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

upon words seeing it is apparent from the 4th Verse of this 23d of Levit. that by Feasts are not meant times of Belly-cheer but Holy Convocations wherein men ceased from their ordinary Labour and were employed in Religious Duties whether they made Mirth or Afflicted their Souls In the third place to return to the fore-cited Text Col. 2.16 17. Where the Apostle super-addeth which are a shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ This hath relation to rhe five things mentioned in the 16th Verse at least to that which is immediately fore-going the Sabbath So that the Sabbath distinguished from Feasts and New Moons and so according to the perpetual usage of the Scriptures signifying no other than the Seventh-day-Sabbath is by the Apostle Paul called a shadow the Body whereof is exhibited to us in Christ namely in the Everlasting Sabbath of the Kingdom of Heaven Wherefore to bring us back to shadows after that the Body is come is not only Preposterous but tendeth to the enslaving us under the Rudiments of the World and instead of Sons to make us Servants Pag. 57. For as much as the Adversary not only here but elsewhere in his Book saith that Christ delivered the Law to Israel at Mount Sinai I would fain hear from him why the Scriptures Heb. 8.6 and 12.24 calleth Jesus the Mediator of a New and better Covenant For certainly this implyeth that some other Person was the Mediator of the Old and wose Covenant Again why doth the Apostle John prefer Christ before Moses in this regard namely that whereas the Law was given by Moses Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ Chap. 1.17 Undoubtedly this strongly Argueth that the Law was not given by Christ wherefore you deal ridiculously in desiring me to take heed of perswading others to transgress any one word that Christ immediately Commanded at Mount Sinai To what purpose do you bestow such Elegies upon the Law of God Pag. 61. Is it not to insinuate into the Minds of the unwary Readers that I am a Contemner yea an Opposet thereof Whereas I think very Honourably of it as being Holy Just and Good Only I believe what you your self dare not disavow that all the Ceremonial and Shadowy things thereof are now done away in Christ And that the Sabbath is one of those Ceremonial and Shadowy things I have undenyably evinced as from other passages of the Scripture so especially from that Text of Paul Col. 2.16 17. which plainly signifieth that as the difference of Meats and Drinks and the Celebration of Feasts and New Moons so also the keeping of the Sabbath was a shadow of things to come the Body whereof is now held forth unto us in Christ Pag. 68. As for that passage Mat. 24.21 where our Saviour Christ bids his Disciples pray that their flight might not be on the Sabbath day the words plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee on that day and consequently that the Law concerning the Sabbath would cease whereby it was enjoyned that no man should remove out of his place on the seventh day Exod. 16.29 The words I say plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee upon that day otherways why should they pray that their flight might not be then Nevertheless it would not be expedient in that the unbelieving Jews thinking the Sabbath still to remain would be ready to offer Violence to such as should attempt to fly on that day Yea perhaps the believing Jews themselves not understanding their own Liberty in Christ but thinking the Sabbath still in force would be exceedingly grieved if they should be reduced to a Necessity either of Perishing or of Flying on the Sabbath day Of which thing I will speak more anon If you Reply that Christ calleth it the Sabbath in relation to the time that should be long after his death whereas I believe that by his death the difference of times in point of Holiness and consequently the Observation of the Sabbath was abolished according to the Doctrine of Paul Col. 2.14 I Answer that the Scripture calls the times of the Jewish Feasts after the death of Christ by the same names they had formerly See Acts 12.3 and Chap. 20.16 when notwithstanding you your self will not deny that the Obligation to observe those Feasts had then ceased Pag. 69. What needed the mention of the first day of the Week commonly called Sunday when I never affirmed that Christ hath left us any Precept for the Observation of the same Howbeit we have the Practice of all believing Gentiles down from the Apostles unto our time who have unanimously and constantly observed the same as being that day which is in Rev. 1. called the Lords day which perpetual Custom of Christians is sufficient to Warrant our keeping of the Lords day Whereas no such thing can be alledged to justifie the observing of the Seventh-day-Sabbath And therefore when you say that Christ hath established in his House all the Moral Duties of Moses House it is nothing to the purpose unless you first prove that the keeping of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty the contrary whereof my comparison taken out of the Scripture doth evince For Christ being as Faithful in the House of God as Moses If it had been his Will that his Disciples should have observed the Seventh-day-Sabbath he would have expresly enjoyned it and not have left them to gather it by I know not what uncertain Consequences such as you and others of your Opinion make use of For Moses openly and frequently Commanded to the Israelites that they should keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath So that your proceeding herein is just like the dealing of the Papist about the Popes pretended Supremacy For when it is Questioned whether he be the Judge of all emergent Controvercys amongst Christians the Papist having no such Precept from Christ in the Scripture where Christ Ordaineth the Pope or Bishop of Rome to such Judicature bring instead thereof certain far-fetch'd probabilities and consequences to prove it In like manner you when you are urged by me and other Christians to shew where Christ who was as faithful in the House of God as Moses hath Commanded his followers to keep the Sabbath alledge Ordinances for other things and similitudes and strains of your own Poetry and other like impertinences without producing so much as one undoubted Precept for the same But whereas you say that Christ hath confirmed all the Moral Precepts of Moses Who denies it You should have done well not to have begged the thing in Question but to have proved that the Celebration of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty But this you have not yet been nor ever shall be able to perform Pag. 79. That Paul excluded the Law touching the Seventh-day-Sabbath out of the Counsel of God towards believing Gentiles is evident both from his perpetual silence in his Writings touching such matters the contrary whereof you being unable to prove do here as well as

