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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	holy_a	keep_v	sabbath_n	1,175	5	9.0904	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26655	Jesuitico-Quakerism examined, or, A confutation of the blasphemous and unreasonable principles of the Quakers with a vindication of the Church of God in Britain, from their malicious clamours, and slanderous aspersions / by John Alexander ...	Alexander, John, 1638-1716.	1680 (1680)	Wing A916; ESTC R21198	193,704	258

best right must and ought to gain the Cause except we resolve utterly to abandon our Reason or else determine against clear Justice Let the Quakers then shew us some other day with a better or as good right or else prove from the Text or otherwise that some other day certain or uncertain is meant which I defie them to do otherwise these clear Scripture-grounds must bear more weight than their meer bare word and naked assertions But the Quakers will object against an External Sabbath-day under the New-Testament that the Apostle condemns the observation of days and Sabbath-days Galat. 4.10 Colos 2.16 Ans The Apostle does not there or any where else condemn the observation of the Christian Sabbath-day but only of the Jewish Sabbath-days with any others that never had Divine Warrant against which the Argument infers a Fortiori whereof beside their ordinary weekly Sabbath-day they had a great many such as were the first and last days of every one of their three Solemn Feasts viz. of the Passover of Pentecost or Weeks and of Tabernacles as also their Feast of Trumpets on the first day of the seventh Month and the Feast of Expiation or Attonement on the tenth day of the seventh Month and beside all these their New Moons their Sabbath of Years and great Jubilies all which may be seen Levit. 23. and 25. Chap. and Numb 10. Chap. And that it is such days as these and not our Christian Sabbath-day the observing whereof the Apostle condemns is clear in the very Context of these two cited places for in the first Text he expresly names Months and Years that is New Moons and Sabbaths of Years and the intire scope of the Epistle is bent against Jewish Ceremonies pertaining to the then-Bondage-state of the Infant-Church under the Old-Testament as any man reading it may see And in the last Text he ranks these Sabbaths which he rejects with Meats and Drinks and New Moons and calls them shadows of things to come of which kind our Christian Sabbath-day is not Nor is all distinction of days without exception taken away here more than the distinction of the Elements in the Lords-Supper from other common Meat and Drink which that it is not taken away I have proved at the Survey of the last Query seeing both Meats and Drinks and Days are here equally condemned or not so What Does Paul here condemn the observation of the Christian Sabbath-day which Christ teaches we shall have under the New-Testament or Does he rescind the fourth Commandment or Condemns he the observation of the Day which himself and the whole Church observed as set apart for Gods Publick Worship say not so I pray Again they will Object that the same Apostle holds forth the Indistinction and equal Condition of all days Rom. 14.5.6 Ans That is most false for the unanswerable reasons now given Secondly by the Context it self the days there Treated of are such as are in the same order with Ceremonial Meats and Drinks of Jewish observation the estimation whereof above others was an Infirmity in the weaker sort to be born with by the stronger until their better Information and Persuasion But the Christian Sabbath-day is not of that sort as is shewed Nor does Paul here any more overturn the distinction of the Christian Sabbath-day from other common days then of the Elements in the Lords-Supper from other common Meat and Drink which it is certain he does not overturn seeing these in the Lords-Supper are of a very far different Condition from all common Meat and Drink in regard of their Institution Signification Ends Effects c. In the Close of their Query they tell us that the Scriptures speaks for a Rest for the people of God But is this Rest say they limited to a day Ans What then I pray the Scriptures promise the Eternal Rest of Heaven to all true Believers whereof also their Grace and Sanctification is an Earnest and Degree inchoat and begun here though not perfected But will this prove that there should not be or is not an external Sabbath-day under the New Testament then neither should there have been any under the Old either seeing the Rest of Heaven was promised to Believers then as well as now And all true Believers had some measure of Grace and Sanctification then as well as now Or will our resting from sin in some measure begun in this Life or our Eternal Resting in Heaven in the next Life infer that we should rest from our Duty in this Life Forsooth such Consequences are very sutable to the Quakers Logick But say the Quakers which is their last Gun every day is a Holy day to a Christian Ans I grant a Christian should be Holy every day and keep an Internal Sabbath as they call it But it will not from thence follow that we have not an External Sabbath-day also for Adam in Innocency when he maintained and was bound to maintain a continual Internal Sabbath of Sanctification had for all that an External Sabbath-day also Gen. 2.3 and the Jews under the Old Testament were bound to maintain an Internal Sabbath of Sanctification every day and yet they had an External Sabbath-day also For an External Sabbath-day requires not only that we cease from sin and be holy but also that we cease from all our Civil and worldly Imployments and Works that on other days are Lawful excepting works of necessity and mercy which are every day Duties and in that abstraction from the world spend the whole day in the publick and private Exercise of Divine Worship which things could not be done every day even by Adam in Innocency And if every day were a Holy day to us we behoove either to Plow and Sow on Holy day or else not do such things at all both which are utterly absurd Eighth QUERY Whether or not your Singing of Davids Psalms his Prayers Prophecies Fastings Reproaches Weepings Lamentations and Complaints how he was Mocked have any Warrant in the Scripture and you bring all these together in Meeter without distinction Have ye not done this your selves or did the Apostles it to the Saints in the Primitive times or have ye the same Spirit the Apostles had or a larger measure of it then the Apostles had by which ye have turned these into Meeter since the Apostles days and what was the Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs they Sung in the Primitive times Answer these things by plain Scripture SVRVEY The State of the Question here is very plain The Quakers deny our Singing of Psalms to be an Ordinance of the Gospel or of Divine Institution under the New Testament Contrary unto this I Assert that Singing of Psalms is an Ordinance of the New Testament Divinely appointed I prove it Therefore first Singing of Psalms was an Ordinance of Divine Institution under the Old Testament 1 Chron. 16.9 Psal 95.2 and 105.2 Therefore it must be so still under the New The Scriptures Cited prove the Antecedent