to fall into the belly of Hell ¶ 2) Mr L consuted Mr L who keeps Never a day Sabbath but slights the Sabbath as Ceremonial is to consider 1 The Sabbath was not given first to the Jews or seed of Abram as Ceremonies were Sabbath was made for Man but it was given to Adam as a Publick person for him and his posterity to be obeyed whether man stood or fell and this in Innocency before Ceremonies were in use And though Adam was not subject to wearinesse before sin yet a Sabbath was suitable for him as a Sacred cessation from his calling So God gave Adam a Sabbath and Blessed it i e to make it a blessing to him that kept it and Sanctified it †Gen. 2.3 i e he set it apart for holy use 2 The Sabbath was Certainly observed from Adam to the Law on Sinai though not much expressed in Genesis which is but a very short Epitomy of 2000 years Acts in which time many excellent acts were done which are omitted and not recorded Abrahams observation of the Sabbath day is without dispute because he is so commended for keeping Gods commandments * Ch. 26.5 And that the Sabbath was known to Israel before Sinai you may See †Exo. 16.23 the breach of which command is counted as the breach of all * Ver. 28. 3 This command for a Sabbath is one of the Ten delivered on Sinai before Ceremonies Josephus's Sabbatical river that runs six dayes and rests one will rise up in judgement with Mr L and Mr A. and wrote on two tables of Stone and put into the Ark as no Ceremony ever was Mr L playes the Papist who takes away one and leaves but nine 4 Christs precept for Prayer to prevent flight on the Sabbath which flight was to be 40 years after Ceremonies ceased proves the Sabbath no Ceremony Pray that your flight be not in the Winter q d that will wrong your Bodies neither on the Sabbath †Mat. 24.20 q d that will wrong your Souls Mr A and Mr L are brethren both under a 7-fold deceit to undeceive them let us put them together again to consider viz God in wisdom did so order the change of the Day that though it occasioned two Sabbaths to come together yet there was not Two in a week nor a week without One to signifie there must be nor more nor lesse than One Sabbath in One Week Fath. What say you of Mr S and of the change of the Sabbath Day Min. As for Mr S who denies the change of the Day The chang of the Sabbath I say Though the Change of the Sabbath be not founded out with a Trumpet on Sinai as the Command of the Sabbath was yet have we so much in Scripture as may Satisfie concerning it They that say Give me a plain precept for a practice or I will not regard it may mean Honestly but they speak Ignorantly For if from a Text we can draw a direct sound Inference to prove a practice that being the Sense of Scripture is to be regarded as Scripture it self The sense of Scripture we are to seek as Silver and if this be not to be regarded its vain to use any Scriptural Reason or Argument in discourse as Paul used to do * Act. 17.2 Ch. 18.4 19. Ch. 24.25 or to Study and expound the Scripture by preaching Then put a Boy into a pulpit to read a Chapter for what other Sermon can an able Minister make if nothing but the very words of Scripture must be delivered But let us see some Scriptural proof for this practice ¶ 1 The stone the builders refused O T proof i e for a foundation for Faith and Practice is become the head †Ps 118.22 of the work of Redemption he hath laid the foundation and finished it by his Resurrection This is the day the Lord hath made i e the day of the week on which Jesus rose we will rejoyce and be glad in it * Ver. 24. i e to foresee it by Faith if we live not to see it by Sight Yet prayes pathetically and speedily for it Save now I beseech the O Lord †Ver. 25. God is the Lord which hath shewed us light * Ver. 27. i e to foresse this Day ¶ 2 Thus saith the Lord my salvation is near to come †Isa 56.1 i e Actually it was come before Virtually Blessed is the man that doth This and the son of man that layeth Hold on it that keepth the Sabbath * Ver. 2. i e a Sabbath in remembrance of Christ's Actual redemption ¶ 3 When these 7 dayes are expired i e Eight is a Sabbatical and Vital Number by the death and Resurrectiof Jesus it i e the Sabbath shall be upon the Eight day and so forward the first day added to seven is the eight day and I will accept you saith the Lord God †Ezek. 43.27 ¶ 1 After Jesus's resurrection he said to his Disciples All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth * Mat. 28.18 which implies power to change the Sabbath And Christ gave them Commission to teach the Nations to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them †Ver. 19 20. i e nor more nor lesse N B If Jesus did not ordain the first day Sabbath the Disciples by their practice have taught England and other Nations to observe a New Sabbath of their Own invention ¶ 2 The Disciples assembled on the first day and shut the doors for fear of the Jews i e because it was in opposition to their seventh day Sabbath and Christ came and Sealed their New Sabbath with his sweet presence * Joh. 20.19 20. ¶ 2 Jesus was seen of the Apostles 40 dayes speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God †Act. 1.3 of which the Sabbath is One and none of the least ¶ 4 The Disciples came together to break bread upon the first day of the week * Chap. 20.7 in remembrance of Jesus for whose sake they observed that day ¶ 5 The congregation and Collection of the Churches of Galatia and Corinth upon the first day of the week was by the Apostles order †1 Cor. 16.1 2. to these at Corinth by writing and saith he the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord * Ch. 14.37 ¶ 6 John being in Patmos said I was in the spirit on the Lords day †Rev. 1.10 A desert Island in the Aegean Sea He does not give the day this name but the day on which he was in the spirit he Signifies by its name so well know to the Churches to whom he wrote i e the Lords day so called upon the same account as the Supper is called the Lords Supper viz because Jesus who is Lord of all did institute both to be kept in remembrance of him ¶ 7. The first day is
will it being so Fashionable the world cannot hate you * Ver. 7. for it they will love their won 2 Jesus refused to go with Them because the Jews sought to kill him †Ver. 1. not at the feast for fear of an uprore * Mat. 26.5 but to Way-lay him q d He will come with his kindred as other people use to do and so we shall Snap him by the way Therefore said Jesus I go not up Yet to this feast q d till Ye are gone for my time is not yet fully come †Job 7.8 q d my Meet time to go or my time to be Taken when it is I shall not seek to Save my self But when his brethren were gone up then went he also up unto the feast not openly * Ver. 10. i e by the way for at Jerusalem about the Midst of the feast Jesus went up into the Temple and taught * Ver. 14. And in the last day that Great day of the feast Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come to me and drink * Ver. 37. So you see Jesus did not refuse to go up to this feast Fath. But you have said Hezekiah changed the Passeover in case of necessity †Pag 253. Min. Hezekiah's Salvation did not depend upon his perfect obedience to the Law if it had he had never been Saved but upon Christs perfect obedience without which He nor We shall never be Saved Fath. If Christ kept the Passeover a Day before the Right day he kept it Min. Suppose you say to a Servant Do such a work to Morrow No Sir faith he I will do it to day Nay say you I am resolved to have it done to Morrow Away goes he and does it to Day does this servant Obey or Disobey you Fath. I confesse he Disobeys me even in doing the work which I command him Min. How many times hath God plainly expressed his mind in this matter in the Law which Jesus was under viz That the Passeover should be killed the 14 day of the month by your Own confession Christ was disobedient if he changed the day N B Suppose you could prove Jesus did Anticipate the Passeover and not sin and that the Jews kept the 15 day yet except you prove the 15 day of the month to be the 7 day of the week you neither prove Jesus rose on the wave-Wave-day nor Pentecost on the first day nor Jesus's death on the 6 day and so you are never the near But if Jesus had brake any Sabbath or Law of God in the Least he could not have been in the Least any Saviour †Ja. 2.10 And that Jesus failed in the least Jota Jod Point or Tittle is folly wickednesse madnesse in a man once to imagine Before Christ would have broken any Command he upholding the whole Creation would have let Heaven and Earth fall for had he failed a Tittle of fulfilling the whole Law Gods purpose of Salvation had fell ERGO this is an infallible Maxime A Maxime viz On the 14 day of the first month Nisan Christ killed the Passeover according to All the Rites of it * Nu. 9.3 and on the 15 day he was killed himself the 16 and wave-Wave-day was the first day Jesus lay dead therefore he rose not That day nor could Pentecost fall on the first day So your Pentecost opinion is utterly overthrown and that for Jesus's death on the 6 day will follow and you shall never recover them again while the World stands Fath. I confesse I cannot at present tell what more to plead for One or Other But though you deny Jesus died on the 6 day you do not declare on what other day he died Min. Nor was it proper for me out of the place every thing beautifull in his time †Eccl. 3.11 I could easily have done that at first in few words but the work was to Answer your Objections against my Judgment and your Arguments for your Own Having done that I can shew my Opinion with pleasure but not with submission to better judgments as some finely phrase it When I speak my thoughts of what I am uncertain it shall be with such submission but when I am well assured of the truth of what I say I shall neither submit to better nor worse to Stand or Fall by this or that mans perswasion I desire a better foundation than mans Praise for my Opinion And what that is concerning the day of Christs death I will now declare and were it to the whole World with your Self I would declare it viz Week-day of Jesus's death declared The 15 day of the first month Nisan on which Christ was Crucified and Died fell that year on the Fourth day of the week i e Wednesday at end of which Day our Blessed Jesus was Buried from which time to the end of the 7 day Sabbath was 3 dayes and 3 nights N T proof the Term of time our Lord foretold he should lay in the grave * Mat. 12.40 So there was two dayes between the day of Jesus's death and the 7 day Sabbath And one day between that high Sabbath and the 7 day Sabbath had the Jews kept the right day there had been two dayes between their high Sabbath and the 7 day Sabbath which you say were both on a day The Reason of this Translation Reason of translation was because it fell on Wednesday for if this Sabbath fixt on the 15 day fell on Munday Wednesday or Fryday the Jews Custome was to translate it to the next day Godwyn by the Rule 172 Badu That year it fell on Wednesday they kept it on Thursday the 16 or wave-Wave-day so now you may see your wave-Wave-day and Pentecost were on Thrusday Fath. I begin to Stagger have you any more proof for the day of Jesus's death Min. What need of more proof than Christs Own words but this Old world being so full of Novelty I thought a New Opinion must have a New Proof too take one then out of the O T. O T proof And after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself †Dan. 9.26 these are extraordinary weeks And he shall confirm the covenant with many for One week * Ver. 27. there is no Prefix in the Hebrew to render it for one week but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one week he shall confirm the covenant with or rather For many i e for all the Elect by being cut off according to the covenant †Zech. 9.11 And he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease the Sacrifice was the yearly Passeover * Ex. 12.27 the Oblation was the daily Sacrifice †Num. 28.2 3 4. Dan. 9.21 these two viz the Yearly Type and the Daily Type of Christs death when he the Substantial Sacrifice was sacrificed for us then he caused them Shadows to cease But when in the Midst of
