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A60379 Sundry queries formerly tendred to the ministers of London for clearing the doctrine of the Fourth Commandment and the Lord's Sabbath-day but now tendred to the consideration of all men. Saller, William, d. ca. 1680. 1660 (1660) Wing S400; ESTC R26226 5,946 1

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Sundry QUERIES formerly tendred to the Ministers of London for clearing the Doctrine of the fourth Commandment and the Lord's SABBATH-DAY but now tendred to the Consideration of all Men. READER THis little Piece was printed about the year 1653 with the Advice and Assistance of that Reverend Minister of Christ Mr. H. Jesse whose the two last Queries be and many of them were ● and issued to the Ministers in and about the City of London both Parish-Preachers and Pastors of the Congregated Churches for their Conviction or Answer which I could not but give ther notice of otherwise some of the Passages of it would seem strange to thee but to this day no Answer is come from any of them nor any Conviction wrought in them that hath prevailed to produce amendment of life Reader The great Request I have to thee is this That in reading of my following lines thou labour to get a plain honest heart and then a swall matter more I think will make thee and I of one mind about the keeping of the Sabbath-day So subscribes thy well-wishing friend to love and serve thee W. S. Query 1. WHether the fourth Commandment exprest Exod 20. be not Moral and perpetual as well as the other nine be yea or no Quer. 2. Whether the scope and drift of that fourth Precept be not to perswade us to lay by the works of our calling one day in seven that we may on that day wholly give up our selves to wait on the Lord in the performance of duties of piety and mercy for our attaining of and growing in sanctification and holiness Quer. 3. Whether the fourth Precept do not as strictly bind us to keep holy the seventh day of or from the Creation as it bindeth us to the observation of a seventh day Quer. 4. If the seventh days Sabbath be not Moral and perpetual then how comes it to pass that it was instituted or appointed from the first Creation when man by guilt stood in no need of a Saviour nor yet of such a ceremony Gen. 2.3 Quer. 5. If the seventh days Sabbath be not Moral and belonging both to Jews and to Gentiles Then how comes it to pass that it was given to all men in Adam when there was no difference between Jew and Gentile and was observed by command from the beginning as appears by comparing together Gen. 2.3 and Exod. 16.18 to 31 Quer. 6. If when our Lord Jesus saith Mat. 5.18 that till heaven and earth pass one jot or tittle should in no wise pass from the Law If he meant not the Law of the ten Commandements exprest in Exod. 20. then what Law did he mean Quer. 7. If the seventh days Sabbath be not Moral but an abrogated ceremony now since the death of Christ then wherefore should our Saviour instruct his beloved Apostles to pray Mat. 24.20 that they might not fly on the Sabbath knowing that their flight would fall out more than thifty years after his death Quer. 8. If there be a day instituted or appointed for holy instead of the Sabbath without a word or warrant from God how much doth this come short of will-worship Quer. 9. If there be any word from the Lord or from any of his Apostles Prophets or Evangelists for the changing of the day from which of them is it or where is it written Quer. 10. If there be no text of Scripture that warrants the changing of Gods holy rest from the seventh day to the first day of the week wherefore should we follow Rome the Mother of Hariots in this unwarrantable practice Quer. 11. If there be never so weighty reasons found in the judgments of men for the changing of the day whether is that a sufficient ground to change it without a word from God Quer. 12. Whether you find any part of all the new Testament or any Christian Author for one thousand five hundred years after Christ that in any Book or writing or relation at any time did call the first day of the week the Sabbath day if so shew who and in what Book or writing it is so Quer. 13. Whether you find not that as in all the New Testament which was all written after Christs death for the use of all Christians to the Worlds end so also in all Latine and Greek Christian Authors the seventh day which now from the heathens custom is named Saturday is always in all their writings both Civil and Ecclesiastical called Dies Sabbati as well as in all the Parliament-Rolls of England and what that Providence speaks forth that they never made so bold with that day as they did with all other days to which they gave heathenish names may be considered Beloved and much honoured the reasons of my troubling you with this great busiress at this time is the weight and worth of this truth for the knowledg of the Lord's Sabbath and the holy observation of it doth eminently tend to our help and futherance in Sanctification and holiness and there be very gracious promises made to them that shall sanctifie the Sabbath Isa 56.2 3 4 5 6 7. and 58.13 14 c. which makes me esteem it a truth of great worth But Secondly I find the judgments of men very much at a loss about the Sabbath Some saying that the Sabbath is now abolished and so there is none since the coming of Christ neither are we bound to keep any day holy now Some others there be as learned as any and the most considerable for numbers that say the old Sabbath is abolished by the Church and the first day of the week is made holy instead thereof and that the Church hath authority so to do A Third sort of men there be which say the day was changed by Christ for the honour of the work of Redemption Now I do freely acknowledge unto you that with none of these three opinions I am at present satisfied For the First of them I cannot easily believe that that Law which was given at the Creation Gen. 2.2 3. and was spoken by the Lord's voice from heaven out of the midst of the fire Exod. 19.20 Deut. 4.12 13. and 5.22 23 24. and which alone was writ with his own fingers in Tables of Stone to be kept in the Ark and that are so carefully distinguished by Moses from the Statutes and Judgments which he taught Israel and hath described them by the name of Ten Commandments Exod 31.18 and 32.15 16. and 34.28 Deut 4.13 14. and 5.22 and 9.10 11 15 17. and 10.1 2 3 4 5. should be any of them abolished I must have better ground to believe it than any at present I see or else I cannot believe it The Second opinion seems to me altogether as bad or worse than the former that the Church should have any such power in works of this nature seems to me altogether unlikely the Lord so frequently forbidding her to add to his word or diminish from it Deut. 4.2 and 12.32 Josh