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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60508	A Sabbath of rest to be kept by the saints here, or, A treatise of the Sabbath, and such holy and religious duties as are required for the sanctification of it, the great Sabbath of rest that remaineth to be kept by God's saints hereafter delivered in divers sermons upon Heb. 4. 9. / by Nicholas Smith ...	Smith, Nicholas, d. 1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4139; ESTC R12921	26,607	40

others God will most especially reward The Word of God it should be publickly read on the Lords-day this is a holy and religious Exercise that is proper for the day and so necessary for the Sanctification of the Sabbath that it cannot be omitted It was usual to read something out of Holy Writ to the People every Sabbath day as you may see by that which is alleadged by St. Paul Act. 13. 27. Where he setteth it forth that the Rulers of the Jews condemned our Saviour because they knew not the voyces of the Prophets which were read every Sabbath day By this place of Scripture it is plain that it was in use to read something out of the Law and the Prophets every Sabbath-day This Custom it hath been solemnly kept and religiously observed by the Christan Churches and reading of the Scriptures as it is a Religious Exercise proper for the Day and necessary for the sanctification of the Sabbath so it is of great use and tendeth much to Edification Our Church hath wisely appointed and religiously constituted that some of the Psalms of David should be read every Sabbath-day There be likewise Lessons appointed to be read every Lords-day two at Morning and two at Evening Prayer one out of the Old another out of the New Testament Epistles and Gospels are appointed to be read on every Sabbath thoroughout the year Where there is no Preacher or when the Minister is not prepared to Preach there be godly Homilies and fruitfull Exhortations appointed to be read unto the People If then you desire to sanctifie the Sabbath by performing in it holy and relâ—gious Exercises you shall do well to attend to the Word of God publickly read hereby you shall gain Knowledge in the Scriptures and be fitted and prepared to receive the engraâ—ted VVord of God which is able to save your souls Yea the Reading of Homilies is a kind of Preaching and if it be carefully and conscionably used no doubt but it may be as effectual peradventure more effectua for the Conversion of Souls than most Sermons that are preached in these times Think then of this holy and religious Exercise how proper it â—s for the day how necessary for the sanctification of the Sabbath and let no Lords day pass without coming up to the Temple to hear the Word of God publickly read unto you The Word of God publickly preached expounded unto the people by those that are set apart for that Office and Function It is the usual the ordinary Means of Salvation and when it is despised and contemned God will not work without it It is then a Religious Exercise of great use and of all other dayes the Sabbath is most proper for it Yet this I must say for I conceive it is the truth though the Sabbath be most proper for this Exercise yet this Exercise is neither so proper nor so necessary for the Sabbath that it should be impossible that the Sabbath should be sanctified without it This I shall easily evince out of the Scriptures in Acts 13. 15. we read how that after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogue sent unto Paul and Barnâ—bas saying Men and Brethren if you have any Word of Exhortation to say unto the People say on If it had been a custome of the Church to have Preaching in every Synagogue on every Sabbath day no doubt but the Reader that read there had been prepared to preach Neither would the Rulers of the Synagogue have desired the Apostles if they had any word of Exhortation to preach but rather would have said You are Ministers and Men of God alwayes prepared to Preach and therefore there is no doubt to be made but you have a Sermon and an Exhortation in readiness Though then it may be collected from hence that these Rulers were willing to accept of a Sermon when they did meet with such Ministers as were prepared to preach yet for certain their questioning with the Apostles whether they were prepared did shew that they did not hold Preaching so necessary that the Sabbath could not be sanctified without it Where the Word of God may be had by one or more able Ministers that the Word of God may he preached twice every Sabbath thrice every Sabbath if the Custom of the place be to have so many Sermons this I will not deny But that there must be Preaching every Sabbath day in every Congregation this I think it cannot be proved Some Ministers have made the world believe that the Sabbath in no place can be sanctified without preaching of Sermons and have wrought people to such an esteem of Sermons that all other of God's Ordinances are disesteemed so that no other holy and religious Exercises can find any place in the places where they are admitted but onely Sermons Yea they have turned Oratoria into Auditoria Houses of Prayer into Houses of Preaching and in all places where they have come have brought all holy and religious Exercises on the Lords day out of use but onely a Psalm and a Sermon God did never yet send such plenty of Labourers into his Harvest that there should be such store of able and painful Preachers that Sermons should be Preached every Sabbath day in every Congregation For my part I will pray unto the Lord of the Harvest that he would send Labourers into his Harvest could heartily wish that all the Ministers belonging to every Congregation in the Kingdom were indeed Prophets that they could Preach every Sabbath day or would Preach painfully and Conscionably though they Preached seldomer But this I say it is impossible that the Kingdom at this time should be thus Happy And some Ministers by buzzing in the ears of People that Preaching of the Word in every Congregation on every Sabbath-day is necessarily required by the Word of God have made the whole Kingdom miserable yea they have brought the Ordinance of God into contempt by their idle babling and lazy pratling who Talk much and often but Preach seldom But I beseech you beloved let not the abuse of God's Ordinance by some cause you to neglect the Lawful Use of it For Preaching it is the Power of God unto Salvation a Sabbath-days Exercise which of all others is of greatest Use for the Conversion of Souls for the bringing Men from Darkness to Light from Blindness and Ignorance to the Knowledge of God and of his Son Jesus Christ Be perswaded then hear the Word of God every Sabbath-day when it is publickly Preached and never miss the Sermons love those Ministers that Preach Painfully and Conscionably and despise not those who Preach often and plead earnestly for Preaching though you know and are assured that some of them are but lazy Preachers lest haply you be found despisers and contemners of the Ordinance of God There are other Holy and Religious Exercises which are required on the Sabbath-day Catechising the Youth and the Instructing them in the Principles of

