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History of the Sabbath by J.N Andrews"Mrs. Trask lay fifteen or sixteen years a prisoner for her opinion about the Saturday Sabbath;in all which time she would receive no relief from anybody, notwithstanding she wantedmuch: alleging that it was written, `It is more blessed . . . to give than to receive.' Neitherwould she borrow, because it was written, `Thou shalt lend to many nations, and shall notborrow.' So she deemed it a dishonor to her head, Christ, either to beg or borrow. Her diet forthe most part during her imprisonment, that is, till a little before her death, was bread andwater, roots and herbs; no flesh, nor wine, nor brewed drink. All her means was an annuity offorty shillings a year; what she lacked more to live upon she had of such prisoners as didemploy her sometimes to do business for them." 11Pagitt, who was the contemporary of Trask, thus states the principles of the Sabbatarians ofthat time, whom he calls Traskites:"The positions concerning the Sabbath by them maintained were these:"1. That the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, `Remember the Sabbath day, to keep itholy' [Ex. 20], is a divine precept, simply and entirely moral, containing nothing legallyceremonial in whole or in part, and therefore the weekly observation thereof ought to beperpetual, and to continue in force and virtue to the world's end."2. That the Saturday, or seventh day in every week, ought to be an everlasting holy day in theChristian church, and the religious observation of this day obligeth Christians under thegospel, as it did the Jews before the coming of Christ.3. That the Sunday, or Lord's day, is an ordinary working day, and it is superstition and willworshipto make the same the Sabbath of the fourth commandment." 12It was for this noble confession of faith that Mrs. Trask was shut up in prison till the day ofher death. For the same, Mr. Trask was compelled to stand in the pillory, and was whippedfrom thence to the fleet, and then shut up in a wretched prison, from which he escaped byrecantation after enduring the miseries of more than a year. 13Mr. Utter mentions the next Sabbatarian minister as follows:"Theophilus Brabourne, a learned minister of the gospel in the established church, wrote abook, which was printed at London in 1628, wherein he argued `that the Lord's day is not theSabbath day by divine institution,' but `that the seventh-day Sabbath is now in force.' Mr.Brabourne published another book in 1632, entitled, `A Defense of that most Ancient andSacred Ordinance of God's, the Sabbath Day.'" 14Brabourne dedicated his book to King Charles I., requesting him to use his royal authority forthe restoration of the ancient Sabbath. But those who put their trust in princes are sure to bedisappointed. Dr. F. White, bishop of Ely, thus states the occasion of his own work against theSabbath:"Now because this Brabourne's treatise of the Sabbath was dedicated to his Royal Majesty,and the principles upon which he grounded all his arguments (being commonly preached,printed, and believed throughout the kingdom), might have poisoned and infected manypeople either with this Sabbatarian error, or with some other of like quality; it was the king,our gracious master, his will and pleasure, that a treatise should be set forth, to prevent furthermischief, and to settle his good subjects (who have long time been distracted aboutSabbatarian questions) in the old and good way of the ancient and orthodoxal Catholic282
Chapter Twenty Six – English Sabbath Keeperschurch. Now that which his sacred Majesty commanded, I have by your Grace's direction[Archbishop Laud] obediently performed." 15The king not only wished by this appointment to overthrow those who kept the day enjoinedin the commandment, but also those who by means of Dr. Bound's new theory pretended thatSunday was that day. He therefore joined Dr. Heylyn with Bishop White in this work:"Which burden being held of too great weight for any one to undergo, and the necessity of thework requiring a quick dispatch, it was held fit to divide the employment betwixt two. Theargumentative and scholastical part was referred to the right learned Dr. White, then bishop ofEly, who had given good proof of his ability in polemical matters in several books anddisputations against the papists. The practical and historical [was to be written], by Heylyn ofWestminster, who had gained some reputation for his studies in the ancient writers." 16The works of White and Heylyn were published simultaneously in 1635. Dr. White, inaddressing himself to those who enforce Sunday observance by the fourth commandment,speaks thus of Brabourne's arguments, that not Sunday, but the ancient seventh day, is thereenjoined:"Maintaining your own principles that the fourth commandment is purely and simply moraland of the law of nature, it will be impossible for you either in English or in Latin, to solveTheophilus Brabourne's objections." 17But the king had something besides argument for Brabourne. He was brought beforeArchbishop Laud and the court of High Commission, and, moved by the fate of Mrs. Trask,he submitted for the time to the authority of the church of England, but sometime afterwardwrote other books in behalf of the seventh day. 18 Dr. White's book has this pithy notice of theindefinite-time theory:"Because an indefinite time must either bind to all moments of time, as a debt, when the dayof payment is not expressly dated, is liable to payment every moment; or else it binds to notime at all." 19Mr. Utter, after the statement of Brabourne's case, continues thus:"About this time Philip Tandy began to promulgate in the northern part of England the samedoctrine concerning the Sabbath. He was educated in the established church, of which hebecame a minister. Having changed his views respecting the mode of baptism and the day ofthe Sabbath, he abandoned that church and `became a mark for many shots.' He held severalpublic disputes about his peculiar sentiments, and did much to propagate them. JamesOckford was another early advocate in England of the claims of the seventh day as theSabbath. He appears to have been well acquainted with the discussions in which Trask andBrabourne had been engaged. Being dissatisfied with the pretended conviction of Brabourne,he wrote a book in defense of Sabbatarian views, entitled, `The Doctrine of the FourthCommandment.' This book, published about the year 1642, was burnt by order of theauthorities in the established church." 20The famous Stennett family furnished, for four generations, a succession of able Sabbatarianministers. Mr. Edward Stennett, the first of these, was born about the beginning of theseventeenth century. His work entitled, "The Royal Law Contended For," was first publishedat London in 1658. "He was an able and devoted minister, but dissenting from the establishedchurch, he was deprived of the means of support." "He suffered much of the persecutionwhich the Dissenters were exposed to at that time, and more especially for his faithful283
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