they shall be a Sign between Me and You that ye may know that I am the Lord your God Ezek. 20.20 Blessed is the Man that doth this and the Son of man that layeth bold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it Isa 56.2 Also the sons of the Stranger that Joyn themselves to the Lord to serve him Every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it even them will I bring to my hold Mountain and make them joyfull in my House of Prayer Ver. 6 7. And he saw that Rest was Good and the Land that it was Pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a Servant unto tribute Gen. 49.15 LONDON Printed by J A for the Author 1681. The General Contents of the Third Dialogue THE Parents complaint of himselfe The Parents complaint of Mr S Mr A Mr L. Mr A with his Every day Sabbath confuted Mr L with his Never a day Sabbath confuted The change of the Sabbath for Mr S's conviction The beginning of the Sabbath the times contended for descoursed viz Morning Noon Even Midnight Six Objections against the true time Answered The time of Christs Resurrection occasionally discoursed The day of Adams fall occasionally discoursed Satans old enmity against the Sabbath Noted The month-month-day and week-day of Christs death discoursed The next day no Sabbath proved The Jews various division of the day into hours Of the Passeover wave-Wave-day Seven-weeks Pentecost The Jews custom in Translating the Passeover The opinion of Pentecost on the first day disproved Of the Disciples meeting on the Pentecost Of Gods countenancing the Pentecost Of Jesus's exact observation of the Passeover and Sabbaths Moral and Ceremonial and the whole Law The day of Jesus's death declared and proved Divers Questions arising thereupon Answered An account of the Authors way in this work The Parent Cautioned and Counselled Ten Directions dropped for the Sabbath day Wherein we have an account Of The Day of Adams fall The day of Jesus's death Of The Sabbath ensuing the Wave-day the Pentecost Of The time of Jesus's burial The time Jesus lay dead Of The time of Jesus's Resurrection The beginning of the Sabbath All contrary to the Common Account A THIRD DIALOGUE Concerning the SABBATH-DAY Min. BEN BEN BEN Ben. Where what who calls me before I can see Min. O! Sleepy-head hear you not low hastily some one knocks at the door Pray rise and know the matter Ben. Sir I have been down to know his name and his businesse and he tells me it s he that sat so long with you under the Tree and he desires to speak with you Presently Min. Strike a light and let him in and tell him I will rise Fath. God Save you Sir I am compelled to come and visit you at an unseasonable time I hope you will hold me excused Min. Sir you are welcome to me but I wonder to see you in Town so Soon and am surprized to see you look so Sad. Pray what is the matter is all well at home Fath. All in health praised be God Parents complaint of Self but I am under Grief upon Grief It hath been a Sad time with me since we sat under the Tree though I concealed it from you in our last conference SAD I have Reason to be Sad indeed to think how sadly I have neglected my poor children Souls O to think how many times we have walked by the way and not a word of God! to think how many times they have been twatling about me in the house and not a word how many times they have been packed to bed and pulled out and not a Word of God have I spoken for their good O it hath cut me to the quick and put me upon prayer for pardon space and grace to do my duty And I did addict my self to it and began to find peace in it But yesterday after the afternoon Sermon as I was instructing my children about the Sabbath Parents complaint of Mr S Mr A Mr L. in came Mr S in anger and told me I kept the wrong day and said I should keep the Seventh day first appointed and never reprealed When he was gone Mr A came in and Laughed at me and my practice as a low thing viz to keep One day in a week and told me I should keep Every day as He did When he was gone Mr L came in and told me I should keep Never a day Sabbath for that command for a Sabbath was Ceremonial and long since ceased at Christ's death And my Children listened to this last with delight and now they slight the Sabbath and whatever I say for it and tell me Mr L is counted a wise man And under this Sorrow upon Sorrow I am so disquieted I am almost distracted In your last conference at end of the Tenth Note when you pressed it upon me to learn my Children to reverence the Sabbath I had a mind to ask you what Scripture proof we have for the change of the Day but I was loth to interrupt you but now being driven out in distresse I pray let me hear your reply to all these Opinions but chiefly for the change of the Sabbath Day Min. Did they use to be thus Opposite Fath. A little by the By when other businesse brought us together but now they came on Purpose and assaulted me as Never before Min. Just now as soon as you are set upon a Solemn work when the good seed is sown then comes the Devil †Lu. 8.12 Indeed you are to be pitied and so are they but I fear some of them will be plagued As for your former Sorrow it s Alway better than laughter * Ecl. 7.3 Sometimes better than joy there is sorrow that Dries the spirit this will Water it and so I praise God for it and passe it But this Last is the Pest that carries the Poyson in it for which I must provide some Antidote to expell it As for my reply to these persons Mr A who keeps every day Sabbath and Mr L who keeps never a day Sabbath Every day Never a day you may put them together for he that keeps Every day keeps Never a day and so look on them as two persons possessed by Satan above the dominion of God and under the dominiof the Devil But let us take them asunder again and speak to them apart ¶ 1 This Every day Sabbath is none of God's ordinance Mr A consuted for God's command is Six dayes shalt thou labour †Exo. 20.9 it must therefore be the Devils ordinance and to him it s observed as the Priests which God did not appoint are said to be ordained for the Devils * 2 Chro. 11 15. Mr A is blown up into the Air with a blast from the bottomlesse pit and puft up with Pride a Sabbath day a week is a weak thing with him he is a 7-fold Saint or under a 7-fold Deceit in the border of Heaven whence he is like
an holy Convocation * Exo. 12.15 16. These were Ceremonial Sabbaths and commonly called Sabbaths But it s the first day of the 7 which falls under our consideration viz the 15 day of the month which you may see called a Sabbath †Lev. 23.11 15. N B THIS is the Sabbath which the Jews made to follow Jesus's Funeral and which you suppose to be the 7 day Sabbath Fath. Suppose Ay well let that passe at present Then it seems this Sabbath should have been that day on which Jesus died Min. It s well observed and by this I see you observe what I say The 15 day of the month on which Jesus died was the day but they deferred it to the day following and called the 15 day preparation day * Jo. 19.42 Fath. Why did they so Min. As when a fixt Fair falls on Sunday Jews Translation the Countrey keeps it on Munday so if this Passeover Sabbath fixed on the 15 day of the month fell on some certain dayes of the week the Jews had a Custome to Translate it to the next day by their Rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Badu †Godwyn of which one Eleazar is said to be the Author who lived 350 years before Christs Birth * Hospinian de Orig fest P6 N B That this Sabbath was thus translated a man can no more deny than he can deny the Day to Spring or the Sun to Shine Fath. I cannot deny it but then I believe it was translated from the 6 day to the 7 day and so a double Sabbath Ceremonial and Moral and on that account called a high day †Joh. 19.31 Min. That I deny and this I affirm The high Sabbath no Sabbath that as to the Day it was no Sabbath at all Ceremonial nor Moral but one of their own invention Hence sometime it hath no Sabbatical Title e g John speaking of the day of Jesus's death saith It was the preparation of the Passeover * Joh. 19.14 it s no more but Passeover Matthew speaking of this high Sabbath calls it The next day that followed the day of Preparation †Mat. 27.62 Strange a Sabbath a Double Sabbath a High day and no other Title but the next day Thus God is pleased to drop words to see what notice men will take of them Fath. HOW no Sabbath why then is it called a High Day Min. The right day was a high day for on it Israel went out of Egypt with an high hand * Exo. 14.8 Why a High Sabbath And it was for a Monument of their miraculous deliverance e g This day shall be unto you for a Memorial †Ch. 12.14 Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt * Ch. 13.3 And thou shalt shew thy son c †Ver. 8. And it shall be for a Sign unto thee upon thine hand and for a Memorial between thine eyes * Ver. 9. And many such Solemn injunctions to remember this day with wonder viz That Pharoh who stood so many a Storm like a person Plague-Proof should rise up in the night †Ch. 12.30 and call for Moses and Aaron and say Go serve the Lord as Ye have said * Ver. 31. also take your Flocks and your Herds as Ye have said and be gone and blesse me also †Ver. 32. That six hundred thousand men besides women and children should be pulled out of Prison from two hundred years Tyranny and all in One night a night INDEED to be much observed to the Lord * Ver. 42. Upon this account that Sabbath day was an High day †Joh. 19.31 Good Josiah and some few Princely Persons spent at this Passeover oxen bullocks and small cattel forty one thousand 41400 cattel killed and four hundred * 2 Chro. 35.7 8 9. this was an High day And whether they kept the right day or the wrong it was all one in their esteem they pretended Reason for its Translation And in case of necessity Hezekiah translated this Passeover to the Second month †2 Chro. 30.2 and in such case there was an allowance * Num. 9.6 to 11. N B This temporal deliverance on the 15 day was a Type of Eternal deliverance by Christs death on the same day of the year And though this temporal deliverance was long before Christs death yet it was by Vertue of Christs death who was virtually slain before the First Passeover was killed This then should have been an High day on Christs account but him the carnal Jews laid Low they killed Christ on the Right day and kept the Passeover Sabbath on the Wrong Fath. Blesse us no Sabbath but the Scripture calls it a Sabbath Min. So does the Scripture call the Devil Samuel 5 times in few words †1 Sam. 28.12 to 20. Satan called Samuel and does not once tell us it was the Devil In calling the Devil Samuel God tells us what Saul and the Witch called him and leaves it with us to Judge whether a wicked Silly Witch had power to bring Samuel Soul and Body from Heaven and Earth So in calling that a Sabbath God tells us what the Jews called it and leaves it with us to Judge whether Jesus or the Jews were likest to break Gods Law If that was a C Sabbath not translated Jesus was a Sinner not a Saviour Fath. I know not what to say of the translation of the day But for Jesus's dying on the 6 day the Scripture is clear besides invincible Arguments I have yet to bring The Scripture saith Jesus rose on the first day you dare not deny it and though it does not say Jesus died on Fryday or the 6 day yet in saying he died the day before the Sabbath and rose in the end of the Sabbath * Mat. 28.1 I think it s as plain as if the 6 day had been named Min. Mistake not the State of our difference We differ not about the day of Jesus's Resurrection except the Time of the day viz you for the Morning the midst of the day I for the Even the beginning of the day But our difference is in the day of Jesus's Death you say it was on the 6 day I deny it and do plainly tell you your proof by Inference from Scripture is no better than a Blind Conjecture Let me hear your invincible Arguments also Fath. I have read in learned Authors The R d Bp of for One. that the two dayes which bounded the feast of 7 weeks viz the first day and the 50 day fell that year both on the first day of the week That the first day of the 50 followed the Passeover Sabbath is as clear as the Sun †Lev. 23.11 15. seeing Jesus rose on that first day and lay dead on the 7 day and died the day before it s also as clear as the Sun that he died on the 6 day Moreover saith my Author
