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

And I know also, that in a town of mine acquaintance, the Preachers there had brought the people to that pass, that neither baked nor roast meat was to be found in all the parish for a Sundays dinner throughout the year. These are the ordinary ⟨p. 150⟩fruits of such dangerous doctrines; and against these, and such as these, our Author in this following Treatise doth address himself, accusing them that entertain the formal doctrinals every where, of no less than Judaism, and pressing them with that of Austin, that they who literally understand the fourth Commandment, do not yet savour the Spirit: Section the third.

And I know also, that in a towne of mine acquaintance, the Preachers there had brought the people to that passe, that neither baked nor rost meat was to be found in all the parish for a Sundayes dinner throughout the yeere. These are the ordinary ⟨p. 150⟩fruits of such dangerous doctrines; and against these, and such as these, our Author in this following Treatise doth addresse himselfe, accusing them that entertaine the formall doctrinalls every where, of no lesse than Judaisme, and pressing them with that of Austin, that they who literally understand the fourth Commandement, doe not yet savour the Spirit: Section the third.

¹Austin somewhere saith, that he who looks for miracles in these days for confirmation of the truth, Magnum ipse prodigium est, himselfe may go for a monster; he doth not say; It is a miracle that men so should do. Men may be sottish, even to admiration, and such if this Prefacer proves; we will not say it is a miracle: mira, wonderful things may be wrought not only by the practice of Satan, but in the very courses of men, but God is he alone that worketh miracles. He talks of unanimous concurrence of men of several persuasions otherwise in the controverted points of Christian faith, and that both in judgement and practice with him in his way; he loves to speak with a full mouth, and to make a great noise, as the Hogs in Aelian did, when their owner shore them; which gave him occasion to say, That there was a great deal of cry, but a little wool. And let the indifferent judge whether the wool be answerable to the noise this Prefacer makes. Now, the men of several persuasions whom he avoucheth are Papists, and Protestants, and amongst the Protestants, both Lutherans and Calvinists. And hitherto he hath spoken of four particulars; I desire the reader would take notice of the modesty of this author in each of them compared with the noise here he makes concerning them; as if he were as much cracked in his brain, as he who standing upon the key at Athens, with a note book in his hands, set down every ship that entered into the road as his, when he was not owner of any one of them. So I shall make it appear, that this Prefacer hath title to none of the sides he boasts of for the countenancing of his way in any one of the particulars mentioned. The first particular is about the original institution of the Sabbath; as whether God commanded it immediately upon the creation. This author denies the institution of it before the promulgation of the law upon mount