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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still and behold saith the Lord I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be Rev. 22.11 12. 3. And yet the harder the work of Reformers is and they found faithful in it though labouring with a People under a judicial impenitency and it is in vain as to that people but yet their work proveth the more acceptable to God and they shall be the more glorious in the eyes of the Lord Isai 49.4 5. 2 Cor. 12.15 and those Rulers are in the way to see peace and truth in their dayes as Hezekiah Josiah and other godly Rulers had this favour graunted to them although their work was amongst a People judicially declineing and running to ruine yet seeing these Kings Ruled with God and were fa●thful to his Saints the Lord gave them Peace and Truth in their dayes 2 King 20.19 and 22.20 4. And although such godly Rulers by their interceding with God and faithful labouring to reform a revolting people may preserve them from ruine in their time but yet if they be a people whose Rebellion and stiff neck is manifest while yet their godly Rul●rs ar● with them Deut. 31.27 it is not all that th●ir Rulers can do will preserve them at pr●sent ●rom many fearful Judgements as those which were inflicted upon the Israelites in the Wilderness although Moses was with them Psal 106.23 Psal 73.34 38. and when the time is come that the Lord findeth none to make up the Hedge and to stand up in the Gap before the Lord for the Land then will the Lord pour out of his Indignation upon them and consume them with the fire of his wrath and recompence their own way upon their heads saith the Lord God Ezek. 22.30 31. But O that we did hearken unto the Lord that he might not give us up to our Hear● Lusts to walk in our own Counsels the●● would soon subdue our Enemies and turn his hand against our Adversaries but our time should endure for ever and he would feed us with the finest of the Wheat Psal 81.11 12 13 14 15 16. But O that we did fear and flee these spiritual judgements more than any other judgements for Jesus hath said For judgement I am come into this world that they which see not might see and they which see may be made blind if ye were blind ye should have no sin but now ye say wee see therfore your sin remaineth Iohn 9.39 40. And Oh that we could wrestle and agonize by a spirit of prayer that this Gospel-vengeance may not be poured out upon our souls and the souls of our children crying earnestly to the Lord for his zeale his strength the sounding of his bowels O Lord why hast thou made us to err from thy wayes and hardned our heart from thy fear the people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while Isai 63.15 16 17 18. THE COVENANT Which was Solemnly Renewed by the Church in Norwich in Connecticut Colony in New-England March 22. 1675. IN this Calamitous Year 1675 the Year of Jacobs trouble in the Wilderness in which the Lord doth scourge New-England by the Outrage of the Heathen a Year never to be forgotten And we who are in Church state being called by our Pious Rulers with other Congregations in this Colony and in Conseience of our duty moved to seek the Lord by Fasting and Prayer and having considered the Particulars contained in the Writing sent from our Rulers to the several Churches in this Colony and which we ought to keep in Record for succeeding Generations in which they do advertise us of those sins for which the fierce wrath of the Holy one of Israel is poured o●t upon New-England first by Blastings of the Fruits of the Earth but in this year by cutting off the Lives of many by the Sword and laying wast some Plantations and threatning ruine to the whole Although to wonderment we have been hitherto preserved in the midst of the Heathen yea somewhat by means of some Heathen but we feeling in this day of the Lords searching our Jerusalem as with a Candle we cannot clear our selves though through Grace both we and ours have been preserved from those many gross acts of Prophaneness and Drunkenness Uncleanness and such like Scandals specified in that Writing and do desire humbly to be thankful for some progress of Converting Work in some of the rising Generation among us But while we do behold many unconverted Souls in this destroying year and the same sins working in us the causes of them as in others and a great degree of dangerous neglects of that which ought to be for the prevention of Apostasie and that the departings of the Glory of God from a People are by little and little and not total at once We do see cause to judge and cast down our selves at the Footstool of the Lord being covered with shame And seeing true Repentance doth not end only in confession but is restless for Reformation and solemn Covenanting with our God is a means through his Grace in order to Reformation as we find in the tenth of Ezra and other Holy Scriptures and pious Examples We do therefore this Day Solemnly Covenant to Endeavour uprightly by dependance upon the Grace of God in Christ Jesus our only Saviour First That our Children shall be brought up in the Admonition of the Lord as in our Families so in publick that all the Males who are eight or nine years of age shall be presented before the Lord in his Congregation every Lords Day to be Catechised until they be about thirteen years in age Secondly That those who are about thirteen years in age both Males and Females shall frequent the Meeting appointed in private for their instruction and to accustome them timely to the exercise of Church Discipline and these to continue belonging to this Meeting so long as they abide under Family Government of Parents or others or until they are come to the enjoyment of full Communion with the Church Thirdly That those who are grown up so as that they are in that respect left to be at their own dispose shall be required to take hold of the Covenant of their Fathers holding forth qualifications suitable to that solemn duty or at least that they hold forth a consciencious endeavour in the use of means to prepare for the same and if they be negligent they shall be admonished of their sin and if obstinate they shall be cut off from the Congregation of the Lord by that Dreadful Ordinance of Excommunication Fourthly Whereas the indulgence of Parents in bearing with the evil Behaviours of their Children their disobedience unmannerly gestures prodigality and vain and unseemly Fashions or other things not becoming those who are

