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CHAP. VIII.
The story of the Lords-day, from the reformation of Religion, in this Kingdome, till this present time.
(1) The doctrine of the Sabbath and the Lords day, de∣livered by three severall Martyrs, conformably to the iudge∣ment of the Protestants before remembred. (2) The Lords day, and the other holy dayes, confessed by all this King∣dome, in the Court of Parliament, to have no other ground, then the authority of the Church. (3) The meaning and oc∣casion of that clause in the Common prayer booke, Lord have mercy upon us, &c. repeated at the end of the fourth Com∣mandment. (4) That by the Queenes Inj••nctions, and the first Parliament of her reigne, the Lords day was not meant for a Sabbath day. (5) The doctrine in the Homilies deli∣••ered, about the Lords day, and the Sabbath (6) The summe and substance of that Homily; and that it makes not any thing for a Lords day Sabbath. (7) The first originall of the New Sabbath Speculations, in this Church of England; by whom, and for what cause invented (8) Strange and most monstrous Paradoxes, preached on occasion of the for∣mer doctrines; and of the other effects thereof. (9) What care was taken of the Lords day in King Iames his reigne; the sp••eading of the doctrines: and of the Articles of Ireland.