A SABBATH Of REST to be kept by the SAINTS here OR A Treatise of the Sabbath and such Holy and Religious Duties as are required for the Sanctification of it Exod. 31. 13. Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a Sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that Sanctifie you The Great SABBATH of REST That remaineth to be Kept by God's SAINTS Hereafter Deut. 12. 9. Ye are not yet come to the Rest nor to the Inheritance that the Lord your God giveth you 2 Thes 1. 7. To you that are troubled Rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels Heb. 13. 14. Here have we no continuing City but we seek one to come Delivered in Divers Sermons upon Heb. 4. 9. By Nicholas Smith Master of Arts and Vicar of Braughing in Hartford-shire London Printed by J. R. for Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head Alley next Cornhill 1675. ERRATA PAge 3. Line 7. eyes for eye Ibid. l. 18. sins for sin p. 4. l. 1. chose for chosen p. 6. l. 10. day left out p. 15. l. 3. Christan for Christian p. 18. l. 20. for to be left out p. 20. l. 31. Sabbath for Sabbaths p. 22. l. 34. look for seek p. 26. l. 16. a is leâ—t out Psalm for a Psalm p. 28. l. 8. looking for seeking p. 28. l. 11. Man for Men. p. 30. l. 27. a left out Sabbath for a Sabbath p. 31. l. 6. weeks for week-days To the READER CHristian Reader How much the Laws of the Church and Kingdom are violated by Papists and Sectaries thou canst not be ignorant The spreading Contagion of Schisme and Heresie doth dilate it self through the whole Land and the Evil is so Vniversal that to the Worlds eye it seemeth Remediless and past Cure The several Sects that have of late days sprung up are so frequent and common in all places and parts of the Kingdom and the numbers that adhere to them are so many and the stream runs so strongly for them that a toleration hath been thought necessary and Liberty hath been granted to the several Sectaries to have their Publick Meetings and it was thought as necessary by Rulers and Governours that the Papists likewise should have a toleration in their Religion though they were not permitted to have their Publick Meetings or Meeting-places The Sectaries of late days having been found as dangerous and pernicious as the Papists and their Practices rather more than less Destructive to the Publick Peace of the Church and Kingdom But now His Sacred Majesty and both Houses of Parliament having by joynt Consent made the Laws of the Church and Kingdom binding to all and having thought it necessary not to admit of any Toleration and having Declared against all Back-sliding to Popery or Schism I have assumed the boldness to manifest to the World that nothing can more conduce to the Publick Peace of this Miserable Distracted Kingdom than to have the Laws of the Church and Kingdom Observed without consenting to any Changes or Alterations whatsoever And hope that this Sermon will find Acceptance of those who are in Authority and likewise of all Pious Christians who are for the Laws of the Church and Kingdom But yet I do Confess I do after a despairing manner settle my self to this Task We have been heretofore and are still by God's just permission for our sins so miserably Afflicted by Papists and Sectaries that I am out of hopes of prevailing and were it not so that I did more trust in Divine help and assistance than in Humane I had never set Pen to Paper to Write In this clear Light of the Gospel there could not be such Opposition of the Laws of God and the Land as there is if there were not some Papists and Sectaries who go against their Consciences and resist the Truth But it is to be that there be some such amongst us who stand for the Truth the Religion and Laws Established The good God open our Eyes to see our sins and give us Grace to Judge our selves that so the time may come when God may see their sins to be greater than ours and Discover and bring to light their Treacherous Practices their secret sins and under-hand workings so as may make for his Glory the publick Peace of the Church and Kingdom Those Ignorant Papists and Sectaries who are fraudulently circumvented and unawares seduced by Crafty Hereticks and Schismaticks who lie in wait to deceive I pity them and pray unto God for them that he would open their Eyes to see their Errors and amend their sins and hope that God may touch the Hearts of some of them and cause them to give over their slandering and iraducing of those who perswade them to Obedience and be willing themselves to be Obedient to the Laws of the Church and Kingdom and Labour to win others to Submit themselves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake And pray for those whose Hearts desire and prayer for them is that they might be Saved That so they with all Saints praying for those of the Magistracy and Ministry who stand for the Laws of God the Church and Kingdom We may have Peace among our selves at home and with our Enemies abroad and the Church of God may have Peace and be Edified walking in the fear of the Lord and the Comfort of the Holy Ghost This shall be the Prayer of him who is one of the meanest of the Houshold of Faith and desireth no other Honour than to Subscribe himself A Servant of the Church and of all Saints Nicholas Smith A Sabbath of Rest to be kept by the Saints here Or a Treatise of the Sabbath and such holy and Religious Duties as are required for the Sanctification of it Heb. 4. ver 9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the People of God GOd that made the world and all things therein seeing â—ne is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither is worshipped with â—eâ—s hands as though he needed any thing He is independent He standeth not in need of our Praises or of our Prayers If Churches be pull'd down Churchmen cast off the means allotted to God's worship and service either embezled or employed to prophane uses They that doe these things they may hurt themselves they cannot hurt God God receiveth no additional perfection by mens honouring him by their adoring and worshiping him If Temples be built His Name called upon His Sabbaths sanctified and the means allotted to his Worship and service employed to that use for which it was ordained so that men honour God with their substance and with the first fruits of their increase God his happiness is not hereby increased He was happy when these things were not done and will be happy when these things shall again cease to be performed but yet if the world continue and the great Sabbath of rest

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