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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

not the way of the Lord and the judgement of their God they have rejected the knowledge of God and are therefore left to the darkness of gross Ignorance A second sort are those upon whose Consciences the light hath shined but have not loved truth as truth these have knowledge and will be searching and proving excellent things and having a form of knowledge may be guids to the blind and hold forth light to those who are in darkness Rom. 2.18 19 20. and these love to live under an able Ministry and will uphold Schools of Leaaning and be in the use of all means of knowledge but yet never did receive the love of the truth 2 Thes 2.10 the truth it self and the true knowledge of it was never the ultimate and principal object of their love but only a mediate object that by means of their light and knowledge they set up advance and serve some Idol in their hearts but do not like to retian to God in knowledge as its the knowledge of God Rom. 1.28 2. The punishment upon these is therefore they are left to abuse their light and knowledge to their destruction either to pride and vain glory their knowledge hath puffed them up 1 Cor. 8.1 or they are by means of their light become the more subtile to devise coverts for sin and the more slye in opposing secretly the life and power of Godliness the more crafty to deceive others and to cheat their own Souls the more wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge and are blinded at last with self conceitedness and say the Law of the Lord is with them but they have rejected the Word of the Lord and what wisdome is in them Jer. 8.8 9. 1. Some truths of greatest concernment to them they shall not see but groap for light at noon day as if it were night Deut. 28.29 Isai 59.10 2. Those Truths which they do see yet they shall be left to misapply pervert and wrest to their destruction Act. 13.10 11. 2 Pet. 3.16 3. Those Truths which they do apply rightly yet their hearts shall not be affected with them and not be reformed by them but to them it shall be as if they knew nothing Isai 6.8 9. these have often perverted their understanding and abused their knowledge and their understanding and knowledge shall pervert and mislead them Isai 47.10 The second follows concerning Prophaneness the Question is How it comes to pass that some under the means of Grace are givtn up to Prophaneness The Answer is Because some under the means of Grace have rejected saving Grace in the Gospel and therefore the Lord withdraws common restraining Grace from them and they become prophane 1. Some are prophane although they live under the means of Grace these will not shew a civil respect to Religion and that good manners which civility will teach their words are scornful and mocking abusing the Holy Scriptures in a jesting and deriding manner like those Scoffers who said where is the promise of his coming 2 Pet. 3.3 4. these are a pest and a most dangerous infection in societies by their evil communication do corrupt good manners 1 Cor. 15.33 their Countenance Gestures and Lives do declare them to be like a mocking Ishmael or prophane Esau Heb. 12.15 16. look diligently lest any man fail of the Grace of God lest there be any Fornicator or Prophane Person as Esau 2. These have rejected saving Grace in the Gospel the God of all Grace by the means of his Grace the Ordinances and by the gracious Examples of the godly seconded by some afflicting providences and sometimes with convictions and terrors of Conscience hath been striving with these but they would not hearken to his voice and would have none of him and his saving Grace and therefore are given up to their hearts lusts Psal 81.11 12. Wo unto thee wilt thou not be clean when will it once be Jer. 13.27 3. Hence the Lord hath withdrawn restraining Grace that those who reject saving Grace in the Gospel and will not live as becometh godly men the Lord withdraws common restraining Grace from them that they shall not live as becometh men this is the reason why some are so lewdly filthy that in their filthiness is lewdness because they would not be purged and therefore the Lord saith they shall not be purged but the Lords fury shall rest upon them Ezek. 24.13 this is the reason why some under the means of Grace are more prophane than some others who enjoy no such means to reform them and that they are become more prophane then before they enjoyed the means of Grace because they have provoked the Lord by their resistings of the strivings of the Spirit of Grace to give them up to most horrid and hellish prophanenss that as Israel's abominations shall exceed the filth of Samaria and Sodom Ezek. 16.51 and of this bitter fruit of Apostasie that Man of God of most blessed memory Mr Thomas Hooker was wont frequently to warn New-England saying do you wonder that some in New-England are left to such abominations I tell you that some in New-England will be given up to greater prophaneness His Sermons upon Psal 81.11 12 and Rom. 1.28 do at large declare this The third bitter fruit concerning gross neglects of relative Duties And the Question is Why are some under the means of Grace left to those palpable neglects of relative Duties in Family Church and Common-Wealth The Answer Because some under the means of Grace living in neglect of Duties towards God and of duties towards others in the Lord its just with the Lord to leave them to gross neglects of relative duties one towards another 1. There are some who though they enjoy the means of Grace yet they live in the neglect of duties in Relation to the God of Grace he hath profered a holy Marriage Covenant to them and himself as the only suitable March and Husband for the immortal Soul Isai 54.5 but they have loved Strangers and after them they will go Jer. 2.25 neither will they honour him as a Father nor fear him as their Master but despise his Name Mal. 1.6 if they call him their God yet they cast off the thing that is good Hos 8.2.5 2. Hence it follows these never did perform duties in relation to others in the Lord for this is the Religious and true Gospel band in all Relations Husbands love your Wives as Christ loved his Church Eph. 5.25 Wives submit your selves to your Husbands as is fit in the Lord Col. 3.18 Children obey your Parents in the Lord Ephes 6.1 Servants obey your Masters in singleness of heart fearing the Lord Col. 3.22 But those who do not conscientiously attend duties in Relation to the Lord do feel no such Religious band upon their hearts and Consciences in relation to others but act only as moved by some natural or moral Principles which are too weak to resist the violence of temptations

