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History of the Sabbath by J.N AndrewsCHAPTER 26ENGLISH SABBATH-KEEPERSEnglish Sabbatarians in the sixteenth century - Their doctrines - John Trask for thesedoctrines pilloried, whipt, and imprisoned - He recants - Character of Mrs. Trask - Hercrime - Her indomitable courage - She suffers fifteen year's imprisonment, and dies inthe prison - Principles of the Traskites - Brabourne writes in behalf of the seventh day -Appeals to King Charles I. to restore the ancient Sabbath - The king employs Dr. Whiteto write against Brabourne, and Dr. Heylyn to write the History of the Sabbath - Theking intimidates Brabourne and he recants - He returns again to the Sabbath - PhilipTandy - James Ockford writes "The Doctrine of the Fourth Commandment" - His bookburned - Edward Stennett - Wm. Sellers - Cruel Treatment of Francis Bampfield -Thomas Bampfield - Martyrdom of John James - How the Sabbath cause wasprostrated in England.Chambers speaks thus of Sabbath-keepers in the sixteenth century:"In the reign of Elizabeth, it occurred to many conscientious and independentthinkers (as it had previously done to some Protestants in Bohemia), that thefourth commandment required of them the observance, not of the first, but ofthe specified seventh day of the week, and a strict bodily rest, as a service thendue to God; while others, though convinced that the day had been altered bydivine authority, took up the same opinion as to the scriptural obligation torefrain from work. The former class became numerous enough to make aconsiderable figure for more than a century in England, under the title of`Sabbatarians' - a word now exchanged for the less ambiguous appellation of`Seventh-day Baptists.' " 1Gilfillan quotes an English writer of the year 1584, John Stockwood, who says that there werethen"A great diversity of opinion among the vulgar people and simple sort,concerning the Sabbath day, and the right use of the same."And Gilfillan states one of the grounds of controversy thus:"Some maintaining the unchanged and unchangeable obligation of the seventhdaySabbath." 2In 1607, an English first-day writer, John Sprint, gave the views of the Sabbath-keepers ofthat time, which in truth have been substantially the same in all ages:"They allege reasons drawn, 1. From the precedence of the Sabbath before thelaw, and before the fall; the laws of which nature are immutable. 2. From theperpetuity of the moral law. 3. And from the large extent thereof appertainingto [the Sabbath above] all [the other precepts]. 4. . . . And of the cause of [thisprecept of] the law which maketh it perpetual, which is the memorial and280
Chapter Twenty Six – English Sabbath Keepersmeditation of the works of God; which belong unto the Christians as well as tothe Jews." 3John Trask began to speak and write in favor of the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord,about the time that King James I., and the archbishop of Canterbury, published the famous"Book of Sports for Sunday," in 1618. His field of labor was London, and being a veryzealous man, he was soon called to account by the persecuting authority of the church ofEngland. He took high ground as to the sufficiency of the Scriptures to direct in all religiousservices, and that the civil authorities ought not to constrain men's consciences in matters ofreligion. He was brought before the infamous Star Chamber, where a long discussion washeld respecting the Sabbath. It was on this occasion that Bishop Andrews first broughtforward that now famous first-day argument, that the early martyrs were tested by thequestion, "Hast thou kept the Lord's day?" 4Gilfillan, quoting the words of contemporary writers, says of Trask's trial that,"For `making of conventicles and factions, by that means which may tend to sedition andcommotion, and for scandalizing the king, the bishops, and the clergy,' `he was censured inthe Star Chamber to be set upon the pillory at Westminster, and from thence to be whipt to thefleet, there to remain a prisoner.' " 5This cruel sentence was carried into execution, and finally broke his spirit. After enduring themisery of his prison for one year, he recanted his doctrine. 6 The case of his wife is worthy ofparticular mention. Pagitt gives her character thus:"She was a woman endued with many particular virtues, well worthy the imitation of all goodChristians, had not error in other things, especially a spirit of strange unparalleledopinionativeness and obstinacy in her private conceits, spoiled her." 7Pagitt says that she was a school teacher of superior excellence. She was particularly carefulin her dealings with the poor. He gives her reasons thus:"This she professed to do out of conscience, as believing she must one day come to be judgedfor all things done in the flesh. Therefore she resolved to go by the safest rule, rather againstthan for her private interests." 8Pagitt gives her crime in the following words:"At last for teaching only five days in the week, and resting upon Saturday, it being knownupon what account she did it, she was carried to the new prison in Maiden lane, a place thenappointed for the restraint of several other persons of different opinions from the church ofEngland." 9Observe the crime: it was not what she did, for a first-day person might have done the same,but because she did it to obey the fourth commandment. Her motive exposed her to thevengeance of the authorities. She was a woman of indomitable courage, and would notpurchase her liberty by renouncing the Lord's Sabbath. During her long imprisonment, Pagittsays that some one wrote her thus:"Your constant suffering would be praiseworthy, were it for truth; but being for error, yourrecantation will be both more acceptable to God, and laudable before men." 10But her faith and patience held out till she was released by death.281
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