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A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

the Decalogue declares it to be of the same nature with the rest of the Ten for how can it stand with the Wisdom of the God of Order who forbad plowing with an Ox and an Ass who prohibited the wearing of Linsy-woolsy and was so careful that the Male and Female Sex should wear different Apparel to shuffle a Ceremonial Law amongst his Moral Laws seeing that would have been a far greater Indecorum than the yoking of an Ox and an Ass together would have rendred the Decalogue a piece of Linsie-woolsie and have been the apparalling of permanent and transient of perpetual and temporary Laws which in their own nature differ more than Male and Female that is specifically in the same garb SECT II. But that which makes the greatest difference betwixt these Sabbaths is this The Sabbath of the fourth Precept and that commanded the Jews are grounded upon different Reasons The first in commemoration of the Creation which is common to all persons in all ages and places The other 1. That it might be a sign to discriminate the Jews from all other Nations Exod. 31. 13. It is a sign between me and you that I am the Lord your God that is That I have taken you to be unto me a People and an Inheritance Deut. 4. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I am the Lord your God which have separated you from all other Nations Lev. 20. 24. Now if other Nations had celebrated Saturday as their weekly Sabbath and not another day of the week the Jews could not have been discriminated from them by their observing the same day this would have been no part of the Wall of Partition 2. The Jews weekly as well as their monthly Sabbaths were Shadows of good things to come the Body whereof is Christ Col. 2. 16. If therefore the Sabbath of the fourth Precept had been the Jewish Sabbath it ought to have been abolished when Christ the Substance is come as well as other Ceremonial Laws But this is contrary to the sense of the Universal Church which reckons this one of the ten Commandments And our Church hath appointed this Precept with the rest of the Decalogue to be pronounced at the Lord's Table and enjoyned her Children to beg pardon for the breach of this and Grace to encline their Hearts to keep it which would be the putting of a Cheat upon them if that Precept in the plain Letter of it were not still in force and the putting a figurative sense upon it would make it as unintelligible to vulgar capacities as if it were in Latine And so much the more hard to be understood as the Church in her Liturgies and Catechisms wherein she propounds Milk to Babes affects the greatest plainness of Speech Upon which account most serious Persons have been prejudic'd against Calvin's Interpretation of Christ's descent into Hell that being an Article of the common Faith and therefore to be interpreted in the plain literal sense Let me add that the Church no where declares her Sentiments more plainly than in publick Liturgies upon which Consideration St. Austin so often appeals from those Testimonies of Fathers which Pelagius urged to the forms of Common-Prayer And therefore tho a thousand private Doctors Opinion should thwart me yet I having the Opinion of the whole Church declared in her Liturgies for me if not in so many words yet in her general practice unavoidably inferring what I maintain to wit that the fourth Precept of the Decalogue is still in full force this is sufficient to acquit my Assertion from the imputation of Novelty or singularity as being no other but what I drew from my Mother's the Church of England's Breasts not only by good consequence as hath been shewed but in plain words for in the Homily of the time and place of Prayer she tells us that God expresly in the fourth Precept commandeth the celebration of the Sabbath which is our Sunday But I have greater Authority than this of the Church even Christ himself who could not endure that he should be thought to come to destroy the Law and assures us that not one jot or tittle should fall from the Law Mat. 5. 17. which all interpret to be meant of the Decalogue whose fourth Precept must therefore be concluded to have nothing in it that is ceremonial typical and upon that account to be abolished as instituting a Sabbath to be a shadow of good things to come 3. The Sabbath appropriate to the Jews was commanded them to be a Memorial of God's giving them rest from Egyptian Servitude Deut. 5. 