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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67379	A defense of the Christian Sabbath in answer to a treatise of Mr. Tho. Bampfield pleading for Saturday-sabbath / by John Wallis.	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing W569; ESTC R2541	83,482	87

had not thought it to be so meant by his Master St. Iohn 〈…〉 manner it was observed in their solemn religious assemblies Iustin Martyr tells us within ●0 years after that and that it was otherwise called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sunday And that Dominica or Dies Dominicus hath been so used not onely by the Ancient Christian Writers Ignatius Clemens Irenaeus Origen Tertullian c. but by the Councils and Church History all along hath been so often shewed by divers and is to be seen by any who please to consult them as is not to be doubted by any unless we would under the notion of Tradition deny all History which in a plain matter of Fact were very unreasonable Nor can he shew that the name of the Lords day ever was however it might have been as he thinks attributed to the Iewish Sabbath And therefore to tell us that this name is stollen from the Iewish Sabbath to be applied to ours is such a Fansy as may be laughed at but doth not deserve a serious Answer Sure we are that the Christian Sabbath hath been long in possession of that Name but that ever the Iewish Sabbath was so there is no evidence Therefore the Theft must be on his side who steals it from us to give it to the Jewish Sabbath But he tells us that our Saviour himself observed the Jewish Sabbath And I suppose he did so And that he was Circumcised also and did observe the Ceremonial Law But it was before his Death and Resurrection I do not find that he observed it afterward But he says after Christs Death when he had said It is finished he kept the Sabbath in the Grave Be it so if that were keeping a Sabbath And the good Women rested on that day according to the Commandment And why not Since Christ was not yet risen nor was the day yet changed or pretended so to be This therefore is but Whimsey and nothing to the purpose We all agree that till the Resurrection of Christ the Jews observed the Jewish Sabbath on what they called the Seventh-day of their Week But whether or no it were a Seventh from the Creation we cannot tell 'T is more to the purpose what he tells us that Paul and other Christians did after Christs Resurrection seem to observe the Jewish Sabbath Going to the Temple and to the Synagogues on the Sabbath-day meaning thereby the Iewish Sabbath And it is true They did so go But I answer 1. So they did on other days as well as on the Sabbath and in other places as well as in the Synagogue and the Temple Act 5. 42. Dayly in the Temple and in every house or from house to house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 they ceased not to preach Iesus Christ. And Act. 2. 46. they continued dayly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with one accord in the Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and breaking bread at home or from house to house As to such duties of Worship as were common to them with the Jews they took the opportunity of joining therein with them whether on their Sabbath or on any other day but as to what was peculiarly Christian this they performed in separate meetings from them breaking their Bread at home 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from house to house The Sacrament of the Lords Supper being peculiarly a Christian service they did celebrate in their houses or separate places of meeting And so we find it at Troas and on the first day of the week Act. 20. 7. on the first day of the week when the Disciples were met to break bread Paul preached c. Their meeting for this Christian service was in a separate place and on another day from that of the Iewish service And Paul at Athens Act. 17. 17. he disputed in the Synagogue with the Jews and with the devout persons and in the Market Dayly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He took the opportunity of publick meetings whether in the Synagogues or elsewhere whether on the Sabbath or any other day to preach Christ to them whether Jews or Greeks Which doth not prove that they did then take the seventh day to be the Christian Sabbath any more than our going to Hear or Preach a Week-day Lecture suppose on Thursday would prove that we take Thursday to be our Sabbath or Paul's Preaching on Mars-hill or in the Market-place would prove that he took these places to be the Temple or Synagogue He knew these to be Times and Places of concourse and therefore took the opportunity of Preaching Then and There and would so have done at any other time and place as there was occasion In season or out of season as he adviseth Timothy 2 Tim. 4. 2. He doth not deny p. 122. but that Paul did keep the Feast of the Pass-over after the Resurrection of Christ Because of what we have Act. 18. 21. He bids them farewel at Ephesus saying I must by all means keep this Feast that cometh at Jerusalem but I will return again unto you if God will Which Feast he thinks to be that of the Pass-over though it be not named But whether that or whatever Feast of the Jews it be it is all one as to our business How great a proof would this have been for the Seventh-day-Sabbath if it had been said I must by all means keep the Sabbath 'T is said indeed he did on the Sabbath-day go into the Synagogue but so he did on other days but not that he kept the Sabbath-day much less that he must by all means Keep it Or that he must by all means take a journey from Ephesus to Ierusalem rather than not keep it though he were to return thither again Yet this Author doth not for all this think the Law for the Iewish Pass-over to be then in force But onely that Paul took occasion to be there at that publick great concourse of People to preach Christ to the multitude For that the Apostles were under no obligation to keep that feast of the Pass-over after the death of Christ is to him he says past doubt And why may not we say the same of his going into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day rather than miss such an oportunity of a publick concourse which was a less journey than from Ephesus to Ierusalem though under no obligation to keep the Iewish Sabbath more than to keep the Iews Pass-over 2. But I answer further The Jews who were not Christians did yet continue to observe the Jewish Sabbath as a matter of duty And there was no reason why they should not For while they did not acknowledge our Christ to be the Messiah nor the Mosaick Law to be at an end but Circumcision and the Jewish Oeconomy yet in force there was no reason why they should not think themselves obliged to the Jewish Sabbath And many of the Christian Jews who were not yet satisfied of the Abolition of the Mosaick Law did comply with them therein

