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A60389	Sundry queries tendred to such as are, or profess themselves to be ministers of Jesus Christ for clearing the doctrine of the fourth commandement. And the Lords sabbath day. To all that are, or profess themselves to be the ministers of Jesus Christ; these ensuiug [sic] quaeries are humbly presented to be considered, for the clearing of the truth in this weighty controvercy, about the sabbath day.	Saller, William, d. ca. 1680.	1653 (1653)	Wing S400AA; ESTC R220934	5,838	8

Sundry Queries tendred to such as are or profess themselves to be Ministers of JESUS CHRIST for clearing the Doctrine of the FOURTH COMMANDEMENT And the LORDS SABBATH DAY To all that are or profess themselves to be the Ministers of Jesus Christ These ensuing Queries are humbly presented to be considered for the clearing of the truth in this weighty controvercy about the SABBATH DAY Querie 1. WHether the Fourth Commandement exprest Exod 20. be not Morral and perpetual as well as the other nine be yea or no Quer. 2. Whether the scope and drift of that fourth Precept be not to perswade us to lay by the works of our calling one day in seven that we may on that day wholly give up our selves to wait on the Lord in the performance of duties of piety and mercy for our attaining of and growing in sanctification and holiness Quer. 3. Whether the fourth Precept do not as strictly bind us to keep holy the seventh day of or from the Creation as it bindeth us to the observation of a seventh day Quer. 4. If the seventh daies Sabbath be not Morral and perpetual then how comes it to pass that it was instituted or appointed from the first Creation when man by guilt stood in no need of a Saviour nor yet of such a cerimony Gen. 2.3 Quer. 5. If the seventh dayes Sabbath he not Morrall and belonging both to Jews and to Gentiles Then how comes it to pass that it was given to all men in Adam when there was no difference between Jew and Gentile and was observed by command from the begining as appears by comparing together Gen. 2.3 and Exod. 16.18 to 31. Quer 6. If when our Lord Jesus saith Matt. 5.18 that till heaven and earth pass one jot or tittle should in no wise pass from the Law If he there meant not the Law of the ten Commandements exprest in Exod. 20. then what Law did he mean Quer. 7. If the seventh daies Sabbath be not Morrall but an abrogated cerimony now since the death of Christ then wherefore should our Saviour instruct his beloved Apostles that must instruct christian Churches to pray Matt. 24.20 that they might not flye on the Sabbath knowing that their flight would fall out more than thirty yeares after his death Quer. 8. If there be a day instituted or appointed for holy instead of the Sabbath without a word or warrant from God how much doth this come short of will worship Quer. 9. If there be any word from the Lord or from any of his Apostles Prophets or Evangelists for the changing of the day from which of them is it or where is it written Quer. 10. If there be no text of scripture that warrants the changing of Gods holy rest from the seventh day to the first day of the week wherefore should we follow Rome the mother of harlots in this unwarrantable practice Quer. 11. If there be never so weighty reasons found in the judgments of men for the changing of the day whether is that a sufficient ground to change it without a word from God Quer. 12. Whether you find any part of all the New Testament or any christian Author for one thousand five hundred years after Christ that in any Book or writing or relation at any time did call the first day of the week the Sabbath day if so shew who and in what Book or writing it is so Quer. 13. Whether you find not that as in all the New Testament which was all written after Christs death for the use of all christians to the worlds end so also in all Lattan and Greek christian Authors the seventh day which now from the heathens custome is named Saturday is alway in all their writings both Civil and Ecclesiastical called Dies Sabbati as well as in all the Parliament Rouls of England and what that providence speaks forth that they never made so bold with that day as they did with all other daies to which they gave heathenish names Beloved and much honoured the reasons of my troubling you with this great business at this time is the weight and worth of this truth for the knowledg of the Lords Sabbath and the holy observation of it doth eminently tend to our help and furtherance in Sanctification and holiness and there be very gracious promises made to them that shall sanctifie the Sabbath Isa 56.2 3 4 5 6 7. and 58.13 14. c. which makes me esteem it a truth of great worth But Secondly I find the judgments of men very much at a loss about the Sabbath Some saying that the Sabbath is now abollished and so there is none since the comming of Christ neither are we bound to keep any day holy now Some others there be as learned as any and the most considerable for number that say the old Sabbath is abollished by the Church and the first day of the week is made holy instead thereof and that the Church hath authority so to do A Third sort of men there be which say the day was changed by Christ for the honour of the work of Redemption Now I do freely acknowledg unto you that with none of these three opinions I am at present satisfied For the First of them I cannot easily believe that that Law which was given at the creation Gen. 2.2 3. and was spoken by the Lords own voice from heaven out of the midest of the fire Exod. 19.20 1 Daut 4.12.13 and 5.22 23 24. and which alone was writ with his own fingers in Tables of stone to be kept in the Ark and that are so carefully distinguished by Moses from the statutes and judgments which he tought Israel and he hath discribed them by the name of Ten Commandements Exod. 31.18 and 32.15 16. and 34.28 Deut. 4.13 14. and 5.22 and 9.10 11 15 17. and 10.1 2 3 4 5. should be any of them abollished I must have better ground to believe it than any at present I see or else I cannot believe it The Second Opinion seems to me altogether as bad or worse than the former that the Church should have any such power in works of this nature seems to me altogether unlikely the Lord so frequently forbidding her to add to his word or deminish from it Deut. 4.2 and 12.32 Iosh 1.7 Prov. 30.6 Revel 22.18.19 Again Christ is said to be in all things head to the Church Ephes 1.22 and we have one Law giver Iam. 4.12 we read of no more Again the transgressing of the Commandemtnts of God to bring in the traditions of men was vain worship in Christs time and so condemned by him Matt. 15.3 6 9. and therefore a sin now sure and if this change must be admitted of as good upon this account I see not how we can avoid falling back to Babylon again receiving all Romes traditions although never so contrary to the Scriptures To the Third Opinion I am as hard to be reconciled as to the former First because I