The Lords Day, Table of contents
AN INDEX OF THE CHAPTERS.
BOOK 1.
THe Preface; in which firſt is propounded the Scope of this Treatiſe. Secondly, is shewn why we meet with more things about the duties of the Lords Day▪ in the later, than in the former Councils. Thirdly, how far the Church at this day may be obliged by the authorities of Provincial Councils, that ordain theſe duties, although ſome things of leſser value be put among their Canons. Fol. 1.
Chapter 1. That to the ſolemn Worſhip of God a determined time is neceſſary. Concerning the Aſsemblies of the Apoſtles, and how they were preſent in the Jewiſh Synagogues on the Sabbath day. 1.
Chap. 2. The ordinary time obſerved for celebrating the publick worſhip of God, after Chriſts death, was the Lords day, ſolemnly uſed by the Chriſtian Church, in the very Apoſtles age. Three Texts of the New Teſtament, namely, Acts 20. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 2. and Rev. 1, 10. are briefly weighed. 14.
Chap. 3. After the Apoſtles death, the Church met upon other dayes than the Lords. The antient Christians obſerved the Sabbath not as an holy day: the differences between the obſervation of the Lords day and Sabbath. How Conſtantine the Great ordained the Paraſceve to be obſerved. Anniverſary Feſtivals were not celebrated with that ſolemnity, as the Lords Day. Anniverſary Feſtivals not to be preferred to the Lords days: anciently they bowed not the knee on the Lords Day. 30.
Chap. 4. The chief of the Fathers make mention of the Lords day ſolemnity: the authority whereof depends not upon the Emperours Conſtitutions. When it was firſt ordained that Judges ſhould ceaſe from hearing Law-ſuits on the Lords day: the Chriſtians were puniſhed for obſerving it. VVhat it is Dominicum agere. 52.
Chap. 5. The reaſon of obſerving the Lords Day. It's called the firſt day of the week by the Evangeliſts and Fathers, and the Lords day: Sunday alſo, and why: the Sabbath, and Chriſtian Sabbath. VVhy the Fathers uſed ſo ſeldome the name Sabbath. VVhat Synaxis may ſignifie with the Ancients. 66.
Chap. 6. The whole Lords Day is to be ſanctified to God, and not onelyonly ſome part thereof. 77.
Chap. 7. The ordinance of the Lords day is not properly to be reckoned amongſt unwritten Traditions. It was inſtituted of Chriſt by the Apoſtles. The Apoſtles prerogatives above other Miniſters of the Church: the things ordained by the Apoſtles are of Divine right. 90.
Chap. 8. In the compaſs of a week one day was ſanctified, from the beginning of the world. This is affirmed by Jews and Chriſtians. How Adam had need of the Sabbath. Mention of a ſeventh day obſerved amongſt the Heathen. The authorities are weighed, wherein the obſervation of the Sabbath among the Patriarchs, is denied. VVhy the Heathens are not upbraided with the profanation of the Sabbath. 107.
Chap. 9. One day in the week is even under the Goſpel, to be ſanctified. The morality of the Fourth Command, which is perpetual, requires this. Chriſt hath not aboliſhed the Law. How the Sabbath is ſaid to be a ſign between God and the Church. 134.
Chap. 10. A day in every week is to be ſanctified under the Goſpel, which is not the ſeventh, but firſt. The ceſsation of the Jewiſh Sabbath. Col. 2. 16. and Gal. 4. 10. are conſidered. The places on which the obſervation of the Lords Day in the New Teſtament, is bottomed. The Fathers acknowledge its Divine authority. The Church cannot change that day; and ſubstitute another in its room. 145.
Chap. 11. VVherein the ſanctification of the Lords day conſiſteth: where ſomething is ſaid about reſting from gainful labours; which the Fathers carefully cautioned againſt, that they ſhould not be uſed on that day. A place of Chryſoſtom, Gregory M. and of the Coun. of Laodicea is explained. And a Canon of the ſecond Co…n…. of Matiſcon. 178.
Chap. 12. How far forth on the Lords Day we may attend labours, namely, of neceſſity and piety. Countrey▪ men are bound to ſanctifie the Lords day. The indulgence granted to Countrey men by Conſtantine the Great is examined, and revoked. The fact of Paula, and the practice of the Coenobite… [or Monasticks] in Hierom is weighed. The ſenſe alſo of a Canon of the Council of Orleans. Manumiſſions, and certain tranſactions on the Lords day. 197.
