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

But I confess it may be very suitable to these times whereof the Apostle prophesied, men should be lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God, and undoubtedly it will suit well with their affections like a sweet morsel to the epicure which he roles under his tongue, but all the praise is in parting; and I would they would but think of that of the Prophet, What will be the end thereof; when we shall give God cause to say of our Sabbath, as he said of the Jewish, I have hated your Sabbaths. And if there be any such practises of Satan on foot, as to bring in the Jewish Sabbath, let it be considered in the fear of God, what doctrine doth more promote therein; whether that which makes the celebration of the Lords Day Divine, or rather that which makes it merely of humane institution; and who seeth not that if it be left to the liberty of the Church, they may bring in ⟨p. 177⟩the Jewish Sabbath if it pleaseth them. Though it be notoriously untrue, (as may be made to appear both by Scripture, evident reason and authority humane, both ancient and modern, both Papists and Protestants) that the Sabbath was not ordained immediately upon the creation; yet were that negative granted; since God hath manifested in his Law, that he requires one day in seven to be set apart for his service, it evidently follows, even by the very light of nature, that it were most unreasonable we should allow him a worse proportion of time for his service under the Gospel; that consequently the observation of one day in seven is to be kept holy unto the Lord, is now become moral and perpetual unto the very end of the world; neither was it ever heard, that any man did set his wits on work in devising a ceremoniality in the proportion of one day in seven. A prefiguration of Christ in some respect hath been found in the Jewish rest on the seventh day of the week; but of any prefiguration of ought in Christ, by an indefinite proportion of one day in seven the world dreamed not of till now; neither doth any man offer to devise what possibly this might prefigure in Christ: As for the third, it cannot be denied, but that Christ manifested before his death, that his Christian Churches should observe a Sabbath as well as the Jews did; this appears, Matth. 24.20. Pray, that your flight be not in the Winter, nor on the Sabbath day;

But I confesse it may be very sutable to these times whereof the Apostle prophecied, men should be lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God, and undoubtedly it will suit well with their affections like a sweete morsell to the epicure which hee roules under his tongue, but all the praise is in parting; and I would they would but thinke of that of the Prophet, What will be the end thereof; when wee shall give God cause to say of our Sabbath, as hee sayd of the Jewish, I have hated your Sabbaths. And if there be any such practises of Satan on foote, as to bring in the Jewish Sabbath, let it be considered in the feare of God, what doctrine doth more promote therein; whether that which makes the celebration of the Lords Day Divine, or rather that which makes it merely of humane institution; and who seeth not that if it be left to the liberty of the Church, they may bring in