In it he maintained that the seventh part of our time ought to be devoted to the service of God; that Christians are bound to rest on the first day of the week[2] as much as the Jews were on Mosaical Sabbath.
He contended that Sabbath was profaned by interludes, May-games, morris dances, shooting, bowling, and similar sports; and he would not allow any feasting on that day, though an exception was made in favour of 'noblemen and great personages'.
[3] The observance of the Lord's Day became a question between the high-church party and the puritans, an early disagreement on doctrine.
The Sabbatarian question was noticed by the bishops, and they cited several ministers before the ecclesiastical courts for preaching it.
His works are: Bownde has a Latin ode before Peter Baro's Prælectiones in Ionam, 1579; and he edited John More's Table from the Beginning of the World to this Day.