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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53813	The tryal of the truth or rather, the law is the truth : Psalm CXIX, CXLII, wherein are presented to the upright in heart, certain theoretical queries ... which queries particularly and especially tend to make way for the finding out whether it be our duty to keep holy the seventh day Sabbath ... / propounded by a lover of the truth, I.O., of age 57 years, who desireth that truth be preferred in all things above error, and virtue above vice ...	Ockford, James.	1656 (1656)	Wing O8A; ESTC R41804	18,146	20

seventh day to the first yea some of these Authors doe also give reason why they changed it but for brevities sake I will omit to lay down the words of the first Authors yet I think good to recite the words of Mr. Brerewood and the Annotations of the Colledge of Rhemes on Apocal. 1.10 whose words are these The Apostles and faithful abrogated the Sabbath a They are too large the Apostles had no hand in it the Church did it long after their death as is to bee known by that which is already said which was the seventh day and made holy day for it the next day following being the Creation And without all Scripture or commandement of Christ that we read of yea which is more not onely otherwise than was by the Law observed but plainly otherwise then was prescribed by God himself in the second Commandement they erre in their account it is the fourth yea and otherwise then he ordained in the first Creation when he sanctified precisely the Sabbath-day and not the day following Such great power did Christ leave with his Church and for such causes gave he the Holy Ghost to be resident in it and to guide it unto all truths even such as in the Scriptures are not expressed And if the Church had authority and inspiration from God to make Sunday being a working day before an everlasting holy day and the Saturday that before was an holy day now a common working day VVhy may not the same Church prescribe the other holy Feasts of Easter VVhitsontide Christmasse and the rest For the same warrant shee had for the one that shee had for the other c. Although the Church did change the dutie of rest and time of worship from the seventh day and placed it upon the first day of the week yet did not they at the first by any Law injoine the Church to keep it but Constantine the Roman Emperour was the first man that wee read of who commanded it to be kept and this he did by his Edicts or Proclamations which he sent forth into all his Roman Empire whereby he straightly commanded that the Lords day should be forthwith observed by devoting it to Prayer and that they should forbear to labour or to doe any work on the Lords-day as we read in Eusebius in the life of Constantine lib 4. chap. 18. 19. By which means came the first day of the week to receive honour and to bee kept as a Sabbath but yet notwithstanding Christian men fearing God could not so easily be brought to prophane the Lords Sabbath the day called Saturday as to make it a working day which thing it seems the Heads or Governours of the Churches would that they should as it appeareth by the Council at Laodicea held about eight and thirty yeares after the Act of Constantine in that they made a Law that Christians should not Iudaize and rest upon the Sabbath but should rather work on it and that they should preferre the Lords-day above the Sabbath and if any were found working on it they should be excommunicated or accursed See Mr. Brabourn against the ten Ministers in defence of the seventh daies Sabbath pag. 482. out of Hospinian de origen Fest cap 9. pag. 27. Although the Church changed the time of rest from the seventh day of the week unto the first and that Christians generally unto this time have conformed themselves to doe their will yet it doth not prove that the Churches therein are justifiable before God neither will the continued enstome of the Church in keeping of the first day of the week to this time in place of the Sabbath warrant our lawfull keeping of it unless God hath commanded it What answer will men make when God shall cal them to an account for their so doing I marvel This I speak because I doe not beleeve that it can be proved that either Iesus Christ or his Apostles did give order to the Church that it should change the seventh daies rest to the first day of the week three hundred yeares astea their decease c Why the Church changed the Sabbath from the seventh day and placed it on the first day of the week and the time when they did it or near about is to bee seen in the 37 38 39 40 41 42. pages of my Book intituled The Doctrine of the fourth Commandement deformed by Popery c. and further to manifest that the Church changed the Sabbath or abolished it and transferred the time of the celebration of it to the first day of the weeke hear what Mr. Brerewood saith in his Treatise of the Sabbath in answer to Mr. Byfield where he answereth an objection touching the abolishing of the Sabbath and the celebration of it translated to the first day of the week Translated saith he by whom The Scripture we know to be sufficient it containeth all the Commandements of God whether of things to be done or to be avoided or to be beleeved let me hear either one precept one word of God of the Old Testament commanding it to be translated I say one word of any of the Apostles intimating that by Christs commandement it was translated It is certain there is none Therefore it is evident that the solemnitie of the Lords day was not established Jure divino not by any commandement of God and consequently to work on that day is certainly no breach of any divine Commandement How then saith he hath the first day of the week gained the clebration and so lemnitie to become the Sabbath of Coristians by the coustitution of the Church and onely by that yet of that most ancient Church I confess that next followed the ascension of our Redeemer but all this is but jus humanum the decree of Men which must not equal it self with Gods commandement c. And in pag. 43.44 he saith that the Church ordained solemn Assemblies of Christians to be celebrated that day to the honour of God and in them the invocation of his holy name c. It is out of question all Antiquities afford plentifully remembrance of it And thus farre Mr. Brerewood Now to speake a few words to those who say the Sabbath is abolished by Christ and the first day instituted in is stead Can it be truly said that the Decalogue is a Moral Law when the fourth Precept is an abolished Ceremonie or part of it Is some part of that Law to be kept by Christians and not all of it How is such a thing to be proved Did God ever give a Ceremonial Precept with the voice of his mouth with thundering lightning and the voice of a trumpet Can it be proved that God did write a Ceremonial Precept in a table of stone Are not the ten Commandements the Law which Jesus Christ and his Apostles established for Christians to keep to the end of the world If nay what Law is it they established And if it be the Law which they established