The hBishop presseth us with a fourth Argument, taken from Sect. VII the calling of people in great Townes, from their ordinary labours to Divine service. Which Argument iTilen also beateth upon. Ans. There is huge difference betwixt the rest which is enjoined upon anniversary Festivities, and the rest which is required, during the time of the weekly meetings for Divine Worship. For, 1. Upon Festival days, rest from labour is required all the day over, whereas upon the days of ordinary and weekly meetings, rest is required, only during the time of public Worship. 2. Cessation from labour for Prayers or Preaching on those appointed days of the week, at some occasions may be omitted, but the rest, and commemoration appointed by the Church to be precisely observed upon the anniversary Festival days, must not be omitted, in the kBishops judgment. 3. Men are straitly commanded & compelled to rest from labour upon Holidays, but to leave work to come to the ordinary weekly meetings, they are only exhorted. And here I mark how the Bishop contradicteth himself: for in one place where his Antagonist maintaineth truly, that the Craftsman can not be lawfully commanded nor compelled to leave his work, and to go to public Divine Service, except on the day that the Lord hath sanctified: lHe replieth, if he may be lawfully commanded to cease from his labour, during the time of divine service, he may be as lawfully compelled to obey the command. Who can give these words any sense, or see any thing in them said against his Antagonists position, except he be taken to say, that the Craftman may be both commanded and compelled to leave his work, & go to Divine Service, on the week days appointed for the same? Nay, he laboureth to prove thus much out of the 9. head of the first book of Discipline, which saith: In great Townes, we think expedient that every day there be either Sermon or common Prayers, &c. Where there is nothing of compulsion, or a forcing command, only there is an exhortation. But ere the Bishop have said much, he forgetteth himself, mand tells us, that it were against Equity & Charity, to adstrict the husband-man to leave his plough, so oft as the days of weekly preaching do return, but that on the Festival days, reason would, that if he did not leave his plough willingly, by Authority he should be forced.
The hBishop presseth us with a fourth Argument, taken from Sect. VII the calling of people in great Townes, from their ordinary labours to Divine service. Which Argument iTilen also beateth upon. Ans. There is huge difference betwixt the rest which is injoyned upon anniversary Festivities, and the rest which is required, during the time of the weekly meetings for Divine Worship. For, 1. Vpon Festivall dayes, rest from labour is required all the day over, whereas upon the dayes of ordinary and weekly meetings, rest is required, onely during the time of publike Worship. 2. Cessation from labour for Prayers or Preaching on those appointed dayes of the week, at some occasions may be omitted, but the rest, and commemoration appointed by the Church to be precisely observed upon the anniversary Festivall dayes, must not be omitted, in the kBishops judgment. 3. Men are straitly commanded & compelled to rest from labour upon Holydayes, but to leave worke to come to the ordinary weekly meetings, they are only exhorted. And here I marke how the Bishop contradicteth himselfe: for in one place where his Antagonist maintaineth truly, that the Craftsman can not be lawfully commanded nor compelled to leave his worke, and to goe to publike Divine Service, except on the day that the Lord hath sanctified: lHe replieth, if he may be lawfully commanded to cease from his labour, during the time of divine service, he may be as lawfully compelled to obey the command. Who can give these words any sence, or see any thing in them said against his Antagonists position, except he be taken to say, that the Craftman may be both commanded and compelled to leave his worke, & goe to Divine Service, on the week dayes appointed for the same? Nay, he laboureth to prove thus much out of the 9. head of the first booke of Discipline, which saith: In great Townes, we think expedient that every day there be either Sermon or common Prayers, &c. Where there is nothing of compulsion, or a forcing command, only there is an exhortation. But ere the Bishop have said much, he forgetteth himselfe, mand tells us, that it were against Equity & Charity, to adstrict the husband-man to leave his plough, so oft as the dayes of weekly preaching doe returne, but that on the Festivall dayes, reason would, that if he did not leave his plough willingly, by Auctority he should be forced.
- hubi supra pag. 16. 17.
- iPar•n ad Scot. c. 16. pag. 64.
- kubi supra pag. 25.
- libid. pag. 17.
- mibid. pag. 27.