them the Lords Supper and afterward the same day to those assembled at Ierusalem with other Sabbatical works and solemnly Blessing that Convention And if our Author by blessing the Seventh day Gen. 2. would have us understand an Institution or Command to observe it We have as much here Christ joined in this Assembly and Blessed it For so much is intimated in that his solemn Benediction a first and second time Ioh. 20. 19 21. Peace be unto you and he Breathed on them saying Receive ye the Holy Ghost He did so a second time on the same day the next Week he Assembled with them in Religious Services and Blessed them He did according to his Promise made on that First day of his Resurrection send on them that miraculous Effusion of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost which being the Fiftieth day from his Resurrection was therefore the first day of the week as was that of the Resurrection On which day of Pentecost we find them also otherwise exercised in Religious Employments and attested further by a miraculous conversion of three thousand souls We find St. Paul at Troas Act. 20. Preaching to the Disciples assembled as it seems their manner was on the first day of the week to break bread that is to celebrate the Lords Supper That such Assemblies were wont to be at Corinth on the first day of the Week the Apostle presumes or takes for granted and gives direction for a Collection to be then made 1 Cor. 16. And he had so done before as he there signifies to the Churches of Galatia presuming or taking for granted that they also did so use to meet on the first day of the Week And we have no reason to doubt but that such Meetings were wont to be in other Churches We cannot doubt but that other of the Apostles did disperse themselves in other parts of the World though we have not a like account of their Travels as we have of Paul's recorded by St. Luke But we are to presume though it be not recorded that their Doctrine and Practise was consonant to his and that accordingly they had such weekly meetings on the Lords Day as these Churches had of whom we have the History Hence that day had the name given of the Lords day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we find it called Rev. 1. 10. as that of the Sacrament is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Supper 1 Cor. 11. 20. which name it retaineth to this day and for such purpose And all this I think is sufficient for us to continue our Observation of the same day I am sure 't is much more than he can shew for his seventh-day Sabbath for more than two thousand five hundred years from the first Creation It is not necessary that we have express words of Command Recorded We have no Record in Scripture of such express words of Command for the Seventh-day Sabbath till after Israels coming out of Egypt nor for the Worshiping of God by Sacrifice nor for other things which yet were Duties before any Record of such express words of Command It is enough if we can otherwise Collect it to be Gods Will according to the best light we have If this Gentleman think himself obliged to keep the Jewish Sabbath also this doth not hurt us This I think was the case of the Christian Iews at first I do not much question but that they did as other Christians observe the Lords Day The doubt was whether they were not to observe also the Jewish Sabbath as before they did And these Believers who were yet zealous of the Law and thought themselves obliged together with Christianity to observe the Law of Moses did no doubt think themselves equally obliged to the Iewish Sabbath Those who thought themselves obliged to be Baptized and to be Circumcised also thought themselves in like manner obliged to observe the Lords day and also the Iewish Sabbath And till they should be better satified the Apostles permit the Iews so to do If this do not satisfy him I have yet two Expedients for him 1. Let him begin his Week on Monday and then Sunday will be the Seventh day Whether the Seventh in course from the Creation I cannot tell nor can any Man living inform me But it will at least be the Seventh day of His Week 2. If he be not satisfied with this My next Expedient is thus Let him take a Voyage round the World as Sir Francis Drake did Going out of the Atlantick Ocean West-ward by the Streights of Magellan to the East-Indies and then from the East returning by the Cape of Good Hope the usual way homeward And take with him as many as please of those who are of his mind And let them keep their Saturday-Sabbath all the way When they come home to England they will find their Saturday to fall upon our Sunday and they may thenceforth continue to observe their Saturday-Sabbath on the same day with us Which is the second Expedient If you ask How this can be I will make it very plain that so it will be and so it must be For Supposing the Earth to be Round and the Sun moving from East to West you must allow that it comes sooner to the Eastern parts than to the Western It will sooner be Noon in Holland than in England and sooner here than in Ireland If you ask How much sooner We say that Fifteen Degrees of Longitude West-ward makes it an Hour later As if he Embark about Dover Yarmouth or other Port on the East-side of England and Sail as far West-ward as the West of Ireland or a little farther it will be an Hour later and not be Noon there till it be One a Clock at the place where he Embarked And so in proportion an Hour for every Fifteen degrees And accordingly when he hath gone round the whole Circle of Three hundred and Sixty Degrees that is Four and twenty times Fifteen it will be later by Four and twenty hours That is it will be but Saturday-noon with him when it is Sundaynoon with those who staid here That is His Saturday will be Our Sunday And thenceforth his Saturday-Sabbath will be the same day with our Sunday-Sabbath ever after And this I think should fully satisfy him For he tells us p. 39. The variety of the time of the Sun-rising or setting in different Climates doth no way disturb for that a day longer or shorter is still a day and but a day Most certain it is he who shall have thus Sailed round the World will have had one day fewer than those who staid here So it was with Sir Francis Drake and his Company And so it hath been with all who have taken such a Voyage as many have done for it is not a rare case and so will be to any who shall so do What he would resolve upon this case or what he thinks Sir Francis Drake was to do when this happened I cannot