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A26814 The morality of the seventh-day-Sabbath disproved in answer to C.T. Tillam's book, entituled, A present from prison, dedicated to L.C. Hobson ... / written by the learned J.B., Master of arts, at the request of the said L.C. Hobson. J. B. 1683 (1683) Wing B113; ESTC R32844 17,167 24

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upon words seeing it is apparent from the 4th Verse of this 23d of Levit. that by Feasts are not meant times of Belly-cheer but Holy Convocations wherein men ceased from their ordinary Labour and were employed in Religious Duties whether they made Mirth or Afflicted their Souls In the third place to return to the fore-cited Text Col. 2.16 17. Where the Apostle super-addeth which are a shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ This hath relation to rhe five things mentioned in the 16th Verse at least to that which is immediately fore-going the Sabbath So that the Sabbath distinguished from Feasts and New Moons and so according to the perpetual usage of the Scriptures signifying no other than the Seventh-day-Sabbath is by the Apostle Paul called a shadow the Body whereof is exhibited to us in Christ namely in the Everlasting Sabbath of the Kingdom of Heaven Wherefore to bring us back to shadows after that the Body is come is not only Preposterous but tendeth to the enslaving us under the Rudiments of the World and instead of Sons to make us Servants Pag. 57. For as much as the Adversary not only here but elsewhere in his Book saith that Christ delivered the Law to Israel at Mount Sinai I would fain hear from him why the Scriptures Heb. 8.6 and 12.24 calleth Jesus the Mediator of a New and better Covenant For certainly this implyeth that some other Person was the Mediator of the Old and wose Covenant Again why doth the Apostle John prefer Christ before Moses in this regard namely that whereas the Law was given by Moses Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ Chap. 1.17 Undoubtedly this strongly Argueth that the Law was not given by Christ wherefore you deal ridiculously in desiring me to take heed of perswading others to transgress any one word that Christ immediately Commanded at Mount Sinai To what purpose do you bestow such Elegies upon the Law of God Pag. 61. Is it not to insinuate into the Minds of the unwary Readers that I am a Contemner yea an Opposet thereof Whereas I think very Honourably of it as being Holy Just and Good Only I believe what you your self dare not disavow that all the Ceremonial and Shadowy things thereof are now done away in Christ And that the Sabbath is one of those Ceremonial and Shadowy things I have undenyably evinced as from other passages of the Scripture so especially from that Text of Paul Col. 2.16 17. which plainly signifieth that as the difference of Meats and Drinks and the Celebration of Feasts and New Moons so also the keeping of the Sabbath was a shadow of things to come the Body whereof is now held forth unto us in Christ Pag. 68. As for that passage Mat. 24.21 where our Saviour Christ bids his Disciples pray that their flight might not be on the Sabbath day the words plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee on that day and consequently that the Law concerning the Sabbath would cease whereby it was enjoyned that no man should remove out of his place on the seventh day Exod. 16.29 The words I say plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee upon that day otherways why should they pray that their flight might not be then Nevertheless it would not be expedient in that the unbelieving Jews thinking the Sabbath still to remain would be ready to offer Violence to such as should attempt to fly on that day Yea perhaps the believing Jews themselves not understanding their own Liberty in Christ but thinking the Sabbath still in force would be exceedingly grieved if they should be reduced to a Necessity either of Perishing or of Flying on the Sabbath day Of which thing I will speak more anon If you Reply that Christ calleth it the Sabbath in relation to the time that should be long after his death whereas I believe that by his death the difference of times in point of Holiness and consequently the Observation of the Sabbath was abolished according to the Doctrine of Paul Col. 2.14 I Answer that the Scripture calls the times of the Jewish Feasts after the death of Christ by the same names they had formerly See Acts 12.3 and Chap. 20.16 when notwithstanding you your self will not deny that the Obligation to observe those Feasts had then ceased Pag. 69. What needed the mention of the first day of the Week commonly called Sunday when I never affirmed that Christ hath left us any Precept for the Observation of the same Howbeit we have the Practice of all believing Gentiles down from the Apostles unto our time who have unanimously and constantly observed the same as being that day which is in Rev. 1. called the Lords day which perpetual Custom of Christians is sufficient to Warrant our keeping of the Lords day Whereas no such thing can be alledged to justifie the observing of the Seventh-day-Sabbath And therefore when you say that Christ hath established in his House all the Moral Duties of Moses House it is nothing to the purpose unless you first prove that the keeping of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty the contrary whereof my comparison taken out of the Scripture doth evince For Christ being as Faithful in the House of God as Moses If it had been his Will that his Disciples should have observed the Seventh-day-Sabbath he would have expresly enjoyned it and not have left them to gather it by I know not what uncertain Consequences such as you and others of your Opinion make use of For Moses openly and frequently Commanded to the Israelites that they should keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath So that your proceeding herein is just like the dealing of the Papist about the Popes pretended Supremacy For when it is Questioned whether he be the Judge of all emergent Controvercys amongst Christians the Papist having no such Precept from Christ in the Scripture where Christ Ordaineth the Pope or Bishop of Rome to such Judicature bring instead thereof certain far-fetch'd probabilities and consequences to prove it In like manner you when you are urged by me and other Christians to shew where Christ who was as faithful in the House of God as Moses hath Commanded his followers to keep the Sabbath alledge Ordinances for other things and similitudes and strains of your own Poetry and other like impertinences without producing so much as one undoubted Precept for the same But whereas you say that Christ hath confirmed all the Moral Precepts of Moses Who denies it You should have done well not to have begged the thing in Question but to have proved that the Celebration of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty But this you have not yet been nor ever shall be able to perform Pag. 79. That Paul excluded the Law touching the Seventh-day-Sabbath out of the Counsel of God towards believing Gentiles is evident both from his perpetual silence in his Writings touching such matters the contrary whereof you being unable to prove do here as well as
