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

That all Holidays belong to the ceremonies of the Jews, and that therefore none such are to be observed by Christians, seeing all the ceremonies of the old Testament are fulfilled, and abrogated by the coming of Christ. And the Anabaptists now adays seem to be of the same opinion. In the third Tome of the Councils set forth by Binius, and 2. part, there is an enumeration of his opinions in five particulars, and that, as it seems by the close, out of Petrus Cluniacensis; not one of them is any thing a kin to those Sabbatarian fancies, which this Prefacer insists upon. Petrus Cluniacensis, as it seems, was the man that most opposed this Petrus de Bruis. Against his errors he wrote a book in form of an Epistle on these points. 1. Of the Baptism of children. 2. Of the authority of the book of the Acts of the Apostles. 3. Of the authority of the Epistles of Saint Paul. 4. Of the authority of the Church. 5. Of the authority of the old Testament. 6. Again, of the baptism of children. 7. Of Temples, Churches, and Altars. 8. Of the veneration of the holy Cross. 9. Of the sacrifice of the Mass, and of the truth of Transubstantiation. ⟨p. 24⟩10. Of prayers for the deceased. 11. Of praising God by Hymns and musical instruments. Thus Bellarmine relates the heads of that discourse of his; not any of which, for ought I perceive, savoureth of any such Sabbatarian fancy, as this Author driveth it unto. At length I got into my hands Bibliotheca Cluniacensis, and therein the writing of Petrus Cluniacensis against the P•trobrusians. Upon all which, one Andreas Puercetanus Turonensis, hath written certain notes, wherein upon these words in the Preface Contra haereses Petri de Bruis, hee writes thus; Of this Peter of Bruis who gave name to the Petrobrusian heretics, no mention is found, neither in the historians, who write the story of those times, nor with them, who then, or a little after, contrived the Indices of heresies and heresiarchs. Alphonsus à Castro (as I think) was the first, who after this our Author, remembered him, lib. 3.5. Baptisma. haeres. 5. and writes that he was a French man of the province of Narbon. Although Bernard the son of Guido writes that Pope Calixtus the second, in the year 1128.

That all Holidayes belong to the ceremonies of the Iewes, and that therefore none such are to be observed by Christians, seeing all the ceremonies of the old Testament are fulfilled, and abrogated by the comming of Christ. And the Anabaptists now adayes seeme to be of the same opinion. In the third Tome of the Councels set forth by Binius, and 2. part, there is an enumeration of his opinions in five particulars, and that, as it seemes by the close, out of Petrus Cluniacensis; not one of them is any thing a kin to those Sabbatarian fancies, which this Prefacer insists upon. Petrus Cluniacensis, as it seemes, was the man that most opposed this Petrus de Bruis. Against his errors he wrote a book in forme of an Epistle on these points. 1. Of the Baptisme of children. 2. Of the authority of the booke of the Acts of the Apostles. 3. Of the authority of the Epistles of Saint Paul. 4. Of the authority of the Church. 5. Of the authority of the old Testament. 6. Againe, of the baptisme of children. 7. Of Temples, Churches, and Altars. 8. Of the veneration of the holy Crosse. 9. Of the sacrifice of the Masse, and of the truth of Transubstantiation.