the Jews Carnal nor Spiritual could endure their Ceremonies should be suddenly forsaken Thou seest brother how many Thousands of Jews there are that believe and they are All zealous of the Law †Act. 21.20 i e the C L so the Christians counselled Paul to countenance them and he did so * Ver. 23 26. Not to uphold Ceremonies but to get an interest in their affections that by degrees as they could bare it he might bring them Off and had he not done so they had cast him off Thus to the Jews he became a Jew to gain the Jews †1 Cor. 9.20 Fath. But if Pentecost was not on the first day why did God countenance it by giving the Disciples the holy Ghost on that day Min. Because I would not onely Silence but also Satisfie you I have been willing to give you all the advantage I can by stating things fairly for you and will do so still Suppose then the Disciples met contrary to the mind of God and knew it yet for fear or favour of the magisterial Jews they conform to keep the Pentecost if God will be gracious what then I will not again curse the ground for mans sake for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth * Gen. 8.21 Let my Lord I pray thee go among us for it is a Stiff-necked people †Ex. 34.9 Strange Arguments Gods Word is mans rule but Gods Will is Gods rule and if God will be gracious to man when man walks contrary to his Will will man say Lord what doest thou mean to have mercy on me Will man call God to his Bar and bring him into judgement for his mercy Mercy or judgment if it be the will of God it is just Yea if God should command man contrary to his own command e g If God will forbid man to murder upon pain of Death and then command a man to kll his own Son * Gen. 22.2 who will say unto him What doest thou †Job 9.12 God did not make man to consult what promises God should make to man nor when he should fulfill them God gave the Disciples a promise of the Spirit and he took this time Pentecost to fulfill it ¶ 2 I would form a foundation for a Question for your consideration viz The 50 dayes bounded Harvest the first day was at Beginning of harvest begin to number the 7 weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the Sickle to the Corn * Deu. 16.9 The fiftieth day was at End of harvest Harvest was in the land of Canaan a Type of Heaven The 50 dayes contained 7 Sabbaths a number noting Perfection These dayes were all linked to the Passeover and all Typical of eternal life Jesus began to observe this time with the Passeover before his death It being so Quere I Quere whether this Pentecost was not to be kept that God might give the Disciples a little Heaven on Earth to signifie what an eternal Sabbath they should have in Heaven Typified by these preceeding Sabbaths which at this day Pentecost were consummated If you can Answer this Question in the Affirmative then your Question Why did God countenance the Pentecost is resolved Fath. I may take it into consideration another time But Suppose the Jews did not translate the Passeover Sabbath it fell on the 7 day Sabbath then they kept the 15 day and Jesus rose the 16 and wave-Wave-day this proves Pentecost on the first day and Christs death on the 6 day too Min. Now I can follow you no farther I dare not Say the word suppose in this case nor dare I think such a wicked thought But though I dare not Follow you I dare Meet and withstand you to the Face If you say the Jews kept the right day you say Jesus kept the wrong day If you say the Jews did not Translate the Passeover to the day after the right day you say Jesus did Anticipate it the day before the right day viz Jesus died on the 14 day and killed the Passeover on the 13 day contrary to the Law In so saying you make Jesus a Transgressor Thus by justifying the Jews and condemning Jesus you hope to Hit it Monstrum Horrendum this proof comes from the bottomlesse Pit and there being no other way in the world to prove your opinion rather than fail you will make Jesus the Saviour and actual Sinner at which attempt what is that heart that will not tremble Should you Suppose You and I are now in the East-Indies or London stands on the Main Ocean or there is no difference between Heaven and Hell I would as soon consent Fath. But we may Reason and Question Christ was Lord of the Sabbath and had power to change the Sabbath might not he change the Passeover and be no transgressor Min. Though Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath he was made under the Law †Gal. 4.4 and Subject to it Though he was the Sabbaths Lord the Law was his Lord and had him at command on which account it was honourable * Isa 42.21 And though Jesus changed the Sabbath it was not while he was under the Law but at his Resurrection when he had fulfilled it Jesus stood in mans stead he was a debtor to the whole Law the payment of which debt the Law required ot the last mite Christs person is taken into custody imprisoned in the grave till the debt be discharged and justice satisfied at his resurrection being acquitted he was taken from prison and from judgment †Isa 53.8 alluding to a debtour who hath satisfied the creditour Then Jesus changed the Sabbath Fath. It seems Jesus justified his Disciples in an unlawfull deed on the Sabbath day for they eat Other mens Corn * Mat. 12.1 Min. Not in the Least the Law allowed that deed e g When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbours then thou mayst pluck the ears with thine hand †Deut. 23.25 As for Davids eating the Shew-bread and the Priests prosaning the Sabbath by killing their Sacrifices * Mat. 12.3 4 5. these according to the Letter of the Law were unlawful but not according to the Sense of the law which provided liberty for works of Charity and Necessity And Jesus in pleading these practices to excuse his Disciples doth q d You count David and the Priests blamelesse in these necessitous acts and yet condemn my Disciples in the same Case Fath. But Jesus refused to go up to the feast of Tabernacles †Job 7.8 which Law he was under as well as this of the Passeover and if he could dispense with That why not with This Min. Jesus refused to go up by way of vain Ostentation as his unbelieving brethren would needs have him go for say they Shew thy self to the World * Ver. 4. that Jesus resused saying Go ye up to this feast †Ver. 8. q d by way of Ostentation if you
sayings in a Literal sense is absurd foolish agrees not with faith or good life N B Blessed are your eyes †Mat. 13.16 take this literally and its ridiculous to think their eyes were Blessed and all the body and soul beside Cursed but this is by your figure Synechdoche when a Part is put for the Whole or è contra but the whole 3 dayes and 3 nights are not put for parts bits and moments as you imagine ¶ If your Qu be An let us come towards a Close I have given you a true account of the Day of Jesus's death of the Time of his burial of the Time he lay dead of the Time of his resurrection But you neither tell when Jesus Died or how long he lay Dead or when he Rose for you have nothing in the Bible to prove your opinion by 1 The day of Jesus's death is not said to be the 6 day 2 The Sabbath ensuing is not said to be the 7 day 3 The first day is not said to be the morrow after That Sabbath but when it s spoken of it s thus phrased viz the first day of the week * Joh. 20.1 When the Sabbath was past †Mar. 16.1 i e the moral Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the end of the Sabbaths * Mat. 28.1 i e Ceremonial and Moral N B This moral Sabbath fell in between two Ceremonial Sabbaths viz the first and last dayes of unleavened bread and after the 16 of Nisan Such a Sabbath we read of called the second Sabbath after the first †Lu. 6.1 Mat. 12.1 idem so called because it followed the first i e the Passeover Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Second first Sabbath so called because it fell after the first and before the second Ceremonial Sabbath Scaliger de emend temp It was the next Moral Sabbath after the 16 of Nisan which day was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Deutera or second day of the 7 the Wave-day from whence they counted the Pentecost The Disciples rubbing the cars of Corn * Lu. 6.1 tell us it was at this time of year which we are treating of i e at beginning of Harvest which began the 16 of Nisan the first of the 50 dayes Hence the name of the month 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Abib which signifies an ear of corn this is in March †Buxtorf Heb LEX Pag 1. The fiftieth day was at end of Harvest in April or May. Fath. Well! you go quite crosse to the common account of the Church for Ages and to Christians and learned Ministers now living I fear this will be offensive if I should make it known Min. And as crosse to my self you would say if you knew how much its against the hair with me to displease men I design not to displease or please men farther than for their profit My main design is to please God and my Conscience if in so doing I do accidentally displease men I must harden my self in that sorrow †Job 6.10 And may I but engage God and my Conscience to stand by me I have enough were all the world to rise up in arms against me As for mens Hearts they are in Gods Hand and with him I leave it to turn them To or Fro me as he please I have learned to know I am not to live by mens Smiles nor to die by their Frowns ¶ Sir Concession you are at liberty to tell your Authors what I have told you but counsel them not to Back-bite me for that is uncomely If they have any thing to reply more than your Self desire them to do it to my Face But let them know their Replication must come from holy Scripture else it will be lost labour It will be in vain to tell me I oppose the opinion of the Church for So many ages or I am opposite to the Church that now is National or Congregational †I mean all in separation from the National and so in Pag 213. or to this or that learned Minister or Dr. The Question with me concerning an opinion is not Whose is it but What is it If they bring any thing out of Philo Josephus Manasse Ben Israel or any of the Talmudical Doctors or Jewish Rabbies that will give light to a Dark Text I will embrace it but if it comes to darken a Clear Text or to disprove a Plain Text I shall utterly reject it and therefore to convince me it will be in vain to produce it Fath. I presume you have not been long of this perswasion Did you never speak of the time of Christs resurrection in Preaching pray what account did you give the people of it Min. Sir I shall deal ingeniously with you The Author's way in his Work I have sometime preached a Sermon for the observation of the Sabbath day For a beginning I directed to the morning supposing it to be the time of Jesus's rising But I secretly thought I wanted a bottom for I could not tell what time in the morning Jesus rose and was as if my heart did not stand by me in it I marvel now in what Mist I was groping at Noon day for the time of Jesus's rising in the morning for that was not at all to be expected Nor need the time of his resurrection be expressed when the time of his Burial viz Even and the time of continuance in the Grave viz 3 dayes and 3 nights are both expressed The shame of this Bottomlesse counsel for a beginning of the Sabbath I am willing to bear but I knew no better yet my ignorance will not excuse my negligence I should have made better Search But I was never concerned about it till you and I had talked under the Tree since that I have been much perswaded that the Common count for the day of Christs death was not True but that he lay longer dead And because I had never discoursed any man concerning it I searched some Expositors of Texts relating to it and found them all opposite to me so I see if I went on I must go against the Stream And seeing I could find nothing For me I sought to find all I could Against me and to know the Full strength of this Stream This being found I laid these learned Authors By and fell to work by the search of the Scriptures and Prayer for I could not give it over And though many a time after Much study and Little hope I have been Crushed as if I should give up the ghost yet I could Not give it over but continued in prayer to God viz that if the Common count of the day of Christs death was true he would cause me to acquiesce in it but if my perswasion was true that he would be pleased to help me to understand it and make it out to You and not leave me to erre in it To this purpose I did implore God with many prayers and
English Reader The most Necessary of all which to know are These c et caetera and the rest or and so forth Sc scilicet to wit Viz Videlicet to wit or that is to say i e id est that is e g exempli gratiâ as for example q d quasi dicat as if he should say And the same q d serves for as if She should say as if You should say as if They should say as if I or We should say It is easily understood in Reading N B Nota Bene Mark this well O T Old Testament N T New Testament Q Question A Answer Ob Objection Sol Solution D Doctrine R Reason U Use For you to Learn these Lessons Three As easie is as A B C. Which you may Learn with little Leasure Then Read with Knowledge Profit Pleasure As for Hebrew Greek and Latine Words which I lay in your Way they will be no Stumbling-block except you will Make them so For you have it in English which you may Read on without Stumble or Stop And I desire you may So Read as to Reap much Good Fruit by the Labour of Your Loving Friend J W. London May 26. 