A Concluding thought by Nicholas Bownd Regarding Works of Necessity on the Lord's Day

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A conclusion of works of necessity

Therefore, I conclude this point with the words of Peter Martyr, who says:

That God might have assigned many days, or all for His worship; but seeing He knew that we were commanded to eat our bread in the sweat of our face, He gave us six days for that purpose, and required of us but one day in the week, wherein leaving off from other works, we should apply ourselves only unto Him.[1]

And the conclusion of all this,} that seeing the Lord of his great liberality, even upon that day wherein He requires our rest most precisely, has not cast us into that bondage that we should do nothing at all; but has left us that freedom that in needful things we may labor; it stands us in hand so much the more carefully to look to ourselves, that we be sure that the things we go about could not have been done before, nor deferred any longer; and therefore were necessary to be done at that time. Which when we are thoroughly persuaded of by God’s Word, then may we in faith and a good conscience take them in hand; knowing that the Lord exempts us, as it were, at the present, from the general law of resting, and by some special occasion calls us to work; and therefore we do it, as unto him.

[1] Martyr, Gen. 2:3. [Common Places (1583) 375; In Primum Librum Mosis (1569; 1579) 9r.]
Nicholas Bownd, Sabbathum Veteris Et Novi Testamenti: or, The True Doctrine of the Sabbath (1606; Naphtali Press forthcoming, 2015), p. 294.
 
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