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A30749 A reply to Doctor Wallis, his discourse concerning the Christian Sabbath by Tho. Bampfield. Bampfield, Thomas, 1623?-1693. 1693 (1693) Wing B630; ESTC R12510 69,562 84

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Days began at or about Sun-set and supposing the Darkness and light were the Evening and Morning of the three first Days Gen. 1. 5 8 13. sure the Days then did not begin at mid-night when Darkness began the Day and Darkness and Light made up the First day and so the Second day and so the Third day which Word I think may settle that Point that the Days did not begin at mid-night Suppose also the Sun Created as it was the Fourth day and went round the Earth every day after it was created as it did and does to this Day But on what part of the Fourth day the Sun was created is not certainly revealed that I know The Fowls and the Fishes were created upon the fifth day And Adam was created on the Sixth day and being created in the image of God was made capable of knowing and contemplating the Perfections of him that created him and of observing and keeping Holy the Seventh day which presently after his Creation was Consecrated or made Holy and Blessed to let him into that Spiritual and Heavenly Life and Rest which his State of Innoceney made easie and pleasant to him And in Reply to one of the Doctor 's Expedients we may also suppose the Sun when set in the Firmament Gen. 1. 17. travelled Westward round the Earth daily as it still doth Now when the Sun did set the Fourth day then the Fifth day began at Paradice and when the Sun did set there next the Sixth day began there and when the Sun did next set there the Seventh day began there and that first Seventh day was probably as long as the other Days of the Week were and are And as the Posterity of Adam and so of Noah travelled East West North or South by degrees the Earth was overspread Gen. 9. 19. and into whatever Country they came as the Sun did set so every Day of the Week began and so on to this day I Write as plain as I can So as the weekly Seventh day did begin as the Sun did set in every place round the Earth from Paradice Westward till the Sun came about in 24 hours to Paradice again And for an instance and for certainties sake I will begin with the Eleventh of March the vernal Aequinox 1692 3 which falls out to be the Seventh day of the Week And the Seventh day at the Creation did begin as the three First days and the other Week-days did that is in the Evening as Mr. Chafie and many other Learned Men do agree at or about Sun set as I think is before shewn and lasted 24 Hours from Evening to Evening according to Gen. 1 and Gen. 2. And the Sabbath day then was as it still is proportionably as long as the other Six Days of the Week allowed for Work or rather wherein we are commanded to work every of which six Days hath a Night or Darkness as well as Day Light in which Night or Darkness if need be Men may as lawfully work as in the Day Light tho generally the Day is made for Work and the Night for Rest And so the Sabbath day hath an Evening and a Morning that is a Night and Day of Holy Rest in which Night we may take Rest as in other Nights As for those who begin the Sabbath day in the Morning they lose the Evening that is the Night of that Day which being no part of the Sixth day nor to such any part of the Seventh day yet 12 Hours of time between the End of the Sixth and Morning of their Seventh day would cease to them to be any part of the Week if their Opinion would hold who begin the Sabbath in the Morning unless they continue their Sabbath till the next Morning and so turn God's first Institution upside down Others who begin and end the Sabbath day at mid-night being then generally asleep at both when they begin and end it they cannot tell when they begin or end it and so must needs loose those Meditations which are peculiar to the one and to the other and how any can begin or end it at mid night I know not But supposing as before the Evening in all Parts of the Earth begins and ends the Day then it is easie for all to know the beginning and ending of it And as the Evening and Morning made up every Day of the Week in Paradice so Evening and Morning as Mankind came about the Earth made up every Day of the Week everywhere else and as the Evening of the Seventh day came so the Sabbath began and the Sabbath ended everywhere as the rest of the Days of the Week ended that is the Evening after And if this be the true Scheme of Days then somewhere in the Round of the Earth every Inhabitant of it the 11th of March 1692 3. may not only keep the Sabbath but certainly know when it begins and ends and will have also their full six Nights and Days in the Week for their Work and Callings And so as Adam or his Posterity and so as Noah or his Posterity travelled into any part of the Earth East West North or South where ever they came after six days of Travel or other Labour they might as the Sun did set Rest the Seventh day And all the tying up all parts of the Earth to the precise time or moment of the Lords resting in the Evening of the first Seventh day at the Creation and that the Seventh day Sabbath everywhere over the Earth ever after must begin and end the same minute the first Sabbath began and ended whether it be at mid-day or mid night or any other part of Night or Day seems a meer cramping of the Question without any Ground for it that I know from the Word Whereas if the days begin in the Evening as I think they do and if the Evening and the Morning do constitute and make up a day as they do then all the Scruples raised when every Day of the Week and in particular when the Seventh day-Sabbath all over the Earth doth begin and end are resolved that is in the Evening and so the two long days in Joshuah's and Ezekiah's times make no alteration of Days as in the Enquiry And so the Evening and the Morning make up every Day of the Week to us in England and to every other Nation in the Earth and for any other certain way to resolve when the days do begin and end but by Gods first appointment I know not for else it would put the most skilful Mathematicians everywhere to a stand when to begin and end the Days and leave all Computations of Days and Weeks and Time in uncertainties and great disorder I take the 11th of March the vernal Aequinox because Astronomers agree the Sun to be then in the Aequator as it is the 11th of September at the Autumnal Aequinox at which times the Days and Nights are by them said to be equal all over the Earth