called
the
Disciples
together
,
and
sate
President
in
that
meeting
,
was
the
Apostle
Paul
;
and
he
that
called
us
hither
,
and
sits
President
in
this
meeting
,
is
our
Diocesan
;
who
can
derive
himselfe
the
successour
of
an
Apostle
:
otherwise
we
should
have
taken
his
call
for
the
voice
of
a
stranger
,
and
not
have
here
appeared
.
It
is
Saint
Austines
resolution
,
Breaking
of
bread
,
and
Preaching
.
And
the
especiall
intent
of
this
meeting
is
,
to
receive
our
Bishops
directions
for
the
administration
of
the
Sacraments
and
Preaching
,
as
his
Articles
informe
us
.
Hitherto
,
if
I
can
but
hold
me
by
my
text
,
I
hope
not
to
fall
into
impertinencies
.
But
in
the
next
place
the
day
of
meeting
in
the
text
jumpeth
not
with
the
day
of
meeting
for
this
our
Synod
.
For
that
is
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
:
yet
this
comes
as
neere
it
as
may
be
,
for
with
Jacob
it
holds
his
brother
by
the
heele
;
this
is
the
second
.
And
had
it
beene
appointed
on
a
Sunday
,
the
authority
of
the
Councell
of
Constantinople
,
Ephesus
,
and
Chalcedon
,
would
have
justified
it
against
all
Sabbatarians
.
For
by
the
Emperours
edict
they
were
precisely
commanded
to
meet
,
and
did
meet
,
and
sate
,
and
gave
suffrages
,
and
dispatched
letters
on
a
Sunday
.
But
in
the
other
circumstances
the
text
and
the
time
are
nothing
at
all
allied
.
The
place
of
meeting
then
was
an
upper
chamber
,
ours
a
Church
dedicated
&
consecrated
for
those
holy
duties
in
the
text
,
and
used
also
for
Synods
.
That
meeting
was
in
the
night
,
ours
in
the
day
.
They
had
the
benefit
of
many
lights
,
we
of
one
great
light
that
ruleth
the
day
.
In
the
text
the
Sermon
continued
till
midnight
;
but
herein
if
I
leave
not
my
text
,
you
will
leave
me
.
And
if
none
of
us
all
follow
St.
Paul
in
preaching
in
an
upper
chamber
,
in
the
night
,
and
till
midnight
,
neither
he
,
nor
his
successours
will
taxe
us
.
For
Saint
Luke
is
faine
to
make
an
Apologie
for
him
in
these
respects
,
He
was
to
depart
the
next
morrow
.
So
that
necessitie
put
him
upon
that
time
and
place
;
and
the
importunitie
of
his
Disciples
would
not
be
satisfied
with
a
shorter
discourse
.
For
fons
abiturus
,
(
saies
Saint
Austine
)
they
knew
they
should
never
see
his
face
any
more
,
Upon
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
.
]
Herein
I
conceive
foure
things
considerable
.
1.
what
is
meant
by
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
.
2.
&
3.
next
,
when
and
by
whom
was
that
day
appointed
for
holy
assemblies
to
meet
on
.
4.
when
doth
the
holy
observation
of
that
day
begin
.
For
the
first
.
una
Sabbathi
is
that
quam
primam
dicimus
,
(
saies
St.
Ambrose
)
as
we
finde
it
written
,
unam
Sabbathi
,
one
Sabbath
,
prima
Sabbathi
à
Matthaeo
dicitur
,
Saint
Matthew
expounds
them
,
and
calls
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
.
And
it
is
manifest
(
saith
the
same
Father
)
that
this
first
day
of
the
weeke
is
that
day
,
qui
posteà
dies
Dominicus
appellatus
est
,
which
afterward
was
called
the
Lords
day
.
una
Sabbathi
,
on
one
Sabbath
,
or
on
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
i.e.
die
Dominico
,
on
the
Lords
day
.
It
is
manifest
then
,
that
by
one
day
of
the
Sabbaths
is
meant
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
;
and
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
is
the
Lords
day
.
So
wee
see
what
is
meant
by
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
it
is
the
Lords
day
.
The
next
points
are
,
when
and
by
whom
was
the
observation
of
the
Lords
day
appointed
.
The
Church
(
saith
St.
Ignatius
)
hath
set
apart
one
day
,
What
meane
you
by
the
Church
?
Take
that
cleered
out
of
St.
Augustine
,
Apostoli
&
Apostolici
viri
sanxerunt
,
the
Apostles
and
Apostolike
men
have
ordained
,
that
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
should
be
set
apart
for
the
religious
and
solemne
service
of
God
,
because
our
Redeemer
arose
on
that
day
;
and
therefore
it
is
called
ever
since
dies
Dominicus
,
the
Lords
day
,
&
ex
illo
caepit
habere
festivitatem
,
and
from
the
very
Apostles
time
and
from
their
constitution
,
it
began
to
be
kept
as
a
festivall
day
.
A
festivall
day
!
what
meane
you
by
that
?
Why
à
sanctis
patribus
constitutum
&
mandatum
(
saies
the
same
Father
)
it
is
a
constitution
and
command
received
from
our
holy
Fathers
,
pridiè
Saturni
diei
,
the
day
before
Saturday
,
and
the
next
day
after
Saturday
,
qui
sc.
Solis
est
dies
,
which
is
Sunday
,
Apostolis
&
Discipulis
suis
apparuit
,
he
appeared
to
his
Apostles
and
Disciples
.
And
hereupon
his
Apostles
and
Disciples
thought
fit
to
appoint
and
command
this
day
to
be
kept
holy
.
The
Lords
day
then
is
by
the
Apostles
so
called
,
and
by
this
Apostolike
man
named
Sunday
;
and
may
fitly
so
be
called
,
because
(
saies
Saint
Ambrose
)
in
eo
ortus
Sol
justitiae
illuminat
,
Sun
of
righteousnesse
then
arose
,
that
enlightneth
every
one
of
us
.
The
first
day
of
the
weeke
then
is
the
Lords
day
,
and
Sunday
.
And
the
Lords
day
was
by
the
Apostles
themselves
in
their
owne
time
appointed
for
holy
assemblies
to
meet
on
,
as
on
a
feast
day
dedicated
to
the
Lords
service
.
And
so
hath
that
day
beene
called
,
and
used
ever
since
in
the
true
Catholike
Church
of
God
for
1554.
yeares
together
without
interruption
,
both
in
the
Greeke
and
Latine
Church
.
What
shall
we
thinke
then
of
Knox
and
Whittingham
,
It
was
full
thirtie
yeares
before
their
children
could
turne
their
tongues
from
Sunday
to
hit
on
Sabbath
:
and
if
the
Gileadites
that
met
with
the
Ephraimites
before
they
could
frame
to
pronounce
Shibboleth
,
had
snapt
these
too
,
before
they
had
got
their
Sabbath
by
the
end
,
their
counsell
had
brought
much
peace
to
the
Church
.
For
this
name
Sabbath
is
not
a
bare
name
,
like
a
spot
in
their
foreheads
to
know
Labans
sheepe
from
Jacobs
;
but
indeed
it
is
a
mysterie
of
iniquitie
,
intended
against
the
Church
.
For
allow
them
but
their
Sabbath
,
and
you
must
allow
them
the
service
that
belongs
to
their
Sabbath
.
Then
must
you
have
no
Letanie
,
for
that
is
no
service
for
their
Sabbath
,
(
containing
suffrages
devised
by
Pope
Gregory
)
but
for
Sundayes
;
nay
,
sixe
dayes
thou
must
labour
:
nay
,
you
must
have
no
part
of
the
Service
in
the
Communion
booke
used
,
for
that
is
Service
also
for
holy
dayes
,
What
Service
then
must
you
allow
them
for
their
Sabbath
?
Why
nothing
but
preaching
.
How
shall
that
be
knowne
?
Why
out
of
their
owne
mouthes
.
