Keimåelia 'ekklåesiastika, The historical and miscellaneous tracts of the Reverend and learned Peter Heylyn, D.D. now collected into one volume ... : and an account of the life of the author, never before published : with an exact table to the whole.

BOOK II.

CHAP. I. That there is nothing found in Scripture, touch∣ing the keeping of the Lords day.

• 1. The Sabbath not intended for a perpetual ordi∣nance. Page 400
• 1. Preparatives unto the dissolution of the Sabbath, by our Saviou Christ, Page 401
• 3. The Lords day not enjoyned in the place thereof, either by Christ, or the Apostles; but instituted by the authority of the Church, Page 402
• 4. Our Saviours Resurrection on the first day of the week, and apparitions on the same, make it not a Sabbath, Page 404
• 5. The coming down of the Holy Ghost upon the first day of the week, makes it not a Sabbath, Page 405
• 6. The first day of the week not made a Sabbath, more than others by S. Peter, S. Paul, or any o∣ther of the Apostles, ibid.
• 7. S. Paul frequents the Synagogue, on the Jewish Sabbath; and upon what reasons, Page 406
• 8. What was concluded against the Sabbath, in the Council holden at Hierusalem, Page 407
• 9. The preaching of S. Paul at Troas, upon the first day of the week, no argument, that then that day was set apart by the Apostles for religious exercises, Page 408
• 10. Collections, on the first day of the week, 1 Cor. 16. conclude as little for that purpose, Page 409
• 11. Those places of S. Paul, Gal. 4.10. Coloss. 2.16. do prove invincibly, that there is no Sabbath to be looked for, Page 410
• 12. The first day of the week not called the Lords day, until the end of this first age: and what that title adds unto it. Page 411

CHAP. II. In what estate the Lords day stood, from the death of the Apostles to the Reign of Constantine.

• 1. Touching the orders setled by the Apostles, for the Congregation, Page 413
• 2. The Lords day and the Saturday, both Festivals, and both alike observed in the East, in Ignatius time, Page 414
• 3. The Saturday not without great difficulty, made a Fasting day, Page 415
• 4. The Controversie about keeping Easter; and how much it conduceth to the present business, Page 416
• 5. The Feast of Easter not affixed to the Lords day, without much opposition of the Eastern Churches, ibid.
• 6. What Justin Martyr and Dionysius of Corinth, have left us of the Lords day; Clemens of Alexandria, his dislike thereof, Page 417
• 7. Ʋpon what grounds the Christians of the former times used to pray, standing, on the Lords day, and the time of Pentecost, Page 418
• 8. What is recorded by Tertullian, of the Lords day, and the Assemblies of the Church, Page 419
• 9. Origen, as his Master Clemens had done before, dislikes set days for the Assembly, Page 420
• 10. S. Cyprian, what he tells us of the Lords day: and of the reading of the Scriptures in S. Cy∣prians time, ibid.
• 11. Of other holy days, established in these three first Ages; and that they were observed as so∣lemnly as the Lords day was, Page 421
• 12. The name of Sunday often used for the Lords day, by the primitive Christians, but the Sabbath never. Page 422

CHAP. III. That in the fourth Age from the time of Con∣stantine to Saint Austine, the Lords day was not taken for a Sabbath day.

• 1. The Lords day first established by the Emperour Constantine, Page 423
• 2. What labours were permitted, and what re∣strained on the Lords day, by this Emperours Edict, Page 424
• 3. Of other Holy days, and Saints days, instituted in the time of Constantine, Page 425
• 4. That weekly other days, particularly the Wed∣nesday and the Friday, were in this Age, and those before appointed for the meetings of the Con¦gregation, ibid.
• 5. The Saturday as highly honoured in the Ea∣stern Churches, as the Lords day was, Page 426
• 6. The Fathers of the Eastern Churches cry down the Jewish Sabbath, though they held the Sa∣turday, Page 427
• 7. The Lords day not spent wholly in Religious

• exercises; and what was done with that part of it, which was left at large, Page 428
• 8. The Lords day, in this Age, a day of Feasting; and that it hath been always deemed Heretical to hold Fasts thereon, Page 429
• 9. Of Recreation on the Lords day; and of what kind those Dancings were, against the which the Fathers enveigh so sharply, Page 430
• 10. Other Imperial Edicts about the keeping of the Lords day, and the other Holy-days, Page 432
• 11. The Orders, at this time in use, on the Lords day, and other days, of publick meeting in the Congregation, Page 433
• 12. The infinite differences between the Lords day and the Sabbath. Page 434

CHAP. IV. The great improvement of the Lords day, in the fifth and sixth Ages, make it not a Sabbath.

