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A67849	The Lords-day, or, A succinct narration compiled out of the testimonies of H. Scripture and the reverend ancient fathers and divided into two books : in the former whereof is declared, that the observation of the Lords Day was from the Apostles ... : in the later is shewn in what things its sanctification doth consist ... / lately translated out of the Latine.; Dies dominica. English	Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1672 (1672)	Wing Y93; ESTC R5902	202,632	471

have been made for us unworthy creatures for afflictions for recreations for Hell for punishment for the Kingdom of Heaven We pray thee preserve our soul holy having a pure conscience and to make our end worthy thy clemency Thou that hast so loved us as to give us thy onely begotten son vouchsafe us to be worthy thy love Give us wisdom in thy word and in thy fear O onely begotten Christ inspire us with thy fortitude Then that hast given for us thy onely begotten and sent forth thy Holy Spirit for the remission of our sins if we have willingly or against our will sinned pardon it and impute it not to us Remember all them that call upon thy name in truth Remember all that wish us well and ill For we are all of us men And then having added a Prayer of the faithful as it were for a certain conclusion and winding up for all persons he having made this Prayer here he ended And thus he The aforesaid Prayer was rehearsed in Chrisostom's presence but where or when it is not evident out of the fore-cited place It seems to me without prejudicing others to have been recited by one that was entring upon a Treating out of the Word of God especially since he calls him by whom it was used 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. a holy man And secondly he used this Prayer when he begun to speak for before it he said nothing Thirdly Chrysostom speaks of his frequent using it when he himself was also present but Laicks had never liberty to pray frequently when any of the Clergy were by much less when St. Chrysostom was present who yet confesses that he heard him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. so to pray Fourthly the whole form of the Prayer shews plain enough that it was used publickly for whetherfoever he give thanks or petition God in it he pleads not only his own cause but others and alwayes speaks in the plural number Fifthly he seems to speak it with respect had to the Word for he begs for wisdom in the word Lastly he said nothing before he used it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But it is not credible that the men of that age did in their ordinary discourses burn with such an ardency of zeal towards God as that they would not begin them without premising Prayer to God These things perswade me to believe that the aforesaid Prayer was used publickly at the Treating upon the Word but let the wise judge Basilius M. shews that Prayers were wont to be said by the whole assembly after that the President went up into the Pulpit to teach or expound any thing out of the Scriptures for he makes this the beginning of his Sermon I need the Prayers of them that love the Lord that by the grace of the good God and his Christ the holy and good Spirit may admonish and teach us those things it hath heard from the Lord and may direct our mind into the way of peace and into found words to the edifying of faith Basil de Baptism Austin useth the same preface when he begins his fifteenth Sermon De verbis Apostoli Cyprian spoke not only the words which came from the fountains of the Scripture but with the words he joyned Prayers and requests to God that both for himself and his auditors he might both open the treasures of his Sacraments and also that he would give strength to supply them with what they should know These things shew that the Blessed Martyr at his Treating out of the Scripture did pour out Prayers to God that what he said might be useful both to himself and his hearers for without Gods mercy all the watchfulness of a Pastor is in vain Therefore did Cyprian adjoyn Prayer to his Treatises to implore the mercy of God that what was heard might turn into deeds Yea Austin judges that Prayer is so necessary to him that is to treat upon the Scripture before he begin that work that none in his opinion ought to teach them before he pray and that at the same time before he let loose his tongue to preach he lift up his thirsty soul to God that he may cast up that which he hath drunk in And afterwards cap. 30. Let him that is to speak to the people pray that God would give good words into his mouth c. And what Augustine required of other Doctors with great devotion he performed himself in that he earnestly begged of God when he spoke to the people that he might utter what was true and suitable in his Sermon and what the hearers might understand and what they might believe 2. When the Prayer was ended they entred upon the Treatise and they were usually wont to preach to the hearers out of the Lessons of Scripture which were then read Tertullian saith that the Lessons of Scripture were rehearsed in the assembly as the quality of the times required either to forewarn or to call to remembrance that is they applied the Scriptures that were read to the quality of the times So sayes Justin Martyr the President instructed the People with his oration to imitate those things which were read in the Records of the prophets and Apostles ap 2. Ambrose applied the History of Job and prophecy of Jonas as he read them to the use of his hearers August Tract in Joh. c. 12. 13. and the same appeareth every where from those Treatises Origen saith that he intended briefly to admonish his hearers of those things that had been read Hom. 8. in Levit. Athanasius saith in the beginning of his Oration De Semente We have heard now how Jesus went through the corn fields and how he healed the withered hand wherefore ● think it convenient if we discourse a little upon the Lesson in the Gospel Sometimes they also did interpret that place of Scripture which the people were greatly desirous should be explained unto them which the words of Basil M. who was about to make a Sermon to the People on Christs Baptisme do testifie For he saith that he entertained with a ready mind their pious admonition in Christ about the most glorious baptism of Christ and acknowledgeth that he will be very ready to speak of it according to his ability Thirdly in their Treatises they lookt to this that what was read should be applied to the peoples use So Tertull. ap c. 39. Justin Martyr Apol. 2. saith that the President did exhort the hearers to the imitation of what was read and not without reason for to preach is according to Isychius in Levit. lib. 2. c. 9. to exhort the people Origen contra Celsum lib. 3. affirms that the Christians expounded the Scriptures as they read them that they might exhort the people to piety towards God and unto other virtues Ambrose also accommodated the Scriptures as they were read to the present use and edification of the people partly by teaching and partly by reproving

