Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	jew_n	sabbath_n	7,683	5	10.0435	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50771	Religio stoici	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing M195; ESTC R22472	60,332	192

if God had intended that one and the same day of the week should have been appropriated to have been a Sabbath He had designed each day by a special terme and had commanded that a day of such a designation should have been sequestrated for a Sabbath and that by designing only the seventh day He did leave a liberty to employ any day of the seven for that use Yet it is remarkable that Mosos nor the jewish Church durst not attempt the change of their new-years day but that the Almighty was pleased to bestow a peculiar sanction upon that alteration For Exod. 12. 2. He commands that the moneth wherein the Israelites came from Egypt should be by them reputed the first moneth of their year Wherefore seing each Nation chalks out a divers Sabbath it would appear that there is something of humour in it as well as of Religion The Venerious Mahumetan chooseth Friday or dies Veneris The dull Iew dull Saturn's day The warlick Parthians Tuesday or mars-Mars-day The cheery Europeans Sunday And albeit the Christians are influenc'd only by inspiration yet I am confident that the heathens did follow that for Religion which suited best with their natural temper But this is a meditation which should travel no where beyond a mans private breast lest it meet with enmity and beget scandal It would puzle a heathen much to hear that he who breaks one of these Laws is guilty of the breach of all But it troubles not me seing all these Laws are made to shew our obedience and the breach of any one of them shewes our contempt of Him who is the author of all And it may be this was typified in Moses's breaking both Tables with one passionat fling after he came down from the Mount For if this breaking of them had not been pre-design'd for some hid end doubtless he had been reproved for his negligence However we may from this learn the desperate nature of passion which made Moses who was the meekest man upon earth break all the Laws of God in one act It might be also argued that seing all the Laws of the second Table were enacted for and respect ultimatly the advantage of man that where man is not wronged there the Law cannot be broke And thus if a married man should have liberty from his wife to take another woman this could be no more reputed adultery then it could be reputed theft to take what belongs to our neighbour himself consenting and that for this cause Iacob's begetting children with his wifes maids is not in Scripture reproved as adultery because they were given to him by her self for that effect but seing the practice of all the world condemns this conclusion far be it from me to press it further Albeit the judicial Law which may be justly called the judicious Law is commonly reputed to be but the municipal Law of the Jews yet seing it was thundered from mount Sinai with so much pomp and is ingrost in the Books of holy Truth and seems nearlier related to reason then any other Law I admire why it should not be religiously observed by all Nations especially seing as it is the exactest picture of Justice that ever was drawn so it hath this of a picture in it that it seems to look directly upon all who behold it albeit they be placed amongst themselves in directly opposite situations and stances Thus this Law suits even with contrary tempers and the unequal complexions of all Nations I know that the ceremonial Law is likewayes insert amongst the other holy Canons and yet binds not us who live under the jurisdiction of the Gospel But the reason of this seems to be because these did immediatly concern the jewish Church and were conversant about these holy things And so seing the old Testament is a description of their Hierarchy and of God's way of working in these times I wonder not to see these ceremonies amidst other sacred truths and yet not observed seing they are expresly abrogat But if the judicial Law which respected not the Hierarchy of that Church was obligatour only whilst the jewish State was in being I admire why the Spirit of God took so much pains first to penn it and then to deliver it so Canon-like to posterity And since it is a principle in Law and reason that Laws must still stand in vigor till they be expresly abrogat and must not be derogated from by consequences or presumptions I admire why this Law which God hath enervat by no express Text should be now look'd upon as Statutes nowise a-la-mode It is true that our Saviour when the woman convicted of adultery was brought to Him did not according to that Law pronounce the sentence of death against her whence some think that Church-men following their Masters example should not give their suffrage in criminal cases and have only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bloodless Jurisdiction for they are appointed to be Nurses not Chyrurgions But it is as true that our Saviour professed in all the tract of His life that He came not to be a Judge in things temporal and His design in that place was only to convince them of their own sinnes and not to absolve her not to abrogat the Law and therefore He desired him who was freest from sin to cast the first stone at her And whereas it is conjectured that these words which our Saviour stoop'd down to write in the clay immediatly thereafter was an abrogation of that Law this is a Geomancy more wilde then any lesson which is alledged to have been read in the mysterious face of Heaven and should never be taught but in a Rabbies cabalastick Gown And whereas it is alledged that there are many precepts in that corpus Iuris which respects only the humor of the Jews I admire why that can be urged for certainly theft murder and these other crimes punished there are the same crimes which reigns amongst us and so why not punishable after that same manner Neither are the humors of these Jews more different from ours then was the genius of the Romans and yet few or no Nations refuse to cast their modern Laws in that antique mould And it is very probable that as God did in the moral Law teach man how to be just in his own actions so He would likewayes instruct him by a judicial Law how to administrate Justice to others What can perpetuate a Law more then that the Authority whereby it is enacted should be obligatory in all ages and the reason whereon it is founded should be eternal and in what Laws do these two qualities appear more or so much as in the judicial Laws of the Jews where the eternal Law-giver was Legislator and the occasion productive of them seemed rational and necessar to His infallible omniscience and if in any of these statutes our purblind judgments cannot see a present conveniency we should rather impute that to our own simplicity then