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A63259	The Lords day vindicated, or, The first day of the week the Christian Sabbath in answer to Mr. Bampfields plea for the seventh day, in his Enquiry whether Jesus be Jehovah, and gave the moral law? And whether the fourth command be repealed or altered? / by G.T., a well-wisher to truth and concord.	Trosse, George, 1631-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing T2303; ESTC R3378	80,084	154

and Socinians and so worse then Arians Which is either to tax them all as gross Hereticks or at least ignorant and inconsiderate Persons that do either not know or not heed the direful and damning Consequences of their own Doctrin But I hope we shall see that either the first Query is but little concerned in the second or that those who are contrary to his Sentiments in this are throughly Orthodox in that To which as 't is proposed with a good and plain distinction may be replyed both negatively and positively that the Lord Jesus Christ made the World is Jehovah c. and that the Lord Jesus Christ was not Jehovah made not the World c. and that altogether according to the Scriptures and so the very stress of his Argument enervated and this Foundation of this Structure supposed to be eternal and immutable proved to be Sandy Temporary and Human which we shall endeavour to evince in its proper place I shall purposely wave any Reflections upon his Four first Pages though Remarks might be made thereon because I suppose if there be any thing which he judges of moment in this Case they are to be found in the following Discourse to which they are but an Introduction Only shall hint my Belief of his not having seen Mr. Warren of Colchester's Book against Tillam seeing he does not mention him Page 4. among the Writers he there quotes for the First-day-Sabbath A most worthy Author who has so fully and convincingly confuted his Adversary that I am prone to believe had Mr. B. perused and duly studyed him he would not have troubled the World or the Church with his Book and were that Book commonly to be gotten or a new Edition thereof to be Printed there could need no other Reply to this much less should I have put Pen to Paper being so far Inferiour to him However a Pygmy upon a Gyants Back may see a little farther with his own Eyes SECT I. HE states the first Question Page 5. Whether the World were made by Jesus Christ and that too as affording help to his Sabbatarian Notion but rightly apprehended it conduces nothing at all thereto For Evidence whereof we say that it may be orthodoxly denyed and asserted that Jesus Christ did not make the World for the World was 4000 Years before ever Jesus Christ was For these two Names J. C. do necessarily imply or include his Human Nature with his Divine For his Divine Nature formally and abstractly considered cannot be Christ that is not Annointed not fitted nor qualifyed by any other for any Offices Imployments or Designs It belongs to his Human Nature alone Neither could his God-head so considered be our Jesus for the God-head can neither obey the Law nor bear the Curse both which were to be done by our Jesus And these appertain only to his Humanity though his Divinity gives the Merit of our Salvation to his active and passive Obedience so that actually and formally Jesus Christ could not be till his Incarnation Though his Merits extended to all the Generations of Relievers from Adam according to that Rev. 13.8 For though an actual Existence be necessary in Physical Causes before they can be Causes and produce their Effects yet 't is not so in Moral but their Effects may be before the actual Existence of the Cause as Persons may be redeemed and let loose from Prison upon the foresight of a Ransom or a Payment to be made Months or Years after And so God out of an Infallible Foresight of our Saviours paying the Debts and laying down the Ransom of the Elect in the fulness of time and giving to himself a full meritorious Price even the Blood of God Act. 20.28 for all their spiritual and eternal Mercies delivered blessed and saved all the Saints and Believers before our Lords being actually a meritorious Saviour with an Eye and Regard thereto and so he was not actually Jesus neither could he be till he had actually done and suffered all these things for which they were Redeemed and Saved And therefore here as Jesus Christ could not make the World though as God we acknowledge he did In the Old Testament Christ is Prophesied of as to come Dan. 9.25 26. How could he then create the World And when he is born of the Virgin Mary he is then pronounced by the Angel to be Christ Luk. 2.11 as being then the Accomplishment of Daniel's and other such Prophesies that went before of his future Messias-ship And upon his Incarnation he had the Name of Jesus given him by God Math. 1.21 How then could he as Christ Jesus create the World I desire that this might be duly considered by the Reader because 't is of great weight to overthrow the chief Prop of his Sabbatarian Structure and to prove them to be but of ill temper'd Mortar For in this and the two following Queries he builds upon a fallacious Composition as though whatever God is or did that Jesus Christ must be and do and so he must create the World because God did so Just