The observator observed, or, Animadversions upon observations on the history of King Charles wherein that history is vindicated, partly illustrated, and severall other things tending to the rectification of some publique mistakes, are inserted : to which is added, at the latter end, the observators rejoinder.

Page. 114. (Book p. 114)

Fol. 129. The Divinity of the Lords day being new Divinity at Court.] Observator. And so it was by its favour in the Coun∣trey too, not known in England till the year 1595. So new it is that it cannot prescribe to 60 years; for if it could, we should have found some mention of it in our Articles, or Our Book of Homilies, in which we find nothing at all touching the keeping of that day.

Answer. By this and some other passages in the Observator, we may suspect the man to be Petrifi'd (there's an hard word, as hard as a stone) and very conversant with Peter Hie∣len a Dr. of Cosmography, a work very proper for him; for none fitter to describe the world then he, who all his life hath lo∣ved the world; none like him; but of that Dr. more anon. Next to the Observator, if that Dr. and he be two; First, he saith that [the Divinity of the Lords day was not known in Eng∣land till the year 1595.] If so, I demand of the Observator,

what did Archbishop Whitgift mean in his defence of the Answer to the Admonition, p. 553. where speaking in the present tense, he saith the Sabbath is superstitiously used by some? did he mean the Jewish Sabbath? that cannot be; for he subjoynes, so is the Church, the Creed, the Lords Pray∣er; importing it to be a lawful thing, abused by super∣stitious people; and soon after he speaks of a Sabbath then commanded by the 4^th. Precept, which could not be the Jewish; and if not that, must of necessity be the Lords day. Now this Archbishop published his Defence, Anno. 1574. Next for the book of Homiles, surely he spake much without book; for certainly there was not any thing more especially taught in those Homiles, then the divinity of the Lords day: they saying [God in that Precept (speaking of the fourth) commandeth the observation of the Sabbath, which is our Sunday] What can positively be rendred clearer? Here's the Sabbath interpreted by the Lords day, and that com∣mandeth to be observed in the 4^th. Precept by God himself. So that by the Observators leave, the Divinity of the Lords day may be found in our book of Homilies.