Hosea is meant of the Ceremonial Sacrifice of the Law amongst which the Sacrifice of Christ ought not to be reckoned for after God had said I desired Mercy and not Sacrifice he presently addeth and the knowledge of God more than Burnt Offerings By which it appeareth that by Sacrifice he meaneth such Sacrifice as was joyned with Burnt Offerings according to the prescript of the Law to which Jer. Chap. 7.21 alluding saith Put your Burnt Offerings to your Sacrifices and eat Flesh I should take little Comfort in discovering these shameful mistakes of yours were it not that I saw you went about to Rob us of our Christian Liberty and to bring us into Bondage unto the weak and Beggarly Rudiments of the World Fourthly our Saviour Warrants the violation of the Sabbath in his Disciples because the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath and therefore ought to yield to the Necessities of man Which thing also sheweth that the Sabbath is Ceremonial For as for Moral Duties the Scripture testifieth that man was made for them Thus Acts 17.26 27. Paul saith that God made mankind to seek the Lord which all will confess to be a Moral Duty And Ephes 2.10 We are his making so I am told the Greek word signifieth Created in Christ Jesus unto good Works which God hath before prepared that we should walk in them But the good Works enjoyned in the Gospel are by all confessed to be Moral and not Ceremonial Performances Fifthly It is said that for as much as the Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath therefore the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath Which words imply that the Son of Man could in case of Mans Necessity dispence with the Law of the Sabbath other ways how was he Lord of it For doth not his being Lord of it signifie that he was above it and had Power over it But no where is it said or intimated in the Scripture that the Son of Man yea any other is Lord of Moral Duties they being in their own Nature indispensable in that they agree to Man as he is a Rational and Sociable Creature and so bound to Act Rationably and sociably Neither did you ever Read that such Duties have in Scripture been by Christ dispensed with Wherefore those Expressions of yours which you so often inculcate in your Book That the Sabbath is made for Man and that Christ is Lord of the Sabbath do being rightly understood subvert your Opinion intimating that the Sabbath is Ceremonial and may Lawfully upon an emergent Necessity of Man be dispensed with That the Walls of Jericho were surrounded for seven days together and consequently on the Sabbath is evident But that the seventh day of the surrounding was the Sabbath appeareth not out of the Text. For to evince that you must shew that they began to surround the City on the first day of the Week whereas no such thing is so much as hinted in the Sacred Text. Wherefore that which you infer from thence touching the extraordinary Dignity that was put upon the Sabbath in that the City was taken Miraculously upon that day is altogether groundless Howbeit this is certain from the story as I before hinted that the Sabbath was broken in as much as to Compass a City in a Hostile manner on that day is to Profane it by Working upon it contrary to the Fourth Commandment So that this plainly sheweth the Observation of the Sabbath to be no Moral Duty as being dispensed with What you farther say of Jericho's being a Type of Babylon and of the man of sin's changing the Times are more groundless surmises than what you before spake concerning the taking of Jericho on the Sabbath day as would easily appear if you attempted to confirm those Notions of yours by the Scripture rightly and soundly Interpreted Pag. 20. Here you confess as much as I desire namely That the Institution of the Sabbath cometh only from the power and authority of God For this unanswerably proves it to be Ceremonial the difference between a Moral and Ceremonial Law lying in this that the one is Naturally written in the Heart of Man and so ought to be Observed though God had not Commanded it whence the Heathens to whom God had not made known himself nor given any Commandments and Judgments are nevertheless grievously Reprehended by the Prophets for not Observing Moral Duties See pag. 7. fore-going Whereas Ceremonial Laws depend meerly upon the Will and Authority of God Commanding them Where I admire that you should Reprove me for suggesting That the Sabbath receives Being and takes Rise from a Reason without us For is not the Power Will and Authority of God upon which only you your self ground the Observation of the Sabbath something without us Pag. 21. How irrational therefore are your words where contradicting your self you say 'T is unseemly to assert that the Ceremonial Laws did ever rise from any Reason without us for even their spring-head was Originally from the Pleasure and Providence of God For is not the Pleasure of God a Reason without us And are not such Laws as flow from the Pleasure of the Law-giver meer Placits and so Positive and Ceremonial things For instance the sacrificing of Beasts was it not a thing that sprang from the Pleasure of God And is it not therefore Ceremonial there being no other Obligation upon Men to perform it but the Command of God so that the injunction of God about that matter now ceasing we are no longer bound thereunto 'T is true that Moral Precepts are sometimes in the Law inforced by reason from without as Obedience to God from deliverance out of Egypt but then these Precepts do not Originally spring from such Reasons but from the Law of Nature to which those other Considerations are added and consequently Men have a new Obligation to such Duties which they were before bound by Nature to perform Pag. 24. To prove that the sabbath is not Moral I alledged that it is called a Sign and a Covenent The Adversary wanting a solid Answer hereunto and intending here as he doth pag. 16. to make a Flourish saith that I may as well prove our Saviour himself to be a Ceremony for as much as the same Titles are given to him though the Passages that he citeth reach not home to his purpose as will easily appear to him that shall confer them with those concerning the Sabbath Yet I willing joyn Issue with him and affirm that in as much as Christ is called a Sign and a Covenant it doth unavoidably follow that the Mystery of Christ is such a thing as dependeth not on the Law and light of Nature but only on the good pleasure of God as Christ himself intimateth John 6.40 This is the will of him that sent me that whosoever beholdeth the Son and believed on him should have Eternal Life And Paul Eph. 1.5 saith plainly Having predetinated us unto the