John Prideaux, D.D., Bishop of Worcester,

Maintains that on the Sunday all recreations whatsoever are to be allowed, which honestly may refresh the spirits and increase mutual love and neighbourhood amongst us; and that the names whereby the Jews did use to call their festivals (whereof the Sabbath was the chief) were borrowed from a Hebrew word, which signifieth to dance and to be merry, or make glad the countenance. . . . What is the cause (he says) that many of our sectaries call this day the Sabbath? If they observe it as a Sabbath, they must observe it because God rested on that day; and then they ought to keep that day whereon God rested, and not the first as now they do, whereon the Lord began His labours. If they observe it as the day of our Saviour's resurrection, why do they call it still the Sabbath; seeing especially that Christ did not altogether rest that day, but valiantly overcame the powers of death.—The Doctrine of the Sabbath. London, 1634.