Thus
soone
after
the
Conventicle
in
London
in
84.
about
the
31th
.
yeare
of
the
Sabbaths
nativitie
,
writeth
one
of
them
in
his
letter
to
some
Superintendent
amongst
them
,
to
whom
he
gives
an
account
of
his
Sabbaths
exercise
:
Ego
singulis
Sabbath
is
,
si
non
alius
adveniens
locum
suppleat
,
(
cum
praescriptà
Leiturgeias
formulâ
nihil
habens
commercit
)
in
caetu
concionem
habeo
,
idque
reverendorum
fratrum
consilio
;
I
preach
every
Sabbath
in
the
congregation
,
(
having
nothing
at
all
to
doe
with
the
order
prescribed
in
the
booke
of
Common
Prayer
;
)
and
this
he
does
,
not
of
his
owne
head
,
but
by
the
counsell
of
the
reverend
brethren
,
delivered
doubtlesse
in
that
late
Synode
.
Now
you
see
the
Common
Prayer
booke
,
which
the
Kings
Majesties
authority
in
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
with
the
Convocation
house
,
have
appointed
,
and
the
Parliament
the
reunto
assented
,
is
clean
cast
out
of
their
Sabbath
,
and
no
service
allowed
or
used
but
preaching
.
Marvaile
not
then
at
the
casting
out
of
lawfull
sports
;
their
zeale
could
and
did
dispence
with
them
well
enough
for
a
long
time
together
,
as
they
of
Genevah
and
the
Low-countries
(
even
sitting
the
Synode
of
Dort
)
did
,
and
still
doe
.
But
the
plot
with
us
will
not
beare
them
,
for
they
must
gaine
elbow
roome
for
their
Sabbaths
exercise
,
or
preaching
,
falsely
so
called
,
being
for
the
most
part
(
as
their
hearers
will
justifie
)
but
violent
discourses
,
and
personall
invectives
against
the
present
State
,
and
settled
lawes
of
the
Land
,
with
the
Governours
,
thereby
to
get
themselves
magnified
for
the
great
power
of
God
with
Simon
,
that
having
cryed
downe
all
Lawes
,
Ecclesiasticall
and
Temporall
too
in
time
that
sute
not
with
their
Sabbath
doctrine
,
they
may
be
able
(
making
their
reliance
on
their
inveigled
thousands
whereof
they
bragge
)
to
put
their
hands
to
their
mouthes
,
Behold
the
fountaine
from
whence
all
lawes
for
governement
of
Church
and
Common
wealth
must
shortly
spring
.
You
see
then
what
the
plot
was
that
bred
,
and
still
keepes
the
name
of
Sabbath
on
foot
;
that
if
St.
John
or
the
Apostles
that
first
called
and
appointed
the
Lords
day
,
should
come
amongst
them
,
and
happen
to
call
it
the
Lords
day
,
they
would
quickly
finde
him
to
be
none
of
their
Tribe
,
nor
for
their
turne
,
being
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
without
his
watch
word
of
the
Sabbath
.
But
if
Justin
that
blessed
Martyr
should
be
so
profane
as
to
call
it
Sunday
,
he
would
be
in
danger
under
their
discipline
to
be
martyred
the
second
time
for
not
adoring
their
idoll
Sabbath
,
as
he
was
under
Antonius
for
not
worshipping
Jupiter
.
Ob.
Secondly
,
if
the
Lords
day
was
appointed
and
kept
by
the
Apostles
,
what
shall
we
say
to
those
turbulent
spirits
(
as
master
Calvin
calls
them
)
qui
tumultuantur
ob
diem
Dominicum
,
Sol.
To
that
part
of
the
objection
which
is
framed
out
of
the
Centurists
,
some
perhaps
would
answer
,
that
the
guise
of
the
Centurists
is
to
use
the
Catholike
Fathers
and
holy
Martyrs
as
Balaam
used
his
Asse
.
For
if
they
wil
not
go
that
way
that
they
would
have
them
,
though
Gods
Angel
suffer
them
not
so
to
doe
,
but
the
Spirit
of
truth
lead
them
quite
otherwise
,
they
fall
upon
them
,
and
use
them
as
rudely
as
he
did
the
Asse
.
A
wrong
which
cannot
but
bee
highly
displeasing
to
that
good
God
,
who
was
so
moved
upon
the
sight
of
the
injury
done
the
poore
beast
,
that
hee
was
upon
the
point
to
have
taken
a
sharpe
revenge
upon
the
false
hypocrite
,
in
habit
of
a
Prophet
,
for
the
same
.
But
with
cruell
Balaam
I
will
not
compare
them
,
because
he
wisht
for
a
sword
to
be
avenged
of
the
poore
Asse
;
whereas
these
,
like
diligent
Schoolemasters
,
examine
the
exercises
of
the
ancient
Fathers
,
shew
them
their
errours
,
tell
them
of
the
many
spots
and
blots
they
finde
in
them
,
and
let
them
see
how
they
are
put
to
the
trouble
to
correct
them
at
every
turne
;
whereupon
their
patience
is
so
moved
,
that
they
rebuke
them
sometime
with
very
sharpe
language
:
and
when
all
is
done
,
they
are
so
ashamed
of
divers
things
they
heare
from
them
,
that
they
set
them
to
schoole
againe
to
learne
their
lessons
backward
.
This
their
diligence
and
paines
in
correcting
and
wiping
the
Fathers
,
as
one
wipes
a
dish
that
turneth
it
upside
downe
,
is
not
well
accepted
on
all
hands
:
for
some
passionate
men
thinke
they
whip
the
Fathers
without
cause
,
and
for
not
running
the
way
of
their
errours
,
which
these
Auditors
account
to
be
so
many
,
and
so
costly
too
,
that
the
Merchant
payes
more
for
them
than
for
all
the
truths
,
This
witnesse
is
true
.
But
be
it
truth
,
or
some
counterfeit
,
like
Jeroboams
wife
,
their
credit
is
eclipsed
,
and
their
testimonie
abated
by
their
doings
.
So
I
leave
them
till
anon
.
Secondly
,
I
answer
,
true
it
is
,
that
Saint
Paul
and
other
Apostles
preached
to
the
Jewes
in
the
Synagogue
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
because
they
would
meet
upon
no
other
:
but
it
is
untrue
,
that
they
set
that
day
apart
to
preach
unto
the
Gentiles
,
or
the
Jews
either
.
They
were
false
Apostles
that
laboured
to
lay
that
yoak
on
the
Disciples
neckes
,
whom
Saint
Paul
opposed
with
all
his
might
,
Col.
2.16
.
Gal.
4.10
.
and
did
utterly
reject
their
Sabbath
,
and
appointed
no
day
of
publick
meetings
but
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
when
their
collections
were
ever
made
,
1
Cor.
16.1
.
and
so
continued
to
be
made
on
that
day
,
and
on
no
day
else
,
in
all
succeeding
ages
.
And
because
Saint
Paul
did
keepe
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
and
opposed
the
observation
of
the
Jewish
Sabbath
,
therefore
the
Ebionites
(
say
St.
Irenaeus
and
Epiphanius
)
rejected
his
writings
,
Apostatam
legis
dicentes
,
So
likewise
the
blessed
Martyrs
in
the
Primitive
Church
,
Sabbatha
vestra
&
solennes
dies
observare
,
to
keepe
your
Sabbaths
and
dayes
of
solemne
assemblies
;
which
(
saith
he
)
could
not
hurt
us
,
were
they
not
forbidden
us
by
the
doctrine
and
practice
of
the
Apostles
,
and
Christ
himselfe
.
With
what
face
then
dare
the
Centurists
vent
such
untruths
,
that
the
keeping
of
the
Lords
day
was
a
thing
indifferent
for
two
hundred
yeeres
?
And
with
what
conscience
dare
they
forge
those
to
be
false
Apostles
,
that
were
the
bringers
in
of
the
observation
of
Feasts
,
and
particularly
of
the
Lords
day
?
Or
with
what
conscience
dare
they
use
the
Martyrs
of
God
,
members
of
Christs
body
,
so
unworthily
,
as
to
make
the
blessed
Saints
in
heaven
,
fellow
heires
with
Christ
Jesus
,
meet
vessels
for
the
mysterie
of
iniquitie
to
begin
to
worke
in
,
who
did
no
more
than
either
was
appointed
by
the
Apostles
and
Apostolike
men
before
themselves
,
or
was
afterward
confirmed
by
the
Councell
of
Nice
,
the
Edicts
of
Constantine
and
his
successours
,
the
Decrees
of
the
Councell
of
Constantinople
,
and
other
Synods
,
as
well
in
the
Greeke
as
Latine
Church
,
in
all
succeeding
ages
?
