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A15324	The doctrine of the Sabbath handled in foure seuerall bookes of treatises. The first of which intreateth of the day of rest. The second, of the duties of the day. The third, of the persons whom these duties concerne. And the fourth, the reasons vsed to perswade all persons to the practise of these duties vpon that day. Written by G.W. Master of Arts, and minister of the word of God in Portsmouth.	Widley, George, b. 1566 or 7.	1604 (1604)	STC 25610; ESTC S119957	129,925	252

appeareth Coloss 3. 16. and Eph. 5. 19. To that end also were the Psalmes made to be sung at any time Amongst al others the 92. Psalme is called a Psalme for the Sabbath But in our congregations for the most part they sit as by the riuers of Babylon hanging vp their harpes and holding downe their heads as in the daies of mourning not caring to sing these songs of Sion though we are in the middest therof we are not affected with the goodnesse pleasantnes and comelines thereof but a wilde morris or a wanton ballad affect vs a thousand times more though neither good pleasant nor comely And this much for the third mixt dutie § Sect. 5 The next dutie is catechising a thing wondred at by many for so great is the neglect that dutie it 4. Catechisme selfe is a wonder yet in the word taught most plainly Hebr. 6. 1 the first principles of religion are called the foundation and the teaching of them the laying of the foundation and there he rehearseth vp certaine principles as repentance faith baptisme Now that to catechise is required both priuately and publiquely and that as at all other times so especially vpon the Sabbath I will make to appeare And first that it ought to be performed in priuate is euident because that all which haue vnderstanding are bound to teach others Heb. 5. 12. the Apostle blameth them for that when as concerning the time they ought to bee teachers they had neede themselues to be taught the first principles And 1. Pet. 4. 10. Let euery man as he hath receiued the gift minister one to another but yet more specially this is required at the Ministers hand in the congregation and at the parents and masters hand in the house That it behoueth the Minister to catechise appeareth in that he is not onely required to be diligent to know the state of his flocke Pro. 27. 23 but much more to feede it 1. Pet. 5. 1. and not alone to feede the sheepe Ioh. 21. 16. but first to feede the lambes ibid. vers 15. And that Christ requireth them to doe euen as they loue him vers 17. which made Paul to doe it openly and from house to house Act. 20. 20. And this hee did continually and therfore out of question vpon the Sabbath And to doe this is the Ministers dutie for the loue of Christ inforceth them 2. Pet. 1. 12 13. And that this dutie may take the better effect husbands and parents and masters must doe the same The husband must doe it therefore their wiues are sent to schoole vnto them they must learne of their husband at home 1. Corinth 14. 35 then their husbands must teach them Parents must doe it for they must bring vp their children in the nurtriture of the Lord Ephes 6. 4. And Deut. 6. 7. Thou shalt rehearse these words continually vnto thy children c. Continually for it must be precept vpon precept For children come not vnto grace at an instance but by degrees They are like narrow mouthed cups a man cannot powre in all at once into them but a man must teach them as Christ taught his followers as they were able to heare Mar. 4. 33 or as Iacob draue his cattell according vnto their pace And although I now said that wiues must learne of their husbands yet wiues must teach their children Tit. 2. 3. it is required of a woman that she be a teacher of good things And Prou. 31. it is said the law of grace is vnder her lips To what end I pray you if not to edifie and teach her children especially as Eunice taught Timothie 1. Tim. 1. 5. And the wisest childe that euer was onely Christ excepted was taught by a woman Prou. 31. 1. What my sonne c. Our children are models of our selues and we desire to leaue them good portions now what better portion than the Lord Kings reioyce in it The Lord is my portion saith Dauid Psal 119. Let vs therfore labour with them so soone as euer God hath giuen them for sonnes vnto vs to make them his sonnes and so soone as they are come into the world to take them again out of the world by instruction And what time can bee fitter therefore than the time appointed which is the Sabbath Neither are we to thinke our selues free if we performe this duty to our sonnes only or daughters but it must be done vnto our whole familie that saluation may not alone come vnto vs but vnto our whole houshold Luk. 19. 9 which made Iosua to vndertake for his houshold I and my household saith he will serue the Lord Ios 24. And Cornelius feared God with his houshold Act. 10. 2. It should seeme he had taken good paines amongst them in that they wanting the ministerie of the word for they were Gentiles yet were conuerted vnto the faith by his industrie and laboursome instruction And lastly this is the cause rendred by the holy Ghost why God would acquaint Abraham with the destruction of Sodom for that hee knew he would teach his houshold to walke c. Now are not these things written for our instruction that wee should doe the like Why then doe we it not Indeede there be many that are carefull to prouide meate and drinke for their houshold but what great thing is that which they doe Doe not the Publicanes the same Doe not the Infidels the same Nay doest thou not the same things for thine oxe and thine asse I speake it to the shame of many they better prouide for their dogs than their seruants And if this be all then as one said of Herod when he spared not his son that he might be sure to kill Christ he had rather be his swine than his sonne because his swine he did not kill but his sonne he did so if that be all they prouide for them better bee their dogges than their drudges or seruants because their dogges bee better prouided for than they But I now speake vnto you children and seruants and people Must the Minister Master and Parents teach and you not regard or learne that which is taught you I take it that he that said the Priests lips should preserue knowledge appointed the people to seeke the law at his mouth also Mal. 2. 7 and that not only to heare him but also to answere him For you must alwaies be ready to giue an answere to euery man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you 1. Pet. 3. 15. It sufficeth not to answere sometimes when we please but we must alwaies doe it And that not to some speciall men whom we please to make choise of in our owne priuate affections but to euery man to giue a reason And lastly because hee knoweth our vntowardnesse vnto these things that we come vnto them as a Beare drawne and lead as it were by the nose vnto the stake he therefore addeth that we must be alwaies readie to doe this

