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The doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated, in a confutation of a treatise of the Sabbath written by M. Edward Breerwood against M. Nic. Byfield, wherein these five things are maintained: first, that the fourth commandement is given to the servant and not to the master onely ; secondly, that the fourth commandement is morall ; thirdly, that our owne light workes as well as gainefull and toilesome are forbidden on the Sabbath ; fourthly, that the Lords day is of divine institution ; fifthly, that the Sabbath was instituted from the beginning / by the industrie of an unworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Byfield, pastor in Long Ditton Surrey.

Accession number
PML 49360.1
Creator
Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.
Published
London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1631.
Description
[20], 227, [1] pages ; 18 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript title on outside of wrapper: "Byfield on the Sabbath. Brerewood Against Byfield: ad finem," probably 17th century.
Provenance
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, inscribed: "Grove, Highgate. Given me by Mr West, Surgeon, at Calne, Wiltshire. S. T. C.," and annotations sporadically throughout both parts, about 1825-25 (Coleridge Collected Letters, ed. Griggs, vol. IV, p. 593-4); Baron Latymer (ownership cited in Coleridge CL, IV (published 1959): 594, n1); Pierpont Morgan Library.
Binding
18th-century English brown calf. A manuscript leaf previously used as wrapper, bound-in, 14th-century, England (Hereford?), including text of miracles in 1290 performed at the tomb of Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford (see Acta sanctorum, ed. Carnandet (Paris and Rome, 1866), vol. Oct., pt. I: Miracula S. Thomae de Cantilupe episcopi, nos. 76-83, pp. 672-73); incorrectly described by Coleridge as containing, "part of a record, that had belonged to Canterbury Cathedral, of the Pilgrims, offerings, miraculous cures &c at the Shrine of Thomas of Becket".
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