Chap. 13. The Lords day not to be profaned by ſurfeting. Servants not to be called off from ſanctifying the Lords day. We are not to fast on the Lords day. Whether St. Ambroſe was wont to feaſt on the Lords Day. 218.
Chap. 14. Sports are not at all to be held on the Lords day, by the judgment of divers Fathers and Emperours. Four kinds of ſhowes condemned by the Fathers, and not to be acted on the Lords day, and not onelyonly while the ſacred meetings are kept. 2…9.
BOOK II.
Chap. 1. THe Lords Dayes ſolemnities were both publick and private: publick aſsemblies of the Church on the Lords Day, the mention whereof we meet with more frequently in the ſucceeding, than the former Church. Night meetings: and why aboliſhed at this day. Meetings before day, and on the day, in the morning, and in the evening. 249.
Chap. 2. What was done in the publick meetings of the Church. Reading of the Scriptures. What Scriptures were read: Humane writings were alſo read in the Church. The order in reading of Scriptures. The Readers of Scripture ſtood in the ſight of the whole people▪ 262.
Chap. 3. Explaining of Scripture on Lords Dayes, which was called Treating. Whoſe office it was to do this. Who the Clerici were among the ancients. Biſhops, q. Watchers, Overſeers, and Superintendents. The Biſhops interpreted the Scriptures. Preſbyters, Deacons, ſometimes Catechists, and ſometimes alſo private men did the ſame. 274.
Chap. 4. Converning the manner of expounding Scriptures, in uſe with the ancients. Treating begunwith Prayer. The text of the Treating. The Scriptures that were read, applyed to the peoples uſe. The Treaters did ſometime ſtand, and ſometimes ſit. After Treating followed Prayer: when that was ended; a Pſalm was ſung to God. 285.
Chap. 5. Whether the bare reading of Scripture in the Church aſſembly, be properly preaching? and how the reading of the Scripture may be called preaching. 295.
Chap. 6. The time aſſigned to the Treatiſes of the ancients, namely, how long they lasted Their Treatiſes were not long: ordinarily about an hour: but they were not tied to an hour: None were to go forth before the end of the Treatiſe. 301.
Chap. 7. The ancients treated every day out of the Scriptures. Neither did they prohibit others, who taught diligently from that their diligence in teaching. 307.
Chap. 8. They were wont on the Lords dayes to Treat out of the Scriptures. 312.
Chap. 9. Both in the Old and New Teſtament, in celebrating the Sabbaths ſolemnity, after reading of the Scriptures, followed their interpretation. It's conſidered whether amongſt the Jews before the Babyloniſh captivity, the interpreting of the Law was uſed on their Sabbath dayes. 318.
Chap. 10. The Church uſed Prayers on the Lords Day. Conventicles for Churches. Prayers onelyonly to God: the Praefectus began them. He prepares the people to pour them out. The Surſum corda: in Prayer the voice of all that worſhipped was one. They prayed as the Holy Ghoſt ſuggeſted to them. How this custome: for what the Church prayed. The poſture of the body in prayer. 335.
Chap. 11. Concerning Pſalms and Hymns that were ſung on the Lords Day. The uſe of Hymns was but of late time in the Weſtern Churches, although Baronius think otherwiſe. Whence the matter of Hymns was taken. 353.
Chap. 12. The manner of ſinging in the Church, was modeſt and ſober: the incommodities of a ſweeter voice in ſinging. The commodity of a well moderated ſinging. Antiphones, Organs. How none were to ſing in the Church, but thoſe that were choſen for that purpoſe. Broken Muſick diſallowed. A cenſure of that Muſick which is in uſe with the Papiſts. 359.
Chap. 13. Adminiſtration of the Sacraments on the Lords Day. 373.
Chap. 14. Who was to be preſent at all the offices of the Liturgy, and who not. The Catechumeni, Audientes, Competentes, Poenitentes, and their ſundry degrees: namely, ſome Lugentes, others Audientes, others Subſtrati, others Conſiſtentes, others Sacramentorum participantes. At what offices theſe were to be preſent, and what not. 375.
Chap. 15. Of places in which the Churches publick aſſemblies were held. 390.
Chap. 16. Private Duties of Religion to be performed on the Lords Day. Examining of what they heard. Conferring on the ſame. Meditating of the life to come: Amesig…th… ed for the poors uſe. …
Chap. 17. The Concluſion. 407.