The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

And hereupon undoubtedly it is that our Saviour professeth, that from the time of John the Baptist, the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. To such an height of devotion hath the Love of God manifested in his Son inflamed his true servants; according to that of John, We love him because he loved us first. Again if we consider the service of that day, as such whereby our souls are profited and promoted in faith and holiness, never was there more need then in these days of sanctifying a better proportion of time unto God Service, rather then a worse; and that in each respect. For the truth of God was never so encumbered with oppositions before the coming of our Saviour in the flesh as it hath been since. No heretics (to speak of) were known to trouble the peace of the Church, in those former times in comparison to the multitude of heresies that have been broached since, and began to be set on foot in the very days of the Apostles; Saint Paul professing that even then the mystery of iniquity ⟨p. 86⟩did work. And whereas Saint Peter tells us that false teachers should come privily bringing in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them; Saint Jude tells them to whom he writes, that such were already crept in turning the grace of God into wantonness, and denying God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ. And Saint John after the same manner, little children (saith he) it is the last time, and as you have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now there are many Antichrists. And no marvel; for as much as the mysteries of godliness concerning the Trinity of persons and incarnation of the Son of God (whereat carnal wits are so apt to stumble) were never so punctually and distinctly expressed in the books of the old Testament, as now they are particularly delivered in the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists.

And hereupon undoubtedly it is that our Saviour professeth, that from the time of Iohn the Baptist, the Kingdome of Heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. To such an height of devotion hath the Love of God manifested in his Sonne inflamed his true servants; according to that of Iohn, We love him because he loved us first. Againe if wee consider the service of that day, as such wherby our soules are profited and promoted in faith and holinesse, never was there more need then in these dayes of sanctifying a better proportion of time unto God Service, rather then a worse; and that in each respect. For the truth of God was never so encombred with oppositions before the comming of our Saviour in the flesh as it hath beene since. No heretiques (to speake of) were knowne to trouble the peace of the Church, in those former times in comparison to the multitude of heresies that have beene broached since, and began to bee set on foote in the very dayes of the Apostles; Saint Paul professing that even then the mystery of iniquity