1681. The General Contents of the First Dialogue A Salutation and Preambulation to the Education of Children Parents equally concern'd in Education Education reduced to two General Heads viz. Instruction and Correction First Instruction The word opened 1 Gen. Head Instruction by Doctrine and Example 1 By Doctrine The word Doctrine opened What D to instruct Children in Twenty Documents for Instruction by D. The Scripture to be Searched for more Any thing in the Bible Vseful even the words of wicked men Devils Proper Names 2 Instruction by Example Word opened Example by Works and Words Circumstances of Education Seven Direction if Children Will or Will not hear The Parent Corrected for Carnal Language The Second General Head viz. Correction 2 Gen. Head Correction twofold viz. with Word and Rod. 1 Correction with Word Six Directions for Word Correction 2 Correction with the Rod Scriptural Account of Rod fourfold The Parallel of Rod and Staff Seven Directions for Rod Correction Fourteen Ob against Rod Correction Answ Two ways great wasters of Time and many more wicked ways Witnessed against Advice of a Civil Secular Concern delivered in 12. Documents The danger of Riches discoursed Counsel concerning Childrens Children PRAYER for a Blessing on Education Prayer For and With Children 1 Prayer For them in Private Ten great effects of Prayer consider'd to encourage to Prayer Time and Times in a day for Private Prayers 2 Prayer With Children in Family Ten directions for Family Duty Objections against Family Duty Answ Parents to take their Children into their Closets and Pray with them there Parents to teach Children to Pray Objections against that Answer'd Parents to procure the Prayers of Praying Persons for their Children Ten Corollaries to quicken Parents to their Whole Duty contained in this Conference THE PARENTS PRIMER AND THE MOTHERS LOOKING-GLASSE In a Dialogue between A MINISTER and a FATHER Minister GOd Save you Sir with your good Wife Whither are you walking this way this morning Father To See Mr. C. What News Sir Min. News I said in my heart what I should have When will this Common Question be out of use Since the Popes Plot appeared the Protestants have spent more Time in Talking of it than All the Papists in England are worth And you living so near us are like our London Christians and they Too like the Athenians who spent their time in Nothing else but to Tell or to Hear some New Thing And if there be no New we talk over the Old without End And every Day is alike If this was the way to do our work viz Self-Examination Humiliation and Reformation for the Sins that provoke God to suffer this Bloody Beast thus to Push at us I would not Oppose it But it 's the way to Hinder Every good work in Heart and Life And to render us Ridiculous to the DEVIL and the POPE to see what a Talking Trade we drive and how we spend our Dayes while Death lies at our Doors Fath. I confess we spend Too much Time that way Min. Confession without Reformation Preambulation is to Poor Purpose Are these two little Lads which follow you Your Children Fath. Yes they are both mine Min. Can you tell me any Good News of Them Fath. They are Pretty good Boys when they Please Min. They had need be made Better to which end I pray what Good Discourse have you had with them by the way for you are now come a Mile from Home Fath. OH HO I have told them the name of yonder Church Steeple And of That I point at with my Cane And of yonder High Brick House with abundance of Chimneys Min. And is this the Best Discourse you have had Fath. The Best yes truly What Discourse should a man have with Children Min. What Discourse Godly Discourse Fath. What with Children Min. Yes with Children to Choose Fath. What Reason is there for That Min. There is Great Reason for it which I shall not Now Render but one thing I shall Render which is Greater than Reason Fath. What is that I pray Min. God's Solemn Command And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine Heart Deu. 6.6 7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House and when thou walkest by the Way and when thou liest Down and when thou risest Vp Fath. I believe Few Fathers or Mothers do so Min. In that you believe Truth but it 's Sad Truth to believe yet Too True I may well say For of othis I have made Much Observation for Many Years in Many Countries in Professing Families without number After all which Observation I may say with Solomon There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun Ecl. 6.1 and it is Common among men Such men have Many a Day been to me an Amazing Consideration viz That ever Persons professing Faith in gods Word of Truth which testifieth the Misery of ALL Mankind that their Children are in a Sad Condition is one part of their Profession who have been Sensible of their Own Misery and Instruments to bring Poor Children into a Miserable World in a Miserable Condition and yet so Careless to bring them Out of this Condition And so little concerned for a Safe passage Out of this World over Hell to the desired Haven Ezek. 19.14 this is a Lamentation and Shall be for a Lamentation Fath. But some Count that this Command was given to the Jews only Min. Read and Compare these two Texts * Deut. 4.10 Ch. 6.7 and you will see it is the Moral Law or Ten Commandments that Parents are Commanded to teach their Children To say This Law belongs to the Jews only is plainly to say We Gentiles are Lawlesse And may
the Fathers My Son hear the Instruction of thy Father and forsake not the Law of thy Mother * Pro. 1.8 My Son keep thy Fathers Commandments and forsake not the Low of thy Mother †Ch. 6.20 The Law of GOD is called the Law of the Mother And she commanding her Child according to that Law Her Law is the Law of GOD. Of the neglect of which Duty let the Mother take heed lest there come a time when torment makes her Tare the Hair off her Head Ninth Doc 9. Of Faith Teach them to know the Necessity of True Faith Learn them to know it is the Gift of GOD. And the Work of GOD. And that God makes Preparation for Faith by a threefold Conviction of Unbelief 1 Of the utter Deficiency of Faith 2 Of the absolute Necessity of Faith 3 Of the utter Impossibility of Faith in ones Own Power Acquaint them with a threefold Effect of Faith where it s wrought 1 It makes the Heart Pure †Act. 15.9 2 The Conscience Peaceable * Ro. 15.13 3 It makes Christ Precious †1 Pet. 2.7 This Faith is an One thing necessary For by a Fair Profession without Faith a Soul may seem to be Not Far from the Kingdom of Heaven and yet Never the near Civility gilds Fair sets Off a Man Grace only makes a Golden Chris-ti-an Tenth Doc 10. Of Repentance Teach them the necessity of Speedy Repentance That it s not a Work to be put Off for a Year a Month or a Day Let them know its the Gift of CHRIST †Act. 5.31 And that a Sinner can No more Repent himself than he can Pardon himselfe Putting off Repentance proves that the Sinner thinks he can Repent at his Pleasure Like him who put off Faith till Death And being reproved for his Loose Life replyed It 's but believing in Christ at Last But at Last when Dying he lay ROARING OH I have made a Plaister but I cannot make it Stick Shew your Children how the Devil Steals away a Sinners Dayes by a Day at once Should Satan suggest Thus Come Sinner serve me to the Death Live and Die in my sweet service Without Repentance At this a Sinner would Startle q d Satans Subtiltie So I may go to Hell No but Come serve me a Day more Next morning Away without Prayer to pleasure to Day it s but a Day This is easily granted And so on to the End And when the Last Day of life begins Come go on it s but a Day By and by Down drops the Soul into the Dungeon of Hell And then it will be Cold Comfort to hear Satan say Come be quiet thou hast but an Eternitie to spend in Repenting thy daily delay of Repentance in time N B. Without True and Timely Repentance For Sin and From Sin there is Nothing to be expected but a Certain Fearfull Intolerable and Eternal Damning for Sin Eleventh Doc 11. Of Truth Teach them the Excellency of Truth in Tongue i e Truth in Word that hath Truth in Heart for its Root and Truth in Deed for its Fruit. Though this Truth be not the Original Cause of Salvation yet such Shall be Saved And God hath left you Winning Words to entice them to Truth in Tongue Surely they are my People Children that will not Lie so he was their Saviour * Isa 63.8 The lip of Truth shall be established for Ever †Pro. 12.19 The rest read at leasure * Psal 34.12 N B. The good government of the Tongue is a Great Task And that you had need begin to Guide 1 Pet. 3.10 as soon as it begins to Go. 2 Jo. 4. For if long neglected you may more easily weild a Wild Horse or a Weighty Ship driven with Fierce Winds †Ja. 3.2 to 10. Augustus gave a Schollar this Lesson I said I would take heed to my wayes that I sin not with my Tongue * Ps 39.1 And bid him go and learn that Lesson and come again for another His Scholar goes A hard task and comes again 19 years after and Complains of his Lesson viz that it was So Hard he had not well learned it Yet There are Many Christians in Citie and Country of more than 19 years Standing who have this Lesson still to learn Twelth Doc 12. Of Early Piety Teach them the Excellency of Early Piety Of being Quickly Converted and made good Betimes The Lesse time between the First and Second Birth the Better 1 Tell them Such are under that Sweet Promise They that seek me early shall Find me †Pro. 8.17 2 Of Such God hath a Sweet Remembrance viz I remember Thee the kindnesse of thy Youth * Jer. 2.2 3 Such have not that Mountainous Temptation to clime which Old Converts hardly Ever get Over viz You come too Late 4 It s the way to be Eminent with God and Prevalent in Prayer eg The Child Samuel Ministred unto the Lord * 1 Sam. 3.1 MOSES and AARON and SAMUEL among them that call upon his name they called upon the Lord and he answered Them †Psal 99.6 Though MOSES and SAMVEL stood before me yet my mind could not be toward this People * Jer. 15.1 q d If any Persons in the World prevail with Me They are the Men. And how Lamentable is the Losse of Such When all the Congregation saw that Aaron was Dead they mourned for Aaron 30 dayes even ALL the house of Israel †Nu. 20.29 The Children of Israel wept for Moses 30 dayes * Deu. 34.8 They Murmur against them while they Live but Mourn for them when they are Dead Samuel died and All Israel gathered together and lamented him †1 Sa. 25.1 Jeremiah lamented for good young Josiah and All the Singing Men and Singing Women spake of Josiah in their Lamentations to this day * 2 Chro. 35.25 The First ripe Fruits were Precious to God †Exo. 22.29 And they were so to man * Micha 7.1 The Devil in his Old Enmity against Early Piety hath Tipt the Tongues of some with this Taunt A young Saint and an old Devil Which Satanical Saying and Pestilent Proverb I shall not ask Satan leave to turn thus A young Saint and an old ANGEL Let Satan say his Worst to be Good betimes is Best Mistake me not it 's Being good and not Knowing good only that I plead for One may Know good and Be evil One may Know evil and Be good It s not ones Knowing Good or Evil that makes one Good or Evil but it s ones Loving of Good or Evil which proves one Good or Evil. If a man would know what City he belongs to Zion or Babilon and whether he is going to Heaven or Hell let him ask his love Thirteenth Doc 13. Of Gods eye Teach them to Know that they are Alway under the Open Eye and Open Ear of God Tell
spend their Time in Foming out Fume to smoke the Air where they Sit Walk Ride or lay in Bed As if men were Born to take Tabacco Should it please God to raise a man from the Dead who died Anno 1580 and say Come I will send thee to see the Exercise of England the man would Wonder what men are Doing This Smoking Trade at Every Turn would be as great a Wonder to Him as his Rising from the Dead would be to Them It 's bewitching ¶ 3 It is a Venity which hath a bewitching Faculty It works on the Will and makes men Willing to be bewitched with it It takes away appetite from Bread the Staffe of Life and begets an impetuous appetite after it Self And so brings a man under it's power which Paul in All Points resolve against All things are Lawful but all things are not Expedient all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the Power of any †1 Cor. 6.12 ¶ 4 It 's an Epidemical Infectious Contagious Vice where is it's like under the Sun Both Sexes Men and Women All Degrees of Men from the DUKE to the Dray-man on the Dung-hill All Sects in point of profession of Religion In a word All Men some few excepted are more or lesse Vitiously addicted to it ¶ 5 This bewitching weed this Indian Henbane Hot Henbane is Hot and Dry in a High Degree It Dries away the Juice and Moisture of the Body till it be like a Bottle in the Smoke It inflames the Blood It distempers and intoxicates the Brain And doth the whole Man much hurt Physical ¶ 6 It 's strongly Physical therefore not fit for Food nor Fashion Too much of the Best Food will Soon fit a man for the Worms Too much of the Best Physick will Send a man to the Same Place Tabacco is a Physical Herb. To take Physick at every turn both Full and Fasting At every meals meat in Conclusion a Potion Another in Bed As oft as men Meet on Any Occasion to take a Potion And abroad in the Cold Air to open the Veins and Pores of the Body to let in Death This is a MAD TRADE An ill master ¶ 7 Where Tabacco hath got the Mastery it is a great Enemy And the more a man Loves it and keeps it Company as if it were a Friend The more it is an Enemy And he that is under this Slavery is not at Liberty to order either Body or Soul as he should Nor does he seem to Care what becomes of one or the other Let such beware lest they lose Both by the Love of Tabacco Let such take heed they do not So smoke away their Time as to smoke to Eternity in the sulpherous smoke of Fire and Brimstone which ascends up for Ever and Ever †Rev. 14.10 11. Caution And let them that Preach Down any one Vice in their Pulpits take heed they do not Set Up this unparallel'd Vice for another in their Practice And the same I say of All Professors of godliness ¶ 8 The time may come when if they Had it and that would Do Prodigal Parents would give Rivers of Oyl and Sack-fulls of Silver and Gold for the Golden hours they suffer to Swim Down these Two Streams and will not use them for the Education of their poor perishing children Job was very Officious for his Children he Sent to them he Sanctified them he Sacrificed