Sunday a Sabbath, Table of contents – Verses
The Contents of the Diſcourſe following.
CHAP. I.
IN what caſes we may be indifferent for the for bearance or uſe of Names: In what wee must bee chary concerning both. Pag. 1.
Chap. II.
The divers names of the Chriſtians weekely holiday. pag. 4.
Chap. III.
Of three moſt uſuall names of the Chriſtians weekely holiday; and firſt of the name Lords day, Revel. 1.10. The ſtrange opinion of Dr. Gomarus, and Mr. Braburne, charging the title, as applyed to the Chriſtians Sabbath, with impertinency and noveltie. pag. 7
Chap. IIII.
A compariſon of the old Sabbath day, the day of our Saviours Birth, of his Paſſion, Aſcenſion, and of his Apparition to S. John, with the day of his Reſurrection, as touching right to the title Lords day, and the pertinency and propriety of that title to our weekly holiday. p. 13.
Chap. V.
The imputation of novelty in applying the title Lords day to the Chriſtians weekly holiday, anſwered. p. 26.
Chap. VI.
Of the name Sunday: Whether we may call our weekly holiday by that name: objections againſt the uſe of the name Sunday for our weekly holiday. p. 34.
Chap. VII.
How farre it may be lawfull to uſe Idolatrous names: an Anſwer to the Objection againſt the name Sunday. pag. 41.
Chap. VIII.
Of the name Sabbath; and firſt of the writing Sabboth, Sabaoth and Sabbath, which of them is the right; and by occaſion thereof ſome obſervations of skill and ignorance of the originall tongues. pag. 50.
Chap. IX.
The Etymologie of the name Sabbath: and firſt of the abuſive derivations of it by Juſtin and Plutarch, by way of contempt of the Jewes their Religion and Manners. pag. 60.
Chap. X.
The derivation of the name Sabbath from two Hebrew words; the one ſignifying [ſeven] the other [Reſt] the former being the errour of Lactantius, the later the true and moſt received Etymologie. pag. 67.
Chap. XI.
The ſever all acceptions of the name Sabbath. pag. 69.
Chap. XII.
Whether the day, called Lords day, or Sunday, may not alſo be called Sabbath day, or the Sabbath: the exceptions which are taken up by divers againſt it. pag. 73.
Chap. XIII.
Reaſons why Sunday, or the Lords day may be called Sabbath day, delivered and defended. pag. 79.
Chap. XIV.
Ancient evidence for calling the Lords day by the name of Sabbath, obſerved eſpecially againſt Doctor Pocklington his aſſertion, viz. That no ancient Father, nor learned man, tooke the name Sabbath otherwiſe (from the beginning of the world, till the yeare 1554.) then for Saturday obſerved by the Jewes. pag. 91.
Chap. XV.
Royall and reverend Authority for putting the name Sabbath upon Sunday, whereby it is cleared from ſchiſm, as well as from novelty. pag. 101.
Chap. XVI.
Of ſuch as are Adverſaries to the name Sabbath, as put for Sunday, ſometimes aſſenting thereto, and uſing the name in that ſenſe, or yeelding that which doth inferre it. pag. 116.
Chap. XVII.
Exceptions (againſt ſome of the precedent Teſtimonies alledged, for calling the Lords day Sabbath) propounded and anſwered. pag. 119.
Chap. XVIII.
A particular anſwer to the particular exceptions made againſt the name Sabbath, as applyed to Sunday, or Lords day: and firſt of the dangerous plot pretended by Doctor Pocklington in the uſe of the name Sabbath for Sunday, and of his prodigious compariſon of the name Sabbath on the Lords day, to the crowne of Thornes on the Lords head. pag. 133.
Chap. XIX.
An anſwer to Barkley the Papiſt his dilemma againſt the name Sabbath for Sunday, or Lords day. pag. 143.
Chap. XX.
Maſter Braburne his objection of confuſion, in calling Sunday Sabbath, anſwered. pag. 146.
Chap. XXI.
The objection of Judaiſme, in uſing the name Sabbath, anſwered and retorted; as alſo the reproach of the name, as from the Sabbatarian Heretickes, removed. pag. 148.
Chap. XXII.
The Negative argument drawne from the Apoſtles not uſing the name Sabbath for the Lords day, anſwered. pag. 156.
Chap. XXIII.
