Sunday a Sabbath, Chapter 15
CHAP. XV. Royall and reverend Authority for putting the name Sabbath upon Sunday, whereby it is cleared from ſchiſme, as well as from novelty.
THat it is no novelty to call the Lords day or Sunday by the name Sabbath, wee have proved in the precedent Chapter by ſundry Teſtimonies, all of them of much ancienter date then the yeer 1554. deſigned by Dr. Pockl. for the firſt uſe of the word in that ſenſe.
And for the time ſince, which is long enough to gain allowance to a word (eſpecially ſuch a one as hath congruity of reaſon to the thing whereto it is applyed) we can name Authority for it, ſufficient to over ſway any thing that he hath ſaid againſt it, and to cleare the uſe of it from ſchiſme, which the ſame Doctor Pockl. hath objected againſt it.
1. The Book of aHomil. of the time and place of prayer, pag. 102.164. twice, & p. 166. twice. The Author of the Dialog. betwixt A. and B. reckoneth ten times, edit. 2. p. 25.Homilies, ratified by the Royall Authority of three Princes, and by ſubſcription of all the conformable Clergy in their ſeverall reignes, calleth the Lords day the Sabbath divers times.
2. King James in his b Apud D. Bound on the Sab. l. 1. p. 268, 269. And D. Heyl. Hiſt. Sab. part. 2. p. 257.Proclamation againſt profane ſports, dated at Theobalds, May 7.1603 giveth to Sunday, or the Lords day the name of Sabbath: and in his ſecond book of his cK. James Baſilic. Dor. lib. 2. pag. 164.Baſilicon Doron, having ſpoken of the lawfulneſſe of recreations, hee concludeth with a proviſo, that the Sabbath bee kept holy, and no unlawfull thing done therein.
3. 1639. 1. For the Towne of Weedenbeck. 2. For John Cheny of Leftwich in Cheſhire. 3. For Walker in Yo…ſhire. 1631. 4. For Riddl…hur… of Dav…nh…m in Cheſhire. 5. For the Towne of Yaxall. 6. For William Small of Cletham. 1632. 7. For Richard Wood of Ha…ton. 8. For Eaſt and Weſt Rebford. 9. For Mariners of H…lb…i…. 10. For Amos Bedford, a Miniſter in Lincolne ſhire. 11. For Thomas Wilſon of old Whitingham in Cheſhire. 1633. 12. For Underhill in Shropſhire. 13. For one Hubie in Yorkeſhire. 14. For Roger Poſterne of Salop. 15. For the Town of Stone in Staffordſhire. 1634. 16. For Lincolneſhire poore. 17. For the poore of Ha…lſcot in the County of Salop. 18. For John Jackſon of Langer in Nottingham ſhire. 1635. 19. For Port Patricke and Doneghday in Scotland. 20. For Broughton of Southampton, where the Church, Parſonage houſe, and Schoole-houſe, &c. were burnt.K. Charles (our gracious Soveraigne that now is) in his Briefes (appointing the time for collections under his broad Seale) ſetting downe the day when they ſhall be made, nameth it the Sabbath day, wherby it is plaine, he meaneth not Saturday, but Sunday; and ſo (which is directly againſt Dr. Pockl. his tenet and title) that Sunday is a Sabbath. The moſt that I have ſeen (untill the yeer 1636.) have directed to our weekely Holiday under the name Sabbath. For intimation of the frequencie of that word in the ſence wherein wee take it, I have made a Liſt of twenty Inſtances of Briefs for this County of Cheſhire within theſe few yeeres, and noted them in the margine, not doubting but there have been many more, both within it, & without, which have not come to my view. And I doubt not, when the truth upon impartiall triall hath broken through all clouds of contradiction (as certainely it will doe) but the name Sabbath will outſhine the name Sunday, and be again received into the ſtile of the Kings Briefes, as formerly it hath been.
