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B00106	A short treatise, agaynst the prophanation of the Lord's day, especiallie by salmond-fishing thereon, in tyme of divine service. / By William Guild, D.D. minister in Aberdene, and chaplane to his Majestie..	Guild, William, 1586-1657.; Johnstoun, Arthur, 1587-1641. Epitaphium piscatoris.	1637 (1637)	STC 12491; ESTC S92781	21,843	84

A SHORT TREATISE Agaynst the prophanation of the LORD'S DAY Especiallie By Salmond Fishing thereon In tyme of Divine Service MATH xxij 21. Giue vnto GOD that which is God's EZEK xxiij 38. Moreover this they haue done vnto mee they haue prophaned my Sabbath By WILLIAM GUILD D. D. Minister in ABERDENE and Chaplane to his Majestie Printed in Aberdene by Edward Raban 1637. BON ACCORD Insignia Vrbis abredoniae TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL RELIGIOUS AND TRVE PATTERNE OF VERTVE Sr THOMAS BVRNET OF LEYES KNIGHT c. And to his moste Religious and worthie Ladie Dame IEANE MONCRIEF Grace and Blessings here Glorie and Beatitude hereafter RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL IT is not without cause that the observation of the LORDS Day is called THE KEY OF RELIGION which being neglected the same should quicklie decaye and quyte perish out of the hearts of men and so they should turne Athiestes and become without GOD in the World For preventing whereof the LORD praefixed a speciall Memento to the fourth Precept of His Morall Law enjoyning men to Remember to keepe holie the Sabbath Day and subjoyning a moste pithie reason thereof But alace men now vnder the Gospell are come to such a degree of impietie with vs that tho they haue a more forcible reason to obserue the LORRS DAY whereon our Saviour rose and brought vs from Death to Lyfe agayne and which from the beginning hitherto the Christian Church also everie where hath so religiouslie observed Yet these not through oblivion nor ignorance but agaynst knowne light and wilfullie as also both peartlie and publicklie to the high offence of GOD and scandall of His People prophane that Holie Daye consecrated to His Worship by Salmond-Fishing thereon in tyme of Divine Service whereby GOD is depryved of His Honour the Church of Reverence the Common-wealth of Order the Bodie of Rest the Soule of Edification the Life of Direction GOD'S Word of Audience and His Law of Obedience counting onelie their Gayne to bee Godlinesse and not as the Apostle sayeth Godlinesse to bee great Gayne 1. Tim. 6. ● and esteeming the Word of GOD in the mouthes of His Servantes because it crosseth their commoditie as it did Alexander the Copper-smith's even as Pharao called it in the mouth of MOSES for the lyke cause Exod. 5.9 Vayne wordes onlie not to be regarded tho one day they know they shall bee judged thereby Yea some are come to that hight of impietie hating to be reformed Psal 50.27 that they dare call in question the verie Institution and lawfulnesse of the observation thereof which Augustine declareth Aug. Epist. 118. ad Ian. Insolentissmae esse insaniae or an expression a fit of a most insolent audacious madnesse not worthie of anie modest answere For due informing and reclayming of whom if they bee not lyke Babell which would not bee cured I haue taken these paynes in all loue and care of their salvation and shall count it my greatest joye and most happie bestowed travells if heereby besides my preaching and daylie prayers for them I may fish by the Nette of the Gospell but one Soule amongst them to bee obedient to the LORD and lyke Noah in his age by their practise to oppose the speat of wicked and common Example But if not wee that are their Pastoures must not bee quyte discowraged because wee see neyther our paynes nor preaching to prevayle seeing that Noah in cxx years both by preaching and building the Arke lykewyse converted not one soule of the whole world to fayth and repentance and that the Lord's Prophets haue beene commanded to preach and yet it hath beene told them before-hand Ezek. 3.4 that they should not bee heard yea moreover Isai 6.10 that their doctrine should harden the heartes of the hearers But this wee shall doe 1. Sam. 15.35 As Samuell mourned for Saull whom he could not mende and as the Apostle bewayled those that sinned 2. Cor. 12.21 and had not repented So our soules shall not ceasse to mourne for them in secret and in the meane whyle our worke shall be with our God And whether our labours bee vnto lyfe or death to our hearers to convert or convince them we shall bee vnto God a sweete savour in Christ 2. Cor. 2.15 both in them that are saved and in them that perish These paynes then Sir I