AN EXPLANATION OF THE SOLEMN ADVICE Recommended by the COVNCIL in Connecticut Colony to the Inhabitants in that Jurisdiction Respecting the Reformation of those EVILS which have been the Procuring Cause of the late Judgments upon New-England By Mr. James Fitch Pastor of the Church in Norwich 1 Sam. 7.3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel saying If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts unto the LORD and serve him only and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines 2 Chron. 19.4 And Jehosaphat c. BOSTON IN NEW-ENGLAND Printed by S. Green for I. Vsher of Boston 1683. To the Reader COncerning those Brief and Nervous Discourses which are emitted herewith the Reverend and Worthy Author had no thoughts of Publishing them until such time as others did Importune him thereunto As for the first Treatise it was thus occasioned In the distressing time of the late War with the Indians in N-England many of the Rulers both Civil and Ecclesiastical in Connecticut Colony being sensible that publick Judgements seldome come but as Intimations of Heavens displeasure and that then of all Men the Leaders of the People are concerned to enquire into the Causes of the Lords Controversie 2 Sam. 21.1 they did accordingly meet for that purpose The Ministers drew up in writing what they conceived to be the mind of God respecting the solemn Question before them which Result was approved of by their Magistrates and Recommended to the Consideration of the Inhabitants in that Jurisdiction This faithful Servant of Christ did wifely take hold on that opportunity in his publick Ministry to insist upon both the Malady and the Remedy which there is so great cause to be enquiring into and did reduce his Instructions into a Catechetical Method for the better edification of the younger sort in his Congregation Sundry Persons of Worth and Judgement hapning to be present at some of those Exercises were very earnest to have them made more publick to gratifie whose desires the Worthy Author has been prevailed with to grant the Copy of what was more inlargedly viva voce delivered A Discourse of this nature is very seasonable and needful and I hope will be blessed for the good of many As for the small tractate respecting the Christian Sabbath the Author has so far as I am able to discern with very good judgement and in few words asserted and proved the Truth whose confirmation he has undertaken The most plausible Argument which our Jewish Sabbatarians insist upon is their pretending the Morality of the fourth Commandment Nor do we deny but that by virtue thereof a seventh part of time or one day in the Hebdomadel Revolution ought to be kept as an holy Rest unto God But it is evident that some expressions in the Decalogue do in a peculiar manner respect the Jewish State This is true of the Preface to the Moral Law and of the promise annexed to the fifth Commandment and some particulars in the tenth Commandment are accommodated to the then state of Israel And why some Expressions in the fourth Commandment may not be so too our seventh day Men have as yet given us no solid and sufficient reason Nay the Learned Jews themselves acknowledge it to be so And therefore they are not offended when they see Christians doing servile works upon the seventh day of the week for they say the Gentiles are not obliged to the strict and legal observation of their Sabbath The Jews in Amsterdam told Jackson Sands and other keepers of the seventh day that except they were also Circumcised their observation of that day was groundless There is no place in the New Testament which the Iews do so much object against Christians as Mat. 5.17 18. They perversely cavil and say that the Apostles did act contrary to the Doctrine of their Master Christ by telling Men that they ought not to observe the Ceremonial Law R. Maimon In misna L. 1. C. 9. has a whole Chapter full of Blasphemy against those who teach that the Law is destroyed in whole or in part The most Judicious and Learned of our Writers acknowledge that the place mentioned has respect both to the Ceremonial and to the Moral Law And that as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is set in oppposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as destroying is opposite to fulfilling christ did not evert the ceremonial Law he did himself conform to the ceremonies of the law and require other men to do so as long as the author of that law did see meet to continue it and every way fulfilled those Types which pointed at the Messiah that was to come Our Iewish Sabbatarians who abuse those words of Christ to countenance their Error might as well from thence argue that the Ceremonial Law is still in force For its certain it was not abolished until every tittle contained therein was fulfilled It has been objected that Christians in the Primitive times observed the seventh day The Christian Iews in the Apostles time had a religious respect not only for the seventh day Sabbath but for Circumcision and other Ceremonies until such time as the Iudaical World was utterly destroyed but the Apostles never allowed Christianized Gentiles so to Iudaize The Ebionites kept the seventh day but they were never accounted true Christians The Constitutions which pass under the Name of Clement L 7. C. 24. commend the observation both of the seventh and of the first day of the week And Eusebius speaks of some that observed both dayes Such Christians were certainly leavened with Iudaism At this day the Abyssine Christians observe the seventh day they also observe Circumcision and if Men will Iudaize in one particular it is not to to be wondred at if they be left to Iudaize in more Of later times there have not been many of any great Fame or Note in the World that have stood up for this Opinion There was in England formerly Braborn and Trask but they afterwards recanted Within these few years Mr. Bramfield of Sherborn was strangely drawn away into this Error But his weightiest Objections are answered with great judgment and candour by the Reverend Mr. William Ben of Dorchester in Dorset a Man whose Conversion was occasioned by a Sermon of his own after which he continued an eminent Light in the Church of God for fifty years together and than whom I never knew Man upon Earth that did maintain a greater intimacy of Communion with God Nor has Mr. Bramfield made any Reply to Mr. Ben's Book so far as I have seen or heard As for the present Jewish Sabbatarians in Connecticut Colony they out-do all their Predecessors as to Insolent Behaviour being arrived unto that height of impudent Prophaneness that they fear not in the sight of the Sun to bid defiance unto the Christian Sabbath by following the servile works of their particular Callings on the