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…

5 In this fifth Section things are so carried, that it is an hard matter to discern the Doctors meaning, especially in relating the different opinions, concealing the Authors of them and the place where they are to be found, and their arguments which here are only said to be derived from the sanctification of the seventh day in the first creation of the world, and from the institution of the Sabbath in the fourth commandment: For hence it is said, that they who stand for the translation of the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week, to the Lords day, as by divine authority, do draw their arguments for the justifying of their Tenet; which I willingly profess, doth seem a prodigy unto me; namely that any man should dispute thus. In the beginning of the world, the Lord commanded the seventh day to be sanctified, therefore now under the Gospel, the Sabbath is to be translated from the seventh day to the first day of the week. Or thus, the Lord in the fourth commandment gave in charge to sanctify the Sabbath, and tells them, that the seventh day (of the week) was their Sabbath, therefore the translation of the Sabbath from the seventh day of the week to the Lords day is of divine institution: As touching the first of these deductions, that which comes nearest thereunto, is the discourse of Doctor Andrewes Bishop of Winchester, in the Star Chamber. The Sabbath had reference to the old creation, but in Christ we are a new creature, a new creation, and so to have a new Sabbath. And Athanasius his discourse long agone upon that of Matth. 11. 27. All things are given to me of my Father, Finis prioris creationis Sabbatum, The end of the first creation, was the Sabbath day, but the beginning of the second creation is the Lords day: and of this he discourseth there more at large. And we find manifestly this notable congruity between the Sabbath day and the Lords day, that like as God on the seventh day rested from the work of creation; so Christ our Saviour rising on the first day of the week from the dead, made that the first day of his resting from the work of redemption. But when I consider the Doctors sharp censures of weakness, of impudency, of ignorance; it