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…

when in the next Section many Canonists are alleged out of Azorius, as maintaining the divine authority of the Lords days: and one of them, Sylvester by name, professing it to be opinionem communem. And ¹as for School-men, it is apparent, that Dominicus Bannes, puts a manifest difference between the Lords day and other festivities, which are ex institutione ecclesiae. And whereas Bellarmine is alleged as the mouth of the Schoolmen, to affirm absolutely, that the celebration of the Lords day, is by the constitution of the Church, and that in distinction from them who say it was ordered by the Apostles: I find no such matter in the place quoted, but rather the contrary, both confirming, that one day in a week is to be consecrated to the Lord by law divine, and whereas it was not fit, that now the Saturday should be it; therefore the Sabbath was turned into the Lords day by the Apostles; his words are these, Jus divinū requirebat ut unus dies hebdomadae dicaretur cultui divino: non autem conveniebat ut servaretur Sabbatum. Itaque Sabbatum ab Apostolis in diem Dominicum versum est; likewise Sixtus Senensis saith, that the institution of the Lords day is of the Apostles. as I have showed in my answer to the preface S. 5. It is true that which is here reported of Brentius, as who professeth it to be left indifferent to the Church to ordain one day in seven, or on day in fourteen to be consecrated; which whether it be not an unreasonable conceit, I am willing to appeal to the judgement of Doctor Prideaux, yet Gemardus the Lutheran will not follow Brentius in this (as I have showed in my answer to the preface and 5. Section) For he acknowledgeth the celebration of the Lords day, to be juxta Apostolorum constitutionem, And as for Chemnitius what he writes hereof, is not expressed, but for the divine authority of the celebration of the Lords day, I have represented the joint consent of some 11. or 12. of our modern divines in the place before mentioned; Besides the concurrence of the ancient Fathers, not one of them being so much as pleaded for the opposite Tenet; and lastly the general answer of Christians in the times of persecution, when they were demanded in this manner Dominicum servasti, hast thou kept the Lords day; for usually it was this, Christianus sum, ⟨p. 223⟩intermittere non possum: I cannot omit it, for I am a Christian.