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A01262	Certaine fruitfull instructions and necessary doctrines meete to edify in the feare of God faithfully gathered together by Iohn Frewen ... ; whereunto is added a table, wherein the reader may easily find out the principall matters conteined in this booke.	Frewen, John, 1558-1628.	1587 (1587)	STC 11379.5; ESTC S4308	159,556	432

be such After this rest ensueth the perpetuall reste of eternall felicitie whereof the Apostle maketh mention Heb. 4. and this is a spirituall and perpetuall Sabboth Secondly wee doe reste from those labors and actions which are commaunded by god and of themselues are not euill but may be done without sinne yet on the Sabboth day we absteine from them not that idlenesse is allowed of God but to the end we may the better attend vpon spirituall actions whiche God requireth This day is not holy of it selfe neither can we geue any holines to it and also all other daies are aswell as it the Lords daies But the meaning of the commaundement is that on the Saboth day these holy workes are to be done which are commāded to vs all by God as namly that first we confesse that it is god alone that sanctifieth vs and that we suffer him to worke his workes and pleasure in vs and that we our selues do not our owne works and pleasure or will Secondly that we godly associat or ioyne our selues to holy assēblies and sermons prayer and receuing of the sacraments 45 The spirituall Sabboth BY the worde Saboth is vnderstod spiritual rest that is to say ceasing from sinne or the leauing of our owne works and the execution or doing of the works of God of such as are by him commaunded vnto vs do appertaine to his worship and glorie This spirituall Saboth is begun in this life in thē that are conuerted and is finished in the life euerlasting and is tearmed a saboth or rest both because this is indeede a true rest from labors and miseries and our hallowing and dedicating vnto the worship of God and also because that in times paste it was signified by the ceremoniall Sabboth There remaineth as the holie Ghost witnesseth a rest to the people of God Heb. 4.9.10.11.12 Exo. 20.10 Vers 15. Eze. 20.13 22.8 For hee that is entred into his rest hath also ceased from his owne workes as God did from his Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest c. In Exodus 31. The lord commaundeth him to be put to death which shall breake the Saboth Also in the Prophet Ezechiell when he cōplaineth of the corruptiō of the whole worship of God He saith that the saboth is broken of which straightnesse in requiring the keeping of the Saboth ther are euidently apparant two causes especially The one for that the neglecting of the ministery of the Church doth very easily corrupt and blot out the doctrine and worship of God the other for that by the straight requiring of the figuratiue Sabothe God would declare the greatnes and necessitie of the thing signified that is of the spirituall Sabboth 46 The Ceremonious vse of the Saboth The Saboth day had this ceremonious vse to cause at a set time the people to assemble together to heare the Law and to call on the name of the Lord to offer their sacrifices to do al that which should cōcerne spirituall order and pollicie But because this cannot be well and sufficiently vnderstood without some more plainer and more distinct handling therefore let vs first of all note that the Saboth day was a shadowe vnder the Law vntill the comming of Christ to signifie that God wil haue men rest themselues from their owne workes And that this is so Heb. 10.1 S. Paule hath also declared and likewise besids him we haue sufficient testimony in other places of the Scripture In his Epistle to the Colossians Col. 2.17 he hath these words in effect that we haue the substaunce and body of those thinges which were vnder the law we haue them saith he in Christ And therefore it was expedient that the auncient fathers should be exercised in this hope aswel by the sabboth day as by other ceremonies but sith the thing is now giuen vs we ought not to stay our selues on these shadowes True it is that the Lawe is so abolished that yet we ought to keepe the substaunce and truth thereof and as for the shadowes and figures they are done away by the comming of Christ If one then demande howe the auncient fathers knew of this sence and meaning Moses hath made declaration hereof as it is sufficiently shewed in the booke of Exodus For God after he had published his lawe in the xx Chap. he reuealeth vnto Moses in the xxi Verse 13. chapter to what end it serueth and declareth that hee hath ordeined the Saboth day as a signe that the people of Israell shoulde bee sanctified by him Nowe when the scripture speaketh of our being sanctified vnto God it is to separate vs frō all that which is contrary to his worship and seruice But where shall a man finde such purity Wee knowe that we are of God saith S. Iohn the whole world lyeth in wickednesse 1. Io. 5.19 We need not go forth of our selfs to haue battel with God and his iustice because the wisedome of the flesh is enimie against him Rom. 8.7 When men loose the bridle to their thoughts and imaginations to their desires and lustes then make they open battaile with God And wee are not ignorant of the which is declared in Genes vi Verse 5. that the wickednes of man is great in the earth and all the imaginations and thoughts of his hart are only euill continually So then we may wel vnderstand that we cannot be sanctified before our God that is wee cannot serue him in holinesse and purenesse if we be not seperated from that vncleannesse and those defilements which are contrary hereunto and not hauing first abolished all that whiche is of our owne nature 47 The ende of the Saboth The saboth teaching vs our inward corruption stayeth not there neither is that the end of it but leadeth vs to vnderstand that seeing our owne waies bee all corrupted and defiled with sinne insomuch as the ceasing from sinne is no other thing then the ceasing from our owne waies and works it appeareth euidentlie that iustification and holinesse of life haue not their beginning from our selues but are the free and vndeserued graces and workes of God within vs. Which we are compelled to graunte in that we confesseour owne waies to be corrupted and that the ceasing frō sinne is as it was saide before the ceasing from our owne waies and workes For if as the truth is our owne waies be all corrupted and defiled with sinne if any good be in vs it must haue a beginning and spring otherwhere then from our selues Ex. 31.13 The saboth did signifie our newe birth in Christ to be the worke of God in vs as witnesseth the Lord himselfe Keep yee my saboth saieth hee for it is a signe betweene me and you in your generations Ez. 20.12 that you may know that I the Lord do sanctifie you For the deniall of their owne waies muste needes witnesse their worke of sanctification to proceede from the Lorde not of