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A93852	The royal law contended for, or, Some brief grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandments are yet in full force, and shall so remain till heaven and earth pass away. Also the seventh day Sabbath, proved from the beginning, from the law, from the prophets, from Christ, from his apostles, to be a duty yet incumbent upon saints and sinners. / By a lover of peace with truth Edward Stennet.	Stennett, Edward, d. 1690?	1658 (1658)	Wing S5402B; ESTC R184622	38,860	48

together on the first day of the week and did break bread and Paul taught unto them Act. 20. Answ This is all the meeting or preaching that ever we find was upon the first day except the disciples being together for fear of the Jews mentioned before that meeting was at evening so this seems to be because when they came together Paul preached with them and continued his speech until midnight it is not likely then that they observed the day and came together in the morning seeing he continued his speech so long And secondly as we have the cause of the disciples being together with their doors shut so we have the cause of this meeting Paul was ready to depart on the morrow vers 7. upon an extraordinary occasion Paul having many things to communicate to them as appears by his discoursing with them till midnight and talking till break of day vers 11. But that which makes the Objecters lay such stress upon this Text is because the disciples came together to break bread which they judge to be the Lords Supper Suppose it were so what doth this make for the observation of the first day more then Christs first instituting the supper upon the fifth day of the week as is generally conceived doth make for the observation of it But there is no proof that this was the Supper of the Lord that they came to pertake of but it seems to be such breaking of bread as the margin of some Bibles refers unto Acts the 2.46 They continued dayly with one accord in the Temple and breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladnesse of heart So Luc. 24.30 35. And it is explained what breaking of bread it was vers 11. where it is said when he was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a good while till break of the day he departed here is eating and talking it is not solemnized as the Supper of the Lord But some would have this common breaking of bread and the other in verse 7. to be the Supper it is very unlikely that here should be two sorts of breaking of bread at one time by the same persons and yet nothing spoke distinctly by which we might know the one from the other so that the most that can be said is but a supposition it cannot be proved that this was the Lords Supper And how weak a ground this is for the observation of this day as a Sabbath or more then any other day or to limite the administration of the Supper to this day I leave to the truly wise in heart to judge Obj. But the Church had their gatherings upon the first day of the week from which it appears that it was the day that they met together upon 1 Cor. 16.2 Answ The words are these Vpon the first day of the week let every one lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gatherings when I come Here is no proof for their meeting together but rather on the contrary every one of them was to lay by him in store as God had prospered him no publique gathering but private laying up but because the Apostle saith in the close of the verse that there be no gatherings when I come therefore it is thought the Scripture cannot be so understood because it would not prevent gatherings but is this fair when a Text of Scripture stands alone to put such a sense upon it as doth plainly contradict the very letter of it when it saith let every one of you lay by him in store then to say the meaning is to have publique gatherings and but one store and would not the end of the Apostle be fully answered namely to have no gatherings if each of them did lay by them in a store as God had prospered them in the world ready against the Apostle came they knowing of his coming and when he came was it not as easie to carry it with them to him as for us to carry our Bibles to a meeting and what need would there be then of gatherings And this way of giving would not be Pharisee-like but according to the words of Christ Mat. 6.11 Take heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in Heaven but when thou doest thine almes let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth vers 3. that thine almes may be in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly ver 4. Obj. But John was in the spirit upon the Lords day and had that glorious revelation upon it which is conceived to be the first day of the week Rev. 1 10. Answ It is true John was in the spirit on the Lords day but the question will be what day that was if any one of the seven it must be the Sabbath for no other day is so called but it God calls it his Holy Day Isay 58.13 and Christ saith he is Lord even of the Sabbath day and if so then it is his day for he is Lord of it and that by way of eminency not as some would have it to shew that he is Lord of every day but as it is the Sabbath for so it is said the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day So that this notion that the Lords day is the first day is meerly taken up on trust one from another without one word in the Scripture to prove it so Ob. But it wil be yet objected by those that are for no Sabbath from the words of the Apostle Col. 2.16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a holy day or of the new Moon or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ from whence it is concluded that the Sabbath was but a shadow The Apostle speaks here of such Sabbaths as were a shadow of things to come but the seventh day Sabbath was in commemoration of something past to wit the work of creation as appears in the Commandments and none are to be judged for not observing of it Answ There were Holy-dayes and Sabbaths besides the seventh day Sabbath or the Sabbath of the Lord thy God for so it is called in the commandment as doth appear in Levit 23.39 now because it is implyed in the words of the Apostle that Sabbaths were shadows and done away by the body of Christ doth it therefore follow that all Sabbaths were so any more then where the words of the Apostle implies that men shall be saved proves that all men shall be saved and if we consider the verses before it will plainly appear that the Apostle is not speaking of any of the Ten Commandments in the 15. verse the Apostle is speaking to the Gentiles shewing how they were dead in their sins and in the uncircumcision of their

