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.

The History of the Sabbath.

BOOK I. From the Creation of the World to the destruction of the Temple.

CHAP. I. That the Sabbath was not instituted in the Be∣ginning of the World.

• 1. THE entrance to the Work in hand, Page 325
• 2. That those words, Gen. 2. And God blessed the seventh day, &c. are there deli∣vered as by way of anticipation, Page 326
• 3. Anticipations in the Scripture confessed by them, who deny it here, Page 327
• 4. Anticipations of the same nature not strange in Scripture, Page 328
• 5. No Law imposed by God on Adam, touching the keeping of the Sabbath, Page 329
• 6. The Sabbath not ingraft by Nature in the soul of man, ibid.
• 7. The greatest Advocates for the Sabbath, deny it to be any part of the Law of Nature, Page 330
• 8. Of the morality and perfection, supposed to be in the number of seven, by some learned men, Page 331
• 9. That other numbers in the confession of the same learned men, particularly the first, third, and fourth, are both as moral, and as perfect as the seventh, ibid.
• 10. The like is proved of the sixth, eighth, and tenth, and of other numbers, Page 332
• 11. The Scripture not more favourable to the num∣ber of seven, than it is to others, Page 333
• 12. Great caution to be used by those who love to re∣create themselves in the mysteries of numbers, Page 334

CHAP. II. That there was no Sabbath kept, from the Cre∣ation to the Flood.

• 1. Gods rest upon the Seventh day, and from what he rested, Page 335
• 2. Zanchius conceit touching the Sanctifying of the first Seventh day, by Christ our Saviour, Page 336
• 3. The like of Torniellus, touching the Sanctify∣ing of the same, by the Angels in Heaven, ibid.
• 4. A general demonstration that the Fathers before the Law did not keep the Sabbath, Page 337
• 5. Of Adam, that he kept not the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. That Abel and Seth did not keep the Sabbath, Page 333
• 7. Of Enos, that he kept not the Sabbath, Page 339
• 8. That Enoch and Methusalem did not keep the Sabbath, ibid.
• 9. Of Noah, that he kept not the Sabbath, Page 340
• 10. The Sacrifices and devotions of the Ancients were occasional. ibid.

CHAP. III. That the Sabbath was not kept from the Flood to Moses.

• 1. The Sons of Noah did not keep the Sabbath, Page 341
• 2. The Sabbath could not have been kept in the dis∣persion of Noahs Sons, had it not been com∣manded, Page 342
• 3. Diversity of Longitudes and Latitudes, must of necessity make a variation in the Sabbath, Page 343
• 4. Melchisedech, Heber, Lot, did not keep the Sabbath, Page 344
• 5. Of Abraham and his Sons, that they kept not the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. That Abraham did not keep the Sabbath in the confession of the Jews, Page 345
• 7. Jacob nor Job no Sabbath-keepers. ibid.
• 8. That neither Joseph, Moses, nor the Israelites in Egypt did observe the Sabbath. Page 346
• 9. The Israelites not permitted to offer Sacrifice while they were in Egypt, ibid.
• 10. Particular proofs that all the Moral Law was both known and kept amongst the Fathers. Page 347

CHAP. IV. The nature of the fourth Commandment: and that the Sabbath was not kept among the Gentiles.

• 1. The Sabbath first made known in the fall of Mannah, Page 348
• 2. The giving of the Decalogue; and how far it bindeth, Page 349
• 3. That in the judgment of the Fathers, in the Christian Church, the fourth Commandment is of a different nature from the other nine, Page 350
• 4. The Sabbath was first given for a Law by Moses. Page 351
• 5. And being given, was proper only to the Jews, Page 352

• 6. What moved the Lord to give the Israelites a Sabbath, ibid.
• 7. Why the seventh day was rather chosen for the Sabbath than any other, Page 353
• 8. The seventh day not more honoured by the Gen∣tiles than the eighth or ninth, Page 354
• 9. The Attributes given by some Greek Poets to the seventh day, no argument that they kept the the Sabbath, Page 355
• 10. The Jews derided for their Sabbath, by the Grecians, Romans, and Egyptians, Page 356
• 11. The division of the year into weeks not generally used of old, amongst the Gentiles. Page 357

CHAP. V. The practice of the Jews in such observances as were annexed unto the Sabbath.