4. The Reverend Biſhops of the Land, in the dConfer. at Hamp Court, p. 44 and 45.Conference at Hampton Court (as conſcious of the lawfull uſe of the word Sabbath day for Sunday) when Doctor Reynolds deſired a reformation of the abuſe of the Sabbath, before his Majeſty that late was, and themſelves, gave a generall and unanimous aſſent thereunto, none of them (for ought appeareth in the Booke) taking exception that hee called the Lords day by that name. And howſoever the name of the Lords day bee more uſuall in their Eccleſiaſticall Courts for our weekely holiday, then the name Sabbath day is: yet that they condemne not the uſe of it, is plaine by the ſeventh Canon, wherein they preſcribe the uſe of the Regiſter booke upon every Sabbath day.
In the Latin edition, I confeſſe, the words are diebus Dominicis, and not Sabbath: and there might bee reaſon for it, becauſe in Latine the word might bee more ambiguous, that tongue being more generall, and reaching haply to ſuch places as yet have both the Saturday and Sunday in honour and uſe for the exerciſe of Religion: yet had it beene Sabbath in the Latine alſo, it had beene no prejudice, but rather an advantage to the truth, if withall it had beene underſtood to bee meant, not of the old Sabbath, but of the new.
Beſides, they meant, no doubt, by uſing the name Sabbath in the Canon in Engliſh, to ſhew the lawfull uſe of that word, as well as of others, by which the ſame day is ſignified unto us; and if the Latin bee of more authority then the Engliſh, which in ſome reſpects may be ſo, as before hath been obſerved, wee can quote a Latin Booke of good authority for it; it is the Book called Reformatio legum Eccleſiaſticarum, which, mentioning the obſervation of our religious reſt, doth it under this ePraecipuus Sabbatorum cultus, Reform. Leg. Eccleſ. fol. 18. b.Title [the principall celebration of the Sabbath.]
The high Commiſſioners (of whom the Archbiſhop of Canterbury is chiefe) are in Eccleſiaſticall authority next to a publick Synod; and of their indifferency for the uſe of the word Sabbath, as well as the word Sunday or Lords day, may appeare by the recantation enjoyned by them to John Hethrington▪ wherein hee was to fThe Sermon called the White Wolfe by Steph. Deniſon, preached at Pauls Croſſe the ſame day. pag. 34.diſavow that which formerly hee had delivered, viz. that the Sabbath day or Sunday, (which wee commonly call Lords day ſince the Apoſtles time) was of no force, and that every day is as much a Sabbath day, as that which wee call the Sabbath day, Lords day, or Sunday; and in theſe termes hee was to publiſh it at Pauls Croſſe, Febr. 11. 1627.
If it bee needfull to add particular teſtimonies for calling Sunday by the name Sabbath, (and ſuch ſcandalous invectives as ſome have made againſt it will not ſuffer it to be ſuperfluous) we may note by name divers Reverend Biſhops, who take the word Sabbath in that ſenſe: as to begin with Biſhop Latimer, (whom gD. Pockl. Viſit. Serm. p. 28, 29.Doctor Pocklington brings in expreſly, with other Biſhops unnamed, as a godly Prelate, and well affected to the godly diſcipline of the Church, and he was beſides that a Martyr) hB. Latimer.he, in his Sermon upon the Goſpel, of a King that marryed his ſonne, after he hath cited the ſtory of the man ſtoned for gathering ſticks upon the Sabbath day, hath theſe words, iBiſh. Latimer in his Sermon upon the Goſpel, of a King that married his ſonne, preached an. 1552. as the title ſheweth, ſol. 188. p. 1.Which is an example for us to take heed, that wee tranſgreſſe not the law of the Sabbath day; and a little after hee addeth, Theſe words pertaine as well to us at this time, as they pertained to them in their time; for God hateth the diſ-hallowing of the Sabbath as well now as then, for hee is, and ſtill remaineth the old God, hee will have us to keepe his Sabbath as well now as then; for upon the Sabbath day Gods ſeede-plow goeth, that is to ſay, the miniſtery of the Word is executed, for the miniſtery of Gods Words is Gods plow.