for them he rose up Early to do it he did it according to the number of them All i e he did his duty to Every one for Job said It May be my sons have Sinned * Job 1.5 How many do know Certainly their sons have sinned Notoriously and yet let it passe unpardoned Thus did Job continually 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the dayes †Ver. 5. as long as they lived And yet when Dead what a Doleful Ditie doth he makes with his Elegie * Ch. 29.2 5. If So how may Carelesse Parents Howl if by Sudden death their Children Fall Fath. Pray did you never take Tabacco Min. Take it Yes truly and that took Me too into Custody and Slavery But having got Liberty it shall Never take me more nor I That by the help of God in whose Fear I forsook it Fath. I will never take Tabacco again as I have done Two Pipes a day shall be All. The good lawfull convenient use of it you allow Min. True but that respects him that can So use it Who can have Himself and It at Command make it his Servant not his Master Take it and Leave it as he List which Few can do In these three words Good Lawfull Convenient are implyed two more viz UndersTanding Thanksgiving What you take of this Physick you must Understand to be Proper for your Distemper and take no more than does you Good and for which you may with Boldness and Acceptance to God give Thanks †1 Tim. 4.4 Far be it from you to take it for Fashion-sake Or to p lease the Palate Or to shew that piece of Breeding so called which every Clown hath so long since learn'd And as to your Two Pipes because I doubt you cannot Command it I conclude it 's your Safest way to cast it Quite off For if it be not a Servant in Subjection it will be a Mast er in Dominion It 's like an encroaching Parasite give him an Inch he will take an Ell. It 's like the Pope of Rome Simile He must Up or Down now in England And if with you all England would Expell this Vanity as I pray they may do Popery it would be a Thousand times better for where it does a Grain of Good it does a Masse of Mischief Were Englands Wealth well Ordered England would live Well If what the Rich Wast in this bewitching Weed was given to the Poor provided they leave Wasting it would make them all Rich. And the Rich not the Poorer but the Richer i e with the Reward they shall receive of the Lord who lend to Him by relieving the Poor * Pro. 19.17 But if men have Smoked away their Senses it 's in vain to say Lo how Black is this Crow or how White is this Snow Well So or So it gives me some Content that I have thus far cast Contempt upon the Abominable Abuse of this Honourable Creature Tabacco which hath almost England at Command beside Other Countries And whether I call this a Testimony for God against this Vanity of Vanities or No yet Take it SO. ¶ Sir in pleading against Sin Vanity Carnality I plead for GOD against whom it is Enmity And whether You or Others will Hear or Forbear †Ezek. 3.11 yet I will endeavour to deliver my Soul * Ver. 19. For Gods hand is taking hold of Judgment In the hand of the Lord there is a Cup it is full of mixture †Psal 75.8 i e of Judgments without mixture
not the Art to Seek when they had occasion to Use it And these things were written for our Learning * Ro. 15.4 But our delicate Damsels now a dayes would ware Rebekahs Bracelets but not bare her Pitcher †Gen. 24.15 And put on Tamars Coat of divers Colours but not put their hands into her Kneading Trough * 2 Sa. 13.8 Fath. But me thinks you Tie up Children very Strictly Solomon seems to allow more Liberty What else means he by this Text †Ecl. 11.9 Min. Not to give Liberty for Vanity Not to adde Fuel to the Fire of youthfull lusts But this is an Ironical speech i e by way of Derision Ironie And so sometime would Christ speak to his Own Disciples e g Sleep on now and take your Rest * Mat. 26.45 q d If you like it with so many Halberts about your Heads If God speak to the Wicked Ironically he speaks Judicially e g God forbad Balaam to go with Balak's Messengers †Nu. 22.12 19 20 31. yet he detains them for a Further Answer from God And he Hath it Wo to him that God bids go against his Will God said Go with them q d I know thy fingers Itch after Balak's Money-Bag Go q d if thou Darest and then meets him with a Drawn Sword Thus Micajah to Ahab Go up and prosper †1 K. 22.15 when it was to perish Thus Elijah to Baals Prophets who were howling for help O Baal hear us * Ch. 18.26 Cry Aloud saith Elijah for he is a god either he is Talking or he is Pursuing or he is in a Journey or peradventure he Sleepeth and must be Awaked †ver 27. If men will mock GOD God will mock Men. God bids men Pray they Play God bids men Fast and Mourn they Feast and Rejoyce God bids men run to Heaven they run to Hell God bids men Give diligence to make sure of Election and Salvation they are diligent to make sure of Rejection If men will be Crosse they will be Crossed and Damnation This presumption provokes God to speak Ironically Angerly and in Indignation and to give counsel Contrary to Salvation Thus Solomon Rejoyce Let thy heart cheer thee Walk in the wayes of thy heart q d Seeing thou Wilt do so whether God will or No. But know Thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment * Ecl. 11.9 Here is the biting But at last q d But God will Hale thee to Judgment if it be Never so much against the Hair and the Heart too with thee Simile As a man to a wilfull child who will not go to School but to Play Go take your course but I will make it Dear Play to you Now if the Youth will sincerely desire to know what Solomon means in good Earnest that they may hear God speak Mercifully and not Judicially Then Rejoyce is Repent Let thy heart Cheer thee is Let thy sins Grieve thee Walk in the wayes of thy Heart is Walk in the wayes of Gods Own Heart And thus is this Text reconciled to Remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth †Ecl. 12.1 Third Teach them to be of Good Behaviour Such as becomes the Children of Men. Docu 3. Comely Carriage And of Parents professing Godlinesse Such Carriage as becomes the Children of the Children of God Teach them to honour their Parents Their Neighbours And Strangers That salutation of Abrahams servant to Rebekah and her respectfull reply to his Petition is recorded as an Ornament to both He and She. viz let me I pray the drink a little water of thy Pitcher And she said Drink my Lord and I will draw water for thy Camels also * Gen. 24. 17 18 19. Teach them to honour the Aged Thou shalt rise up before the Hoary head and honour the face of the Old man †Lev. 19.32 For the Child to be have himself proudly against the Ancient is spoken of as a Judgment * 1 Sa. 2.7 Take heed they do not despise the Poor Whoso mocketh the Poor reproacheth his Maker †Pro. 17.5 the Lord maketh Poor * 1 Sa. 2.7 Let them not despise the Lame the Blind the Crooked the Deformed These are Gods Workmanship God hath made them for his Glory and not for Objects of Scorn and Contempt for their Fellow Creatures Dread the thoughts of their despising the Godly A Sad Monument Let parents remember that Monument of Vengeance viz Two Bears taring 42 children at Once for mocking of One godly man †2 Kin. 2.24 Barren Michael hath Too many children in England to mock at holy Habits and Excercises of godlinesse * 2 Sa. 6.20 Noah could not build an Ark without a Mock But they had Done mocking when they stood on Tip-toe on the Top of the Mountains Mocker Remember this up to the Mouth in Water And God will have a Time to Stop every mocking mouth A Sad Shame In the mean time to the SHAME of their Parents be it spoken there are Multitudes of Children in England who have No more Christiauity nor Civility than if they were the Off-spring of Indians and Pagans or the Seed of Savage Wild Beasts of the Wildernesse Fourth Docu 4. Care of Health Have a Special Care of their Health Endeavour to prevent Diseases which come by infected Houses or Persons Or by Idlenesse and want of Exercise Or by Heats and Colds By going too thin Cloathed or Wet By any ill Diet in Food Or by eating Unripe Fruits as Apples Pears Plums Cheries Or over many Ripe Thus some suffer their Children to shorten their Dayes and to be sent to their Long Home Long before their Time Fift Docu 5. Gasualty Beware of and Dread the danger of Sudden Death By falling into Rivers Brooks Ponds Wells standing Open or with Rotten Covers By climbing and falling from Ladders Trees Leads on the house Top. London Look to it Or out at Wide windows or Casements By Timber Stones Bricks falling on them By Coaches Carts Cars Horses By Swallowing any thing Perilous And let parents that count these Cautions Ridiculous take heed God do not give them more cause to Cry by suffering their children to Perish then I do give them cause to Laugh by seeking to Save and Preserve them Sixt. Teach them to have a care of evil Company and evil Counsel Docu 6. Ill company An evil Companion is an evil Counseller and an evil Counseller is an evil Companion one is Both and they are both One as unseparable Give warning of this Gulf with wise Solomon My son if sinners entice thee consent thou Not †Pro. 1.10.11 If they say Come it 's the Devils call to a match of mischief Let us all have one Purse * ver 14. proves to be all one Gallows Evil Company and evil Counsel hath destroyed many a one with a
Jam. 5.18 ¶ 5 hath fetched a Soul from Heaven †Act. 9.40 ¶ 6 hath fetched an ANGEL from Heaven * Jud. 13.8 ¶ 7 It hath fetched GOD from Heaven †Psal 18.6 9. ¶ 8 It hath fetched a Person out of Prison who was Guarded and Chained and shut in with an Iron Gate * Act. 12.4 5 6 10. ¶ 9 It hath helped a Soul out of a Hell upon earth even out of All trouble †Psal 116.3 4 8. ¶ 10 It hath held Gods Hands from destroying * Exo. 32.10 and hath prevailed with God for Special blessing †Gen. 32.28 As a Prince had Jacob power with God and prevailed He kneeled down Jacob and rose up Israel A Divine Dignity He took his brother by the heel in the Womb and by his strength he had power with GOD yea he had power over the ANGEL and prevailed Even the Lord God of Hosts the Lord is his Memorial * Ho. 12.3 4 5. Godlinesse is a Mystery there is no trade like Beggery Carnal beggery at Mans door is a Poor trade but spiritual beggery at GOD's gate is a Rich trade A rich Trade A praying Christian is like a Courtier who gets more by One suit in Season Simile than a toyling Trades man gets in 20 years A little of God's Gold got by prayer is worth more than a Great many Guinys ¶ PRAY then with All perseverance lest you play the Hypocrites part Of him Job gives you a Character in a Quaere viz Will he alwayes call upon God †Job 27.10 NOT He. God shall hear from him in Hell * Lu. 16.24 And it may be first in the hour of Death He will cry when God kills him †Ps 78.34 Simile like the Swine when the Knife is at his throat It was a sad Argument that Atheist used in his one prayer at Sea in a Tempest when he told God plainly He was no common begger Heylyn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 376. had never troubled him with prayer before if he would but hear him that time he would never trouble him again This argument which he thought to be two-fold For him he little thought to be ten thousand-fold Against him Fath. How oft in a day had I best to pray that I may persevere Min. As to your Time and Times in a Day for private prayer if you will take my Counsel follow David's Example viz Times for private prayer Three times a day Evening and Morning and at Noon will I pray †Ps 55.17 And Daniel's example he kneeled upon his knees Three times a Day and prayed * Dan. 6.10 And for a Type of our looking to Jesus in prayer his windows shall stand open towards Jerusalem though Death come in at them and carry him into the Lions Den. Daniel will Pray though he go into the Lions Den for it Some will not Pray Some do as Dives did Perish first and then Pray though they go into the Dungeon of Hell for it And though Daniel's prayer did not keep him Out of the lions den it kept him In the lions den which was to God a greater Glory and to Daniel a greater Mercy and to his enemies a greater Misery than if he had Never come there It was a Perilous time for Prayer Daniel's safety seems to lay in laying a Bed and laying prayer Down till the 30 Dog-dayes be out †Dan. 6.7 Daniels safe danger N B. In the most Perilous time for Prayer then it is most Safe to be in that Peril of prayer The danger layes in the Neglect of prayer take heed of That I have read of a Witch who much envied a godly man Of the Witch and sent her Imps oft times to destroy him But they usually returned with this answer We cannot come at him for he constantly prayes to God At length he being in Hast went out one morning without prayer And that day they did him a greater mischief than Daniel's Devils did him in the Lions Den viz brake some of his Bones This the Witch confessed when imprisoned Mr Hast Remember this that morning Mr Hast is so great a Husband as to call you out before you have been in your Closet First worship God he that forgets to Pray Bids not himself Good Morrow nor Good Day Fath. It would make a man afraid But I believe many go out in the morning without prayer