in vers 24. Verily I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled and so I judge what he spake concerning Jerusalem had not only respect to that destruction that came upon it in that generation but also to that great calamity that should be upon it in the last dayes 2. This will more plainly appear if we consider the words of Christ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter nor on the Sabbath day for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be ver 21. Now with this compare Zach. 14.2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and the City shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished and at the 2. verse it is said then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle and his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives vers 4. With this compare Dan. 12.1 And at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book and many of them that sleep in the dust shall awake some to everlasting life some to shame contempt ver 2. Now if that destruction of Jerusalem produced such great trouble as never was nor ever should be again how is it that there shall be such great trouble as never was since there was a nation when Michael stands up to deliver his people every one that is written in the book and Jerusalem is taken and the houses rifled and women ravished when the Lord comes forth to fight against those nations and his feet shall stand upon the mount of Olives according to that in Acts 1.11 So shall he come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven and when the seventh Angel poures out his vial Rev. 16.17 18. which time I conceive is one and the same with that in Zach. and Dan. and the Angel is Michael the great Prince which Daniel speaks of whose feet shall stand upon the mount of Olives then is the time of great trouble and such an earth-quake as was not since men were upon the face of the earth so mighty an earth-quake and so great so that to me it appears that these three Scriptures do corespond with the words of Christ pointing out the same time and if so then the Sabbath shall remain till the coming of Christ and so shall stand till Heaven and Earth passe according to that in Matth. 5. and for ever and ever according to that in Psal 111.8 and the destruction of Jerusalem seems to be a Type of that great destruction that shall be at Christs appearance and as Jerusalem was taken when some from all Nations were gathered together as history reports and on the Sabbath day it was destroyed so it appears that the strength of the Saints will be gathered together to Jerusalem because all Nations will gather against it and Jerusalems straights will be upon the Sabbath day as seems to appear by the words of Christ for then saith he shall be great tribulation such as never was then when why when their flight shall be upon the Sabbath day and this great tribulation is when Jerusalem shall be taken the houses rifled and the women ravished as was said before at which time Michael shall stand up and fight against those Nations as when he fought in the day of battle and the slain of the Lord shall be many even from one end of the earth even to the other Jer. 25.31 32 33. and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof Zach. 14.4 and there shall be a very great valley unto which the Saints shall flee vers 5. then shall the Sabbath be swallowed up in the great Sabbath or thousand years that glorious and holy rest which the Saints shall enter into and live and reign with Christ a thousand years vers 9. and 20. Rev. 10.4 7. Another ground is taken from the practise of Christs disciples after his death Luke 23.5 6. And they returned and prepared spices and oyntments and rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment Some say if we do observe the Sabbath we must do all those sacrifices which the Jews did upon it but at this time the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and the shadows were done away by the body of Christ and yet they kept the Sabbath and not through fear or ignorance but according to the Commandment which is to rest from their labours and so they did for the Text saith they returned and rested there is no sacrifice expressed in the Commandment The stranger and the cattle was to rest the Sabbath Exo. 20.10 so that the Sabbath was commanded and observed before any of those sacrifices were commanded to be offered upon it but because the Jews did such service upon the Sabbath day as they were a typical people it doth not follow that this was any part of the Commandment and therefore we are to rest as those disciples did according to the Commandment and it is remarkable that the Holy Ghost should leave this upon record which would not have been I am perswaded had the Sabbath then been abolisht he doth not only say they returned and rested the Sabbath day but to prevent all mistakes least it should be thought they did it ignorantly or superstitiously or for fear of the Jews he saith they did it groundedly that is according to the commandment Obj. But the disciples were met together upon the first day of the week and Christ appeared to them John 20.9 Answ It is true they were assembled together on the same day at even being the first day of the week and the door shut and the cause is laid down why so they were namely for fear of the Jews and some of the disciples as I said before kept the Sabbath the day before and I think we cannot reasonably imagine but those did that were together on the first day for they did frequently correspond together that 's manifest but what doth their being together on the first day at even and Christs appearing to them prove for the observation of the first day more then his appearing to them eight days after and his appearing to them the third time early in the morning when they were a fishing Joh. 24.4 5. for the observation of these dayes It was necessary that Christ should appear to his disciples on the first day of the week that his word might be fulfilled of his arising the third day and that they might boldly witness the same Obj. But the disciples came

