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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

Lords Day So that it was high time for the Magistrate who is Custos utriusque tabulae to interpose And truly if it had not been so there is reason to fear that the hand of Heaven would have done the Magistrates work after a ●ar more terrible manner We cannot with truth affirm that visible Judgments from Heaven have befallen Christians for not religiousl● observing the seventh Day but Histories abound with Examples of Gods awful and tremendous punishments inflicted upon the Prophaners of the Lords Day which is a very convincing Argument that the observation of the first day of the week is of Divine Institution Concerning the Objector here Animadverted upon the truth is his Allegations are feeble and frivolous so that some may think 't is pity a Man of Mr. Fitch's Strength and Ability should be improved in a Service which a far meaner hand might with ease have undertaken Yet considering that sometimes as senseless an Apostate as Mahomet was may possibly leven a World of deluded Souls if due care be not taken to prevent it others have judged it necessary that he should be answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is written will tend either to his Conversion which if possible the Lord grant or else to his being left the more inexcusable condemned in himself while he opposeth the light of Truth The Apostle does both allow and require that some and in special Judaizers should be rebuked sharply that they may be sound in the faith Tit. 1.13 Had the Antichristian Sabbatarian here refuted only modestly scrupled whether the seventh day were not still of Divine institution more gentleness in Expression would have been used with him but he is not a person to be Saved in that way If by any means he be plucked out of the fire neither himself nor those that have aimed at his Salvation will be sorry Jude 23. The Lord give a blessing to Faithful Endeavours and vindicate his Truth Name and Sabbath in such a way as shall be most for his own Glory Boston July 1683. INCREASE MATHER In Order to some Explication of the Solemn Advice which our Honoured Magistrates did in the Time of our Calamity send abroad unto the several Churches and Congregations in this Colony we have occasion to reflect upon both THe Provocations of New-England and the Impediments of Reformation and to make way for the following Discourse we may consider what Moses that great Prophet of the Lord and chief Ruler in Israel did inculcate upon that People in Deut. 9.7 Remember and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the Wilderness We ought to have and hold a remembrance what our Transgressions have been by which the Lord hath been provoked to wrath against us 1. The Remembrance ought to be clear and full the Pen-men of the Holy Scriptures were moved by the Spirit of God to Record clearly and fully the Provocations of which the People of God had been guilty as is manifest in Psal 78. Psal 106. and through the History of the Church in the Book of God and some of the spots of the most beautiful Saints God would not suffer these to be forgotten and left out of the Holy Scripture Record 1 King 15.5 Psal 106.32 32. 2. The Remembrance ought to be affectionate with a heart suitably affected Remembring what our cares and fears grief and tears were in that day when the wrath of the Lord appeared to be a consuming fire and we as combustible matter and had not the Lord quenched the fire of his wrath with his own Bowels of Mercies we had perished Ezek. 16 61. Lam. 3.19 20. 3. The Remembrance ought to be particularly Reforming considering how our sins have driven us into a perillous state and we ready to perish in the Ocean of miseries and shall we again provoke the Lord to wrath will he not be angry until he hath consumed us Ezra 9.14 if we do not remember our Provocations to our Humiliation and Reformation the Lord will remember them against us to our own confusion and destruction although we wash our selves as with Nitre and take much Sope yet our iniquities are marked before the Lord Jer. 2.22 Psal 50.21 22. And we may see what Record of Providences respecting a People or particular persons is most agreeable to holy Scripture Rule That Record which doth declare the Righteous acts of the Lord our unrighteous deeds the superabounding Grace of God although our sins have abounded That Record which doth set forth the Lords Justice Mercy Truth Faithfulness and Almighty arm by uncovering the feebleness sickleness falseness many other bitter Provocations both of Rulers people Dan. 9.7 8. This is most like the Record in Holy Scripture and the Church History therein contained but such a faithful Record seldom comes forth in that age in which the then present Providences were acted few will suffer a plain Remembrance of their Provocations but the Lord hath hitherto provided some faithful Recorder who hath left that in Record to succeeding Ages which the present Generation would not endure to hear of Psal 10.4 Rom. 3.5 Psal 78.36 37 38. And that we may have and hold a convincing hearty Reforming effectual Remembrance what our Provocations have been let us consider according to that most Solemn Advice of our Rulers First What that sin is which is the root actually and nextly of all the other sins An. Apostasie from the true Religion considered not only absolutely but comparatively as it is a declension from the stricter part of Religion or a decay of the Beauty of a Religious Profession and this Apostacy doth shew it self in the various degrees of it and in the bitter fruits and effects of the same 1. Apostasie may be taken either Absolutely or Comparatively 1. Absolutely and so it s a total turning from the Faith 1 Tim. 1.19 20. and thus the Apostate is become a Blaspheming Infidel or a falling from Profession to Prophaneness thus the Apostate is turned like the Dog to his Vomit 2 Pet. 2.22 or a forsaking all Godliness and godly wayes and loving the present World and thus the Apostate is become a meer Worldling 2 Tim. 4.10 2. Or Apostasie taken Comparatively 1. In comparison of that which these Professors have been and done and thus they are not the lovers of God and doers of good works which sometimes formerly they have been Rev. 2.4 5. 2. Fallen away in comparison of the examples of their godly Predecessors whose Children they are after the Flesh but not after the Spirit Joh. 8.37.44 a noble Vine and right Seed in respect of their Parentage but a degenerate Plant in respect of their own practice Jer. 2.21 and have gone away from the Ordinances of the Lord from the dayes of their Fathers and not kept them in that purity and power as they were left with them by their Predecessors Mal. 3.7 3. In comparison of what they yet profess in words to