In which few lines hee calleth the Lords day Sabbath, no fewer then foure times: he calleth it Sunday alſo, I confeſſe; but that is nothing to this purpoſe, ſince the name Sabbath is in queſtion, not the name Sunday, which we have treated on before, and proved to bee lawfull. kArchb. Whit. Anſ. to T. C. p. 578. or 758.Archbiſhop Whitgift was after him in time, though above him in degree and dignity of the Church, and he, tranſlating a Teſtimony out of Juſtin Martyrs Apologie, turneth dies ſolis into the Sabbath day. lB. Babington.Biſh. Babington, ſometimes his Chaplaine, was Biſhop of Worceſter in the late Queenes reign, (as Biſhop Latimer was in King Edwards daies) a venerable Prelate, and a frequent and famous Preacher; and hee uſeth the ſame name of the ſame day, *B. Babington in com. 4. p. 72. printed 1594. in 4th.wee plainely ſee, ſaith hee, what day the Apoſtles celebrated, and met upon, having their ſolemne Aſſemblies, namely on this our Sabbath; and it addeth alſo further ſtrength to this, that Saint John, in his Revel. calleth this our Sabbath day, the Sunday, Dominicumdiem: and afterward (having ſet downe ſome generall duties of the day, ſaith he) mIbid. p. 74.Theſe things are not to bee done onelyonly on the Sabbath day, but every day, even all our life long.
So doth that renowned and ſo admired nSacratiſſimus antiſtes, Lancelotus Andrewes, linguarum, artium, ſcientiarum, humanorum, divinorum omnium, infinitus Theſaurus, ſtupendium ora…ulum, &c. So in the Title page the ſecond edition of his Sermons.Biſhop of Wincheſter, Biſhop Andrewes (who uſed to make a curious choice of his words, as well as of his matter) in his third Sermon of the Reſurrection, where, ſpeaking of the women that would have embalmed our bleſſed Saviour, hee ſaith, oB. Andrewes his 3d Serm…n on the Reſurrection, p. 406, 407.Though they faine would have been embalming him, yet not with breach of the Sabbath, their diligence leap'd over none of Gods Commandements for haſte; no, not this Commandement, which, of all other, the world is moſt bold with; and if they have haſte, ſomewhat elſe may, but ſure the Sabbath ſhall never ſtay them. And beginning his Sermon at the Court on Whitſunday, 1606. hee ſaith thus, pB. Andr. his Serm. Acts 2. verſ. 2, 3, 4. pag. 595.Wee are this day, beſides our weekly due of the Sabbath, to renew, and to celebrate the yeerely memory of the ſending down of the holy Ghoſt. And even there where he ſet himſelfe moſt ſeriouſly againſt Judaicall opinions, viz. in his Speech againſt Mr. Traske, in the Star-chamber, hee ſaith thus, qIbid. In his Speech to the Starre-Chamber againſt Maſter Tracke, pag. 72, 73. and this name new Sabbath hee hath (if the Authour of the Dialogue betwixt A. and B. reckon right) twenty times in his Book called Catec. Doctr. So the Dialogue betwixt two Divines A. & B. edit. 2. pag. 20.the Sabbath had reference to the old creation; but in Chriſt wee are a new creature, a new creation by him, and ſo to have a new Sabbath▪ if a new Sabbath, then not no Sabbath, as Doctor Pocklington would have it. And the Biſhop meaneth by that the Lords day, which hee maintaineth againſt Maſter Traske, who ſtood for Saturday the Sabbath of the Jewes.
Biſhop Alley (Biſhop of Exceter, in his Book called, The poore mans Library, printed Anno 1560.) ſpeaking of the due obſervation of the day wee celebrate, ſaith: rBiſh. Alleys Poore mans Library, miſcelan. praelect. 5. fol. 143. p. 2.All Governours and Houſholders offend againſt this precept, if they doe not their diligence to retaine the ſanctifying of the Sabbath in their houſes: whoſoever deſpiſe the Religion of the Sabbath, give evident teſtimony in themſelves of impiety and contempt of God, &c.
