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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As to the first of these, I have heard some say they like it not, because it is Jewish; but to that we reply,
1. Not the Jews, but the God of the Jews gave it that name here and elsewhere, and
2. The notion of a Sabbath signifies no more but Rest; and is Rest Jewish? Oh that men would look into their hearts to see whether the reason of this disgust is not more latent there.
3. And were it a Jewish name (indeed) is not the Jewish name [Sabbath] better than the Heathenish-name [Sunday]? The name which Heathenish Idolaters gave it in their Dedication of that day to the Created Sun? Notwithstanding consult their Calendars, Writings and Languages, and you can meet with no other name or notion, but Sunday all over. At this we have more cause to be offended, than they have at the notion of a Sabbath.
3. And were it a Jewish name (indeed) is not the Jewish name [Sabbath] better than the Heathenish-name [Sunday]? The name which Heathenish Idolaters gave it in their Dedication of that day to the Created Sun? Notwithstanding consult their Calenders, Writings and Languages, and you can meet with no other name or notion, but Sunday all over. At this we have more cause to be offended, than they have at the notion of a Sabbath.