DIES DOMINICA OR THE Lords Day Ignat. Epist. ad Magnes After the Sabbath let all that love Christ celebrate the Lords Day as being consecrated to the Lords Resurrection the Queen and Princess of all dayes THE Lords-Day OR A SUCCINCT NARRATION Compiled Out of the Testimonies of H. SCRIPTURE and the Reverend Ancient FATHERS and Divided into Two Books In the former whereof is declared That the observation of the Lords Day was from the Apostles and by the Christian Church solemnized in a continual series that its Institution was Divine and what things do hinder its solemnity In the Later is shewn In what things its Sanctification doth consist In both which also Several Ecclesiastical Antiquities not unworthy to be known are explained Lately Translated out of the Latine Aug. de verb. Apost Serm. 15. The Lords Resurrection hath promised us an eternal day and consecrated for us the Lords Day which is called the Lords Day because it seemeth to belong properly to the Lord. Acta Martyrum apud Baronium an 303. n. 37 c. The Martyrs being called into judgment and ask'd of the Proconsul Whether they had done their Collect or celebrated the Lords day answered with the same words often repeated that they were Christians that they had done thes Lords Collect and celebrated the Lords Day with a congruou devotion of Religion because it could not be intermitted London Printed by E Leach and are to be sold by Nevil Symmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard 1672. TO THE READER Reader IN the midst of our distractions confusions and desolations our declinings and the increase of wickedness in the land it would be no small reviving to our hopes if we could but procure a more general and conscientious observation of the Lords day I mean not a Judaizing Touch not Taste not Handle not Go but a Sabbath dayes journey Heal not on the Sabbath day Rub not the Ears of Corn to eat c. but a holy diligence all the day in learning the Will of God in reading and hearing his Word in singing and speaking out his praises in calling upon his name in the Communion of Saints in the Sacramental Commemoration of the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour till he come Nor do I mean the preferring of the Name of the Sabbath before the naming of it The Lords Day But the real separation of it for these Holy works from all works that are common and unclean not calling that unclean which God hath cleansed but avoiding all unnecessary things which are a true impediment to the duties of the day and to the edification and comfort of our Souls Could we but procure a general Conscience of this Holy day and work Oh what a blessed means would it prove to the increase of knowledge and holiness among us How could men spend one day of seven in the serious reading and hearing of Gods Word and not grow in the understanding of it How could they spend each week a day in hearing heavenly discourses and in holy prayers praises and thanksgivings and not become themselves more holy if they did this in good earnest and not with hypocritical formality Where there is a profitable publick Ministry what a furtherance would this be to its success Where there is not O what a supply would this be in Families If Parents and Masters did but spend the day in Catechising their Children and Servants and reading to them the Word of God and holy profitable Books and in praying singing of Psalms and fruitful Conferences how much would it make up the loss of a profitable Ministry where there is none But I confess for those many thousand families where none is able thus to Read or Pray the case is hard in these times when they dare not come to their neighbours families that can help them But O that the love of our souls were as strong as natural self-love is in the preservation of our lives If prohibited persons did put the case to me Whether it were lawful for them against their Rector's wills to go beg bread at their neighbours houses rather than famish or feed on grass I think their resolutions would anticipate my answer And if he have not the love of God in him who seeth his brother in need and shutteth up the bowels of compassion from him I may inferr that he neither rightly loveth God nor himself who will suffer his Soul and Family to famish and deny God his Worship and spend the Lords own Day unprofitably and think it a sufficient excuse to say I was forbidden and man must be obeyed Nor will it excuse Neighbours from helping one another who live out of the reach of publick helps as alas too many do especially in the remote parts of the Kingdome to cast the blame on negligent Ministers or to cry out It is the Prelates that famish so many souls nor to complain of the silencing of Faithful Teachers For every man hath his own part to do in building up the City of God And if you do not your own work you do but condemn your selves while you complain of others Was that your Covenant with Christ that you would serve him if others did or if none forbad you or else not If others perform not their duty will you sin for company and yet condemn them If you think they do ill why will you imitate them If well why do you blame them Do you cry out of silent or unprofitable Ministers and do you think that silence and unprofitableness in the Governour of a Family is no crime What if all the rest of the Town denied food or cloathing to the poor Would your obligation to feed and cloath them think you be the less or the greater As ever you would have your families to be under the blessing and protection of God and not exposed to the miseries of such as he forsaketh see that you dedicate them as holy Societies to God and set up his Government over them and his worship among them especially in the Holy Improvement of the Lords Dayes And I take it to be a merciful and comfortable prognostick that God hath suddenly stirred so many to write on this subject and to confute all that is said against this duty And some more are ready if not hindred shortly to come forth Among them all I take this Book to be of singular weight and worth which having declared in my own lately published on this subject it hath occasioned many to enquire after it and a worthy Knight who had this Translation by him to be willing to publish it I confess I intended no more than to provoke the Learned to take more notice of the Book as it is in the Latin Tongue For being strong in the testimonies of Antiquity and the opening of Church-customes on which as an historical evidence of fact I laid in this controversie no small stress I thought it fittest for the perusal of the Learned But seeing it