Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians…Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians…

and Doctor Rivetus also affirming this kind of unchangeableness to arise from hence that no sufficient cause can be given of the change and abrogation of it. This Prefacer and such as are of his spirit may do well to deal plainly, and to profess that it is in the power of the Church to make the Lords Day to cease to be the Lords Day.

and Doctor Rivetus also affirming this kinde of unchangeablenesse to arise from hence that no sufficient cause can be given of the change and abrogation of it. This Prefacer and such as are of his spirit may doe well to deale plainly, and to professe that it is in the power of the Church to make the Lords Day to cease to be the Lords Day.

From their Doctrine pretended by him he proceeds to their practise, professing it to be devoid of any the least superstitious rigour; esteeming it to be a day left arbitrary, and therefore open to all lawful and honest recreations by which the mind may be refreshed, and the spirit quickened; as in Geneva all honest exercises, shooting in pieces, long Bows, cross Bows are used in the Sabbath day, and that both in the morning before and after the Sermon; And truly I do ⟨p. 146⟩not find my self prone to censure them for any superstition in this. But this author takes liberty to censure them for superstitious, who think these courses unlawful on the Sabbath Day. I make bold to call the Lords Day our Sabbath; because our Saviour plainly gives us to understand that we Christians should have one day in the week for our Sabbath, Ma. 24. 20. as well as the Jews had; and secondly because the book of Homilies professeth that Sunday is our Sabbath. Nobis non licet esse tam disertis. We may not be so elegant as to censure them for profaning the Lords Day by these and such like courses. Yet the act of Parliament, 1. Caroli forbids any man to come out of his Parish on the Lords Day, about any sports and pastimes; which restraint tending to this end, namely to preserve the Sabbath from profanation, doth manifestly give us to understand that to come out of a mans parish on that day about any sports or pastimes is to profane the Sabbath: and seeing as before I have showed, that to come out of a mans parish on that day about such a work as doth not profane the Sabbath, is not to profane the Sabbath, as to hear a sermon, or to fetch a surgeon or Physician to a sick person in case of necessity; but only to come out of a mans own Parish about such a work as doth profane the Sabbath, such a coming out of a mans own Parish on that day, and such alone doth profane the Sabbath; hence it followeth evidently that all manner of sports and pastimes on that day, are so many profanations of the Sabbath in the judgement of all the Prelates of this Kingdom, and of the whole Parliament.