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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67379	A defense of the Christian Sabbath in answer to a treatise of Mr. Tho. Bampfield pleading for Saturday-sabbath / by John Wallis.	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing W569; ESTC R2541	83,482	87

Iesus Christ upon which Notions he seems to lay great stress though it be nothing to the purpose I think it is a mistake For our Lord Iesus Christ is God and Man but he was not God and Man when the World was made or the Law given but onely God 'T is true Christ as God according to his Divine Nature is the same God who made the World and gave the Law for we have no other God but one but not as God and Man For Man he was not at that time but in the fulness of time became Man The Sabbath of the Lord our God in the fourth Commandment with equal respect to all the Three Persons doth not signify the same as The Sabbath of our Lord Iesus Christ God and Man The Lord our God there not the same with our Lord Iesus Christ in the New Testament But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Supper is the Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ God and Man the Founder of our Christian Religion And accordingly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords day is the day of our Lord Iesus Christ a day appointed by him 3. I would have him consider further that the Lords day dominica or dies dominicus hath been all along in all ages of the Christian Church used as the proper name of what we otherwise call the Christian Sabbath and not for the proper name of any other day and therefore till somewhat do appear to the contrary I shall take it to be the same with what is called the Lords day in Scripture There is in the New Testament a place called Rome and there is at this day a place in Italy called Rome and which hath been so called all along ever since neither do I know of any other eminent place of called Therefore till somewhat do appear to the contrary I shall presume our Rome to be the same place with that which in the New Testament is called Rome We find in scripture there is an Island of the Mediterranean Sea called Melita or Malta where St. Paul suffered Ship-wrack not far from another Island called Crete Now we know also there is in the Mediterranean Sea an Island called Malta at this day and another not far from thence called Crete or Candy and we do not know of any other Islands so called then or at any time since and therefore we may safely presume till somewhat do appear to the contrary that those Islands now so called are the same Islands with those which were then so called And in like manner that Day which hath been ever since called the Lords-day as by its proper name we may and ought to presume to be the same day which was by St. Iohn so called as by its proper name in Rev. 1. 10. when he wrote the Book of the Revelation till it can be shewed that he did by that name mean some other day And we have the more reason so to presume because we find it so called by others very soon after St. Iohn's time and by those whom we have great reason to believe to have been well acquainted with St. Iohn's meaning and his manner of speech The first I shall name is St. Ignatius who was not onely Contemporary with St. Iohn but was a Disciple or Scholar of St. Iohn Now St. Iohn according to the best account we can have from Chronology wrote his Revelation in Patmos whither he was banished by Domitian in or about the year of our Lord 96 after which he wrote his Gospel upon his return from Patmos to Ephesus And Died in the Year 98 or 99 under Trajanus And Ignatius died a Martyr under the same Emperour Trajan in the Year of our Lord 107. So that there is no great distance in time And if we should miss a year or two it is not material How long before his death Ignatius wrote his Epistle to the Magnesians we are not sure nor is it material Now in that his Epistle to the Magnesians even according to the genuine Edition published by Bishop Usher out of an ancient Manuscript not that which is justly suspected to be interpolated he doth earnestly exhort them not to Iudaize but to live as Christians Si enim usque nunc secundum Iudaismum vivimus confitemur gratiam non recepisse And as to the Sabbath in particular Non amplius Sabbatizantes sed secundum Dominicam viventes in qua vita nostra orta est Not any longer observing the Iewish Sabbath but the Lords Day on which Christ our Life 〈…〉 is manifest therefore that within 8 or 10 years after 〈…〉 writing the Lords day did not signify the Jewish Sabbath but the first day of the week on which our Saviour Rose again and that it was then observed in contradistinction to the Jewish Sabbath I forbear to mention his Epistle ad Trallianos where again we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 applied to the first day of the week on which Christ rose again because it is in that Edition which is suspected to be Interpolated I might to this add the Testimony of Polycarp who was also a Disciple of St. Iohn and collected and published these Epistles of Ignatius and may be presumed to understand what St. Iohn meant by the Lords day But I shall add in the next place that of Iustin Martyr whom though I cannot call a Disciple of St. Iohn because he was not converted to the Christian Religion till about the Year of our Lord 129 about Thirty years after St. Iohn's Death yet he lived so soon after that he could not be ignorant of the Christians Practise and what they understood St. Iohn to mean by the Lords Day And how that day was observed in Iustin's time he tells us in what is called his Second Apology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 On that day commonly called Sunday there is held a Congregation or a general Meeting together of all Inhabitants whether of City or Country and there are publickly read the Memorials or Monuments of the Apostles or the Writings of the Prophets c. And again The day called Sunday we do all in common make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Meeting-day for that the First-day is it on which God from Darkness and Matter made the World and our Saviour Iesus Christ did on the same day rise from the dead In which places though it be not called dominica but dies solis yet how it was then solemnly observed in memory of our Lord Christs Resurrection is evident 'T is manifest therefore that the Lords day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominica or Dies Dominicus was the known name of a day so called when St. Iohn wrote his Revelation That it was a day of Religious Worship contradistinguished to that of the Iewish Sabbath so observed and so called by St. Iohn's Disciple Ignatius within 8 or 10 years at most after St. Iohn's writing that Book Which he would not have done if he