Biſhop King (not long ſince) Biſhop of London Biſhop King.(who in his time was accompted a very venerable Prelate, and alwaies well affected to the Government of the Church, before himſelfe was made a Governour of it) in his Lectures upon Jonah (of ſeverall impreſſions) uſeth the name Sabbath divers times for Sunday, or the Lords day; as in his ſixth Lecture (where he reproveth careleſſe, diſſolute, and ill diſpoſed perſons) he ſaith, fBiſhop King. lect. 6. p. 90.They love the threſholds of their private doores upon the Sabbaths of the Lord, and their benches and ale-houſes, better then the Courts of the Lords houſe: And a little after he taxeth them by the name of Profaners of our ſanctified Sabbaths. And in his ſeventh Lecture he hath theſe words: tIbid. lect. 7. pag. 96.The Sabbath is reſerved as the unprofitableſt day of the ſeven, for idleneſſe, ſleeping, walking, rioting, tipling, bowling, dancing, and what not: I ſpeake what I know (ſaith he) upon a principall Sabbath (For if the reſurrection of Chriſt deſerve to alter the Sabbath from day to day, I ſee no cauſe, but the comming downe of the Holy Ghoſt ſhould adde honour and ornament to it) I ſay, upon a principall Sabbath, &c.
Doctor Howſon, late Biſhop of Durham, though a reall oppoſite to the Sabbath in ſome particulars, was not an enemy to that name (when hee made mention of the thing) for in his Sermon, uBiſh. Howſons Sermon of Feſtiv pag. 6. edit. 2.in defence of Feſtivities, he hath theſe words: Beloved Chriſtians, were any of thoſe excellent Fathers in our times, what thinke you he would ſay? if he ſhould ſee Oratoria turned into Auditoria, Churches into Schooles, our Sabbaths and Feſtivities not ſpent in cultu latriae, but in hearing of Exerciſes, as ſome call it, &c. though hee were no friend to the Sabbath, either for the dignity of the day, or the duties belonging unto it (for both in opinion and practice he was oppoſite to preaching) yet was hee not ſo ill affected to the name, as Doctor Pocklington and others have been.
That very learned Biſhop of Bath and Wells (whoſe Sermons were ſo approved by Doctor Reynolds, Biſhop Lake.that what he heard him preach, hee ſtill deſired to reade; and therefore uſed to crave a copy of his Sermon) was not onelyonly a friend to the name Sabbath for Sunday, but a zealous pleader for it, as we ſhall obſerve in another place.
And the Biſhop of Exceter that now is (who hath ſo decently dreſſed Devotion and Piety with delicacie of conceipt, and elegancy of expreſſion, as to make it amiable in all eyes) in his art of divine meditation, ſaith in approbation of it thus: *Biſh. Hall in the art of divine meditation. cap. 10. p. 111.No Manna fell to the Iſraelites on their Sabbath, on ours it doth. Where the word Sabbath muſt bee neceſſarily underſtood in the word Ours: And if ſo it be not plaine enough, ſee further in his ſecond booke of Characters, where part of his deſcription of a diſtruſtfull man is this: xLib. 2. Charact. p. 196.Hee dares not come to the Church, for feare of the croud; nor ſpare the Sabbaths labour, for feare of want; nor come neere the Parliament houſe, for feare it ſhould be blowne up.
I make no doubt, but the Articles of Epiſcopall Viſitations give allowance for the like uſe of the name Sabbath for Sunday, or Lords day: for ſo it is in the 15. Article of Archbiſhop Parker his Viſitation. Nor is it to be doubted, but in Archbiſhop Whitgifts Articles the word was in the ſame ſenſe: for, as we have noted before, hee turned the word Sunday into Sabbath, in tranſlating a teſtimony out of Juſtin Martyr. And ſure wee are, that Archbiſhop Bancroft uſed the word Sabbath for the Lords day foure times in his Articles of Viſitation, twice in two Articles, viz. 75, 76. whence it is probable, that other Biſhops were in phraſe and forme of ſpeech (for that name) conformable to them: for, in the Province of Yorke (much more in that of Canterbury) it was ſo, as in our Dioceſſe of Cheſter.