Ob.
But
they
say
there
is
no
place
of
Scripture
to
command
the
observation
of
the
Lords
day
,
but
onely
the
Tradition
from
the
Apostles
;
therefore
the
day
may
be
altered
.
Sol.
Be
it
so
:
yet
(
as
Chemnitius
excellently
saies
)
though
we
be
not
bound
by
any
necessity
of
law
in
Novo
Testamento
,
3
If
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
be
the
Lords
day
,
we
must
looke
to
doe
the
Lords
worke
on
it
,
and
not
trench
upon
him
by
doing
our
owne
worke
thereon
.
For
no
excuse
of
businesse
ought
to
keepe
us
from
the
service
of
God
on
that
day
.
No
necessitie
is
a
greater
tyrant
than
poverty
,
yet
is
that
no
good
excuse
for
thy
absence
from
Church
(
saies
Saint
Chrysostome
)
to
say
thou
art
poore
,
and
must
follow
thy
businesse
.
unam
vero
sibi
reliquit
,
and
left
himselfe
but
one
;
yet
wilt
thou
finde
out
the
thiefe
povertie
to
steale
that
away
from
him
too
,
as
sacrilegious
persons
doe
consecrate
things
.
But
what
doe
I
speake
de
integro
die
,
of
a
whole
day
?
Doe
but
that
in
keeping
the
Lords
day
which
the
widow
did
in
her
almes
,
that
gave
two
mites
,
sic
tu
duas
horas
,
so
give
the
Lord
two
houres
.
This
if
you
doe
not
,
beware
you
lose
not
integrorum
annorum
labores
,
the
labours
of
many
whole
yeares
.
Qu.
May
then
no
worke
of
our
owne
be
done
on
the
Lords
day
,
not
so
much
as
out
of
the
times
of
the
Lords
service
?
Resp.
Out
of
doubt
there
may
;
yea
,
though
we
should
suppose
that
Christians
are
bound
to
keepe
the
Lords
day
as
strictly
as
our
Saviour
kept
the
Sabbath
.
For
our
Saviour
(
saies
Epiphanius
)
non
artem
fabrilem
,
lignariam
,
conversatione
&
doctrinâ
,
by
his
doctrine
and
course
of
life
he
shewed
that
some
workes
of
our
owne
might
be
done
on
the
Sabbath
out
of
the
times
of
divine
service
;
for
himselfe
made
clay
,
est
autem
opu●
lutum
subigere
,
and
to
make
clay
is
a
kinde
of
worke
:
a
worke
neither
of
necessity
nor
charity
;
for
had
it
so
pleased
him
,
the
worke
of
charity
had
taken
place
before
the
clay
could
have
been
tempered
.
He
commanded
also
the
Cripple
,
grabbatum
tollere
,
to
carry
away
his
bed
,
which
then
needed
not
,
for
the
arrantest
Pharisee
theefe
in
Jerusalem
would
not
have
medled
with
it
on
that
day
.
The
Disciples
also
by
his
doctrine
and
example
(
saies
the
same
Father
)
spicas
vellunt
,
torrent
,
&
edunt
,
do
plucke
and
parch
their
corne
on
the
Sabbath
day
.
And
there
was
no
law
(
saies
Saint
Irenaeus
)
that
forbade
them
so
to
doe
:
Secondly
,
meate
may
be
drest
,
and
Feasts
may
be
kept
on
the
Lords
day
by
Christs
example
,
S.
Luc.
14.13
.
who
was
at
a
feast
on
the
Sabbath
day
;
and
none
ought
to
blame
us
for
doing
the
like
.
For
rectè
Ecclesiae
festa
colunt
,
Novit
sanctitas
vestra
fraires
,
my
brethren
,
your
holinesse
knoweth
very
well
that
to
day
consecrationem
altaris
celebramus
,
we
celebrate
the
Feast
for
the
consecration
of
the
Altar
,
in
quo
unctus
vel
benedictus
est
lapis
,
in
quo
divina
sacrificia
consecrantur
,
ac
meritò
gaudentes
celebramus
;
and
wee
doe
well
to
keepe
this
feast
with
joy
,
not
with
wanton
,
lewd
,
or
unchaste
joy
.
(
Saint
Austine
is
no
Proctor
to
plead
for
Baal
,
nor
any
that
follow
him
.
)
For
,
nescio
qua
fronte
(
saith
he
)
I
cannot
tell
with
what
conscience
he
can
shew
a
cheerefull
countenance
in
altaris
consecratione
,
that
is
not
precise
in
cordis
sui
altari
munditiam
custodire
,
to
preserve
purity
in
the
altar
of
his
heart
.
The
Lords
day
then
is
and
ought
to
bee
kept
as
a
Feast
,
as
the
Sabbath
was
.
Ob.
But
they
were
commanded
to
dresse
their
Sabbath
dinner
the
day
before
,
and
the
Commandement
saies
,
On
it
thou
shalt
doe
no
maner
of
worke
.
Sol.
Not
to
dispute
it
further
,
sic
observantur
ut
sonant
,
are
to
be
kept
according
to
the
letter
;
observare
tamen
diem
Sabbathi
,
non
ad
literam
jubemur
secundum
etium
ab
opere
corporali
,
sicut
observant
Judaei
,
yet
we
Christians
are
not
commanded
to
observe
the
Sabbath
after
the
letter
by
a
strict
rest
,
as
did
the
Jewes
;
nor
the
Lords
day
after
the
maner
of
the
Jewish
Sabbath
:
for
of
all
the
ten
Commandements
,
the
third
,
which
concerneth
the
Sabbath
,
figurativè
intelligendum
est
,
is
to
be
understood
figuratively
.
For
this
Commandement
was
given
for
no
other
end
but
onely
for
a
signe
(
saies
Saint
Irenaeus
)
out
of
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
,
in
signo
data
sunt
populo
,
they
were
given
the
people
for
a
signe
.
This
Theodoret
largely
sheweth
out
of
the
plaine
words
of
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
,
cap.
20.
ver.
11.
Nay
,
there
was
not
any
of
the
Patriarchs
(
saith
Tertullian
)
that
kept
the
Sabbath
,
neither
Adam
,
Ob.
Dicunt
autem
Judaei
,
quòd
primordio
,
&c.
Sol.
This
is
the
very
argument
which
Marcion
learned
of
the
Pharisees
,
Thirdly
,
though
a
Jew
will
little
regard
what
the
Patriarches
did
,
or
what
all
good
Christians
resolve
and
practice
,
but
will
force
the
Law-giver
to
keepe
his
owne
law
,
not
after
his
owne
meaning
but
after
theirs
,
as
the
Pharisees
did
our
Saviour
,
saying
,
This
man
is
not
of
God
,
because
he
keepeth
not
the
Sabbath
day
,
viz.
as
they
construed
and
expounded
the
Commandement
for
the
observation
thereof
:
yet
that
nothing
concernes
us
that
keepe
the
Lords
day
by
vertue
of
Apostolical
constitution
and
tradition
of
holy
Church
,
and
not
the
Sabbath
by
force
of
the
fourth
Commandement
,
which
the
Apostles
by
Christs
doctrine
and
example
understood
solutum
,
to
be
dissolved
.
And
,
cujus
vis
soluta
nec
nomen
haerebat
,
True
it
is
,
that
some
that
with
great
zeale
and
little
judgement
exclaime
against
recreations
,
and
dressing
of
meat
,
and
the
like
,
on
Sundayes
,
must
make
a
Sabbath
of
Sunday
,
and
keepe
up
that
name
,
otherwise
their
many
citations
of
Scripture
,
mentioning
onely
the
Sabbath
of
being
applied
to
Sunday
,
will
appeare
so
ridiculously
distorted
and
wry-neckt
,
that
they
will
be
a
scorne
and
derision
to
the
simplest
of
their
now
deluded
Auditors
,
who
are
abused
with
the
name
of
a
Christian
Sabbath
out
of
Origen
,
which
is
not
kept
on
Sunday
onely
,
Others
also
for
the
plot-sake
must
uphold
the
name
of
Sabbath
,
that
stalking
behind
it
they
may
shoot
against
the
Service
appointed
for
the
Lords
day
.