as if we should suppose the Platonick Existence of Souls Thousands of Years Solitary without Bodies and impute what ever those Souls Did Thought Resolved c. in that Condition to those Men of whom they came in time to be an essential part and say this Man so thought and so resolved this would be a very improper Speech for the Man was not till the Soul came to be essentially conjoyned to the Body And therefore in Propriety 't was the Soul and not the Man that was the Author of these Cogitations and Resolutions for they were Thousands of Years before the Man was So the God-head of Jesus Christ made the World but the God-head was throughout a beginning less Eternity before Jesus Christ and therefore he could not be the Creator of the World 'T is somewhat strange to me that Mr. B. did not see this gross Fallacy All Scriptures therefore which he brings to prove this Assertion must be thus understood as for Example Col. 1. v. 12 13 14. with v. 16. which Scripture confutes his Suggestion and confirms our Assertion For surely he cannot say that the Creator as and when Creator had Blood But Christ as such had Blood and therefore Christ was not Creator but his God-head So must also John 1.1 3. where the Creator is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we translate the Word it might as well have been translated the Wisdom which was eternally with God in God and is God and so must be the Creator But 't is very observable that St. John doth not call him Jesus Christ till v. 17. when he had before spoken of his Incarnation v. 14. Just such another is Heb. 1. where 't is said that God made the Worlds taking them for the created Worlds visible and invisible though other excellent Divines interpret them otherwise by his Son even his Co-eternal and Co-essential Son But it is not here said that

Command is of perpetual Obligation to the Churches therefore the first day must be that day and the Sabbath was excluded that the Lords day might succeed and that the Promises made to the Rest of one day in Seven in the Command are made to and entail'd upon the first day of those Seven now as they were upon the last of them before its Expiration and that a due Observation thereof shall have a gracious Acceptation with a bountiful Remuneration from our God and our Saviour according to all the Blessed Experiences of the strict and consciencious Observers thereof That there is a more express and peremptory Abolition of this Sabbath in the Scriptures of that Apostle than there is or can be found in them for the Cessation of many other particular positive and ceremonial Institutions which yet Christians in general and this Gentleman in particular disregard as dissolved and vanished And I profess if I could see but half so much in the Second Command to prove a Form of Prayer to be the Pesel there forbidden or at least included therein I should utterly deny all Forms as Idolatrous which now I dare not do but in some cases hold them not only lawful but necessary and Praise-worthy or but half so much in any Line or Sentence of the New Testament against the use of the Lords Prayer in the publick Congregation I would never so use it more but to my due power would endeavour its Banishment thence If I say but half so much as I find expressed for the Seventh days Deposal well may we wonder that in such things a Man sees what scarce no Man else ever did in the word of God and yet in this that he should not see what almost every Man else can plainly discover Wherefore I question not but all our Divines and Ministers of Congregations are sufficiently satisfied that they serve God duly as to the Circumstance of time on Lords days and may and do in Faith associate on the Lords day as the only Sacred day of the Week with all other Christians in the Apostles days since our Saviours Resurrection home to this very Generation And I cannot but hope that this piece how specious soever it be and with what confidence soever recommended however back'd with the Pretences of Divine Authority of Jehovah's Will c. with pathetical Inculcations of those in multitudes of its Pages for the Observance of the Seventh day will find but very few if any Proselites among our common Professors and I am confident none among our Wise Stade experienced Christians or if any be in danger of Infection I pray to God that this Reply intended for this end may be an Antidote to secure them Lastly it will be good Advice to this Gentleman who hath caused the Expence of so much time in this Controversie to bethink himself how his Opinion leads us to Judaize and this work of his tends only to divide the Church to stumble the Weak to imploy and please the Silly Fantastical and Giddy in matters of Religion to encourage the Profaners of the first day or rather of the Lords day to scandalize and grieve all and therefore to cease from farther Attempts of this kind And all I desire is that the Reader would impartially compare what he has written for his Seventh day against the Lords day and what I have written for the Lords day against his Seventh day and beg Wisdom and Understanding from God to have a due Insight into and draw a right Conclusion from both FINIS Books Printed for Samuel Clement at the Swan in S. 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