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A14653	The doctrine of the Sabbath Wherein the first institution of the vveekly Sabbath, with the time thereof, the nature of the law binding man to keep it, the true ground, and necessity of the first institution, and of the observation of it, on the severall day in the Old Testament, and also of the moving of it to the first day under the Gospel, are laid open and proved out of the Holy Scriptures. Also besides the speciall dueties necessarily required for the due sanctification thereof, those two profitable points are proved by demonstrations out of Gods Word. First, that the Lord Christ God and man, is the Lord of the Sabbath, on whom the Sabbath was first founded...2. That the faithfull under the Gospell are as necessarily bound to keep the weekly Sabbath of the Lords day... Deliverd in divers sermons by George Walker B. of Divinity and pastor of St. Iohn Evangelists Church in London.	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1638 (1638)	STC 24957; ESTC S103296	151,861	168

weekly Sabbath is founded which is briefely comprehended in these 3 particulars 1. Gods perfecting of the wo●k cr●ated 2. Gods ●est on the seventh day 3. Gods blessing of it Out of which particulars as I haue laid them open this Doctrine doth arise CHAP. 3. THat the first institutiō of the Sabbath on the seventh day of the first week of the world was grounded vpon Christ and occationed by the promise of him to be mans mediatour and the worlds redeemer And the true proper grounds of the sanctification of the weekly Sabbath vpon which it stands perpetually to the worlds end and to the eternall rest in heaven are Gods perfecting of the created world by bringing in redemption by Christ Gods rest delight and pleasure in Christs mediation and Gods blessing the seventh day with a blessing farre a boue the blessings all of other daies even the giving of Christ a perfect Saviour for mankinde This point is most plaine and manifest by that whih I haue before delivered But yet for the better setling of our Judgments and confirming of our hearts in the knowledge and beleefe of this truth Jt will not be amisse to add further proofes and reasons grounded on the sacred Scriptures First that which is the ground of Gods sanctifying the seventh day aboue all the other six dayes of the weeke must needes be somthing which came to passe one that day which farre excelled the workes created on the six dayes For the holy Scriptures and the common practise of all nations do concure in this that all holy daies whether weekly monthly or yearely are obserued and were first instituted in memory of some notable and extraordinary thing which on those dayes of the weeke moneth and yeare happened came to passe witnesse ●he passover Pentecost the feast Purim and dedication the feast of Christ nativity resurrection ascension our fif●h of November a●d many others But there can be nothing imagined greater then the works of creatiō which were all finished on the six daies but only the promise relation of Christ the redeemer the work of Redemption by him the eternall Sonne of God on that day openly undertaken and begune as I haue before proved First for Gods ceasing from his workes of creation and his bare rest from them it being a doing of nothing not making of good things cannot in any case be esteemed better then the workes of the six dayes wherin God created all things good and perfect with naturall perfection For doing of good is better in the judgment of all reasonable men then doing of nothing Secondly for Gods perfecting of the creation by bringing man and woman the last and chiefest of his creatures into being that wa● on the sixt day and his making of every creature compleat and perfect in his kinde that was done on the severall dayes in which they were severally created they cannot be any ground of sanctifying the seventh day but rather of the six daies of the weeke Wherefore it remaines that Christ promised ● perfect redemptiō on the seventh day of the world begin̄ing actually to mediate for man to cōmunicate his spirit supernaturall grace faith to our first parents is the ground of the institution of the we●kly Sabbath on that day· Secondly a supernaturall effect cannot proceed from a naturall cause a spirituall building cannot be surely setled on a naturall ground and foundation If the effect be supernaturall the cause must be such and if the bu●lding be spirituall the found●tion alsoe must be spirituall on which it is setled Now the sanctification of the Sabbath as it is Gods worke in the first institution it is a seperating of a day from naturall to heavenly spirituall and supernaturall vse and to workes which tend to such an end as cannot be obtained by creation but onely by the mediation of Christ and sanctification of the Sabbath as it is a worke and duty which God requires of a man is wholy exercised about things which concerne Christ which haue relation to him and which none can rightly performe without the communion of the spirit of Christ and the sauing guifts and graces of God in Christ. The Hebrew word Kad●sh signifies onely such workes in all the Scriptures wheresoever it is vsed never any thing is said to be holy or sanct●fying but in for and by Christ wherefore that ground of the Sabbath must needes be something in Christ or indeed Christ himselfe on the seventh day first promised and revealed a perfect and alsufficient Redemer and mediatour to gather all things to God Thirdly that which hath no proper or principall end or vse but such as presupposeth Christ and his mediation and is subordinate to him promised and to the revelation of redemption by him must needes be grounded on Christ and receive the first institution and Originall from the promise of him or him promised This is a certaine truth which with no culour of reason can be denied For God doth nothing in vayne he makes althings for there proper end vse and brings nothing into being before hee hath a proper end vse ready before hand for which it may serve Now the proper principall end vse of the Sabbath for which the Lord is said in the Scriptures to institute give it to his people is such as presupposeth Christ and his actuall mediation and is subordinate to the promise of redemtion by him First God himselfe testifieth both in the Law Exod. 31 13. also in the Prophets Ezech. 20.12 that he gaue his Sabbath to his people for this end and vse Tha● it might be a perpetuall signe betweene him and them to confirme them in this knowledge beleefe That he is their God who doth sanctifie them Secondly another maine vse for which God instituted the Sabbath is that it might be a signe and pledge to his people of the eternall rest or Sabbathisme which remaines for them in heaven and vntill they come to that rest they are bound to keepe a weekly holy Sabbath to put them in hope of that eternall rest soe much may be gathered from the Apostles words Heb. 4.3.9 Thirdly the Sabbath is for that end and use that by keeping it holy by sanctifying our selvs to the Lord and delighting our selvs in him and in his holy worshippe wee might grow up in holinesse without which none can come to see and enjoy God and soe might draw still more neere to God till we be fully fitted to see and enjoy him in glory and to come to his eternall rest in Heaven Now all these principall endes and vses of the Sabbath doe presuppose the promise of Christ and his mediation For first in him alone as he is our mediatour God becomes our God who doth sanct●fie us and without Gods shedding of the holy Ghost on us through Christ we can never be truly sanctified as appeares Rom. 8.9 Tit. 3.6 1 Cor. 1.30 And