elsewhere turn aside to impertinencies and also by his ranking the Sabbath among shadows Col. 2.16 17. for the not observing of which no man ought as you not regarding his Injunction rashly do to Judge and Censure others as Offenders Pag. 80. I wonder at your boldness to aver That the Apostles did own the Sabbaths Observation as a great vertue and admonish Christians to beware of the breach thereof as a most provoking sin and that this is evident from Mat. 5.9 where it is said Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these Commandments and teach men so shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven Is here or in the whole Chapter so much as one word of the Sabbaths yea doth not this expression the least of these Commandments argue that he spake of his own Commandments differing from those in the Law For should you understand it of the Commandments in the Law would it not from thence unavoidably follow that Christians are bound to keep all the Law of Moses even to the least Commandment thereof So that of Christians we must all presently turn Jews And whether this be not indeed the bottom of your design you give me too much reason to suspect as by other expressions of yours so especially by that down-right Jewish Speech of yours p. 25. where you say that you know no newer Covenant than the Covenant of Life and Peace that was made with Levy As for that other Text from whence you endeavour to prove That the Apostles did own the Sabbath observation as a great vertue namely Luke 23.56 where it is said They rested on the Sabbath according to the Commandment Is here any mention made of the Apostles or of their owning the observation of the Sabbath after the death of Christ Is not that which is here spoken of the Commandment meant of the Commandment in the Law which the godly Jewish Women here spoken of knew not to be abolished as neither did the believing Jews in general a long time after as you may see Acts 21.20 where the Apostle James saith to Paul Thou seest Brother how many thousands of Jews there are that believe and they are all Zealous of the Law But as for any Commandment of Christ about the Sabbath you do not alledge any such out of the Gospel there being none but instead thereof bring uncertain Consequences Pag. 83. In this Page your Judaism again breaks forth and plainly discovereth it self when you tell us that Moses Writings were then namely when that Decree Acts 15.28 29. was made esteemed the most Righteous Rule for true Believers Which words of yours are directly opposite both to the Epistle of the Apostle set down in the foresaid Chapter where they blame such as taught the Disciples that they ought to keep the Law as also to the words of Christ himself Mat. 28.20 Teaching them to observe not whatsoever Moses but whatsoever Christ had commanded them Yea your words make the Law more Righteous than the Gospel for if the Law be the most Righteous Rule for Believers there is no other Rule so Righteous as it and consequently the Rule of the Gospel must stoop to the Law By this may easily be perceived what the tendency of your Doctrine is and how by those goodly words of Gods Sanctifying Presence on the Sabbath day and the like you go about to beguile the simple Pag. 84. This last Argument alledged by me out of Rom. 1● 2 3 c. is like to that other drawn from Col. 2.16 17. and it doth so fully and exactly determine the business touching the Ceremoniality of the Seventh-day-Sabbath that it is a wonder how any man professing himself a Christian and to own the Authority of the New Testament should make any scruple of this matter And you your self sufficiently shew by your many turnings and windings in putting off this Portion of Scripture that you could by no means abide the force thereof For when it is said ver 2. One man believes he may eat all things another being weak eats herbs Doth not this clearly imply that the difference of Meats formerly observed according to the will of God whether before or after the Law doth now cease For that there was distinction between clean and unclean Beasts and Fowls before the Law and that by the approbation of the Lord God himself is apparent from Gen. 28.20 Also that by clean Beasts and Fowls are meant such as may Lawfully be eaten by unclean such as may not is evident from Lev. 11.3 4 46 47. So that if your Exception concerning days were true namely that the fifth Verse meant of such days only as were Ordained to be kept Holy under the Law and not of the Sabbath which was Instituted before the Law I might by the same Reason say as much of Meats namely that the Apostle meaneth such a difference of Meats as was introduced by the Law so that still those Meats remain unclean to us Christians which were by God himself called unclean before the Law and they it is likely were as many if not the very same with those under the Law And therefore by this kind of Arguing we are not sure of having attained any Liberty in this kind by means of Christ You may by this see how absurd your exceptions are that as the difference of Meats whether in Relation to the Will of God before or after the Law is now taken away so in like manner the difference of days and therefore that none is by the Commandment of God to be now esteemed more Holy than another For the Apostle plainly affirmeth without reprehending it that one man esteemeth every day alike and that he which esteemeth not one day above another esteemeth it not unto the Lord. But you have yet another exception and that more strange than the former for you say that by every day the Apostle only intends every one of the six daies because Exod. 16.4 which is the first place where this expression occurreth when the Lord saith the people shall go out togather a certain rate every day there is meant every one of the six daies But I pray you tell me why when you cited this place out of Exodus you would not take so much pains to consult the Hebrew Text you having skill in that Language Or if that seemed too painful why you did not cast you eye upon what the Translators set in the Margent For they there tell you that the words in Hebrew are the portion of a day in its day which being so your exception that by every day Rom. 14.5 is meant only every one of the six daies of the Week hath not so much as any colourable warrant from the aforesaid Text in Exodus and consequently as your Exception was but a meer evasion to my Argument drawn from the aforesaid Text of the Apostle it remains invincible namely that not only the difference of Meats but also the difference of daies is as to any Law of God now taken away and accordingly they are but weak and ill informed Believers who think the Obligation of the Seventh-day-Sabbath doth still remain FINIS