and come Safe home at night too Min. NO wonder Them condemned Prisoners that lay at quiet in Fetters Allusion why should the Keeper of New-Gate hurt he knows they will be Hanged when it 's the Kings pleasure to appoint the Execution Day But if one to his great Damage do break away WO be to him if he can come at him God is not for speedy execution And what cares Satan for breaking mens Bones who are Subject to his Service No let them go whole-Footed and whole-Handed to Hell But if one break Prison for liberty to serve God OUT comes the roaring Lion with a Hue and Cry from Hell to devour Him if he may Second Pray With children Pray WITH them in your Family It 's to poor purpose for Parents to pray For children and not With them And for Masters to pray For servants and not With them Sir you are Master of a Family Set up the Worship of God in your Family or expect the Wrath of God to be rained down upon your Family †Jer. 10.25 Fire and Brimstone and an Horrible tempest * Psal 11.6 But what causes your Countenance to change Fath. I am frighted with fearfull words Min. This countenance is a Character of a guilty Conscience No wonder if you are Frighted It 's more Dreadfull to stand before the Drawn Sword of God's mouth without Shelter than to stand naked before Cannon Shot Fath. I desire direction for Family duty Min. First As to Time and Times Direct 1. Times for Family prayer when and how Oft. I affirm that you are to perform this duty of prayer In and With your family Twice in a day viz Morning and Evening And this without Fail except in a case of Necessity which hath no Law And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Command the children of Israel and say unto them MY offering and MY bread for MY sacrifices made by sire for a sweet savour unto ME shall ye observe to offer unto ME in their Due season †Nu. 28.1 Day by Day Morning and Even continally * Exo. 29.38 39. Though this be out of use as Ceremonial and so Practical it 's not out of use as Doctrinal and directive to Gospel duty Gospel duty contained in One of Gods Two Testaments Gospel duty Great New or Old is a greater Sum then many Gospelers imagine Masters give unto your Servants that which is Just and Equal knowing that ye also have a Master in Heaven Continue in
are of kinne to that cursed King who cut the Roll and cast it into the fire * Jer. 36.23 but it was rescribed and many like words added †Ver. 32. if man will diminish the Preceptive part God will adde to the Penal part of his Precept There were desperate Antinomians in Job's dayes e g He stretcheth out his hand against God * Job 15.25 Take this literally and so did Julian the Apostate when wounded in battell and bleeding to death he stretched out his hand to throw his blood up to Heaven Julian against Jesus saying in indignation to Jesus Theod l 3. Cap. 20. O Galilean thou hast overcome me And the Amalekites who when they could catch a Jew and kill him would cut off the part that received the Seal of the Covenant and with an out-stretched hand throw it up towards Heaven Jerom. with indignation against God for that institution Take it metaphorically and so doth he stretch out his hand against God who useth his Wits and Words against God as the Antinomian when he argueth against Gods law A man should not lift up hand word or thought against God but hand heart tongue and all For God but he strengthens himself against the Almighty †Job 15.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shaddai Omnipotency it self who can do all things and yet what can the Almighty do for them yet he silled their houses with good things * Chap. 22. 17 18. and yet what can the Almighty do for them Reason will tell a man the Almighty can do All things Reason differs the spirit of a Man from the spirit of a Beast what unreasonable blind beast is this then that thus argues If the Almighty can do nothing For he can do nothing Against a man and that I presume is their hope viz the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil * Zeph. 1.12 He runs upon the bosses of his bucklers †Job 15.26 alluding to the fierce assault of a Souldier The buckler is Defensive armour the bosse Offensive i e a Sharp Spike if a man come close it kills him God's Buckler is the Preceptive part of his law by which he defends his honour his Bosse is the Curse threat or Penal part by which he kills them that break his command e g Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge there is the Buckler in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die * Gen. 2.17 there is the Bosse Adam runs upon it and dies for it Thus Job's Antinomian or ours his Cousin German He will offer violence to God and his Law with Gospel in his mouth He runs upon him even on his neck †Job 15.26 He will try a twich with God He would pull God out of Heaven and throw the world out at Window A Saint playes the man against Satan but he playes the Devil against God who makes his Law void Here is sin of a Size what blows big enough for sin So big it will puzzle an Apostle and a Philosopher too to define it Fath. What may be the Reason of our Antimian aversnesse to the Law of God Min. 1 Because of its Antiquity 1 R. and their Novelty They have an evil eye upon the O T for its Names-sake Upon this account they may slight God himself who is the Ancient of dayes †Dan. 7.9 And on this account they may slight the Gospel for that is as old as the Law as no doubt they will do when a New one comes up And on the same account they may slight their Own opinion for it 's as old as Adam's fall Adam was an Antinomian when he brake the Law It 's older than Adam's fall the Devil was an Antinomian when he tempted Adam to be of the like Religion ¶ 2 Because of its Purity 2 R. It is a sacred divine perfect pur * Ps 19.8 holy spiritual Law †Rom. 7.12 14. It binds hands feet tongue heart and All to holinesse Antinomians are Libertine who love not to be bound by the bonds of Gods holy commands but a David loves the law upon this account thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it * Ps 119.140 ¶ 3 Because of their own Obscurity 3 R. and ignorance of its excellency That excellent office of the law viz to wound for Sin and send to a Saviour they are Strangers to They never saw their own sins in Gods Looking-glasse but other mens sins in the Devils Prospecitive-glasse Simile The young Blackmoor Simile and so are like the Black boy that fled from his Black father to his White mother not considering his Own blacknesse Antinomians slight the law as the Indians did their Gold when they knew not its worth And as a Natural man doth Gods gold i e Simile grace which is to him as drosse And as the Jews did Jesus not discerning his Beauty though altogether lovely †Cant. 5.10 The very Name of Jesus was hatefull to the Jews they could not call him by it but this fellow * M. 26.61 that deceiver †Ch. 27.63 and the Carpenter * Mar. 6.3 so is the very word Law contemptible to our Antinomians But this is madnesse with a Witnesse for without law what right hath a man to any good viz Temporal Spiritual or Eternal What right to house goods land without law or what Safety are lands or life in without law what right to Christ Heaven eternal life without law It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse IS righteousnesse i e by the law of Works It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse is a Christians righteousnesse i e by the law of Grace †Jer. 23.6 It is by Law that Christians are Saved i e the law of Faith and it 's by Law that sinners are Damned i e by the law of Works God imputeth righteousnesse by law and Saveth and God imputeth sin by law and Damneth and is LAW to be slighted He that breaks one breaks all * Ja. 2.10 Break one break all the breach of the ten commandments brings a man 10000 Talents into Gods debt by Law and is LAW to be slighted Little England hath a great deal of Rome in it and seeing darknesse is now a dayes so desirable it's to be wished these persons wish not for Popery and Tyranny who do so disgust this good word LAW for if a man would have laws against Theft nulled no doubt that man desires to be a Thief and so of any other such like desire to destroy Law It is no wonder these persons are in darknesse for they will shut their eyes against Scripture-light if it be contrary to their own conceptions Simile They are like the Elephant who makes the water Muddy that he may not see his Deformity They will search Scripture for what seems to suit with their sinfull minds but would bury the opposite truth in
in Heaven and Hell at once †Ps 139.8 And Jesus was in Heaven and Earth at once before his death * Joh. 3.13 and why not in Heaven and Hell at once after his death Take heed of unsound notions of a Saviour if Jesus hath not been in Hell for you I fear you must be there for your Self Fath. Well! let it passe If it be of such concern to know when the Sabbath begins tell me the time for there are divers opinions about it Min. I need not instance every hour of the day The Beginning of the Sabbath but onely the time contended for viz Morning Noon Even Midnight and the measure of the day viz 12 hours and 24 hours ¶ 1 I need not deny that it begins at Noon as the Gipsies count as if that time was contended for in England Not at Noon but though it be not the Plea it is the Practice of some professors who begin to assemble in Gods service after noon as it were by way of Recreation to serve God by the halves Such have lost half the Sabbath long since And it is to be wished they turn not Aminomians and Libertines to lose it all and themselves too at length for they by whom God is but half Served are like to be but half Saved ¶ 2 Some Roman-like plead for Midnight to begin and end the Sabbath Not at Midnight for which they produce two Texts 1 Paul preached on the first day till Midnight †Act. 20.7 which is no ground for this beginning for he preached till midnight because he was to depart next morning with a final Farewell 2 Samson arose at midnight and carried away the gate of Gaza * Judg. 16.3 which say such was a Type of Christs rising at midnight Samson was a Type of Christ in 20 things but that he was a Type of Christs death and resurrection in laying a piece of a night upon pleasure is a very unlikely matter Had he lay 3 nights and dayes in a dungeon there had been some colour for it ¶ 3 For the Morning many will plead Not in the Morning and so I suppose will you but I shall oppose this Time time it how you will and say what you can for it Fath. I will try that what if it begin at Spring of day and end at Dark night Min. Not so for in some Countries the day will be a month long North. for so long at least sometime of the year does day-light last Fath. What if the Sabbath begin at Sun-rise and end at Sun-set Min. Not so for in some Countries the Sabbath would be more than a Month long In Russia Muscovia Tartaria for so long goes the Sun a Circular course round about them in sight except Clouds come between as you would easily understand if I had a Globe in my hand Fath. We have Morning and Even all the year we may begin at morning and end at night Min. Not so it s no meet measure for the length of a Sabbath in June will be twice as long as in December Fath. But if we begin at Six and end at Six the Sabbaths will be all of a length all the year now I hope I have hit on it Min. Not so for a Sabbath must be the Seventh part of Time a natural day of 24 hours It is not enough to make one Sabbath equal with another but also equal with another day Fath. Then it must be from morning to morning from Spring of day to Spring of day or from Sun rise to Sun rise Min. Not so for then the precedent day hath two nights or this precedent night belongs to no day Not to the seventh day for that ends at Even nor to the first day if it begins in the Morning and so is cut off from both dayes like Job's cursed night which he would have disjoyned from the dayes of the year †Job 3.6 But who dares act so contrary to Gods ordinance who dare divide the night from the day and Separate what God hath Joyned Fath. I can say no more for the Morning Min. Then we are come to the fourth and last time under Instance Even the beginning of the Sabbath viz the Even and this I affirm to be the beginning of the Sabbath and from Even to Even is the measure of the Sabbath from the beginning to the end of the world At first where the Sixth day ended the Seventh day successively began so where the Seventh day Sabbath ended i e at Even the first day Sabbath began And thus of Ceremonial Sabbaths from Even to Even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath * Lev. 23.32 Fath. God made the day to beain at Even at first Object 1 but aster That world was drowned and a New world to spring out of the Ark it seems the beginning of the day was altered to morning for saith God Day and night shall not cease †Gen. 8.22 And morning is put before Even in this Psalm * Ps 92.2 the Title of which is A Psalm for the Sabbath day Ergo the Sabbath begins in the morning Min. God that made the world made the day to begin at Even from the beginning to the end of the world If after this God alters the order of his Words that does not alter the order of his Works Aaron was older than Moses †Exo. 7.7 therefore saith God These are that Aaron and Moses * Chap. 26. in the next verse it is these are that Moses and Aaron †Ver. 27. You may as well say Aaron was older than Moses at First but Moses was older than Aaron at Last while they lived gogether as to say The night was before the day at first but now the day is before the night Honour thy Father and thy mother * Ex. 20.12 the father is put first for Adam was first formed then Eve †1 Tim. 2.13 By order of the Creation of Man and first institution of Marriage the man is to be older than the woman else marriages are Monsters Yet God alters his order of words viz Ye shall fear every man his Mother and his father * Lev. 19.3 this is because children are more prone to despise their mothers than their fathers Render to Cesar the things that are Cesars and to God the things that are Gods †Mar. 12.17 by your argument Cesar was before God or to be preferred before him Fath. But some say Object 2 The seventh day was not butted and bounded with Even and Morning as the Six dayes were Ergo it did not begain at Even as they did it s a day without night Min. If a man had 7 pound in his purse Simile and tells you he hath spent just 6 pound does he need to tell you what remains Simile If I had 7 dayes natural allowed me to live in a house and tell you I have spent just 6