Hence
it
is
that
some
for
want
of
wit
,
some
for
too
much
,
adore
the
Sabbath
as
an
Image
dropt
downe
from
Jupiter
,
and
cry
before
it
,
as
they
did
before
the
golden
Calfe
,
This
is
an
holy
day
unto
the
Lord
;
whereas
indeed
it
is
the
great
Diana
of
the
Ephesians
as
they
use
it
,
whereby
the
mindes
of
their
Proselytes
are
so
perplexed
and
bewitched
,
that
they
cannot
resolve
whether
the
sinne
be
greater
to
bowle
,
shoot
,
or
daunce
on
their
Sabbath
,
than
to
commit
murder
,
or
the
father
to
cut
the
throate
of
his
owne
childe
.
All
which
doubts
would
soon
be
resolved
by
plucking
the
vizzard
of
the
Sabbath
from
the
face
of
the
Lords
day
,
which
doth
as
well
and
truely
become
it
as
the
Crowne
of
thornes
did
the
Lord
himselfe
.
This
was
platted
to
expose
him
to
damnable
derision
,
and
that
was
plotted
to
impose
on
it
detestable
superstition
.
Yet
to
die
for
it
they
will
call
it
a
Sabbath
,
presuming
in
their
zealous
ignorance
or
guilefull
zeale
,
to
be
thought
to
speake
the
Scripture
phrase
,
when
indeed
the
dregs
of
Ashdod
flow
from
their
mouthes
.
For
that
day
which
they
nickname
the
Sabbath
,
is
either
no
day
at
all
,
or
not
the
day
that
they
meane
.
It
were
well
therefore
that
they
would
forbeare
to
speake
strange
languages
in
the
Church
for
Saint
Pauls
sake
,
and
use
them
then
when
they
all
meet
together
in
new
England
amongst
them
that
understand
the
language
;
for
with
us
the
Sabbath
is
Saturday
,
and
no
day
else
.
No
ancient
Father
,
Father
!
Nay
,
no
learned
man
,
Heathen
or
Christian
,
tooke
it
otherwise
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
till
the
beginning
of
their
schisme
in
1554.
And
if
wee
finde
the
word
otherwise
used
in
some
writings
that
of
late
come
unto
our
hands
,
blame
not
the
Clerkes
,
good
men
,
for
it
,
nor
intitle
the
misprision
any
higher
,
or
otherwise
than
to
these
pretenders
to
pietie
,
who
for
their
owne
ends
have
for
a
long
time
deceived
the
world
with
their
zealous
and
most
ignorant
or
cunning
clamours
,
and
rung
the
name
of
Sabbath
so
commonly
into
all
mens
eares
,
that
not
Clerkes
onely
,
but
men
of
judgement
,
learning
and
vertue
,
not
heeding
peradventure
so
much
as
is
requisite
,
what
crafty
and
wicked
device
may
be
menaged
under
the
vaile
of
a
faire
word
used
in
Gods
law
,
doe
likewise
suffer
the
same
often
to
scape
the
doore
of
their
lips
,
that
detest
the
drift
of
the
devisers
in
the
closet
of
their
hearts
.
I
will
now
shut
up
this
point
in
Saint
Hilaries
words
.
There
are
so
many
that
see
so
little
benefit
will
be
suckt
out
of
the
constitutions
of
the
Apostles
,
practice
and
tradition
of
holy
Church
,
doctrine
of
godly
and
learned
Fathers
,
that
they
have
got
themselves
heapes
of
teachers
,
that
to
serve
their
owne
turnes
will
call
and
keep
the
Lords
day
as
a
Sabbath
,
and
so
proclaime
it
with
such
lowd
outcries
,
that
the
voice
of
truth
will
become
silence
,
and
her selfe
made
errour
,
and
so
made
to
beleeve
of
her selfe
,
or
to
forgoe
her
owne
modesty
,
and
to
beleeve
none
but
her selfe
.
But
with
Moses
,
liberavi
animam
meam
,
being
called
hither
very
unwillingly
,
I
have
set
before
you
good
and
evill
,
light
and
darknesse
,
life
and
death
,
the
doctrine
and
practice
of
the
Church
of
God
,
and
the
leaven
of
Pharisees
,
and
fashion
of
Schismatickes
and
Novellists
;
chuse
which
you
will
,
and
the
Lord
be
your
guide
.
Onely
of
this
be
you
well
assured
,
that
if
you
will
have
Manna
rained
downe
unto
you
,
you
must
forgoe
your
Sabbath
,
and
sticke
onely
to
the
Lords
day
:
for
in
nostrâ
Dominicâ
die
semper
Dominus
pluit
Manna
,
&
in
Sabbatho
non
pluit
.
The
last
point
touching
the
day
of
meeting
is
,
When
doth
the
Lords
day
begin
?
Resp.
I
answer
,
Nihil
pulchrius
,
nihil
expressius
(
saith
hee
)
this
place
is
as
fit
and
pat
for
our
purpose
as
may
be
.
The
Sabbaths
evening
is
in
the
light
of
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
.
So
Saint
Leo
resolveth
Dioscorus
Patriarch
of
Alexandria
,
vespera
Sabbathi
initium
diei
Dominici
,
Yet
for
all
this
the
Church
by
way
of
preparation
for
the
better
sanctification
of
the
Lords
day
,
hath
prudently
and
piously
appointed
holy
offices
to
be
used
on
the
Eve
before
.
And
in
obedience
to
this
positive
constitution
of
holy
Church
Saint
Augustine
would
have
his
hearers
to
observe
the
Lords
day
,
à
vesperâ
ad
vesperam
,
from
Even
to
Even
,
sicut
antiquis
praeceptum
est
de
Sabbatho
,
as
it
was
also
commanded
the
Jewes
concerning
the
Sabbath
.
And
therefore
(
saith
he
)
look
that
from
Saturday
at
Even
,
us
que
ad
vesperam
diei
Dominici
,
till
the
Lords
day
at
even
,
we
set
aside
all
rurall
and
worldly
businesse
,
ut
solo
divino
culiui
vacemus
,
that
we
may
attend
onely
on
the
Lords
service
,
and
begin
to
repaire
to
the
Church
to
evening
prayer
on
Saturday
nights
;
and
he
that
cannot
so
doe
,
let
him
be
sure
to
pray
at
home
.
Remember
then
that
you
which
will
needs
have
the
Lords
day
a
Sabbath
,
doe
set
aside
all
businesse
,
and
flocke
to
the
Church
to
say
or
heare
Service
on
Saturday
Evens
;
which
hitherto
you
have
not
done
,
notwithstanding
the
order
of
the
Church
,
which
prescribeth
that
part
of
that
day
to
prepare
us
for
the
more
devout
observation
of
the
Lords
day
.
Thus
much
of
the
day
of
meeting
,
The
first
day
of
the
weeke
.
2
In
the
next
place
,
we
have
in
the
next
words
to
consider
of
the
persons
that
then
met
.
These
were
not
Jewes
,
for
then
the
Sabbath
had
beene
the
day
of
their
meeting
;
but
Gentiles
,
Asians
,
Macedonians
,
Thessalonians
,
Paul
,
with
his
companions
and
Disciples
.
Now
Paul
had
ordered
before
this
time
in
Galatia
,
and
in
Corinth
,
that
his
Disciples
were
to
have
their
meetings
on
the
first
day
of
the
weeke
,
whereunto
they
submitted
themselves
.
For
on
the
first
day
of
the
week
they
now
met
,
and
so
did
the
whole
Church
of
God
by
their
example
for
ever
after
.
Wherefore
their
obedience
and
humility
would
better
beseeme
us
,
than
the
pride
and
opposition
of
Diotrephes
against
St.
