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

Therefore it stood him upon, first, to manifest his ingenuous facility in believing another, that this might be a shooing-horn to draw on others by way of the like ingenuous facility to believe him also; yet such things may be; for as long as the world lasts, we shall be exercised with wild wits, and so no doubt we shall with tale-tellers too, and so much the more in all likelihood the nearer the world approacheth to an end: It hath been so amongst Philosophers in Cicero his observation; it hath been so amongst School-divines; it is so amongst Socinians and Arminians. But let the saddle be set upon the right horse, and let every man bear his own burden. Now I have made it manifest, that the doctrines which he picks out of D. Bound, and stiles Sabbatarian doctrines, are the doctrines of D. Andrewes, afterwards Bishop of Winchester; I could show them to be the doctrines of many other worthy Prelates that have been of this kingdom; and it may be that if the votes of the Bishops of this kingdom were taken, the major part would concur with us, as touching the doctrine of the Sabbath, rather than against us. The same Master Rogers sacrificeth to his net, and burns incense to his yarn, and magnifies the good success of his labours. For this good, he saith, hath ensued thereupon; namely, that the said books of the Sabbath, comprehending the above mentioned, and many more such fearful and heretical assertions, have been both called in, and forbidden to be printed any more and to be made common, and that Archbishop Whitgift, by his letters and officers at Synods and Visitations, Anno 99. did the one, and Sir John Popham, Lord chief Justice of England at Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolk, Anno 1600. did the other. For all this we have nothing but his word; and as for the books he talks of, he had formerly mentioned, but one printed 95. at London for I. Porter and Tho. Man, of the doctrine of the Sabbath, which appears to be D. Bounds; Now, was this ever called in? Sure I am, D. Willet upon Genesis came forth the year after this M. Rogers his Analysis of the Articles of the Church of England.

Therefore it stood him upon, first, to manifest his ingenuous facility in believing another, that this might be a shooing-horne to draw on others by way of the like ingenuous facility to believe him also; yet such things may be; for as long as the world lasts, we shall be exercised with wilde wits, and so no doubt we shall with tale-tellers too, and so much the more in all likelihood the neerer the world approacheth to an end: It hath beene so amongst Philosophers in Cicero his observation; it hath been so amongst Schoole-divines; it is so amongst Socinians and Arminians. But let the saddle be set upon the right horse, and let every man beare his owne burthen. Now I have made it manifest, that the doctrines which he picks out of D. Bownde, and stiles Sabbatarian doctrines, are the doctrines of D. Andrewes, afterwards Bishop of Winchester; I could shew them to be the doctrines of many other worthy Prelates that have been of this kingdome; and it may be that if the votes of the Bishops of this kingdom were taken, the major part would concurre with us, as touching the doctrine of the Sabbath, rather than against us. The same Master Rogers sacrificeth to his net, and burnes incense to his yarne, and magnifies the good successe of his labours. For this good, he saith, hath ensued thereupon; namely, that the said bookes of the Sabbath, comprehending the above mentioned, and many more such fearefull and hereticall assertions, have beene both called in, and forbidden to be printed any more and to be made common, and that Archbishop Whitgift, by his letters and officers at Synods and Visitations, Anno 99. did the one, and Sir John Popham, Lord chiefe Iustice of England at Bury Saint Edmunds in Suffolke, Anno 1600. did the other. For all this we have nothing but his word; and as for the bookes he talkes of, hee had formerly mentioned, but one printed 95. at London for I. Porter and Tho. Man, of the doctrine of the Sabbath, which appeares to be D. Bowndes; Now, was this ever called in? Sure I am, D. Willet upon Genesis came forth the yeere after this M. Rogers his Analysis of the Articles of the Church of England.