Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II.…

a piece of Disciplinary Policy to advance Presbytery, a superstitious seething over of the hot or whining simplicity of an over-rigid, crabbed, precise, crack-brained Puritanical party: the righteous God hath his little days of judgment in this life to clear up and vindicate the righteous cause of his innocent servants against all gainsayers, and who sees not (but those that will be blind) that the Lord hath begun to do something this way by these late broils? the controversy God hath with a Land, is many times in defence of the controversies of his faithful Witnesses, the sword maintains argument, and makes way for that which the Word could not; those plants which (not many years since) most men would not believe not to be of Gods planting) hath the Lord pulled up: the three innocent Fire-brands so fast tied to some Foxes tails, are now pretty well quenched, and the tails almost cut off; this cause of the Sabbath also the Lord Jesus is now handling; God hath cast down the Crowns of Princes, stained the Robes of Nobles with dirt and blood; broken the Croziers, and torn the Mitres in pieces for the controversy of his Sabbath, Jer. 17.27. he hath already made way for his Discipline also (which they feared the precise Sabbath would introduce again) by such a way as hath made all hearts to ache, just according to the words never to be forgotten, of Mr. Udall in his Preface to the Demonstration of Discipline. The Council of Matiscon imputed the irruption of the Goths into the Empire, to the profanation of the Sabbath. Germany may now see, (or else one day they shall see) that one great cause of their troubles is, that the Sabbath wanted its Rest, in the days of their quietness. England was at rest, till they troubled Gods Sabbath. The Lord Jesus ⟨image 7⟩must reign; the Government of his House, the Laws of his Kingdom, the Solemn days of his worship must be established; the cause of his suffering and afflicted servants (not of our late religious scorners at Ordinances, Laws and Sabbaths) who are now at rest from their labours, but in former times wept, and prayed and petitioned, and preached and writ, and suffered, and dyed for these things, and are now crying under the Altar, must and shall certainly be cleared before men and Angels: Heaven and earth shall pass away, before one tittle of the Law (much less a whole Sabbath) shall perish.

a peece of Disciplinary Policy to advance Presbytery, a superstitious seething over of the hot or whining simplicity of an over-rigid, crabbed, precise, crack-brain'd Puritanicall party: the righteous God hath his little dayes of judgment in this life to clear up and vindicate the righteous cause of his innocent servants against all gainsayers, and who sees not (but those that will be blinde) that the Lord hath begun to do something this way by these late broyles? the controversie God hath with a Land, is many times in defence of the controversies of his faithfull Witnesses, the sword maintaines argument, and makes way for that which the Word could not; those plants which (not many yeers since) most men would not beleeve not to be of Gods planting) hath the Lord puld up: the three innocent Fire-brands so fast tyed to some Foxes tayles, are now prety well quencht, and the tayles almost cut off; this cause of the Sabbath also the Lord Iesus is now handling; God hath cast down the Crownes of Princes, stained the Robes of Nobles with dirt and blood; broken the Croziers, and torne the Miters in peeces for the controversie of his Sabbath,