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A41671 The sabbaths sanctification ... by W.G. Gouge, William, 1578-1653. 1641 (1641) Wing G1395; ESTC R31086 24,639 54

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set downe in the holy Scriptures either by expresse precept or by approved practice This later is it which is most apparent in Scripture For it is noted that Christs Disciples were assembled together the first day of the weeke which is our Lords day and so againe eight daies after John 20. 19 6. which * inclusively was the first day of the next weeke It was also the first day of the weeke when after Christs Ascention they were with one accord in one place Acts 2. 1. and the Holy Ghost descended upon them in cloven tongues Many yeares after that it is noted of Christians that on the first day of the weeke they came together to breake bread meaning Sacramentall bread and that Paul tooke that occasion to preach unto them Acts 20. 7. The manner of setting downe their assembling together implieth their custome therein which is yet more manifest 1. Cor. 16. 2. where the Apostle adviseth them to take that opportunity of their assembling together for laying up a stock to relieve such as were in distresse It is not set downe as an act of one time once onely to be observed but as a weekely act to be observed every first day of the weeke And why that day Surely because of their great assembly whereby they might whet on one another and their contribution be the more liberall yea also because then was the time of observing Gods Ordinances whereby their soules must needs be incited to more bountifullnesse and cheerefullnesse therein The title of the Lords day Rev. 1. 10. can be applied to no other day so well as to this For by LORD without all question is ment the Lord Christ 1. Cor. 8. 6. It is an usuall title given to him in the New Testament Now what day can so fitly be applied to Christ to have a denomination from him and to be dedicated to the honour of his name as the day of his Resurrection whereon the Church so accustomed to meet together as we heard before On this ground the first day of the weeke is stiled the Lords day to this very day Now this day being by the Church dedicated to the honour of the Lord Christ John gave himselfe to holy devotion and the Spirit took that opportunity on that holy day to shew him the divine revelations mentioned in that book 45 Q. What other ground is there for our Lords day A. The constant custome of Christs Church From the Apostles time hitherto hath the Church celebrated as holy the Lords day and that under this title The Lords day Now the constant custome of the Church is not to be sleighted This Apostolicall phrase 1. Cor. 11. 16. If any man seeme to be contentious we have no such custome neither the Churches of God sheweth that the custome of the Church is a matter to be regarded 46 Q. What third ground is there A. Christs Resurrection which made all things new 2. Cor. 5. 17. This as it gives a ground for celebrating the day so it shewes the reason of altering it Christs resurrection gave evidence of his full conquest over death the punishment of sinne and over him that had the power of death the Divell yea it gave evidence of a full satisfaction to the justice of God and of a cleare pacification of the wrath of God In these respects Christ is said to be raised againe for our iustification Rom. 4. 25. For Gods justice being satisfied and wrath pacified death and Divell being over-come what can hinder our full redemption and justification This then is a worke that farre surpasseth the Creation and much more deserveth a weekely memoriall Yea this greater work hath swallowed up the former as the Temple did the Tabernacle 1. King 8. 4. And we that live after Christs Resurrection are as much bound to the celebration of the first of the weeke as they that lived before to the last 47 Q. What fourth ground is there A. The substance of the Law which requireth a seventh day The words of the Law are these The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord I denie not but that the Law hath a speciall relation to the first seventh day but so as it was a memoriall of that great worke of Creation When that was swallowed up with a greater then the substance of the Law is to be observed in a sevenths day memoriall of that greater worke And it is observable that the seventh which we celebrate is so ordered as in the change no weeke had two Sabbaths nor any weeke as part of a weeke was without a Sabbath Their Sabbath concluded their last weeke and our Sabbath began our first weeke The change could not have beene so fit to any other day 48 Q. When begins the Lords day A. In the morning Act. 20. 7. When Paul came to the Church at Troas he had a mind to spend a Lords day with them though he was in great haste to depart so soone as he could He came therefore to their assembly at the time that they came together according to their custome but he kept them till the end of that day for he would not travell on the Lords day and having dismissed the assembly he departed Now it is said that he continued his speech till midnight Acts 20. 7 even till breake of day ver. 11. and then departed which departure of his is said to be on the morrow By this punctuall expression of the time it appeares that the first day of the weeke the Lords day ended at midnight and that then the morrow beganne Now to make a naturall day which consisteth of twenty foure houres it must begin and end at the same time for the end of one day is the beginning of another There is not a minute betwixt them As therfore the Lords day ended at midnight so it must begin at midnight when we count the morning to begin Which is yet more evident by this phrase Mat. 28. 1. In the end of the Sabbath namely of the weeke before which was the former Sabbath as it began to dawne namely on the next day which was the Lords day or as Joh. 20. 1. when it was yet darke there came divers to annoint the body of Jesus but they found him not in the grave he was risen before so as Christ rose before the Sunne 49 Q. What reasons may be given of the Lords daies beginning in the morning A. Other daies then begin That they doe so with us is evident by the account of our houres For midnight ended we begin with one a clock then the first houre of the day beginneth And it appeares to be so among the Jewes for when Aaron proclaimed Exod. 32. 5 6. To morrow shall be a feast to the Lord They rose up early on the morrow I denie not but that sundry of the Jewish feasts began in the evening as the Passeover Exod. 12. 6. But it cannot be proved that their weekly Sabbaths so began There were speciall reasons for