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A60508	A Sabbath of rest to be kept by the saints here, or, A treatise of the Sabbath, and such holy and religious duties as are required for the sanctification of it, the great Sabbath of rest that remaineth to be kept by God's saints hereafter delivered in divers sermons upon Heb. 4. 9. / by Nicholas Smith ...	Smith, Nicholas, d. 1680.	1675 (1675)	Wing S4139; ESTC R12921	26,607	40

A SABBATH Of REST to be kept by the SAINTS here OR A Treatise of the Sabbath and such Holy and Religious Duties as are required for the Sanctification of it Exod. 31. 13. Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep for it is a Sign between me and you throughout your Generations that ye may know that I am the Lord that Sanctifie you The Great SABBATH of REST That remaineth to be Kept by God's SAINTS Hereafter Deut. 12. 9. Ye are not yet come to the Rest nor to the Inheritance that the Lord your God giveth you 2 Thes 1. 7. To you that are troubled Rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels Heb. 13. 14. Here have we no continuing City but we seek one to come Delivered in Divers Sermons upon Heb. 4. 9. By Nicholas Smith Master of Arts and Vicar of Braughing in Hartford-shire London Printed by J. R. for Samuel Crouch at the Corner of Popes-Head Alley next Cornhill 1675. ERRATA PAge 3. Line 7. eyes for eye Ibid. l. 18. sins for sin p. 4. l. 1. chose for chosen p. 6. l. 10. day left out p. 15. l. 3. Christan for Christian p. 18. l. 20. for to be left out p. 20. l. 31. Sabbath for Sabbaths p. 22. l. 34. look for seek p. 26. l. 16. a is le●t out Psalm for a Psalm p. 28. l. 8. looking for seeking p. 28. l. 11. Man for Men. p. 30. l. 27. a left out Sabbath for a Sabbath p. 31. l. 6. weeks for week-days To the READER CHristian Reader How much the Laws of the Church and Kingdom are violated by Papists and Sectaries thou canst not be ignorant The spreading Contagion of Schisme and Heresie doth dilate it self through the whole Land and the Evil is so Vniversal that to the Worlds eye it seemeth Remediless and past Cure The several Sects that have of late days sprung up are so frequent and common in all places and parts of the Kingdom and the numbers that adhere to them are so many and the stream runs so strongly for them that a toleration hath been thought necessary and Liberty hath been granted to the several Sectaries to have their Publick Meetings and it was thought as necessary by Rulers and Governours that the Papists likewise should have a toleration in their Religion though they were not permitted to have their Publick Meetings or Meeting-places The Sectaries of late days having been found as dangerous and pernicious as the Papists and their Practices rather more than less Destructive to the Publick Peace of the Church and Kingdom But now His Sacred Majesty and both Houses of Parliament having by joynt Consent made the Laws of the Church and Kingdom binding to all and having thought it necessary not to admit of any Toleration and having Declared against all Back-sliding to Popery or Schism I have assumed the boldness to manifest to the World that nothing can more conduce to the Publick Peace of this Miserable Distracted Kingdom than to have the Laws of the Church and Kingdom Observed without consenting to any Changes or Alterations whatsoever And hope that this Sermon will find Acceptance of those who are in Authority and likewise of all Pious Christians who are for the Laws of the Church and Kingdom But yet I do Confess I do after a despairing manner settle my self to this Task We have been heretofore and are still by God's just permission for our sins so miserably Afflicted by Papists and Sectaries that I am out of hopes of prevailing and were it not so that I did more trust in Divine help and assistance than in Humane I had never set Pen to Paper to Write In this clear Light of the Gospel there could not be such Opposition of the Laws of God and the Land as there is if there were not some Papists and Sectaries who go against their Consciences and resist the Truth But it is to be that there be some such amongst us who stand for the Truth the Religion and Laws Established The good God open our Eyes to see our sins and give us Grace to Judge our selves that so the time may come when God may see their sins to be greater than ours and Discover and bring to light their Treacherous Practices their secret sins and under-hand workings so as may make for his Glory the publick Peace of the Church and Kingdom Those Ignorant Papists and Sectaries who are fraudulently circumvented and unawares seduced by Crafty Hereticks and Schismaticks who lie in wait to deceive I pity them and pray unto God for them that he would open their Eyes to see their Errors and amend their sins and hope that God may touch the Hearts of some of them and cause them to give over their slandering and iraducing of those who perswade them to Obedience and be willing themselves to be Obedient to the Laws of the Church and Kingdom and Labour to win others to Submit themselves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake And pray for those whose Hearts desire and prayer for them is that they might be Saved That so they with all Saints praying for those of the Magistracy and Ministry who stand for the Laws of God the Church and Kingdom We may have Peace among our selves at home and with our Enemies abroad and the Church of God may have Peace and be Edified walking in the fear of the Lord and the Comfort of the Holy Ghost This shall be the Prayer of him who is one of the meanest of the Houshold of Faith and desireth no other Honour than to Subscribe himself A Servant of the Church and of all Saints Nicholas Smith A Sabbath of Rest to be kept by the Saints here Or a Treatise of the Sabbath and such holy and Religious Duties as are required for the Sanctification of it Heb. 4. ver 9. There remaineth therefore a rest to the People of God GOd that made the world and all things therein seeing ●ne is Lord of Heaven and Earth dwelleth not in Temples made with hands neither is worshipped with ●e●s hands as though he needed any thing He is independent He standeth not in need of our Praises or of our Prayers If Churches be pull'd down Churchmen cast off the means allotted to God's worship and service either embezled or employed to prophane uses They that doe these things they may hurt themselves they cannot hurt God God receiveth no additional perfection by mens honouring him by their adoring and worshiping him If Temples be built His Name called upon His Sabbaths sanctified and the means allotted to his Worship and service employed to that use for which it was ordained so that men honour God with their substance and with the first fruits of their increase God his happiness is not hereby increased He was happy when these things were not done and will be happy when these things shall again cease to be performed but yet if the world continue and the great Sabbath of rest