thou rather disobey God than chastise thy sonne Yea haddest thou rather let him stand vnder the heauie wrath of God which burneth vnto the bottome of hell for breaking his Sabbath than to correct him then woe worth the time may thy childe say that euer hee knew the that lettest him thus to die for want of correction And this much shortly concerning the duties of parents towards their children in compelling them to keepe the Sabbath § Sect. 3 The next dutie is of Masters towards their seruants who are so farre foorth bound to see The master must see that the seruant keep the Sabbath their seruants keepe the Sabbath as themselues For God will haue them his seruants aswell as theirs and to doe his businesse vpon the seuenth day aswell as their masters vpon the sixe daies And this in truth wee ought to doe if not in this regard that God commaundeth vs whose commaund should be of greatest authoritie with vs yet at least that we may shew our selues good gouernours and that we gouerne them as tendring their good ouer whom we are set and wherein can we more tender them than in bringing them vnto the knowledge of the chiefe good euen vnto the sauing knowledge of God in Iesus Christ And if we will not yet gouerne as tendring their good yet at least let vs doe it as tendring our owne for be yee well assured that he that is not faithfull to God will neuer be faithfull to thee and that hee that will not serue God truly will neuer ferue thee truly Well hee may serue thee so long as thine eye is vpon him but when thy backe is turned his seruice is ended But the seruant that feareth the Lord will be as faithfull vnto thee when thou lookest off as when thou lookest on for hee knowes well that a greater than thy selfe looketh vpon him to whom hee must answere for his seruice done to thee Let this therefore at least teach thee thy dutie to thy seruants Yea but will some Master say my seruants wil not thus be held in by you No will who holds them in then to their worke in the weeke daies If any shall then start aside from your businesse you will easily finde meanes to inforce him and can you finde no meanes to inforce him to Gods businesse Yea but they will not vpon the Sabbath bee held in but they will then haue their libertie Then let them haue it altogether and discharge them For wilt thou haue him that will not serue God to serue thee thou oughtest at least to be as carefull for Gods seruice as for thine owne Now thou wilt not keepe a seruant that will not faithfully doe thy businesse how much lesse then shouldest thou keepe one that will not serue the Lord Dauid would neuer haue done it for saith he a wicked person shall not dwell in my house Psal 101. Yea but how shall my worke bee done then Get thee such seruants as doe feare the Lord that was it that Dauid purposed first with himselfe Mine eyes saith he shall be vnto the faithfull of the land And He that walketh in a perfect heart he shall serue me vers 6. ibid. And they indeed bee the best seruants for they serue not with eye seruice but as the seruants of Christ as seruing the Lord in thy businesse and not thee Ephes 6. 6. Yea but wee cannot get such It may be so because you do not walke as Dauid did in the middest of your house with a perfect heart vers 2. Therefore they will not dwell with you which if you did you should not neede to seeke for seruants would seeke you fast enough Yea if you did so walke by Gods blessing though you did not finde them such yet you would make them such but this is the miserie of it our seruants must bee sent abroad euery Sabbath in errands and trifling businesses riding and running and posting as if it were for life as if it were on other daies in the weeke as if no commandement were from God to the contrarie So our owne turnes be serued wee care not how God be serued wee shew thereby that wee loue our selues more than God And our seruants seeing vs not to make conscience of Gods businesse they grow to make as little conscience of ours especially they being by this meanes depriued of the benefit of the word whereby they should bee taught better to discharge their duties towards their masters And thus much for that that the master ought to see that his seruant keepe the Sabbath And as this instructeth the master in his dutie to his seruant so also it containeth in it matter of comfort for the seruant For they may hence obserue the kindnes and loue of God towards him that notwithstanding their seruitude yet hee is mindfull of them they think poore wretches that because God hath laid this state of seruitude vpon them therefore hee regardeth them not no no it is not so but he thinkes vpon them and remembers them euery Sabbath vouchsafing as it were to looke downe from heauen vpon them in giuing them a rest promising them as it were in that rest that one day they shall thoroughly rest from their labours and rest with him in heauen where they shal be no more in seruitude but shall be the Lords free men Therefore you seruants thinke of this and learne to serue him on his Sabbath that hath not alone in his flesh serued you but will assuredly in that flesh saue you and giue you a perpetuall rest if you serue him And behold this he requires at your hands then doe it for you cannot serue a better master Lay aside then your foolish vanities your idle delights and impertinent sports be no more the seruants of sinne but as in the whole course of your liues so on this day especially bee yee the Lords seruants loe hee offers it Now who is it that would not serue his Prince if he might but their seruice is nothing to this for euen Princes themselues sue to bee Gods seruants as Dauid though it were but in a meane place as to bee a doore-keeper yet he would thinke himselfe happie let this therefore be your resolution to serue the Lord. You will say peraduenture you would but you cannot your masters lay such burthens vpō you And surely this I know many masters lay greater burthens vpon their seruants on the Sabbath than in any daies of the weeke besides they deale therein like Pharaoh when the people desired to go to serue the Lord then he laid more worke vpon them Exod. 5. 9 so when they should goe to heare the word of the Lord then they lay more businesse vpon them In this case what shal the poore seruant doe shall hee doe Gods businesse or his masters Surely whether it be better to obey God or man masters iudge you Act. 4. vers 19. Though neither herein doe I intend to exempt the seruant from being subiect to his master