15. Remember that thou wast a Servant in the Land of Egypt and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath Day Observe here the difference betwixt the Law of the Sabbath given on Mount Sinai and this in Deuteronomy tho it be repeated in the Decalogue For this Book containing an explanation of the Law whether Moral Ceremonial or Judicial and application of it to the particular state of the Jews Moses in this Text Judaizeth the fourth Precept and therefore assigns as the reason of its institution thus applied and limited not God's resting on the Seventh Day from his Work which is common to all Mankind but his causing them to rest from their servil work under the Egyptians which was peculiar to the Jews Which is a manifest Argument that the Sabbath of the Decalogue engraven in the Tables was of larger extent than this mentioned in Deuteronomy or else why should the Reason of the one be universal of the other particular As also that the Jews were obliged to the observation of their Sabbath not from the literal and primary sense of the fourth Precept as all Mankind are and always were except the Jews to whom God appointed another Sabbath but only from the equity of it For seeing God had sanctified the precise Seventh Day whereon he had rested to be observed by all Men it was meet that the Jews should keep holy one Day of seven and that Day which God had peculiarly enjoyned them viz. Saturday tho that was not the Sabbath of the fourth Precept the Lawgiver having Right to dispense with his own Law And this is clearly the plain meaning of Moses his inserting vers 12. as the Lord hath commanded thee or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had commanded thee viz. before the publishing of the Decalogue on Mount Sinai and of his leaving out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember the first word of the fourth Precept as it was delivered on Sinai by which word mankind was called upon to call to mind the Patriarchal Sabbath or rather his transferring it to his mentioning their Egyptian bondage vers 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and remember that thou wast a Bondsman c. As if Moses had said perhaps you may interpret the fourth Precept repeating the Law of the Patriarchal Sabbath as either vacating that Law of the Sabbath he gave you

The Doctrine of the CHURCH of England Concerning the lord's-Lord's-Day or Sunday-Sabbath As it is laid down in the Liturgy Catechism and Book of Homilies VINDICATED From the Vulgar Errours of Modern Writers and settled upon the only proper and sure Basis of God's Precept to Adam and Patriarchal Practice VVHERE An Essay is laid down to prove that the Patriarchal Sabbath instituted Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the Patriarchs before the Mosaick Law and re-inforc'd in the fourth Precept of the Decalogue was the same day of the VVeek viz. Sunday which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the Creation of the VVorld by the Redemption of Mankind Stand ye in the Ways and see and ask for the old Paths where is the good Way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your Souls Jer. 6. 16. LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXIII THE PREFACE TO THE Intelligent Readers SAd and deplorable Brethren have been our Sabbatarian Controversies For while one Extream pleads there is no other ground for sanctifying the Lord's-Day than there is for other Holy-days to wit Ecclesiastical Constitution thinking thereby to oblige Christians to as religious Observation of other Holy-days as of Sunday They aim at an Impossibility seeing in many religious Persons there is imprinted this common Sentiment That the Lord's-Day ought to be discriminated from other Days And this Principle so deeply imprinted as all Attempts to obliterate do furbish it and make the writing more legible Yea the circumjacent Cold of the Devotion of the contrary-minded as by an Antiperistasis enflames the Zeal of Men seriously devout beyond the due Bounds and pusheth them on to the very Brink if not into the Gulf of Judaizing in the manner of celebrating the Lord's-Day And on the other hand the looser sort observing how some of those that with most Earnestness press the aforesaid Ground of Ecclesiastical Constitution do themselves observe Holy-days think they have fully discharged the Office of good Religious Christians if they sanctify the Lord's-Day as they celebrate other Holy-Days that is by resting from their ordinary Callings frequenting the Morning-Prayer to attend Evensong is a work of Supererogation and trifling away the remainder in pass-times Now what hath or can be the issue of this but Ignorance and Prophaneness and an Incouragement to profane Sundays instead of sanctifying other Holy-days But I love not to be querulous motos praestat componere fluctus I would much rather help towards the calming of this boisterous Sea in order whereunto I shall propound these Preliminaries 1. That the Progress of Men's Devotion for Sundays above other Holy-days into Superstition ought by all means to be prevented and the Jewish Yoke of the strict Ceremonial Rest of their Sabbath as well as their Sabbath-Day it self ought to be taken off the Necks of the Disciples because that Ceremonial Rest being a Shadow of good things to come by Christ the retaining of the Shadow is a denying that Christ the Body is come And bodily Rest as well as bodily Exercise is now under the Gospel unprofitable except it be ordinated to spiritual 2. That yet a due Respect to the Lord's-Day ought by all means to be incouraged 1. Because this seems to be the common Notion of serious Christians and that argues it to be an Infusion from that one Spirit into which we are all baptized and