Biſhop Lloyd in his Viſitation, Anno 1605. Biſhop Lloyd.in the 2.4.8.44. & 45. Artic. calls that day Sabbath day. So did Biſhop Morton in his Viſitation of the ſame Dioceſſe, Anno 1617. Artic. 11.30.33.39. Biſhop. Morton.And Biſhop Bridgman in his trienniall Viſitation, Anno 1631. Biſh. Bridgman.Artic. 11.41.43. uſed the word Sabbath for the weekly Holiday of our Church; who were yet all of them both in judgement, language, and practice, far enough from ſiding with Schiſmaticall Novelties. To theſe Biſhops of England, I will adde two out of Ireland; and ſo conclude my Epiſcopall Teſtimonies for the name Sabbath.
The one is Biſhop Uſher, the moſt reverend Archbiſhop and Primate of Armagh, who (I know by conference with him) approveth of the application of the name Sabbath to our Sunday, or Lords day. The other is Biſhop Downham, the Biſhop of Derty (who hath done and ſuffered much in the defence of the Prelacie) he in his abſtract of the duties commanded, and ſinnes forbidden in the Decalogue, treating of the fourth Commandement, taxeth (with reference to our times) thoſe that are mindfull of the Sabbath to profane it, who (having extraordinary buſineſſe) will not beſtow any part of the weeke upon it; but will reſerve it for the Sabbath, and make bold with God to borrow part of his day: and thoſe who obſerve the Sabbath for faſhion ſake, keeping the outward reſt onelyonly, putting on gay clothes, and doing nothing, &c.
After theſe reverend Prelates (in number ſixteene, whereof foure are Archbiſhops) wee will give in the names of ſome Cathedrall Deanes and Doctours (of venerable eſtimation in our Church) noting the Lords day by the name Sabbath, as yDoct. Boys expoſ. of the Liturgy. p. 92.Doctor Boys (Archbiſh. Whitgifts Chaplaine, and Deane of Canterbury) and Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls: The Deane of Canterbury ſaith, The Sabbath is (as one calls it) Gods Schoole-day, the Preachers are his uſhers, and the Church is his open Schoole houſe: which he doth not onelyonly repeat, but approve of; and when Sabbath breakers are rebuked (ſaith zDoct. Boys ubi ſup. pag. 93.he) all their anſwer is, that moſt doe ſo: If they will follow faſhion and example, let them follow the beſt (ſcil.) Gods example. And againe, aIbid. pag. 95.The duties required on the Lords day, are principally two, Reſt, and Sanctification of this reſt: a double Sabbath, reſt from labour, and reſt from ſinne; and if there bee a double Sabbath in it, it hath a double right to the title Sabbath.
Doctor Donne, the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Donne.preaching at the dedication of a new Chappell in Lincolnes Inne (where hee was Lecturer) ſpeaketh thus; bDoctor Donne of Pauls in his Sermon, Jo…n 10. verſ. 22. which hee calls the Feaſt of Dedication, at the dedication of a new Chappell in Lincolnes Inne, conſecrated by the Biſhop of London, anno 1623. pag. 7.Though God take a ſeventh part of our time in the Sabbath, yet hee takes more too, for hee appoints other Sabbaths, other Feſtivals, and in all the Sabbaths there is ſtill a ceſſation. Hee ſaith not, God tooke, but takes, in the preſent tenſe, a ſeventh part of our time, not of the Jewes onelyonly, (though hee tooke it firſt of theirs): and though hee call other Feſtivals Sabbaths alſo, the ſeventh day may have an eſpeciall right to the name Sabbath, above the Reſt; for ſo it had under the old Teſtament, though then there were other holidaies, which, for their congruity with it in reſt or ceſſation (for in all Sabbaths, ſaith hee, there is ſtill a ceſſation) might be partakers of the ſame title: and proſecuting the ſame point afterwards, he reproveth ſome who think we are bound to no feſtivals at all, but to the Sabbath; but God requires as much ſervice from us as from the Jewes, ſaith cIb. pag. 10 of his dedication Sermon.he, and to them hee enlarged his Sabbaths, and made them divers. And to the ſame purpoſe hee ſpeaketh in his Sermon on the 10. of John, As God taketh the tenth part of our goods in Tythes, but yet more in Sacrifices; ſo though hee take a ſeventh part of our time in the Sabbath, yet hee takes more too, for hee appoints other Sabbaths or Festivals.