them and if he should say that their Example ought not to be followed by Christians this would be so un-Gospel-like and un-Christian like and therefore Iohn R. concludes it is best for him to say he cannot tell Qu. 9. If the old Jewish Covenant be expired and sundry Ordinances about time and place c. altred why not the time of the old Sabbath alterable by the Lord of the Sabbath upon a Gospel account as a memorial of Redemption Ans Iohn R. his Answer is I know not what thou dost mean by old Jewish Covenant I know no Covenant in Scripture by that name if thou dost mean the Covenant which the two Tables of Stone the Tables of the Covenant which did contain the ten Commandments which Israel did enter into a Covenant with God by engaging to perform the same which Covenant they brake and perished in the Wilderness for the same God did ordain by the hand of Moses Ceremonies as a figure of the Mediatorship of Jesus Christ at this time at Mount Sinai when Israel entred into the Covenant of works to shew that there was mercy to be obtained by Jesus Christ though the first Covenant was broken by them that is to say upon Repentance and Faith Now though the first Covenant which was dedicated with the blood of Bulls and Goats and accompanied with many Rites and Ceremonies which were figures of the Mediatorship of Jesus Christ which Rites and Ceremonies are done away but none of them placed in the two Tables for that Law is spiritual and it is as easie by Gods Decree for Heaven and Earth to pass as for a tittle of it to fail Now the other Law contained in the former Covenant called the Hand-writing of Ordinances which was nailed to the Cross of Christ which did contain meats and drinks New Moons and Sabbaths which Sabbaths was besides the Sabbaths of the Lord but Gods seventh day-Sabbaths were commanded by the mouth of the Lord with an audible voice written with the finger of God in Stone death inflicted upon the breaker of it Exod. 31.12 Reply The Reply is this John Rogers his Answer is full of confusion jombling the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace together 1. First The Covenant of Works was made with Adam 2. Secondly The Covenant of Grace may be considered either as Ceremonially and Legally Administred and this John R. calls the Covenant of Works or as it is attended with Gospel Administrations and there the Question ariseth Whether another day might not be more suitable upon a Gospel account than the seventh day Sabbath and what reason doth Iohn R. give to the contrary I confess I begin to grow weary of forming his Arguments for him because I find it more difficult to find out his reason and to form it for him than to answer it and could even determine for the future that if he cannot or will not form his Arguments himself I shall leave them as I find them covered with darkness and void of form but if there be any face of reason in this his Answer at length it is That the seventh day being commanded in the Decalogue is therefore unalterable but we have proved that Christ hath altered it and by the Holy Ghost guided his Apostles to settle the first Day of the Week the Lords Day and our Christian Sabbath and because I shall meet with this Objection more fully in the next Answer I proceed to that Qu. 10. Is there not room left in the Words of the fourth Command for the seventh Day to be altered and our Lords day to be sanctified by the Lord of the Sabbath See the Preface of the Commannment Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy and the Conclusion only saith the Lord blessed the Sabbath and when the seventh day is named it saith only is and not shall be for ever so observed Ans John R. his Answer is No there is no room for the seventh day is the very day commanded and Jesus Christ hath left it upon Record that it is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass than one tittle of the Law to fail and hath forbid his Disciples for entertaining such a thought in these words saying think not I am come for to destroy the Law and again saith he For verily I say unto you till Heaven and Earth pass one jott or tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law who dare therefore attempt such a thing against Gods Law given in such a terrible manner being spoken by his own mouth the Earth trembling at his Word and so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake and not only so but the Son of God testifying that it shall abide as long as Heaven and Earth as is already specified threatning also any that attempt such a wicked act saying Whosoever therefore breaks the least of these Commandments and shall teach Men so c. therefore who dare attempt such a presumptuous act against Gods Law and Christs confirmation of the same Law and what is that to purpose in the Preface and Conclusion seeing the day commanded is the seventh day and no other so that Sabbath is proper only to the seventh day and no other but as to the conclusion of the commandment some Translate it therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and ballowed it which is most agreeable it being taken from Gods seventh day rest Gen. 2.3 See Beza's Translation Exod. 31.12 and death not infflicted upon any ceremonial Law but Excommunication but death upon the prophaning of the seventh day Sabbath the Reply is Reply Iohn R. in this Answer is fled to his seeming Fort and he knows if he be driven out from this that neither he nor any for the seventh dayes Sabbath have any Castle nor Covering for their conceited confidence but the scope of the Question if rightly stated and plainly expressed is That a Sabbath as a Sabbath is first and last in the Precept and shall not be changed but the particular day is secondarily specified and is mutable as other positive Laws are the Lord having reserved a liberty to himself to change them according to his Royal pleasure and who shall say he hath done iniquity And as for Iohn R. his Argument so far as it hath any colour of reason in it is That seeing Christ came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it and that in every jot and tittle of it and therefore not to change the seventh dayes Sabbath into the first day of the Week and to this we shall positively and plainly Reply 1. First There is that which may be called an actual fulfilling in all and every particular point and duty required in the Decalogue but Christ did never actually fulfil the particular Duties of Parents to Children of a Husband to a Wise and many other particular points and duties contained in the Decalogue and yet his fulfilling all and every one of those Duties which had any suitableness