by which as their Intellectus Agens or common Soul all Christ's living Members are animated 2. Because this is one of the surest Nails fastened by the Masters of Assemblies for the Support of Religion especially in this Age For this Principle is that that not only brings Men to Church to worship God and to be instructed by him in the Ministry of the Gospel but also obligeth them in Conscience to do something extraordinary in their Families on the Lord's-Day towards the educating them in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord beyond what they think themselves bound to do on the Week-Days so that if this were an Errour it would be an happy Errour as being an occasion of bringing Men to the Worship of God and Knowledg of the Truth And truly if I were perswaded that the other Opinion that the Sanctification of the Lord's-Day hath no other Ground than Ecclesiastical Constitution were a Truth I should think it a Truth not necessary to be published For if Men did not apply themselves to the Service of God and promoting the Interest of their Souls with more Seriousness of Devotion on the Lord's-Day than it is possible to perswade them to in keeping other Holidays the common Practice of most and the Principles of the more Religious considered Ceres and Bacchus would have more Service from Christians than the only true God For how I pray are our very chief Holy-days celebrated such as Christmas Easter Pentecost Sunday excepted but by Carding Dancing Revelling Whitsun-Ales c If God therefore had not better Sacrifices offered to him and Men's Souls better Sustenance administred to them on the Lord's-Day Men would rob God of his Honour and starve their own Souls 3. The first Errour in the Digestion of Men's Thoughts touching this Controversy is the common Hypothesis of all modern Litigants to wit That the Lord's-Day comes in as a Successour in the room of Saturday Upon which sandy Ground it is not so easy to lay any solid Foundation for sanctifying the Lord's-Day For if that Day which God by his Example and Precept first sanctified for the weekly Sabbath be Saturday that Day cannot be unsanctified and another adopted in its room but by an Equal if not a Superiour Authority to that which consecrated Saturday Now a Superiour Authority to the Example and Precept of God cannot be imagined And that which is alledged by either Party for the unsanctifying Saturday falls far short of Equality to it For what argumentative Force can there be in Christ's rising his appearing to his Apostles the Apostles assembling on Sundays for the sanctifying that Day comparable to the express Command of God for sanctifying Saturday much less can the Constitution of the Church counter-ballance it Briefly they proclaim Sunday an usurping Intruder into the Priviledges of Saturday rather than its legal Successour who advance it into the Possession of Saturday's Crown to be the weekly Holy-day upon no better claim than can possibly be deduc'd for it while they make it a younger Brother 4. This Errour in the first Digestion being incurable must either be removed out of the way of Men's Thoughts when they are pitching them upon this Argument or they will be ever learning and yet never come to the Knowledg of the true Ground for the sanctifying of the Lord's-Day but will endlesly draw the Saw of Contention both ways That the abovesaid Errour therefore may be obviated I have laid down this contrary Hypothesis viz. That Sunday-Sabbath is elder Brother to Saturday-Sabbath That being assigned for the weekly

could wish was the Rest of Redemption And the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath the rest of the Creation uncompleated on the sixth day before Man was capacitated by Faith in Christ to glorify God through his Redeemer Saturday and Sunday-Sabbath came into the World not like Esau and Jacob but like Phares and Zara. The Jewish Saturday-Sabbath was not born first and afterwards the Christian Sunday-Sabbath catching the Jewish by the Heel supplanted it and obtained the Blessing of Primogeniture But the Christian Sabbath like Zara first put out its Hand and upon Sunday's Wrist was tied the Thred the Bond of God's Injunction to sanctify that Day and the Scarlet-Thred the Bond of the Covenant of Grace sealed in the Blood of the promised Seed for by binding is signified the imposing of the Law of hallowing the Sunday-Sabbath whence God's Laws are called Bonds and Cords Let us break their Bonds asunder and cast their Cords from us that is the Laws of God and of his Christ Psal 2. 2 3. And a Bond or Cord of Scarlet Thred was to Rahab a sign of the Covenant confirmed by the Blood of Christ Josh 2. 18. compared with Heb. 11. 