• 1. In what estate the Lords day stood in S. Austins time, Page 435
• 2. Stage plays and publick Shews prohibited on the Lords day, and the other Holy days, by Imperial Edicts, Page 437
• 3. The base and beastly nature of the Stage-plays at those times in use, Page 438
• 4. The barbarous bloody quality of the Specta∣cula, or Shews, at this time prohibited, ibid.
• 5. Neither all civil business, nor all kind of pleasure, restrained on the Lords day, by the Emperour Leo; as some give it out, The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon, proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 440
• 6. The French and Spaniards in the sixth Age, begin to Judaize about the Lords day, and of re∣straint of Husbandry on that day, in that Age first thought of, Page 441
• 7. The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 442
• 8. Of publick honours done in these Ages, to the Lords day, by Prince and Prelate, Page 443
• 9. No Evening Service on the Lords day, till these present Ages, Page 444
• 10. Of publick Orders now Established, for the better regulating of the Lords Day-meetings, Page 445
• 11. All Business and Recreation not by Law prohi∣bited, are in themselves as lawful on the Lords day, as on any other. ibid.

CHAP. V. That in the next six hundred years from Pope Gregory forwards, the Lords day was not reckoned of, as of a Sabbath.

• 1. Pope Gregories care to set the Lords day free from some Jewish rigours, at that time obtruded on the Church, Page 447
• 2. Strange fancies taken up by some about the Lords day, in these darker Ages, ibid.
• 3. Scriptures and Miracles in these times found out, to justifie the keeping of the Lords day Holy, Page 448
• 4. That in the judgment of the most Learned in these six Ages, the Lords day hath no other ground than the Authority of the Church, Page 449
• 5. With how much difficulty the People of these times were barred from following their Husban∣dry and Law-days, on the Lords day, Page 450
• 6. Hüsbandry not restrained on the Lords day in the Eastern Parts, until the time of Leo Philo∣sophus, Page 451
• 7. Markets and Handicrasts restrained with no less opposition than the Plough and Pleading, Page 452
• 8. Several casus reservati in the Laws themselves, wherein men were permitted to attend those busi∣nesses on the Lords day, which the Laws re∣strained, Page 453
• 9. Of divers great and publick actions done in these Ages on the Lords day, Page 454
• 10. Dancing and other sports no otherwise prohi∣bited on the Lords day, than as they were an hin∣derance to Gods publick Service, Page 455
• 11. The other Holy-days as much esteemed of and observed as the Lords day was, Page 456
• 12. The publick hallowing of the Lords day, and the other Holy-days in these present Ages, Page 457
• 13. No Sabbath all these Ages heard of, either on Saturday or Sunday; and how it stood with Sa∣turday in the Eastern Churches. Page 458

CHAP. VI. What is the judgment of the School-men, and of the Protestants; and what the practice of those Churches in this Lords day business.

• 1. That in the judgment of the School-men, the keeping of one day in seven, is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, Page 640
• 2. As also that the Lords day is not founded on Di∣vine Authority, but the Authority of the Church, Page 461
• 3. A Catalogue of the Holy-days drawn up in the Council of Lyons; and the new Doctrine of the Schools, touching the native sanctity of the Holy-days, Page 462
• 4. In what estate the Lords day stood, in matter of restraint from labour at the Reformation, Page 463
• 5. The Reformators find great fault, both with the said new doctrine and restraints from labour, Page 464
• 6. That in the judgment of the Protestant Divines, the keeping of one day in seven, is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, Page 465
• 7. As that the Lords day hath no other ground on which to stand, than the Authority of the Church, Page 466
• 8. And that the Church hath power to change the day, and to transfer it to some other, Page 467

