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

not in the text, (that continuing the same still, that such errors are not damnable in themselves) but among the Errata at the end of the book, although the Author was warned of the strangeness of that assertion (as I hear) and that in contradiction to the doctrine of the Bishop of Canterbury in his Treatise of Councils, professing that the Papists withholding the cup from the^* people, is a damnable error. Here is brave juggling in the Text to comply with some, and in the Errata, to provide against afterclaps for himself, and to comply ⟨p. 4⟩with others, and betray deep dissimulation in both, enough to make some man (when such courses are discovered) to be abhorred of all. But to proceed, the Translator doth not say, he hath performed this task for the benefit of himself, yet he plainly deals upon an advantageous argument. But if his Majesty shall be pleased out of his gracious disposition (whereof he hath given many remarkable documents) to vouchsafe to receive information concerning the honour of the Lords day, in way of a just and necessary Apology, which we are driven to make, I trust (through Gods goodness (in whose hands are the hearts of Kings) it shall be neither advantageous to him, nor disadvantageous to us; and his Majesty may perhaps be found to absolve us in the Court of his own conscience. But what is that benefit of the common people, whereof this Translator is so zealous? I guess it is in freeing them from superstition; and that hereafter they may not be so peevishly foolish, as out of any Cabalisms of conscience, to forbear their may-games; and usual dancings on the Lords day; yet some, and they no small ones, as I have heard, do profess them no otherwise to be allowed then as they may be done to the praise and glory of God. Which calls to my remembrance what a Scotchman sometimes said, as he was going in one of London streets, and spying one of his acquaintance on the other side: for calling him aloud by his name; O Sir, saith he, when shall we meet at a Tavern, to give God thanks for our deliverance out of the Ile de Re?

not in the text, (that continuing the same still, that such errours are not damnable in themselves) but among the Errata at the end of the booke, although the Author was warned of the strangenesse of that assertion (as I heare) and that in contradiction to the doctrine of the Bishop of Canterbury in his Treatise of Councels, professing that the Papists withholding the cup from the