31. By Faith the Harlot Rahab perished not And the Patriarchal Church unto the Flood and all since the Flood who adhered to that Church in their Sunday-Sabbath Celebrities had an Eye of Faith upon that Scarlet-Thred bound to the Wrist of that Day But when the villanous Subtilty of such Politicians as designed to make themselves absolute Soveraigns over the Nations independent from God had perverted that custom of worshipping God in publick Assemblies on Sundays by inacting the Worship of the Sun on that day that bare the name of that Planet making that Hand which God had set at the end of the Volumn of his Book as the Index pointing to the chief Contents of that Volumn the eternal Word making Propitiation through his Blood to point the contrary way to the Worship of the Creature Then the Scarlet-Thred was drawn back out of the Jews sight till the fullness of time and now comes forth the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath more than 2400 Years after the Patriarchal Sunday-Sabbath which Saturday-Sabbath was not imposed upon any Nation but the Jews nor upon them in room of the Patriarcal but upon other accounts as will be shewed in the handling of the sixt and last Branch of our Discourse upon the Sabbath CHAP. VI. The Mosaical Saturday-Sabbath fixt on the sixth Day of the Week in the order of Creation was instituted upon other Grounds than that mentioned in the Decalogue and having no footing in the forth Precept but in the Ceremonial Law was to expire at Christ's Death and give place to the Patriarchal Sabbath SECT I. THat Saturday-Sabbath as well as the rest was appointed the Jews to be a Ceremonial Badg to difference them from all other Nations who celebrated Sunday as their weekly Sabbath is so frequently affirmed in Sacred Scripture in these or equivalent Terms It is a sign between me and you throughout your Generations that you may know that I am the Lord that sanctifieth you As all that is requisite for the proof hereof is to shew that in those places by God's sanctifying of them is meant his visible separating them from all other People for his own Inheritance by a Covenant of Peculiarity For evincing of which let it be considered that in Ezek. 20. God's giving them Statutes and Judgments that is Moral and Judicial Laws is not said to be to this end that they might know that he was the Lord that sanctified them as his giving them his Sabbaths to be a sign between him and them was vers 11 12. and vers 19 20. I am the Lord your God hallow my Sabbaths and they shall be a Sign between me and you that ye may know that I am the Lord your God That is That I have taken you to be unto me a People and an Inheritance as ye are at this day Deut. 4. 20. Levit. 20. 24. And yet more plain Exod. 31. 13. it is affirmed of all the Sabbaths Indefinitely that the keeping of them is a sign between God and the Jews That he is the Lord their God c. and vers 16. The Children of Israel shall keep my Sabbaths throughout their Generations by an everlasting Ordinance It is a Sign betwixt me and the Children of Israel for ever 2. The reason why God would not have the Jews to celebrate the Sunday which the Patriarchs and themselves till the Institution of the Saturday-Sabbath celebrated as the weekly Sabbath but appointed them another day was to secure them from idolizing the Sun with the Heathens who had perverted Sunday-Sabbath from the Worship of God to the Worship of the Sun from the Guilt of which Idolatry in celebrating the Patriarchal Sabbath Job purgeth himself Job 31. 26 27 28. If I beheld the Sun when it shined and my Heart hath been secretly enticed or my Mouth hath kissed my Hand this also were an Iniquity to be punished by the Judg For I should have denied the God that is above That is if I had worship'd the the Sun secretly in my Heart it would have been a denying of God But if I had worship'd it openly by kissing my Hand at the sight of it I had become obnoxious to the sentence of the Judg where note that in Job's time who lived some Generations before Abram the World grew propense to this idolizing of the Sun but hitherto the Noachal Religion was so prevalent as the publick Law of the Nations opposed its Incroachment Mercer in locum Vnde videatur Jobi conterraneos tum non fuisse idolatras quia dicit se non clam id fecisse nedum palam non prodit statim in publicum ista temeritas nisi postquam cor plane occaecatum fuerit consensus favorque plurium accesserint Job's Contemporaries and Country-men were not Idolaters because he saith he did not worship the Sun either secretly or openly such Temerity as this doth not forthwith appear in publick but after that the Heart is altogether blinded and common Consent and Favour come to take its part However in Moses's time this idolizing of the Sun had universally prevail'd and even in Abraham's time was back't by the secular Law in Vr of the Chaldees for the Contempt whereof in his refusing to worship the Caldean Emblem of the Sun Abraham with his Father Terah found Vr of the Caldees too hot for them By the way observe that the word which in this place of Job is translated the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is that from whence Vr of the Caldees deriv'd its Name and the Egyptians the Name they give the Sun 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Macrob. Saturnal 1. 21. Hence Moses so frequently reneweth this Caution that the Jews should take heed of making any Representations of the Sun or any of the Host of Heaven Deut. 4. 19. and Chap. 7. 3. in special to the Sun and Moon