celebrated The People of God before the Law and after the Law given in Mount Sinai were to keep the seventh day from the Creation and no other It may be objected that the Sun which is the measure of time and of days it stood still in the dayes of Joshua it went backward in the dayes of Hezekiah so that that particular seventh day from the Creation which was first celebrated could not be punctually observed by the people of God under the law To this I answer That so long as the people of God under the Law did according to common computation keep the seventh day from the Creation without any willful varying from God his institution from the intent and meaning of the law-maker who neverrequireth of menimpossibilities they could not be said to be guilty of the breach of the fourth Commandment though they did not observe that numerical identical day from the Creation which was first celebrated He that made the law may change the Law and he that made time in his hand times and seasons are and he may change them according to his own pleasure The spirit of God by the Apostles did change the seventh day from the Creation into that seventh day which we now celebrate in memorial of our Saviour's Resurrection and the seventh day from the Creation hath forfeited its right and is become a common working day by his appointment in whose hands times and seasons are who changeth them according to his own pleasure and now the day sanctified and set apart for God is our Christian Sabbath the Lord's day the first day of the week this and no other is to be sanctified and whosoever they be that are Christians acquainted with the Scriptures and the word of God or the practice of the Church in the Apostles times if they set apart any other 7th day to be sanctified as the day of God's institution beside that which we now celebrate they make themselves liable to God's displeasure in this world and to his eternal indignation in the world to come It may be objected against our Christian sabbath that that particular seventh which the Apostles instituted by the spirit or rather the spirit by the Apostles it hath not continued without change to some and it is a question whether it can be continued without change to any it is observed that men in travelling to some places of the World and some Christians have occasion to Travel for necessary traffick lose one day in a year yea Astronomers that observe the motion of the Heavens and the measure of time do observe that there is continually some losse or at least some change of time so that that particular seventh day that was first instituted we supposing a seventh day to be set apart could not successively long continue without some change or alteration To this I answer Whether they be travellers or who else they be if they do not willfully transgresse nor purposely vary from God's institution but according to common computation reckoning time according to the custome of the place where they live and the persons with whom they converse do celebrate the first day of the week the Lord's day the seventh day which the spirit of God by the Apostles did Command without choosing any other seventh day of their own heads if I say as near as they can they keep themselves to God's institution they cannot be said to offend against the morality of the fourth Commandement whereby God hath set apart a seventh day of rest in memorial of his resting from the works of his Creation neither can they be said to transgresse God's Command by the Apostles whereby he hath instituted this seventh day which we now sanctifie as a day of rest in memorial of our Saviour's rest from the great work of our Redemption I shall illustrate this by a plain similitude taken out of Scripture God Commanded the Children of Israel to keep Numb 9. 10. the passeover unto him at a set time of the year upon a set day of the month they were to keep it in the first month upon the fourteenth day of the month it so fell out that certain men were defiled by the dead they inquired of God by Moses whether they were so necessarily tyed to the day that they might not keep the passover at all if they did not keep it on the day wherein it was enjoyned to be kept answer was returned that if any were unclean or were in a journey a far off then he might alter the time and whereas the prescript time for keeping the passeover was the 14th day of the first month the time might be altered and the passeover kept on the fourteenth day of the second month but if a man were clean and not in a journey and should forbear to keep the passeover at the set time appointed he should be cut off from the people of God because he brought not the offering of God in his appointed season If necessity constrain and men be in a journey travelling or the change of times be such that that particular seventh day instituted cannot successively be continued or punctually observed God doth not tie men to impossibilities nor yet to great inconveniences and if men do not willfully transgress nor vary from God's institution but according to common computation as neer as they can keep the seventh day instituted for certain they keep God his Sabbaths and observe his Ordinances But if men be not in a journey travelling and be not hindred from keeping according to common Computation the 7th day instituted and will upon their own heads keep the Jewish Sabbath the seventh day from the Creation the sabbath that is now cancelled or think it sufficient to keep any day of their own devising without observing of the Lord's day according to the Lord's Ordinance they exclude themselves from the Communion of Saints and without serious and unseigned Repentance make themselves liable to God's wrath here to his eternal displeasure hereafter for not keeping the Lord his Rest nor Sanctifying the Sabbath in its appointed season It may be Objected that the Church of God is still guided by the Spirit and if the Spirit of God by the Apostles did change the Day that was first Instituted by God which was the Seventh Day from the Creation into that Seventh Day which we now Celebrate May not the Church of God change it again from this Seventh Day to some other To this I Answer that it cannot be supposed that there should be such ground and reason for the change of the day as there was in the Apostles Time The cause of the change of the Day it was in memory of our Saviour's Resurrection because that on that Day he rested from the great work of our Redemption I suppose therefore in regard the like Reason of a Change cannot be given the Spirit of God will not again guide the Church to alter the Day I shall propound a Question more profitable