Though neither the Apoſtles nor the ancient Fathers called Sunday Sabbath, we may, and the reaſons why. pag. 161.
Chap. XXIV.
The Objection, taken from the uſe of the name Sabbath in Dictionaries, Hiſtories, and the Romane and Reformed Churches, anſwered. pag. 168.
Chap. XXV.
The Objection, taken from the ſtatute and language of Lawyers, anſwered. pag. 175.
Chap. XXVI.
A compariſon of the names Sabbath, Lords day, and Sunday, with a reſolution of the Queſtion for the name Sabbath, as the beſt, and fitteſt to be the moſt uſuall title of our weekly Holiday. pag. 180.
Chap. XXVII.
A briefe accommodation of this Nomenclature, or nominall diſcourſe to ſome purpoſes of importance, concerning the Sabbath. pag. 197.
A Premonition concerning my Sonnes Verſes after written.
THough a learned and worthy aDoct. Primroſe in his Preface to the Reader, before his Sons Treatiſe on the Sabbath.Doctor of the French Church, honoured his Sonne ſo much, as to write to him, to deliver his mind concerning the Sabbath; I am not ſo fond a Father, as to conceive my Sonne (being yet by his yeares in his minority, and among Graduates of the Univerſity, but a meere freſh-man, having but newly ſtepp'd up to the firſt and loweſt degree of the Schooles) fit with that hand, which was but lately taken from the ferula, to take the Cenſors rod, and to paſſe his judgement (or if that be too grave a terme for one ſo young) his opinion or conceipt, either upon the Doctrine or any Dictates of the Sabbath: yet his filiall affection and poeticall fancy, prompting him to put pen to paper in theſe enſuing Verſes, and to ſend them to mee (with his deſire) that I would allow them ſome vacant page in my Book (as ſome what of kinne to mine own conceptions, becauſe they be his) I have aſſented to him; but with theſe two advertiſements to the Reader.
1. The one, That hee thinke not the better of mee or my Booke, for any praiſe they beſtow upon either; for Poetry is an Art of deceit, which meaſureth expreſſions not by the truth of the ſubject, but by the ſtrength of imagination working upon it; nor is it more diſpoſed to deceive, then naturall affection to be deceived; eſpecially in relations of neereſt degree (as betwixt us two) though it be uſually as more forcible, ſo more fallible in a deſcending, then in an aſcending operation.
2. The other is, That my meaning in this admittance of his Muſe before my Sabbatary diſcourſe, is to engage him openly to this holy cauſe (as *Hamilcar Hannibalem filium (non amplius novem annis natum) ad aram adduxit, eamque (caeteris remotis) tenentem jurare juſſit, nunquam in amicitiam cum Romanis fore. Aemil. Probus in vita Hannib. fol. 115.Hamilcar did his young ſonne Hannibal, privately in the cauſe of the Carthaginians againſt the Romans); that when time and ſtudie (with Gods bleſſing) have ripened him for any religious undertaking, hee may hold himſelfe ſolemnely bound to bee zealous for Gods right in this behalfe, and faithfull and reſolute to plead for it againſt all oppoſers. With theſe premiſſes I have left him roome, and given him leave (under my name) to write to the Reader in his owne ſtile, as followeth:
On the learned Treatiſe of my much honoured Father, intituled, Sunday a Sabbath.
Deare Sir,
PArdon my fault, if't be preſumption here
Before your ſacred labours to appeare;
But if you will not, I ſhall make my pen
To keepe a Sabbath, and not write agen.
In former times you meant to put to preſſe
Your Engliſh Sabbath in a ″I purpoſed to publiſh it in Latin, becauſe it would not paſſe in Engliſh.Romane dreſſe;
But'twould have griev'd you (ſure) your work ſhould be
Abus'd by (what you hate) flat Popery;
For your own name would make moſt think it good,
And ſome to read what they not underſtood.
I ſtill lamented that your deske ſhould bee
The Sabbath's priſon, and ſtill kept from mee
As well as others; and 't was my delight
(Pardon the pious theft) to ſteale a ſight,
And then to wiſh, O that this might not be
Impriſon'd in a Latin liberty!
God heard my vote, and now hath made it true,
You would not ſtoop to times, *My confidence for this the Reader may ſee in the end of my Preface, written about five yeers agoe.times ſhould to you.
WILLIAM LEY, Student of Chriſt-Church.