• 9. What is the practice of all Churches, the Ro∣man, Lutheran, and Calvinian chiefly in mat∣ter of Devotion, rest from labour, and suffe∣rance of lawful pleasures, Page 468
• 10. Dancing cryed down by Calvin and the French Churches, not in relation to the Lords day, but the sport it self, Page 470
• 11. In what estate the Lords day stands in the Eastern Churches; and that the Saturday is no less esteemed of by the Ethiopians, than the said Lords day, Page 471

CHAP. VII. In what estate the Lords day stood in this Isle of Britain, from the first planting of Religion, to the Reformation.

• 1. What doth occur about the Lords day, and the other Festivals, amongst the Churches of the Brittans, Page 472
• 2. Of the estate of the Lords day, and the other Holy days in the Saxon Heptarchie, Page 473
• 3. The honours done unto the Sunday and the other Holy-days by the Saxon Monarchs, Page 474
• 4. Of the publick actions, Civil, Ecclesiastical, mixt, and Military, done on the Lords day, un∣der the first six Norman Kings, Page 476
• 5. New Sabbath doctrines broached in England, in King Johns Reign; and the miraculous original of the same, Page 477
• 6. The prosecution of the former story; and ill suc∣cess therein of the undertakers, ibid.
• 7. Restraint of worldly business on the Lords day, and the other Holy-days, admitted in those times, in Scotland, Page 478
• 8. Restraint of certain servile works on Sundays, Holy-days, and the Wakes, concluded in the Council of Oxon, under Henry III. ibid.
• 9. Husbandry and Legal process prohibited on the Lords day first, in the Reign of Edward III. Page 479
• 10. Selling of Wools, on the Lords day, and the so∣lemn Feasts, forbidden first by the said King Edward as after, Fairs and Markets generally, by King Henry VI. Page 480
• 11. The Cordwainers of London, restrained from selling their Wares on the Lords day, and some other Festivals, by King Edward IV. and the repealing of that Act by King Henry VIII. Page 481
• 12. In what estate the Lords day stood, both for the doctrine and the practice, in the beginning of the Reign of the said King Henry. ibid.

CHAP. VIII. The story of the Lords day, from the Reforma∣tion of Religion in this Kingdom, till this present time.

• 1. The doctrine of the Sabbath, and the Lords day, delivered by three several Martyrs, conformably to the judgment of the Protestants before re∣membred, Page 483
• 2. The Lords day, and the other Holy-days, con∣fessed by all this Kingdom, in the Court of Parlia∣ment, to have no other ground than the Authority of the Church, Page 484
• 3. The meaning and occasion of that clause in the Common-Prayer-book, Lord have mercy upon us, &c. repeated at the end of the fourth Com∣mandment, Page 485
• 4. That by the Queens Injunctions, and the first Parliament of her Reign, the Lords day was not meant for a Sabbath day, Page 486
• 5. The doctrine in the Homilies delivered, about the Lords day, and the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. The sum and substance of that Homily; and that it makes not any thing for a Lords day Sab∣bath, Page 487
• 7. The first original of the New Sabbath Specula∣tions, in this Church of England; by whom, and for what cause invented, Page 489
• 8. Strange and most monstrous Paradoxes, preached on occasion of the former doctrines; and of the other effects thereof, Page 490
• 9. What care was taken of the Lords day in King James his Reign; the spreading of the doctrines, and of the Articles of Ireland, Page 491
• 10. The Jewish Sabbath set on foot; and of King James his Declaration about Lawful sports on the Lords day, Page 493
• 11. What Tracts were writ and published in that Princes time, in opposition to the doctrines before remembred, ibid.
• 12. In what estate the Lords day, and the other Holy-days have stood in Scotland, since the Re∣formation of Religion in that Kingdom, Page 494
• 13. Statutes about the Lords day, made by our present Sovereign; and the misconstruing of the same: His Majesty reviveth and enlargeth the Declaration of King James, Page 496
• 14. An exortation to obedience unto his Majesties most Christian purpose, concludes this History. Page 497