The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England collected and compiled in one tome togither, beyng before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the prayse of God, and profite of all good Christian readers.

¶ That the true obseruation of the sabaoth, consisteth not onely in abstaining from bodely labours: and that to a Christen mā, euery day is the Sabaoth, and not one∣ly the seuenth day.

HIerome sayth, Therefore be certaine dayes assigned, y^t we should come to * 1.1 gither, not that, that day, in the which we come togither is holier thē an other but all dayes be lyke, and equall. And * 1.2 Christ is not all onely crucifyed in Pa∣rasceden, and risen onely on the sonday, but the day of resurrection is alwayes, and alwayes may we eate of our lords fleshe. &c. 206. col. 2

Augustine sayth, we must obserue the * 1.3 sabboth day, not that we should recken our self not to labour, but that all thing that we doe worke well, must haue an intention to the euerlastyng rest. Wher¦fore we must obserue the holy day, not by corporall idlenes, and vnto the let∣ter,

but spiritually must we rest from vyces, and concupiscences, wherfore a∣mong all the ten commaundementes, that, of the Sabboth day is all onely cō¦maūded to be figuratiuely obserued. &c. 206. col. 2

Also Tertullian sayth, The carnall Circumcision is put away, and extinc∣ted * 1.4 at his tyme. So likewise the obser∣uation of the Sabboth day is declared to bee for a tyme, for we must keepe the Sabboth day, not alonely the seuenth day, but at all times, as Esay sayth. &c. 206. col. 2

Augustine sayth, It is come vnto me, * 1.5 that certaine men, whiche bee of an e∣uill spirite, haue sowen certaine euill thynges among you, and contrary to the holy fayth, so that they doe forbyd, that men shoulde worke on the Sab∣both day. The whiche men, what o∣ther thyng shall we call them, but the preachers of Antichrist, the whiche An∣tichrist shall make the Sabboth day, and the sonday bee keept from all ma∣ner of worke. &c. 207. col. 1

Notes

• * 1.1

  Super Gu∣lat. 4.
• * 1.2

  All dayes bee a lyke.
• * 1.3

  Epist. c. 19.
• * 1.4

  Aduersus Iudeos.
• * 1.5

  De consec. dist. 3. cap. peruenit.