haue dedicated to Your Worship for sundrie respectes and diverse obliegementes mooving mee but especiallie in regarde of that religious disposition and zealous affection Yee haue to the Trueth and hatered agaynst such enormous abuses as this or anie lyke wilfull grosse violation of Gods holy Cōmandements with which disposition both evidently eminently is conjoyned a patterne in Your person of an assiduous vertuous inclination that so for Religion Policie your W. is famous both in Church Commonwealth even as it was wished of Boaz that hee might doe worthilie in Ephratha and bee famous in Bethlehem With the constancie of which worthie imitable parts Ruth 4.1 I shall also wish the continuance of all true happinesse both with your self your most religious Ladie honorable House all Your hopefull Posteritie as one who shall ever approue himselfe Your Worships in all due and addebted affection WILLIAM GUILD THE CONTENTS Chapter I. Of the occasion of this short Treatise Pag. 1 Chapter II. Of the state of the Question and first That the Lord's publicke Worship is Morall oblieging all men and That a certayne daye hath beene observed holie for the same in all ages Pag. 5 Chapter III. The manie reasons first taken from Christ's honouring the Lord's day Why all true Christians haue ever and still should honour the same Pag. 13 Chapter IV. The Apostles their observation of the Lord's daye in lyke manner and the lyke practise of all Christian Churches both in their tyme and after Pag. 19 Chapter V. The holie speaches and religious exhortations of the ancient Fathers both Greeke and Latine or of the Easterne Westerne Church for the due keeping holie of the LORD'S Day Pag. 25 CHAP. VI. The Decrees of Councels as also of Godlie Emperours and Princes for the due observation of the Lord's Daye Pag. 28 CHAP. VII The Ancient and Moderne Constitutions both of our owne Church and Kingdome of Scotland for due observation of the LORD'S DAY Pag. 33 CHAP. VIII The Ancient and Moderne Constitutions both of the Church and Kingdome of ENGLAND for due observation of the LORD'S DAY Pag. 36 Chapter IX Howe the Lord's day is to bee observed and what workes are permissible or not permissible thereon And speciallie That the Salmond-fishing thereon is no wayes permissible or lawfull Pag. 39 CHAP. X. What are the manie and great evills which the prophaning of the LORD'S DAY by Salmond-Fishing produceth Pag. 49 CHAP. XI The CONCLUSION by way of a faythfull Warning from the head of the Watch-Towre for exoneration at least of our owne Soules whom GOD hath set

inclination in man to depute a time for everie necessarie thing as meat and sleepe or the lyke which concerneth his bodie even so seeing hee hath a soule also naturall reason would dyte that hee should also depute a time for the refreshment of his soule And therefore the deputing a time for attending divyne Worship and holie exercises onlie falleth vnder the Precept of the Morall Law In lyke manner sayth AUREOLUS it is the law of nature Aureolus in 3. Dist. 37. artic that sometyme wee should rest from servile worke that we may serue GOD and this is evident heereby because I am as much obliedged to GOD as to my selfe but the law of nature and reason also dytes that I should take a certaine time to procure my owne welfare and those things that are necessarie for mee Therefore I ought also take a time to attend GODS Worship and to remember His benefites which Hee hath bestowed on mee Now as for the proportion of this tyme which should bee so bestowed none I thinke can doubt but that proportion is fittest that can bee imagined which the Lord made choyse of for His owne people to wit the seaventh day And nature informed by God can not but acknowledge His goodnesse and wisedome in this His choyse and appoyntment that Hee hath so tempered it that neyther the long space betweene should suffer vs to forget our duetie to Him nor the too quicke returne thereof should hinder vs in our provyding the necessities of Nature for our selues Therefore sayeth learned HOOKER that wee are bound to to account the sanctification of one day in the seaven Hooker Eccles Pol. P. 379. a duetie which GODS immutable law doeth exact for ever And this wee see to haue beene practised before the Law vnder the Law and vnder the Gospell First before the Law was givē on Sinai and before the seaventh day was indicted by way of the fourth Precept of the first Table as the Lords Sabbath in memorie of the Creation wee find that the same day was observed as a day of holie rest vnto the LORD EXOD. 16.22.26 while the people were in the Wildernesse of SIN which is between ELIM and SINAI so