John
,
and
St
Paul
,
and
the
whole
Church
of
God
,
about
the
day
of
meeting
,
or
the
Service
thereon
used
,
onely
for
preheminence
sake
.
3
Now
I
come
in
the
next
place
to
the
holy
duties
wherin
the
Apostle
and
his
Disciples
spent
the
Lords
day
.
The
first
of
these
is
breaking
of
bread
.
How
is
that
done
?
St.
Augustine
tells
us
,
sicut
frangitur
in
Sacramento
corporis
Christi
,
Sunday
(
saies
he
)
is
the
day
of
our
meeting
,
Here
is
reading
of
prayers
and
lessons
,
both
out
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
and
after
them
a
Sermon
;
and
the
Sermon
doth
not
justle
out
any
part
of
divine
Service
,
though
the
President
or
Bishop
himselfe
made
it
.
Thus
the
first
Service
endeth
with
a
Sermon
.
And
now
begins
the
second
Service
.
Sub
haec
consurgimus
omnes
,
&c.
prayers
being
finished
,
and
the
Sermon
done
,
we
all
stand
up
at
once
and
poure
out
our
prayers
.
Stand
up
and
pray
!
Marvaile
not
at
this
.
For
in
the
Primitive
Church
prayers
on
the
Lords
day
were
performed
standing
,
in
memory
of
Christs
resurrection
.
And
it
was
not
lawfull
de
geniculis
adorare
,
to
pray
kneeling
,
as
appeares
out
of
Tertullian
,
Then
precibus
finitis
,
prayers
being
ended
,
ei
qui
fratribus
praeest
,
offertur
panis
,
&c.
Bread
,
wine
,
and
water
are
offered
to
the
Priest
,
who
taketh
the
same
,
and
with
all
his
might
courageously
preces
&
gratiarum
actiones
profundit
,
poures
out
prayers
and
benedictions
over
them
:
and
then
all
the
people
give
a
cheerefull
acclamation
,
and
cry
Amen
.
Then
is
distribution
made
cuique
praesenti
,
to
every
one
present
;
doubtlesse
to
lay
men
as
well
as
to
Priests
and
Deacons
.
Then
also
the
richer
sort
contribute
what
they
thinke
fit
,
which
is
laid
up
for
the
use
of
the
poore
.
Here
are
reading
of
prayers
and
lessons
,
expounding
of
Scripture
,
supplications
,
benedictions
,
oblations
to
the
Priest
,
collections
for
the
poore
,
distribution
of
the
Sacrament
,
all
required
to
breaking
of
bread
,
ficut
frangitur
in
Sacramento
corporis
Christi
,
as
it
is
broken
in
the
Eucharist
.
And
so
we
see
how
the
use
of
our
first
and
second
Service
is
founded
on
,
and
agreeth
with
the
practice
of
the
Primitive
Church
,
by
the
testimonie
of
this
holy
Martyr
.
Yet
this
may
more
clearely
be
delineated
out
of
the
Fathers
that
succeeded
him
.
Christian
Churches
in
the
Primitive
times
had
these
distinct
places
in
them
:
there
was
Sacrarium
,
Presbyterium
,
and
Auditorium
:
the
Sacrarium
or
holy
place
,
was
distinguished
from
the
Presbyterie
by
certaine
lists
and
railes
:
the
Presbyterie
also
was
divided
from
the
Auditorie
,
Nave
,
and
body
of
the
Church
per
cancellos
,
by
a
certaine
partition
that
gave
it
the
name
of
a
Chauncell
.
In
the
holy
place
stood
the
Altar
,
or
Lords
boord
,
and
not
in
the
body
of
the
Church
.
In
the
Presbyterie
was
placed
Cathedra
Episcopi
,
&
exedrae
Presbyterorum
,
the
Bishops
Chaire
or
Throne
,
and
stalls
for
Priests
.
For
anciently
none
else
,
not
so
much
as
Deacons
,
were
permitted
to
sit
in
the
Church
.
In
the
Auditorie
stood
the
Pulpit
,
or
Readers
Tribunall
(
as
Saint
Cyprian
calls
it
.
)
Now
the
Service
that
was
performed
in
Sacrario
,
was
much
different
from
that
which
was
done
in
Auditorio
.
None
were
allowed
to
come
and
stand
within
the
lists
of
the
holy
place
,
where
the
Altar
was
fixed
,
but
the
Priests
,
non
nisi
altari
deservire
,
to
stand
and
serve
at
the
altar
,
and
none
but
they
.
But
the
Service
in
the
Auditory
might
,
and
was
much
of
it
performed
by
such
as
had
onely
a
toleration
to
read
from
the
Bishop
,
without
imposition
of
hands
by
the
Presbyterie
as
Celerinus
had
from
Saint
Cyprian
.
in
Sacrario
,
when
this
first
Service
ending
with
a
Sermon
was
done
in
Auditorio
)
none
were
admitted
to
be
present
but
only
the
faithfull
.
And
these
kneeled
behind
the
Deacons
in
the
midst
of
the
Presbytery
,
or
Chauncell
,
and
with
them
such
Priests
as
after
penance
done
ad
limina
Ecclesiae
,
were
admitted
only
in
communionem
laicorum
.
For
Penitents
were
permitted
to
kneele
together
with
the
faithfull
,
but
that
was
post
exomologesin
,
as
Tertullian
thinkes
fit
to
call
it
,
after
confession
and
penance
;
which
was
so
district
and
severe
in
those
primitive
times
performed
in
sackcloth
and
ashes
,
and
the
Penitents
casting
themselves
downe
at
the
thresholds
of
the
Church
doores
,
and
after
admission
into
the
Church
,
with
much
adoe
granted
,
then
casting
themselves
downe
upon
their
knees
before
the
Altar
,
or
Lords
boord
,
to
receive
the
Priests
absolution
,
that
our
silken
eares
will
be
in
danger
to
be
galled
with
the
hearing
of
so
rough
a
discipline
.
Yet
all
of
us
confesse
in
the
Commination
,
That
in
the
Primitive
Church
there
was
such
a
godly
discipline
,
whereby
notorious
sinners
were
put
to
open
penance
;
and
that
it
is
a
thing
much
to
be
wished
for
,
that
such
discipline
were
restored
againe
.
Bishop
Latimer
soone
missed
it
,
or
some
such
thing
,
and
complaines
of
the
want
thereof
;
therefore
he
,
with
the
other
godly
Bishops
of
his
time
,
send
their
wishes
after
it
to
fetch
it
againe
,
till
God
be
pleased
to
provide
meanes
powerfull
for
the
restoring
thereof
.
Tertullian
taxeth
the
Heretickes
of
his
time
for
neglect
of
this
decent
and
godly
discipline
.
2.
This
is
Preaching
.
The
Preacher
is
Saint
Paul
.
What
kinde
of
Sermon
then
did
Saint
Paul
make
?
for
fit
it
is
that
his
action
be
our
direction
.
Saint
Pauls
preaching
is
of
three
kinds
:
1.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
he
reasoned
with
them
,
or
taught
them
by
way
of
dialogue
.
2
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
he
continued
his
speech
.
3
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
ver.
11.
he
used
a
long
homily
,
which
held
from
midnight
till
morning
.
For
the
first
:
Saint
Pauls
preaching
did
not
stand
onely
in
making
a
long
discourse
,
which
some
,
pitifully
perishing
in
a
dearth
of
matter
,
and
in
an
inundation
of
light
and
froathie
words
,
trumpet
up
for
the
onely
preaching
:
But
he
gave
others
leave
to
speake
as
well
as
himselfe
;
for
that
must
needs
be
to
hold
up
the
dialogue
in
the
text
,
yet
he
preached
for
all
that
.
Wherefore
if
the
Curate
catechise
in
the
afternoone
,
as
he
is
commanded
,
by
question
and
answer
,
which
makes
the
dialogue
in
the
text
,
this
man
preacheth
.
There
is
therefore
no
cause
at
all
why
some
should
take
the
matter
so
grievously
,
that
charge
should
be
given
by
the
King
(
whom
they
never
meane
to
obey
therein
)
that
afternoone
Sermons
should
be
turned
into
catechising
,
that
is
,
that
one
kinde
of
preaching
should
be
exchanged
for
another
,
the
lesse
profitable
for
the
more
usefull
.