There bee ſome (to take in a doubt by the way, which his coupling of Sabbaths and Feſtivals as Synonymaes induceth us to conſider) who ſo preciſely diſtinguiſh betwixt Sabbaths and Feſtivals, as to deny that the Sabbath may be called by the name of a Feſtivall. The Sabbath (ſaith the dRe-examiner of Perth Aſſemb. p. 187. printed in anno 1636.Re-examiner of Perth Aſſembly) under the Law, was never called Jom tob, a good, that is, a merry day, as were the ſolemn Feaſts: which ſeemeth to bee a portion of Sacrifice taken from the eAltare Damaſc. pag. 666, 667.Altar of Damaſcus, where the ſame obſervation is made: and concerning Feſtivals in particular, the Authour ſaith, It was not lawfull to faſt on a Feſtivall.
But it may bee anſwered, that though there bee difference betwixt the Sabbath, and other dayes properly called dies festi, (in regard of particular occaſion of the inſtitution, and of more liberty in meats and delights, then on the Sabbath); yet might the Sabbaths, yea, all publick ſolemnities (even the Faſt of Expiation not excepted) bee ſometimes called Feaſts or Feſtivals, and ſo much the Authour of the fIb. pag. 666.Altar of Damaſcus (not without ſome apparant contradiction to himſelfe) hath acknowledged. And as the old Sabbath was unto the Jewes a day of ſpirituall delight, for which purpoſe ſome cite Iſa. 58. (how fitly, wee ſhall note in another place); ſo is the new Sabbath to the Chriſtians, on which (in gDie dominico j…junium neſas ducimus, vel de geniculis adorare. Tert. de coronmilit. c. 3. tom. 2. pag. 747.Tertullians time) it was held a great offence to faſt; and in all times when the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is adminiſtred (which in the Primitive times was as oft as that day returned) it exhibiteth a Feaſt of the body and bloud of Chriſt, the beſt and moſt delicious cheer that can be deſired, to him who is rightly prepared to receive it.
But this onelyonly by the way, or rather as an occaſionall digreſſion out of the way, tak…n from the doubt in the words of the Deane, concerning the Sabbath, from whom wee have one obſervation more to remember, and that is in his Sermon on Mat. 21. hIdem, Serm. on Mat. 21.44. pag. 16. printed 1634. at Cambridge.We will admit of Chriſt, ſaith hee, but wee will not admit him to reigne over us: If hee will bee content with a Conſulſhip, with a Colleagueſhip, that hee and the world may joyne in Governement, that wee may give the weeke to the world, and the Sabbath unto him; that of the day wee may give the forenoone to him, the afternoone to our pleaſures; If this will ſerve Chriſt, wee can bee content to admit him; but, nolumus regnare.
To theſe two Reverend Deanes, I will add two worthy Doctors, who are witneſſes to the warrantable application of the word Sabbath to the Sunday, and who (though neither Biſhops nor Deanes) have had the reputation (and not without deſert) of very learned and religious men; viz. Doctor John White (brother to Doctor Fr. White late Biſhop of Elie) and Doctor Daniel Featly (houſhold Chaplain to the late ″Archbiſh. Abbot.Archbiſhop of Canterbury,) Doctor Joh. White, in his anſwer to the Papiſts, bragging of the holineſſe of their Church, and upbraiding of our Church for want of holineſſe, hath, among other accuſations of their courſes, theſe words; iD. Joh. White in his way to the true Church. §. 38. p. 210.And for mine owne part, having ſpent moſt of my time among them, this I have found, that in all exceſſe of ſinnes Papists have been the ring-leaders; in royotous companies, in drunken meetings, in ſeditious aſſemblies and practices, in profaning the Sabbath, &c. And againe, Papiſts hold, that it is lawfull on the Sabbath day to follow ſuits, travell, hunt, dance, keepe Faires, and ſuch like: this is that which hath made Papists the most notorious Sabbath breakers that live.