consequently before they came to SINAI where the Law was given in that they did gather vpon the sixt day by the LORDS command twyse as much MANNA as they did vpon anie former day that so they might rest vpon the seaventh as a Sabbtah consecrate to the LORD who also did rest Himselfe from the worke of Creation that day so from the beginning did sanctifie and halow it Therfore sayth Saynct CHRYSOSTOME Chrysost in Gen. 2.3 vpon these wordes in GENESIS GOD blessed the seaventh day and halowed it From the beginning God intimateth vnto vs this doctrine sayeth hee instructing vs to separate and lay asyde one whole day to Himselfe in the compasse of everie weeke and to destinate it for spirituall and holie exercises Secondlie vnder the Law that the seaventh day after the creation was appointed to bee the Lord's Sabbath none can deny Deut. 5.14 who knoweth the ten Precepts of the morall Law Levit. 23.3 which the LORD ordayned straytlie to bee observed by all persons First Exod. 34.21 by a cessation from all servile work whatsoever tho in Seed-time and Harvest to obviate thereby as seemeth a pretended necessitie at sometymes importing great prejudice or danger if they laboured not vpon the Sabbath as in Harvest especiallie because of an irrecoverable season Secondlie the Lord appoynted it to bee halowed * Aug. de temp serm 251. Athanas in Math. 11.27 by a religious application of themselues to the works of His publicke worship and for the more peremptorie observation whereof Hee prefixed a Note of speciall rememberance beyonde all the rest fore-seeing as it were that some irreligious persons would eyther more careleslie neglect or audaciouslie breake this Commandement Neyther can any but most clearlie see a no lesse necessarie duetie incumbent vpon Christians to obserue a seaventh day holie to the Lord than was on the IEWES of olde of whom the LORD requyreth 1. No lesse proportion of service and thankfulnesse for a farre greater benefite than that of the Creation 2. In respect of the Christian Church which requyreth no lesse proportion of order and comelinesse 3. In regard of our soules which neede no lesse proportion of tyme and meanes to bee instructed and sanctified and 4 In respect of the bodies of servants and cattell which beeing inferiour in strength to those of former ages neede no lesse proportion of rest and refreshment Therefore vnder the Gospell from the verie Apostles dayes hitherto according to VINCENTIUS rule of CATHOLICISME semper vbique ab omnibus the whole Christian Church everie where and ever hitherto hath keeped as a Catholicke observation a seaventh day holie to the LORD to wit the day of the Lords Resurrection which was the first day of the IEWISH weeke that as the Sabbath vnder the Law was a note of difference betweene the IEWES and the GENTILES so the Lords day vnder the Gospell should bee a note of difference betweene Christians who belieue the Resurrection of Christ and incredulou● IEWES who denye the same And tha● this observation of the Lords day fo● the exercise of His publick worship was Apostolicall and Christianly Catholicke without controversie in all Ages none I hope is so bold as once to denye So that now as AUGUSTINE sayeth Hoc quin ita faciendum sit disputare Aug. Epist. 118. ad Iannar insolentissimae insaniae est that is To dispute now whether this were to bee observed or no it were nothing else but most insolent madnesse CHAP. III. The manie reason's first taken from Christs honouring the LORDS day why all true Christians haue ever and still should honour the same THE first and mayne reason then why our morall duetie commanded in the fourth Precept doeth now chiefelie appertayne to the LORDS Day and consequentlie why all Christians haue ever and still should obserue the Lords Day is Because our Saviour the Lord Iesus rose from death to lyfe that day and so victoriouslie triumphed over His and our enemies by vertue of which His Resurrection wee are raised spirituallie from sinne to grace heere and shall be raised corporally from the graue to glorie heereafter Therefore said IGNATIUS Bishop of ANTIOCH who lived in Sainct IOHNS time Ignat. ad Magnesian epist 3. Let every one who loveth CHRIST keepe holie the LORD'S Day renowned by His Resurrection which is the Queene of dayes wherein Death was over-come and Lyfe sprang vp in Christ againe And agayne sayth AUGUSTINE Domini resuscitatio promisit nobis aeternum diem Aug. de verb. Apostoli serm 15. consecravit nobis Dominicum diem that is The LORDS rysing from dead hath promised vnto vs an eternall Day of rest and hath consecrated vnto vs the LORDS Day Chrysost in Psal 118. serm 5. de resurr