Certaine
also
it
is
,
that
whether
they
travell
all
the
Scriptures
over
,
and
then
passe
on
to
the
ancient
Fathers
,
they
shall
finde
no
ground
at
all
for
the
fruitlesse
and
disobedient
exercise
of
their
afternoone
talent
,
till
they
come
home
to
their
owne
wilfull
selfe-conceitednesse
.
Our
Saviour
came
not
to
breake
the
law
,
but
to
fulfill
it
,
who
being
at
Capernaum
on
a
Sabbath
day
preached
but
once
.
For
statim
è
Synagogâ
from
the
Synagogue
he
went
immediately
to
Simons
house
to
dinner
,
where
Simons
wives
mother
ministred
unto
them
,
Mar.
1.31
.
and
there
stayed
healing
diseases
till
sunne
set
,
and
went
no
more
to
the
Synagogue
to
preach
in
the
afternoon
.
The
law
that
enjoined
afternoon
Sermons
for
keeping
their
Sabbath
,
was
not
then
knowne
to
the
Pharises
themselves
,
who
else
were
apt
enough
to
have
laid
it
in
his
dish
at
supper
;
True
it
is
Saint
Peter
preached
once
at
the
ninth
houre
,
or
at
three
a
clocke
in
the
afternoone
,
Act.
3.1
.
but
the
occasion
,
place
,
and
other
circumstances
being
so
extraordinary
,
his
example
binds
us
no
more
to
doe
the
like
,
than
Saint
Pauls
here
doth
to
preach
in
an
upper
chamber
all
night
long
.
The
holy
Fathers
also
in
the
best
times
had
their
Sermons
in
the
forenoons
,
and
it
will
be
hard
for
the
best
or
stubbornest
of
them
all
to
shew
a
Sermon
preached
by
any
of
the
Fathers
in
the
afternoone
,
Saint
Basil
onely
excepted
,
who
had
his
second
and
ninth
homily
in
the
afternoone
;
Secondly
,
St.
Paul
preached
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
all
the
while
he
was
in
his
Homilie
.
What
his
Homilie
was
,
it
is
hard
for
me
to
say
;
whether
it
was
one
that
himselfe
made
,
and
did
not
reade
;
or
one
that
he
read
,
and
another
made
.
An
Homilie
I
am
sure
it
was
,
and
it
may
be
made
by
all
the
Apostles
,
or
the
chiefe
of
the
Apostles
,
as
(
Bucer
saies
)
our
Homilies
were
penned
by
some
eminent
Preachers
.
I
pray
you
tell
me
,
(
when
Saint
Paul
went
through
divers
Churches
,
as
now
he
did
,
to
establish
them
in
the
faith
,
and
to
that
end
took
with
him
dogmata
,
the
decrees
made
by
the
Apostles
and
Elders
that
were
at
Jerusalem
,
Reading
of
Homilies
then
is
preaching
,
So
likewise
when
the
Diptychs
,
containing
the
Decrees
of
the
foure
first
generall
Councels
,
If
then
reading
of
decrees
of
the
Apostles
,
and
by
that
president
reading
of
Diptychs
and
Homilies
be
preaching
,
and
used
for
the
profit
and
peace
of
the
Church
,
and
for
the
establishing
of
them
in
the
faith
,
then
surely
is
reading
of
lessons
,
Epistle
and
Gospel
,
much
more
preaching
,
and
the
Reader
is
a
Preacher
.
The
Councell
of
Aquisgrane
layeth
downe
the
office
of
a
Reader
,
What
shall
we
thinke
then
of
T.
C.
and
such
as
he
hath
seduced
,
that
traduce
Readers
for
dumb
dogs
,
blinde
guides
,
empty
feeders
,
and
say
that
reading
is
so
farre
from
making
the
man
of
God
perfect
,
that
rather
the
quite
contrary
may
be
confirmed
?
Whether
doe
you
not
thinke
that
this
blessed
Archbishop
and
Martyr
,
and
these
holy
and
learned
Bishops
would
not
sharpely
have
censured
the
broachers
of
such
doctrine
within
their
Diocesses
?
or
will
you
condemne
them
,
their
doctrine
and
Canons
,
to
deifie
T.C.
?
For
my
part
,
qui
Bavium
non
odit
,
amet
tua
Carmina
Maevi
,
he
that
detesteth
not
the
Father
of
such
Schismatickes
,
with
their
Brood
,
I
wish
him
no
worse
but
that
he
may
fall
so
farre
in
love
with
the
pure
zeale
of
those
wandring
Danites
,
their
refined
brethren
led
by
such
guides
,
that
they
may
beleeve
their
spies
,
and
follow
them
per
mare
,
per
terras
,
into
new
Laish
,
to
dwell
in
a
Land
of
their
owne
,
Come
out
of
her
my
people
,
that
you
be
not
partaker
in
her
plagues
?
How
doe
they
thinke
that
any
man
should
trust
them
,
that
are
so
false
to
their
owne
friends
,
their
own
followers
,
their
owne
faith
and
doctrine
,
and
will
forsake
them
all
,
and
with
Demas
embrace
this
present
world
in
the
midst
of
Babylon
,
with
so
great
hazzard
of
the
plagues
of
Babylon
?
Doubtlesse
these
Church
Schismatickes
are
the
most
grosse
,
nay
the
most
transparent
Hypocrites
,
and
most
void
of
conscience
of
all
others
.
They
will
take
the
benefit
of
the
Church
,
but
abjure
the
doctrine
and
discipline
of
the
Church
.
These
are
whorish
and
Babylonish
:
But
tythe
milke
is
not
whorish
,
if
it
be
not
mingled
with
water
;
nor
a
tithe
sheafe
Babylonish
,
till
it
be
as
big
as
great
Babylon
it selfe
.
Is
not
this
ridiculous
hypocrisie
?
If
their
stomackes
be
so
queazie
to
rise
against
these
things
,
because
their
pure
nostrill
resenteth
the
dip
of
the
Popes
foot
in
them
,
let
them
begin
to
abandon
the
Pope
in
that
which
he
hath
by
Canons
and
Bulls
allowed
,
viz.
in
tiths
and
offrings
;
and
not
in
that
which
he
never
allowed
,
in
our
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
wherein
is
set
downe
the
onely
direction
we
have
for
keeping
the
Lords
day
in
such
godly
duties
as
the
text
specifieth
.
If
their
condemnation
or
want
of
the
Popes
confirmation
of
that
holy
booke
,
were
of
power
to
hang
a
mill-stone
about
it
,
and
to
cast
it
into
the
bottome
of
the
sea
of
their
abominations
,
we
might
lie
downe
in
sorrow
,
and
cry
our
last
Ichabod
,
the
glorie
is
departed
from
Israel
:
And
they
might
with
the
voice
of
melody
sing
and
say
,
With
great
wrestlings
have
I
wrestled
with
my
sister
,
and
have
prevailed
to
make
her
a
very
Babylon
,
and
to
cause
her
to
sit
in
the
dust
,
and
never
to
rise
any
more
.
But
praised
be
the
Lord
,
whose
day
we
wil
ever
keep
,
and
not
their
Sabbath
,
that
hath
delivered
us
as
a
prey
out
of
their
teeth
.
I
will
now
conclude
this
point
.
We
see
that
breaking
of
bread
,
and
preaching
in
such
sort
as
hath
beene
explained
,
are
the
holy
exercises
used
by
St.
Paul
and
his
Disciples
,
and
by
the
holy
Martyrs
and
godly
Fathers
in
the
Primitive
Church
for
the
observation
of
the
Lords
day
.
From
hence
then
we
may
conclude
who
are
profaners
of
that
most
holy
day
;
not
those
that
use
harmlesse
recreations
,
or
do
some
small
usefull
chare
,
or
perhaps
take
a
nap
on
the
Lords
day
:
But
those
that
do
these
with
Eutichus
when
Paul
is
preaching
,
or
(
as
St.