not expressed It is now a Maxime viz If the day begins in the morning Jesus did not rise on the first day Fath. Mary's coming to the sepulchre in the morning seems to signifie Jesus was to rise in the morning Min. Not at all it was not the least sign of his rising in the morning nor came they with any expectation of his Resurrection but to anoint him †Mar. 16.1 as if he had been to lay in the grave as another dead man When Jesues foretold his rising from the dead his Disciples questioned what the rising from the dead should mean * Chap. 9.10 When Jesus told them he should be mocked spitted on scourged put to death and rise the third day they understood none of these things †Lu. 18.34 And when they saw he was risen yet they knew not the Scripture that he must rise again from the dead * Job 20.9 Fath. But the plainest proof for Christs Resurrection in the morning you leave out †Mar. 16.9 Min. It seems you will bring it in but it will do you no service for the support of this opinion Take this Text as translated viz When Jesus was risen early and the Sense is when it was early Jesus was risen which does no more prove Jesus rose in the morning than to say at noon Jesus is risen proves he rose at Noon Or than that saying the next Even the Lord is risen * Lu. 24.34 proves he rose that Even Or that expression of Paul so long after Christs Resurrection now is Christ risen †1 Cor. 15.20 proves Jesus rose just then Fath. When then do you suppose Jesus rose Min. I do more than suppose for I am fully satisfied Time of Jesus's rising that Jesus rose from the dead in the Even when the Jews Sabbath ended and our Sabbath began for it is the Resurrection of Jesus that causes the Jews Sabbath to cease and gives Being and Beginning to our Sabbath which begins at â—â—en as I have proved This opinion of Christs â—â—â—ng at Even I will prove by the same Scripturâ— you produce to prove he rose in the Morning viz Jesus was risen early the first day * Mar. 16.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies both early and morning Sometimes when fo is translated morning it signifies a time long before day eg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the morning rising up a great while before day †Mar. 1.35 The first day does not properly expresse the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of the Sabbath ie the first Time or beginning of the Sabbath N B I am A Ω the beginning and the end the first and the last * Rev. 22.13 beginning and first are One end all last are One and all signifie Christs Eternity the former signifies he is From everlasting the latter that he is To everlasting This is to shew you that by first the beginning of the day is intended And this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first is sometimes translated beginning eg the latter end is worse than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning †2 Pet. 2.20 And thus we are to take this Text * Mar. 16.9 Jesus rose early a great while before day at the first or beginning of the Sabbath If some Critick was in our company he would tell us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sabbath signifies sometimes a week e g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I fast twice on the Sabbath †Lu. 18.12 i e two dayes a week Here its necessary to understand it a week for its improper to say I fast twice a day but there is no necessity of such a Sense here * Mar. 16.9 yet if I grant it all is One for the beginning of the week and of the Sabbath is at the Same time ¶ For farther satisfaction N B Jesus was Buried at Even And it was at the very End of the day for the day being almost at end and Christ with his companions still on the Crosse the Jews being netled with fear they should hang there on their high Sabbath besought Pilate that their legs might be broken †Job 19.31 and so dispatched Then came the Souldiers and braks the legs of the theeves * Ver. 32. but seeing Jesus dead brake not his legs †Ver. 33. but one of them with a spear pierced his side * Ver. 34. q d Thou hangest here like a hypocrite feigning thy self dead to save thy Shanks but I will give thee a touch shall try thee Now in the place where Jesus was crucified was a garden and in the garden a sepulchre there laid they Jesus for the sepulchre was nigh at hand †Ver. 41 42. They hurried him into that hole being hard by and had not time to carry him farther because their Sabbath was about to begin Luke saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sabbath began to shine * Luk. 23.54 i e with Star-light At this Juncture of time when that day ended and the next began was Jesus buried Ergo Jesus must needs rise in the Even to complete the time Prefixt for his laying dead Fath. If Jesus rose in the Even he lay but a day and a night in the grave for he was buried at end of the Sixth day and by your count rose at end of the Seventh day how then did he fulfill his word in rising on the third day Min. Jesus did fulfill his word and we must believe it if we understand it not more than the mystery of the Trinity But why do you say Jesus died on the Sixth day Fath. O! the Scripture is plain he died the day before the Seventh day Sabbath And I have seen it thus confirmed by the learned viz Adam fell on the Sixth day proved by this Text †Ps 49.12 and the Paschal lamb was slain on the Sixth day and Jesus died on the Sixth day and all about the same hour These are Parallel proofs Adam's fall on the Sixth day and the Lambs death on the Sixth day prove Jesus's death on the Sixth day and Jesus's death on the Sixth day proves Adams fall on the Sixth day as Jesus must dye virtually that day and hour Adam sinned so actually that day and hour of the week This mutual harmony makes all very clear Min. As pithily proved as if you had said The King of Spain and forty thousand men Went up the Hill and then came down agen What a fine story is here and very clear as sometime a thing looks for want of light to look on it Simile There is a sort of rotten wood that shines at Night but you see no lustre in it at Noon That the Paschal lamb was slain on the Sixth day as saith your Author see his pithy proof * Ex. 12.6 which Text tells the day of the Month not of the Week And whether he falsisies Ainsworth on Exod Pag. 37. Ainsworth whom he quotes
for his Author I leave it with you to look That Jesus was virtually slain as soon as Adam sinned Ideny not no doubt he undertook for man before man was †Pro. 8.23 Rev. 3.14 but that Jesus's death which was 4000 years after mans fall must needs be on that day and hour of the week on which man fell I reject as ridiculous If such had said Jesus Rose on the week day and hour that Adam Fell it had carried a fairer colour If men must search as far as the foundation of the world for a foundation to falsifie the day of Christs death it is pity they are not better busied But if Adam's fall on the Sixth day be a proof for Christs death on the Sixth day let us lay aside the day of Christs death a little and begin with Adams fall ¶ 1 Adam was a glorious piece of Gods creation Adam's Fall his Soul and Body was an Epitomy of Heaven and Earth and an house for God to inhabit To say Adam fell on the Sixth day is to liken God his Maker to a foolish Builder who lets the house fall under his hand before he can finish it ¶ 2 It seems by Sacred Scripture that neither Adam nor Angels fell on the Sixth day for in the conclusion of the Creation at the Close of the Sixth day God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the Sixth day * Gen. 1.31 There is the Close up of the whole Creation complete ¶ 3 As it seems by Scripture Adam fell not on the Sixth day so it seems by Scripture he fell on the Seventh day and that is my perswasion And I will produce no other proof for it than the same Scripture your Author brings to prove Adam fell on the Sixth day viz that Hebrew Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam in honour did not abide a night †Ps 49.12 It seems he fell that first night which was on the first Sabbath day natural which began at Even ¶ Note Satans old enmity against the Sabbath Satans enmity at the Sabbath 1 He mystically murdered Adam and all his posterity on the first Sabbath that ever was 2 The first Bodily murder we know of in the world Satan acted by the hand of his servant Cain on the Sabbath day and for a Sabbath dayes service as I suppose by this Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the end of dayes * Gen. 4.3 the Seventh day was the end of dayes for there never was more than 7 dayes 3 Satan sets his Servants a work many wayes to break the Sabbath And this enmity is not onely against Gods Sabbath but also against mans Soul In indignation against both this great governour drives on as if he would drive all before him into Hell fire At his command they curse swear whore pot pipe prate sport work play walk at pleasure all which paths lead to the Lake of fire The Sabbath is spent as if it was the Devils day and not Gods day It is the Devils great Trading day for Hell and the wickeds great Treasuring day for Wrath for sin on Other dayes does not fill the Vials of Gods wrath so fast as it doth on This day Adde to all Satans provoking his servants to persecute Saints on Sabbath dayes for the Service of God disturbing them in their meetings haling them to Prisions for using the liberty Christ hath given them 4 Satan is very busie with Saints on Sabbath dayes He tempts them to work and buy and sell when the Sabbath is begun in the Evening To lay in Bed in the morning To trifle away time when they are Up. To talk of controversies Saints both sleep and wake to Satan and impertineneies to absent from Sermons to Sleep to him at Sermons to Wake to him at Sermons by wandring thoughts a thousands wayes Here you may see by what spirit they are acted that are opposite to the Sabbath day Mr A and Mr L did not tell you they came with a message from the Devil yesterday to disturb you in your duty But let us proceed to the day of Christs death ¶ Here let me premise a few Cautions Cautions premised 1 Do not reflect on any thing that seems improbable for it may be True though at first it seem false Nor any thing that seems impertinent q d to what purpose is this prove the Point for it may be to some purpose though it presently appear not 2 This being an intricate point for its clearing some Scriptures must be opened and some reconciled which cannot be done with few words in which I must crosse my Self for I affect to contract things in few words 3 It being new and contrary to the commmon Creed you will Object your All against it your Objections you must hear orderly answered or it will be in vain to offer them 4 Be very punctual in observing the day of the month I shall have occasion to speak of with its beginning and ending else I speak into the Air. If I digresse or go forward or back ward from any Day or Thing before I have done with it care not to carry it in your head for I shall bring you to it again In a word before I proceed resolve to hear all or none at all Fath. I will hear what you have to say Min. To introduce the day of Christs death Of the day of Christs Death I must begin with its lively Type viz The Lords Passe-over This from its first institution was on the 14 day of the first month Abib or Nisan according to that Sacred account from the time of Israel's deliverance out of Egypt †Ex. 12.2 The Paschal lamb was to be taken up on the 10 day * Ver. 3. and kept till the 14 day †Ver. 6. probably that the sight of it might occasion Soul preparation And it was to be killed in the Evening * Ver. 6. Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 between the two Evenings i e say some Sun-set and Dark night Short work though they eat it in hast I do not think they prepared it in Post-hast Fath. What 2 Evens else had they Min. The division of the day by hours was not used when the Passeover was commanded the word hour except in Daniel is not in the O T. But they divided the day into 3 parts called Morning Noon Even †Ps 55.17 from 6 to 10 was Morning from 10 to 2 was Noon from 2 to 6 at night was Even The beginning and end of this last part were the two Evens between which the Lamb was killed and it was eat at night * Ex. 12.8 Our Lord Jesus who came to fulfill the Law kept this Passeover according to Law he commanded his Disciples to kill and prepare it upon the 14 day and he eat it with them at Night when the 15 day began †Mat. 26.17