• 1. Of some particular adjuncts affixed unto the Jewish Sabbath, Page 358
• 2. The Annual Festivals called Sabbaths in the Book of God, and reckoned as a part of the fourth Commandment, Page 359
• 3. The Annual Sabbaths no less solemnly observed and celebrated than the weekly were, if not more solemnly, Page 360
• 4. Of the Parasceue or Preparation to the Sab∣bath and the solemn Festivals, Page 361
• 5. All manner of work as well forbidden on the An∣nual as the weekly Sabbaths, Page 362
• 6. What things were lawful to be done on the Sab∣bath days, Page 363
• 7. Touching the prohibitions of not kindling fire, and not dressing meat, Page 364
• 8. What moved the Gentiles generally to charge the Jews with Fasting on the Sabbath day, Page 365
• 9. Touching this Prohibition, Let no man go out of his place on the Sabbath day, Page 366
• 10, All lawful recreations, as Dancing, Feasting, Man-like Exercises, allowed and practised by the Jews upon their Sabbaths. ibid.

CHAP. VI. Touching the observation of the Sabbath, unto the time the People were established in the Promised Land.

• 1. The Sabbath not kept constantly during the time the People wandred in the Wilderness, Page 368
• 2. Of him that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, ibid.
• 3. Wherein the sanctifying of the Sabbath did con∣sist, in the time of Moses, Page 369
• 4. The Law not ordered to be read in the Congre∣gation every Sabbath day, Page 370
• 5. The sack of Hiericho, and the destruction of that People was upon the Sabbath, Page 371
• 6. No Sabbath, after this, without Circumcision, and how that Ceremony could consist with the Sabbaths rest, Page 372
• 7. What moved the Jews, to prefer Circumcision be∣fore the Sabbath, Page 373
• 8. The standing still of the Sun at the prayers of Josuah, &c. could not but make some alteration about the Sabbath, ibid.
• 9. What was the Priests work on the Sabbath day; and whether it might stand with the Sabbaths rest, Page 374
• 10. The scattering of the Levites over all the Tribes, had no relation unto the reading of the Law on the Sabbath-days. Page 375

CHAP. VII. Touching the keeping of the Sabbath, from the time of David to the Maccabees.

• 1. Particular necessities must give place to the Law of Nature, Page 376
• 2. That Davids flight from Saul was upon the Sabbath, Page 377
• 3. What David did, being King of Israel, in order∣ing things about the Sabbath, ibid.
• 4. Elijahs flight upon the Sabbath, and what else hapned on the Sabbath in Elijah's time. Page 378
• 5. The limitation of a Sabbath days journey, not known amongst the Jews when Elisha lived, Page 379
• 6. The Lord becomes offended with the Jewish Sabbaths, and on what occasion, ibid.
• 7. The Sabbath entertained by the Samaritans, and their strange niceties therein, Page 380
• 8. Whether the Sabbaths were observed during the Captivity, ibid.
• 9. The special care of Nehemiah to reform the Sabbath, Page 381
• 10. The weekly reading of the Law on the Sab∣bath days, begun by Ezra. Page 382
• 11. No Synagogues nor weekly reading of the Law, during the Government of the Kings, Page 383
• 11. The Scribes and Doctors of the Law impose new rigours on the People about their Sabbaths. Page 384

CHAP. VIII. What doth occur about the Sabbath, from the Maccabees to the destruction of the Temple.

• 1. The Jews refuse to fight in their own defence upon the Sabbath; and what was ordered there∣upon, Page 385
• 2. The Pharisees, about these times, had made the Sabbath burdensome by their Traditions, Page 386
• 3. Hierusalem twice taken by the Romans, on the Sabbath day, Page 387
• 4. The Romans, many of them, Judaize, and take up the Sabbath: as other Nations did by the Jews example, Page 388

• 5. Augustus Caesar very gracious to the Jews in matters that concerned their Sabbath, Page 390
• 6. What our Redeemer taught, and did, to rectifie the abuses of, and in the Sabbath, ibid.
• 7. The final ruin of the Temple, and the Jewish Ceremonies on a Sabbath day, Page 391
• 8. The Sabbath abrogated with the other Cere∣monies, Page 392
• 9. Wherein consists the Christian Sabbath, men∣tioned in the Scriptures, and amongst the Fa∣thers, Page 393
• 10. The idle and ridiculous niceties of the modern Jews, in their Perasceves, and their Sabbaths conclude the first Part. Page 394

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