Austine
saies
)
caeteris
ad
Ecclesiam
pergentibus
,
qui
sacris
lectionibus
terga
vertunt
,
cogunt
Sacerdotem
ut
abbreviet
missam
,
make
the
Priest
to
curtaile
divine
Service
,
Trypho
the
Jew
alledgeth
Isa.
58.13
.
to
prove
Justin
Martyr
a
breaker
of
the
Sabbath
,
who
tells
him
that
the
Prophet
I
say
requireth
no
more
than
was
before
commanded
by
Moses
in
the
law
,
This
very
place
of
Scripture
our
zealous
Sabbatarians
his
issue
,
borrow
of
that
Jew
,
and
use
as
a
sword
to
cut
off
all
sports
and
recreations
on
their
Sabbath
,
with
all
other
actions
of
our
owne
,
because
we
are
forbidden
to
doe
our
owne
will
,
or
to
speake
our
owne
words
,
or
vaine
words
on
the
Sabbath
.
But
let
them
beware
that
with
Saul
they
fall
not
upon
their
owne
sword
.
For
I
pray
you
deale
clearely
,
and
say
,
whether
those
that
will
neither
preach
,
pray
,
catechise
,
administer
the
Sacraments
,
nor
performe
any
part
of
divine
Service
,
as
Gods
Magistrate
appoints
,
doe
not
their
owne
wills
?
His
I
am
sure
they
doe
not
.
And
when
they
make
new
glosses
and
expositions
of
Scripture
,
never
received
in
the
Church
of
God
,
nor
delivered
by
any
ancient
Father
,
whom
by
Canon
they
are
bound
to
follow
,
and
call
the
Lords
day
a
Sabbath
,
And
when
they
use
vaine
repetitions
,
and
babling
in
their
prayers
and
preaching
,
saying
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
oftener
in
one
prayer
,
than
there
are
words
in
all
the
Lords
prayer
,
doe
not
use
vaine
words
,
and
take
the
Lords
name
in
vaine
;
and
be
not
punctually
those
whom
our
Saviour
reproves
by
Saint
Marke
,
cap.
7.
ver.
7.
In
vanum
me
colunt
,
they
honour
me
with
vaine
words
,
vaine
glosses
and
expositions
,
vaine
babling
and
repetitions
,
crying
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
and
all
in
vaine
,
for
they
doe
not
the
thing
that
I
say
.
For
I
say
,
when
you
pray
say
Our
Father
,
&c.
and
thus
you
will
not
doe
,
but
will
pray
an
houre
together
before
a
Sermon
:
yet
though
Christ
and
his
Church
command
them
to
say
it
,
they
will
not
doe
it
.
He
that
can
say
Corban
,
and
cry
up
the
Sabbath
,
the
Sabbath
,
it
is
a
sufficient
Supersedeas
,
it
is
duty
and
piety
enough
,
though
he
neither
honour
Father
nor
Mother
,
Christ
,
nor
the
King
his
Vicegerent
,
nor
the
Church
his
Spouse
.
Let
those
then
that
are
so
violent
against
such
as
recreate
themselves
civilly
and
modestly
,
in
such
wise
as
Gods
Magistrate
doth
allow
,
to
prove
them
Sabbath
breakers
,
which
is
no
sin
at
all
,
look
they
be
not
found
such
as
with
an
high
hand
and
stiffe
neck
profane
the
Lords
day
in
despite
of
Authority
,
and
so
adde
drunkennesse
to
thirst
,
namely
,
to
their
open
profanation
,
rebellion
or
disobedience
,
which
is
as
the
sinne
of
witchcraft
.
From
which
leprosie
washing
seven
times
in
Jordan
will
not
cleanse
them
,
unlesse
they
can
prove
Gods
Magistrate
Nebuchodonosor
,
and
themselves
the
three
children
.
Sure
I
am
their
disobedient
and
scornfull
contempt
of
our
Church
Liturgie
is
to
many
godly
and
learned
men
,
farre
their
Superiours
in
these
respects
,
very
scandalous
;
and
may
drive
many
that
reverence
antiquity
with
us
,
and
for
that
cause
stand
well
affected
to
our
Church
,
to
withdraw
themselves
from
us
.
That
it
is
not
to
be
wondred
at
if
Recusants
should
increase
,
but
rather
it
is
a
wonder
that
there
are
no
more
.
For
how
can
any
man
of
judgement
and
discretion
like
that
Liturgie
and
forme
of
divine
Service
,
which
our selves
(
they
say
)
contemne
,
scorne
,
mangle
,
and
misuse
as
we
list
,
and
some
reject
utterly
as
unlawfull
and
Antichristian
?
Doe
we
tell
them
it
is
poison
,
and
doe
they
see
us
cast
it
out
of
our
hands
,
and
doe
we
wonder
that
they
will
not
run
and
take
it
up
and
eat
it
,
or
that
they
refuse
the
use
of
it
,
as
we
doe
,
or
rather
forbeare
the
Church
till
it
be
used
?
They
will
use
no
Crosse
forsooth
,
nor
Surplice
,
meet
no
coarse
at
the
Church
gate
,
Church
no
women
,
read
no
Service
on
Wednesdayes
,
Fridayes
,
Saturdayes
,
Holy
dayes
,
nor
on
their
Eeves
,
will
not
stand
at
the
Creed
,
nor
Gospel
,
kneele
at
the
Communion
,
nor
bowe
the
knee
at
the
blessed
name
of
the
Lord
JESUS
,
nor
goe
in
procession
,
or
keep
their
perambulations
,
nor
doe
any
thing
at
all
as
the
Church
appoints
;
yet
the
worst
is
,
they
would
be
esteemed
members
,
nay
pillars
of
the
Church
:
whereas
indeed
they
are
neither
the
one
nor
the
other
,
but
a
disease
,
a
fretting
canker
,
a
dangerous
faction
in
the
Church
.
They
are
wandring
starres
,
and
disasterous
planets
,
who
have
and
doe
blast
the
most
flourishing
and
glorious
Church
under
the
cope
of
Heaven
,
were
it
not
that
these
withered
branches
doe
appeare
her
onely
spots
of
disgrace
.
And
because
they
are
such
,
hence
it
is
that
the
Church
for
her
owne
safety
is
faine
to
renounce
all
defence
of
them
and
their
doctrines
against
the
Romanists
.
Therefore
she
ought
not
in
right
to
be
upbraided
or
deserted
for
any
thing
they
say
or
doe
.
The
Church
knoweth
,
and
every
member
thereof
of
seeth
,
that
this
generation
had
eaten
out
her
bowels
long
since
,
like
Vipers
,
and
become
her
destruction
,
but
that
by
Gods
providence
they
have
as
sufficiently
discovered
their
malicious
projects
to
be
bent
alike
for
the
casting
downe
of
Crownes
and
Scepters
,
and
lawes
of
the
Land
,
and
the
Professours
thereof
,
as
for
the
trampling
under
their
feet
of
Miters
and
corner'd
Caps
,
Bishops
and
such
as
exercise
jurisdiction
under
them
,
together
with
our
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
,
and
Canons
Ecclesiasticall
.
Therefore
the
Church
hath
little
cause
to
honour
them
as
her
children
,
with
her
defence
,
before
they
will
be
brought
to
honour
her
and
her
orders
,
nay
to
honour
the
Lord
and
his
day
,
in
breaking
of
bread
,
and
preaching
in
such
sort
as
shee
hath
learned
of
St.
Paul
,
and
delivered
in
the
Booke
of
Common
Prayer
.
And
now
I
have
done
with
them
.
The
last
point
,
with
which
I
will
conclude
,
is
the
place
where
Saint
Paul
preached
:
In
an
upper
chamber
.
Let
no
man
thinke
from
hence
,
that
he
hath
got
a
warrant
to
doe
so
in
these
dayes
.
This
is
the
third
time
Paul
came
to
Troas
.
At
the
first
time
,
being
41.
yeares
of
age
(
as
some
account
)
he
was
called
away
by
a
vision
into
Macedonia
,
and
made
no
stay
at
all
.
From
henceforth
I
goe
unto
the
Gentiles
.