particular day it selfe and the rest tyed to it was a tipe and figure of the death of Christ and of his rest in the grave and of the rest and ease which Christ by his death should bring to all Gods people from the burden of legall rites and from the guilt of sinne and horrour of conscience which as an heavy load did presse them downe and from the masse of corruption like a weight hanging fast one them all which Christ abolished by his death and redemption and so put an end to the Sabbath as it was tied to the last day of the weeke This being commonly held for a certaine truth by the learned Fathers and writers of all ages after them untill this day proues so farre as their authority and reason will reach that though the keeping holy of a weekly Sabbath is a perpetuall day to which all Gods people are boūd in all ages yet the particular day was mutable and another speciall day was to be appointed and consecrated by him who is the Lord of the sabbath wherin an holy rest fitter for the time and state of the new Church must be kept with better service and solemnity Instead of bodily sacrifices there must be offering up of spirituall sacrifices of praises praiers alms works of piety charity for-slaughtering of beasts ther must mortifying of corruption by holy contrition and killing of all brutish lusts and carnall pleasures and delights by seperating our selues and sequestring our mindes from them Instead of darke shaddowes of the law and obscure promises of Christ to come there must be the light of the Gospel shining in the Church preaching of Christ crucified and raised up and set at Gods right hand and there must be seeking of Gods face in his name and mediation and of accesse vnto God in him by one spirit Now what day can any man conceive in any reason so fit as the Lords day the first of the week wherin we christians keep our weekly sabbath This undoubtedly is the most fit and convenient of all daies as I haue largely before proued Yea that this vndoubtedly is the onely particular day which Gods law bindes us to keepe holy all the time of the Gospell even untill we come to the eternall rest in heaven I will as briefly as I can proue and demonstrate in the last place and so conclude this point of sanctifycation of the Sabbath as it is the worke of God the lawgiver and is distinguished from mans duty and worke of sanctification CHAP. 13. THE First which is the maine foundamentall argument is drawn from the foundation upon which God hath from the beginning builded and surely setled the weekly Sabbath It is a thing most certaine and undeniable that whatsoever things are inseperably joyned cleaue fast together they stand move together the one cannot moue to any place but the other of necessity must moue with it Whatsoever is firmly s●tled on a rock and inseperably fastened to it founded on it must needes moue with the rock and cannot moue to any place but where the rock is moved upon which ground I argue thus That which is from the beginning founded upon Christ and so surely setled and firmly builded vp●n him by God the founder of al things that cannot be seperated it must needs moue and chaunge the place with Christ and cannot be moved nor chaunge and remove to any place but onely to that which Christ is removed The weekly Sabbath from the first institution is founded by God firmly builded and sure setled upon Christ the redeemer and is in seperably joyned to him There●ore it cannot move nor chaunge the place nor be remoued from the seventh day to any other day of the weeke vnlesse Christ the Redeemer change his day and moue together with it and if he doth chaunge his solemne day it must needes be chaunged and removed with him to the same day The proposition is undeniable the assumption also J haue fully proved before in the laying open the grounds of the Sabbath and therefore the conclusion is a most manifest truth That whensoever Christ chaungeth his day and chooseth another the Sabbath must needes bee chaunged to the same day Which conclusion fully proved I lay it down for a good ground and argue thus upon it That day which Christ leaveth and passeth from it vnto another which he chooseth for his speciall and particuler day From that day the Sabbath also is chaunged and moved and the other day which Christ hath chosen becoms also immediatly the particular day of the holy weekly Sabbath Now the seventh day which was the speciall day of Christ in the old Testament because on it Christ was promised a Redeemer of the world and did first undertake openly and actually to mediate for man is now ceased to be Christs peculier day he hath left it hath chosen the first day and made that his speciall and peculiar day aboue all other daies of the weeke when in it he got the victory ouer death and by his resurrection entered into his glory and eternall rest and of a redeemer in promise became a redeemer indeed fully perfected mans redemption Therefore ever since hath the weekely Sabbath beene removed to the first day and that is the peculiar day of the weekely Sabbath Secondly that God did from the beginning purpose in himselfe and by many evidences did declare his intent to chaunge the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day also in the first institution of the Sabbath and in the giuing of his law for the keeping of it did intend to bind us under the Gospel to the keeping of our weekly Sabbath on the first day of the weeke as he bound the fathers to the seventh day in the Old Testament J proue from the determinate counsell and forknowledge of God concerning the chaunges which he foreknew and determined to bring to passe in the foundation groundes and prerogatiues of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week It is a thing which all men who haue any true knowledge of God must needes know and acknowledge for an undoubted truth that God whose wisedome is infinit and his wife providence ordereth and disposeth all things doth never any thing in vaine he never laies the foundation in any place but there also he intends the building he never brings in the proper causes any where or in any time but then and there he intends to bring in to produce the proper effects of them and whatsoever commandement God giues to men to performe some speciall duty upon some speciall grounds and for some singular causes occasions reasons by that commandement he binds them to performe the duty whensoever and whersoever he shewes the grounds and reasons to them and giues and offers the causes and occasions So that if it be made to appeare unto us that now under the Gospel God had according to his owne