flesh but now quickened by Christ and all their trespasses forgiven them In the 14. verse he shews what further benefit they had by the death of Christ bloting out the hand-writing of Ordinances which was against us and contrary to us he took it out of the way nailing it to his cross and the Scripture upon which the objection is bottomed hath its dependence upon this and comes in with a therefore let no man judge you in meats and drinks and so forth as though the Apostle had said forasmuch as Christ hath blotted out nailed to his cross those ordinances that were against you which are Gentiles you are not to be judged for the non-performance of them Now the Ten Commandments were never against the Gentiles nor contrary to them for the same Apostle saith the matter of them was written in their hearts as was said before and they did by nature the things contained in them and therefore they were not contrary to them but circumcision and other ordinances stood as a wall against the Gentiles which Christ brake down by taking them out of the way and nailing them to his cross having abolisht in his flesh the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the Gross having slain the enmity thereby Eph. 2.15 16. So that it is clear the Apostle is speaking of such Commandments as are contained in Ordinances and not those Commandments that are so eminently distinguisht from Ordinances but those Ordinances which were against the Gentiles and made them and the Jews two as meats and drinks New-Moons and Holy-dayes and Sabbath dayes Christ by his blood having taken these away hath made them one but that the Ten Commandments should be struck at there is no colour in this Scripture for it or that the Sabbath should only be taken out from them nailed to the Cross with New-Moons meats and drinks and other shadows and Ordinances which were against man when as Christ saith the Sabbath was made for man so that in this place there is no proof for the abrogating of this Command of God Ob. But how is it that the Apostle saith Rom. 14.5 6. that one man observes one day above another another observes every day alike and yet he doth not blame either of them Answ I make no doubt but if the controversie here had been about the Sabbath whether it were to be observed or no but it would have been plainly exprest and not past over so slightly but the Apostle is speaking of indifferent things which men were not to be judged for their doing or not doing and not of Commandments But because it is said that some esteem every day alike therefore some conclude that this takes in the Sabbath day but we must compare Scripture with Scripture and find out such a sense as may bring them into a harmony and sometimes interpret general terms by restrictive Scriptures for instance Christ bids his disciples go preach the Gospel to every Creature we must understand it thus to every creature that is in a capacity to hear the Gospel The Apostle saith that every Creature of God is good and nothing to be refused now some are poison and are to be refused but his meaning is every Creature that is eatable is good and not to be refused So here every day is alike that is every working day which God hath made alike but the seventh day he hath sanctified and made it a Sabbath of rest and so not like the other and this interpretation is according to the Scripture Exod. 16.4 Behold I will rain bread from Heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day and in verse 12. They gathered every morning every man according to his eating yet on the Sabbath day there was none to gather And in our common speech it is so we call the six dayes every day men say we work every day or we travil so far every day when they mean only the six dayes that they count working dayes So the Apostle speaking to them that kept the Sabbath speaks in the same language and we have no ground to think otherwise for there is no Scripture that we find before this that hath any seeming dislike against the observation of the Sabbath but much on the contrary Obj. Ye observe dayes and years and times and months I am afraid of you least I have bestowed upon you labour in vain Gal. 4.10 11. Answ This cannot be understood that the Apostle here strikes at the meer observation of dayes a thing of such dangerous consequence for he would not have them judged that observed one day above another in Rom. 14.5 6. and in this place he himself judges these as persons that had so far degenerated that he was afraid that he had bestowed upon them labour in vain but it is manifest that these Galatians were gone back to circumcision so were debters to the whole Law seeking justification thereby Chap. 5.2 3 4. and so they observed days and years according to the Law that was a shadow of good things to come solemnizing the days months and years with those things that were appointed for them as burnt-offerings meat-offerings the waving of the sheaf the Passeover and unleavened bread and the like as you may see at large Lev. 23.8 9 10 11. and so on for they could not be said to observe times and months and yeers according to the Law except they did such service and this gave the Apostle just ground to fear that he had bestowed on them labour in vain But to imagine that to observe the Sabbath according to the Commandment or to observe a day voluntarily to the Lord is so dangerous is contrary both to Scripture reason Obj. We which believe are entred into rest which the Sabbath was but a Type of as appears by the words of the Apostle Heb. 4.3 Answ If eternal rest by faith be the Antitype of the Sabbath the Sabbath ceased to be in force to every man so soon as they believed which is ridiculous to think and contrary to the current of Scriptures but the Apostle saith We which do believe do enter into rest for he that is entred into his rest is ceased from his own works as God did from his vers 10. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the example of unbelief vers 11. Mind this Chap. well and I am perswaded you will see that the drift of the Apostle in mentioning the seventh day here is but to amplifie and set forth that perfect rest which they that believe do and shall enjoy of which the Land of Canaan was but a Type and to shew that Gods rest was before the Land of Canaan vers 4. and that yet there remains a rest to the people of God