And Doctor Featly, as hee had more occaſion to mention the day, and the duties thereof, ſo hee more frequently maketh uſe of the name Sabbath; as in his Hand-maid to Devotion, wee finde mention of an kDr. Featly Hand-maid to Devotion, in the direction for the uſe of the book. p. 4.hymne and prayer before the Sabbath; wherein, ſaith hee, the duties of the Sabbath are expreſſed: and in preparation for the receiving of the Sacrament, there is a confeſſion in theſe words, lHand maid to devotion, pag. 107.Thou commandeſt me to keepe holy thy Sabbath, and ſetteſt an eſpeciall marke of Remembrance upon it; yet I have not remembred to put off my ordinary buſineſſe: and in the Devotion for the Chriſtian Sabbath, the name is mIb. … p. 172. ad pag. 200.often uſed for the day wee celebrate, ſometimes with the word Chriſtian joyned to it, ſometimes the name Sabbath is ſet without it: and in his volume of printed Sermons, treating on theſe words, Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, hee ſaith, nDr. Featly Serm. which he calleth Lowlineſſe exalted. pag. 735.If the reſt of God from the works of Creation were juſt cauſe of ſanctifying a perpetuall Sabbath to the memory thereof, may not the reſt of our Lord from the worke of Redemption (more painefull to him, and more beneficiall to us) challenge the like prerogative of a day to bee hallowed and conſecrated unto it? ſhall wee not keepe it as a Sabbath on earth for him, which hath procured for us an eternall Sabbath in heaven? And a little after hee addeth, oIb. pag. 735, 736.The holy Apoſtles, and their ſucceſſors fixed the Chriſtian Sabbath upon the firſt day of the weeke, to eternize the memory of our Lords Reſurrection: and ſpeaking of Eaſter day, With what Religion, ſaith pIb. pag. 736.he, is the Chriſtian Sabbath of Sabbaths to be kept?
I could lengthen this Catalogue (for the name Sabbath thus applyed) with many more names of thoſe whoſe ſufficiencie and ſincerity is ſuch, that it would little become them that carpe moſt at the name Sabbath in this ſenſe, to teach them how to ſpeake, without corrupting their dialect with the dregs of Aſhdod; as of qMr. Hooker Eccleſ. Pol. l. 5 p. 183. & 385 M. M…ſon, who wrote of the conſecrat. of Biſhops, anno 1613. p. 269. Pet. Ramus de Relig. l. 2. c. 6.Maſter Hooker with divers others; but that will not need, eſpecially, if wee add unto theſe that which hath beene confeſſed, or rather complained of by rM. Brab. in his Deſence. p. 626.Maſter Braburne and ſM. Dowe his diſcourſe p. 4.Maſter Dowe, viz. That the Lords day is uſually and vulgarly called and known by the name Sabbath; and then there will bee a full anſwer to Maſter Ironſide his objection, which ſoundeth as if the name Sabbath, for the Lords day, were a meere miſtake of a tMr. Ironſide queſt. 3. cap. 13. pag. 126.few private perſons of late yeeres: I hope, Kings, Archbiſhops, Biſhops, and Deanes, and other eminent Doctors are not private perſons, nor they (together with the vulgar) few: and wee may yet make them more, by bringing in ſome of thoſe to beare witneſſe to the lawfull uſe of the word Sabbath for Sunday, or the Lords day, (being drawne to yeeld ſome aſſent unto it by the force of truth) who otherwiſe ſhew their great diſlike of that denomination.