The resurrection was Tipified to be on the first day of the 50 by the Wave-Sheaf of first fruits which was a pregnant Type of Christs resurrection on that day who was waved before the Lord by the Earthquake at his rising that morning and called the first fruits * 1 Cor. 15.20 And the 50 day that famous Pentecost was Sealed for a New Sabbath by the gift of the holy Ghost to the Apostles by vertue of which 3000 souls †Act 2.41 were converted as first fruits to God and the Lamb. And this Harmony hath been a Confirmation of this opinion viz Christs death on the Sixth day for many generations Min. If so its high time it was laid low I hope the best of that Bp he was no horned Beast but this his opinion I approve not If I had no better foundation for my opposite opinion I am not ashamed to tell you I should be ashamed to own it This is such another Proof as Adams fall was and to as much purpose as the Story in the Greek Epigram viz Two deaf men pleaded a Cause before a deaf Judge But let us look on these 50 dayes The 50 dayes discussed in the letter of the Law And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from the day that ye brought the Sheaf of the Wave-offering 7 Sabbaths shall be complete even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number 50 dayes * Lev. 23.15 16. This morrow or Wave-day is the first of the 50 dayes 7 weeks is 49 dayes the morrow after the seventh Sabbath is the fiftieth day as the Greek word Pentecost signifies and when the day of Pentecost was Fully come †Act. 2.1 i e when the seventh Sabbath was past the 7 weeks were complete then the Pentecost was fully come N B The 50 day begins another week on the same day of the week that the first day of the 50 began the first week of the 7 so that the first day and 50 day fall both on the same day of the week This a Child can tell but I mind you of it though a man that you may see your 2 great dayes for confirmation of your opinion Stand and Fall together And now I tell you these 2 dayes did not fall on the first day of the week Your famous Pentecost fell Not on the first day But why do I talk let us to work That the Passeover was killed on the 14 day that the Passeover Sabbath was on the 15 day on which Jesus died and that the Sheaf was waved on the 16 of Nisan is as plain as A B C by your rule Jesus rose from the dead the next day after his death buried at Even and rose in the Morning But suppose Jesus had rose on this Shake-sheaf day †As your Author calls it yet what Type of Christs resurrection was this Sheaf there was an he-lamb without blemish * Lev. 23.12 offered on that day too which was as much a Type of Christs Death on that day as the Sheaf could be of his Resurrection by this rule Jesus both died and rose in a day into what a wildernesse will the wit of man lead us N B This wave-wave-day on which you say Jesus rose was the first day he lay in the grave if your Author had said The lamb was a Type of Jesus's death Before that day and the wave-sheaf a Type of his resurrection After that day there had been some shadow of Reason in his assertion So you may see that your Pentecost proof is perished and your invincible Arguments are overcome Fath. You say the Jews translated the Passeover to the next day did they not also translate the Pentecost from their Sabbath to our Sabbath and so make it fall on the first day Min. If so that proves a false Pentecost to fall on the first day but it s no proof for Christs resurrection on the Wave-day nor is the Pentecost to be reckoned from Christs resurrection as our Calender men count but the 16 of Nisan is the Standing Rule to count the Pentecost from Calender count false 2 If the Pentecost fell on the 7 day Sabbath the Jews would translate it to the first day by their rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gahaz Godwyn but that year the Pentecost did not fall on the 7 day nor on the first day not on their Sabbath nor on Ours neither Fath. If the Pentecost fell not on the first day why did the Disciples observe it and countenance Ceremonies which were to cease Min. The Disciples being few about 120 †Act. 1.15 were at Jerusalem because Christ had commanded them to continue there * Ver. 4. The Pentecost being an holy Convocation in which work was forbid †Lev. 23.21 the Disciples might meet on that day though the Pentecost was to cease as a Church may do now if work be forbid by Authority though they approve not the day 2 Suppose the Pentecost not to be observed yet the Disciples might not understand the cessation of Ceremonies so suddenly they were hardly brought off Ceremonies some years after 3 The Pentecost keeping the day of the month changed the day of the week every year and could not be on the first day 2 years together Paul's Pentecost practice yet it was Pauls yearly practice to be at Jerusalem at Pentecost e g I will tarry at Ephesus untill Pentecost for a great door and effectual is opened unto me * 1 Cor. 16.8 9. i e at Ephesus and yet q d I will tarry but till Pentecost and then I am for Jerusalem When they desired him to tarry longer with them he consented not but bad them farewell saying I must by All means keep this Feast that cometh in Jerusalem †Act. 18.20 21. Paul hasted if it were Possible for him to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost * Ch. 20.16 Not because it was the first day as your Authors imagine of this †Act. 2.1 for the first day was the unlikest day of All for Christians to regard the Pentecost after Christs resurrection because on that day they met in remembrance of That Nor to support the Pentecost though he went on the account of no other day but for advantagious opportunities of preaching Jesus to the Jews Paul could call the Gentiles together but he could not command the Jews therefore he would watch for such Prizes as Ceremonial Sabbaths pun into his hands by bringing the multitude together And sometime for his encouragement he had liberty of preaching in their Synagogue on a Sabbath freely offered the rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on then Paul stood up as in his Element and said Men of Israel give audience * Act. 13.15 16. And Paul thought good to smile on some Ceremonies for a season for
the week he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease * Ver. 27. this One Week was an Ordinary week of 7 dayes the Midst of which is the Fourth day or Middle day The time Jesus lay Dead having 3 dayes before it and 3 dayes after it all which of these 3 last Jesus lay dead So you may see though the Week-day of Jesus's death so long since be not known to this Day yet this day was foretold before Christs Birth by the Scriptures of Truth in which God drops words in the Dark to see if men will feel after him †Act. 17.26 27. Thus I have given you the Testimony of Gods two Testaments to prove my Opinion Fath. I confesse this is more than I looked for but if Christ lay so long dead it will occasion some more Questions Min. Bring out them Questions and let nothing remain to broile at bottom Fath. If there was a day between the 2 Sabbaths why did the Jews go to Pilate for an Order to secure the Sepulchre on a high Sabbath * Mat. 27.62 and not stay till next day Min. As necessity hath no Law so necessity hath no Holy-dayes Necessitas non habet Ferias What cannot be done Before nor deferred till After may be done on the Sabbath It could not be done Before their crowns were so full of concern to get Christ crucified there wanted room for that consideration And they had been Up the night before that day Too but having Slept upon it and settled their wicked wits now Sir we remember that that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 And it cannot be omitted till to morrow q d So he may be stole away to night by his deceitfull Disciples * Ver. 64. Fath. If there was a day for work between the Sabbaths why did not them zealous women bring their Spices on that day but stay till after the 7 day Min. Why lay the Popish Lords in the Tower why the Prisoners in Newgate Fath. Because they cannot get out Min. No more could they get in The Jews made the sepulchre Sure sealing the Stone and setting a Watch †Ver. 66. It was made fast for 3 dayes to prove Christ an Impostor Fath. Why did they stay till morning and not come at Even at the 3 dayes end Min. Why do not fearfull folk who are scared at their own Shadows go into Church-yards among graves at midnight Fath. Indeed because they dare not Min. No more durst they go into a Tomb at night to the Dead Frights make folks fearfull it had been a Terrible time with them When they came in the Morning they feared to go in Mary stooped down and looked in * Joh. 20.11 and the Disciple whom Jesus loved came Running to the Sepulchre yet went not He in †V. 2 4 5. Fath. How does your Opinion accord with this expression he rose again the third day * 1 Cor. 15.4 Min. This phrase the third day is most miserably mistaken if thus taken A miserable mistake viz Friday 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 as if the day of Christs Death and the day of his Resurrection were 2 of the 3 dayes for neither is the One or the Other any of that number But the third day must be understood by these Standing Rules viz the Son of man shall be 3 dayes and 3 nights in the heart of the earth †Mat. 12.40 The Son of man must be killed and After 3 dayes rise again * Mar. 8.31 Christ's enemies could remember his words though his friends forget them viz We remember that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 The Angel said to the women He is risen as He said * Chap. 28.5 6. i e when the dayes and nights were ended which he prefixed On the first day said Cleopas to Christ To day is the third day since these things were done †Lu. 24.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is a dark Text and thus to be translated To day the third day is Gone since these things were done * PAS LEX pag 43. Esther fasted 3 dayes night and day †Est 4.16 yet she is said to put on her Royal apparell to approach to the King on the third day * chap. 5.1 completo die tertio Junius i e at end of the third day Thus my Opinion does accord with the Word but how does Gods word and You agree from the beginning of your count viz Friday at Even to the time when Jesus rose is but a Night and a Day and from the beginning to the end i e the next morning is but 2 Nights and a Day how did Jesus fulfill his word Fath. Synechdochically I suppose Jesus was buried a little bit before the Sixth day ended and I count That for a day and that he lay a moment on the first day morning and I count That for a day Min. Yet here is but 3 dayes and 2 nights here is not a Bit of a third night Fath. Then the night preceeding the Sixth day must make it up Min. And can you imagine this to be Christs meaning In all this you do little better than say Jesus the man of Sorrow Jested Joqued and Juggled with his death I wonder in what Darknesse we over-look this word NIGHT If Jesus had said The Son of man shall lay 3 Dayes dead you had some Plea for your Opinion for Day sometime signifies Day without Night and so Part of a day natural but it is 3 dayes and 3 nights And I would know where in all the Bible this phrase day night does once signifie Day without Night or Night without Day except in Heaven or Hell But your First day as you call a Bit is without Night and your Last day as you call a Night is without Day By your Synechdochical rule you may argue that Jesus lay 3 Years or 3 Ages dead for Day figuratively signifies a Year or an Age. A Hellhinge A most miserable mistake This taking Scriptures Figuratively which should be taken Literally is the Hinge on which them poor deceived people called Quakers turn all into confusion and overturn all the Fundamental truths of the Gospel viz The birth life death burial resurrection ascension intercession second coming of Christ the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment yea Heaven and Hell and all Figurative and Within †O! Great Gulf Monstrum Horrendum This is a piece of the Pride of that Humble people who count the Common literal sense of Texts too Low for them Fath. How may we know when a Scripture is to be taken in a Figurative Sense Min. When a Literal sense is absurd or contrary to the Analogie of Faith or good morality of Life e g To eat the flesh of Jesus to drink his blood to cut off a right hand to pluck out a right eye To take such