and the Gentiles besought him that these words might be taught to them the next Sabbath vers 42. And the next Sabbath came almost the whole City together to hear the word of God vers 44. So that its clear that the Sabbath was Pauls resting day and preaching day both to Jews and Gentiles that being the day that the Gentiles used to hear and though they had a desire to hear the same words again yet it must be next Sabbath and Paul fulfils their desire and preaches to them the next Sabbath and almost the whole City came to hear Can we think that if there had been no Sabbath that Paul would have countenanced them so in their ignorance Or if the first day had been a day that were observed would he not have told them so and that they might have heard the word before the next Sabbath And when Paul came to Philippi a Gentile City mind what is said Act. 15.12 13. We were in that City abiding certain days and on the Sabbath day we went out of the City by a river side where prayer was wont to be made and we sate down and spake unto the women that resorted thither The seventh day hath its title still as is said by the spirit in the Acts speaking of certain dayes this is singled out and called the Sabbath day with an account how they spent it and the blessing they received upon it they resorted to the place of prayer and there they preached and Lydias heart the Lord opened to attend to the words of Paul And in Act. 17.2 it is said That Paul as his manner was went in unto them and three Sabbath dayes reasoned with them out of the Scriptures And when Paul came to Corinth which was a Gentile City he found Aquila a Jew and his wife Priscilla and because they were of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for by their occupation they were Tent-makers and he reasoned in the Synagogue every Sabbath day and perswaded the Jews and Greeks Act. 18.2 3 4. So that its manifest that the Greeks kept the Sabbath as well as the Jews and that though Paul wrought at his trade and made Tents yet he rested every Sabbath day and as we have an account how he spent his time namely in working at his trade so we have an account how he spent this time to wit the Sabbath Now if it be such a strong argument for the observation of the first day because Paul preached upon it once what is this for the observation of the seventh day that Paul did not only preach constantly upon it but where ever the Spirit speaks of it he calls it the Sabbath day without the least hint that so he did to condescend to the weakness of others And let it be shewed by the Scripture that the Apostles did countenance and own any shadow that was done away so as they owned and countenanced the keeping of the Sabbath and therefore we may follow the Apostles as they followed the Lord in this matter though we have not a express word that the Churches kept it And indeed I think I may say in this case as the Apostles said in another case that it would have been superflous for the Apostles to have told any people in their time that such or such a Church kept the Sabbath it being a truth not so much as questioned that we hear of but Jew and Gentiles both observed it But now I cease answering objections having spoak to those that are the most material of them that I have heard and I shall proceed to another ground 8. Consider the bondage and slavery that both man and beast would be in if this doctrine were received for truth would it no● how ever have this tendency to bring the world more into Atheisme For men would not allow themselves nor servants time to rest in nor to hear the word of God if they were perswaded that there were no Sabbath yea and the greatest part of Saints are left to the mercy of mercyless men most of them being children and wives and servants and they cannot challenge a day in seven nor a day in seventy as their right to rest upon and to worship the Lord in from any command of God if this doctrine be true that the Sabbath is abolisht and what is this but to bring a yoak of bondage upon us that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear we should not so much as take notice of the time how it goes in probability for the way of numbering is by sevens But some will say it is good to observe one day in seven if it be not a constant day that will be confessed for one to observe one day and another to observe another day others are for a seventh day to be constantly observed but why not the seventh day which God hath commanded for the seventh day is the Sabbath it plainly appears that there is something of the Table Law yet upon the Table of the hearts of most men though much worn out by much transgression for men generally plead to have one day in seven to rest in and yet because of custome they contend against this Holy Just Law of God that was made in mercy for man I am perswaded in my very heart and that not without good ground that if the seventh day had been observed as the first day is that no man that owns the Scripture would have questioned whether it ought to be observed or no or at least no opposition would have been made against it and when all is said custom and worldly interest are the two great things that stand in opposition to it 9. And lastly Consider those great and precious promises made to them that keep the Sabbath according to the inside and spirituality of it not that we are so to spiritualize it as to make void the letter but according to the letter as Christ doth for instance Ye have heard saith Christ it hath been said of old time thou shalt not commit adultery but I say unto you whosoever looketh on a woman and lusteth after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart Mat. 5.28 Now if it be adultery to lust doubtless it is to act and this is forbidden in the Commandment for the Commandment is thou shall not commit adultery but Christ unfolds this Commandment and gives such a sense of it as the Scribes and Pharisees understood not Again the sixth Commandment is Thou shalt do no murther and John saith Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer 1 Joh. 3.15 Now all murther was forbidden in the command but this was not understood to be murther but John opens the spirituality of the command and the same may be said of the fourth command Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy all servile work is forbidden in it and that the Pharisees understood but they did not understand that works of mercy as curing the sick healing the diseased