And
so
immediately
he
tooke
order
for
a
publike
place
to
meet
in
,
so
large
,
that
men
and
women
,
learned
and
unlearned
,
beleevers
and
unbeleevers
might
all
meet
together
.
And
this
place
was
a
CHURCH
.
If
the
whole
Church
be
come
together
into
one
Place
,
they
may
speake
languages
,
provided
that
they
doe
interpret
,
1
Cor.
14.33
.
Yea
,
but
how
doth
it
appeare
that
this
one
place
is
a
Church
?
Why
because
himselfe
calls
it
so
,
saying
,
In
the
church
I
had
rather
speake
five
words
,
&c.
ver.
19.
So
their
comming
together
to
eat
the
Lords
body
was
into
one
place
,
1
Cor.
11.20
.
and
this
one
place
was
a
Church
,
ver.
18.
When
yee
come
together
in
the
Church
,
I
heare
,
&c.
this
is
not
to
eat
the
Lords
body
.
This
Church
,
or
publike
place
of
meeting
is
many
wayes
distinguished
from
private
houses
.
The
Church
was
free
for
all
to
come
into
,
Jewes
or
Gentiles
,
beleevers
or
unbeleevers
,
1
Cor.
14.24
.
so
were
not
private
houses
.
In
private
houses
women
might
speake
:
not
so
in
the
Church
.
In
private
houses
men
might
be
covered
,
and
women
uncovered
:
They
that
waite
of
the
Altar
are
partakers
of
the
Altar
;
which
is
not
to
be
understood
of
Israel
after
the
flesh
.
For
habemus
Altare
,
we
under
the
Gospel
have
an
Altar
,
Heb.
15.10
.
And
so
is
the
word
Altar
,
and
Lords
table
indifferently
and
alike
anciently
used
in
the
writings
of
the
Fathers
,
who
best
knew
how
to
expound
Scripture
.
These
were
some
Tables
or
Altars
of
stone
,
quia
Christus
est
lapis
angularis
:
some
were
of
wood
,
the
better
to
expresse
his
death
on
the
tree
,
So
that
from
the
47th
.
yeare
of
Saint
Pauls
age
,
which
was
the
57th
.
of
our
Sauiour
,
we
may
count
out
of
Scripture
,
that
the
devotion
of
Gods
people
began
in
building
of
Churches
for
breaking
of
bread
and
preaching
,
and
with
them
began
the
solemne
exercise
of
the
jurisdiction
of
Bishops
in
excommunication
,
penance
,
confession
,
and
absolution
,
which
without
Churches
could
not
well
be
exercised
.
But
in
Ecclesiasticall
writers
we
find
the
beginning
more
early
,
and
so
the
use
continued
without
interruption
in
the
midst
of
all
their
persecutions
for
287.
yeares
together
,
untill
Dioclesians
time
.
I
might
be
infinite
in
this
kinde
,
but
I
will
give
you
but
a
touch
thereof
.
About
this
time
or
before
a
goodly
room
in
Theophilus
his
house
in
Antioch
,
S.
Mark
also
about
the
same
time
caused
divers
Churches
to
be
built
about
Alexandria
,
And
how
necessary
it
was
for
the
Apostles
and
their
successours
,
planters
of
the
Gospel
,
to
build
Churches
,
and
not
to
pray
,
preach
,
administer
the
Sacraments
,
or
exercise
Ecclesiasticall
discipline
of
excommunication
and
absolution
in
private
houses
,
Thus
Irenaeus
confoundeth
Valentinus
,
Thus
Tertullian
putteth
Valentinus
and
Apelles
to
it
to
shew
their
descent
.
Haereticus
sanctificare
non
potest
,
quia
nec
Ecclesiam
nec
Altarehabet
;
an
Hereticke
cannot
consecrate
the
Sacrament
,
because
he
hath
neither
Church
nor
Altar
;
for
Eucharistia
in
Altari
sanctificatur
.
Without
Churches
no
Sacrament
could
be
consecrated
,
nor
received
.
In
this
sort
St.
Augustine
confoundeth
the
Donatists
and
Sectaries
of
his
time
;
This
succession
of
Bishops
to
the
Apostles
,
and
exercise
of
Ecclesiasticall
discipline
,
preaching
of
the
word
of
God
,
and
consecrating
of
the
Eucharist
on
the
Lords
Boord
,
or
holy
Altar
,
was
judged
a
thing
so
necessary
by
the
Apostles
and
their
successors
,
True
it
is
Cecilius
in
Minutius
Foelix
,
and
Celsus
in
Origen
,
and
other
Gentiles
reviled
Christians
,
and
called
them
Atheists
,
quia
nec
templa
nec
deos
haberent
,
because
they
had
neither
temples
nor
Gods
.
And
indeed
they
had
no
such
temples
,
nor
worshipped
such
gods
as
they
did
.
Yet
Christians
were
never
without
Churches
to
serve
the
true
God
in
.
Howbeit
,
they
were
not
called
Temples
,
or
Basilicae
,
before
the
Emperour
Constantines
time
,
who
built
them
in
that
stately
and
magnificent
maner
,
that
they
might
equalize
or
surmount
the
sumptuous
Temples
erected
by
the
Heathen
to
Diana
,
Venus
,
Jupiter
,
or
other
heathen
gods
.
Thus
necessity
of
Gods
service
,
and
exercise
of
Ecclesiasticall
discipline
,
caused
and
continued
the
use
of
Churches
from
time
to
time
,
and
their
zeale
inflamed
them
to
beautifie
and
adorne
them
in
the
most
sumptuous
maner
that
might
be
,
that
with
David
and
Solomon
they
might
shew
(
so
farre
as
their
poverty
would
suffer
them
)
in
such
glorious
and
magnificent
buildings
,
and
by
the
sumptuous
costlinesse
bestowed
in
adorning
of
them
with
gold
,
silver
,
and
precious
stones
,
the
incomparable
glory
,
and
infinite
greatnesse
of
the
Majestie
of
their
God
,
to
whom
that
poore
house
was
dedicated
,
and
before
whom
they
presented
themselves
to
performe
such
service
as
himselfe
and
his
Vicegerents
have
appointed
:
which
doubtless
(
as
by
the
practice
of
S.
Paul
and
the
Apostles
,
and
the
best
Saints
of
God
,
may
appeare
)
is
much
more
acceptable
unto
him
,
being
performed
in
an
house
of
his
own
,
than
if
it
had
been
continued
in
one
of
ours
,
in
some
upper
chamber
,
as
now
upon
necessity
it
was
.
Wherefore
since
by
Gods
mercy
we
doe
in
part
enjoy
the
piety
and
bounty
of
our
Predecessours
,
and
have
the
houses
of
God
left
us
to
serve
God
in
;
let
us
abandon
the
irregular
fashion
of
straggling
Schismatickes
,
in
making
Conventicles
,
praying
,
preaching
,
and
breaking
bread
in
corners
,
private
houses
,
and
dining
rooms
.
And
on
the
other
side
,
let
us
conforme
our selves
in
frequenting
the
Lords
house
,
to
the
practice
of
the
Lords
Church
,
especially
on
the
Lords
day
,
and
say
with
David
,
O
come
let
us
goe
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
and
fall
flat
on
our
faces
before
his
footstoole
.
And
if
we
doe
not
onely
bend
or
bowe
our
body
to
his
blessed
Boord
,
or
holy
Altar
,
but
fall
flat
on
our
faces
before
his
footstoole
so
soone
as
ever
we
approach
in
sight
thereof
,
what
Patriarch
,
Apostle
,
blessed
Martyr
,
holy
or
learned
Father
,
would
condemne
us
for
it
?
or
rather
would
not
be
delighted
to
see
their
Lord
so
honoured
,
and
their
devotion
so
reverently
imitated
,
and
so
good
hope
given
to
have
it
in
such
sort
continued
in
the
Lords
house
,
on
the
Lords
day
,
by
the
Lords
servants
,
unto
the
Lords
comming
againe
,
who
doubtlesse
will
then
ratifie
what
he
hath
already
pronounced
,
Blessed
are
those
servants
whom
the
Lord
when
he
commeth
shall
finde
so
doing
?
Amen
.
FINIS
.