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A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

hos Arabie faelicis intima insedisse I am sure saith he in his Phaleg that these Colonies sate down in the very heart of Arabia felix for proof hereof he shew's that the Arabians say their first Founder was Joctan and produceth Memorials of the names of all his Sons retained in the names of Arabian Cities Rivers Hills or Inhabitants That of Jobab for Instance in Ptolomies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as Scultetus corrects it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But perhaps Ptolomi's Text needs no Correction seeing that People of Arabia might be so called from Job the abbreviation of Jobab and he being the youngest his Brethren might abbreviate his Name 2. He is said to dwell in the East which if it be meant East from Judea it can be no other then Arabia Petrea which standeth East-ward of Judaea whereas Arabia Felix standeth full South But seeing the Jewes did not inhabit Palestine till above 500 years after Job his Countrie is here styled the East in respect of Arabia Felix which lies West of Arabia Petrea 3. According to this Situation of Vz it hath the Sabeans a People of Arabia Felix on one hand and the Chaldeans on the other hand The one whereof Drove away Jobs Oxen and Asses the other his Camels 4. Job was the greatest of all the men of the East that is the most Eastern part of Arabia which denotes Arabia Petrea and he being the greatest there must in reason be judged to have been the Captain of the Colonie there seated 5. Job or Jobab being the youngest brother his elder brethren might more then probablie seat themselves in the Richest part of Arabia famous for the plenty of Gold Frankincense c. and he be forc't to sit down in Arabia the Stony or perhaps chose that for his seat as fittest for the breed of Cattel wherein lay his wealth The Arabians saith Aristotle Hist 9. 50. have some of them 3000 Camels apiece and from them they compute their Wealth saith Leo Affrican Lib. 9. For when they would express their Riches they use to say He possesseth so many thousand Camels And this is another Argument that Job's Country Vz is Arabia where the thirteen Sons of Joctan seated their Families 3. That Job lived very early after the Flood is I think demonstrable from that Text Job 31. 26. If I beheld the Sun when it shined c. and my heart hath been secretly enticed or my Mouth hath kissed my hand this were an Iniquity to be punished by the Judge Whence it appears that Idolatry was in Job's time accounted by the Law of Man criminal and punishable in the Humane Court which in the Days of Terah was set up by a Law from the Effect whereof Terah fled saith Josephus from his Native Country Vz of the Caldees being condemned to be burnt for refusing to worship the Sun From the Premises we collect that Job was the most antient Practitioner of the Patriarchal Religion after the Flood that we read of except Noah and lived two hundred years before the death of Noah what then can be more incredible than that so pious a Person could so soon forget what the Patriarchal Church before the Flood meant by this Phrase the Sons of God SECT VII I have weighted all the Arguments produced for the Proof of the contrary opinion Viz. That Job lived not thus early in the New World as I affirm him to have done But there is not one of them worth answering but that drawn from Job 36. 14. They dye in Youth and their Life is amongst the Unclean the Sodomites according to the Marginal reading Innuit his Sodomites saith Grotius he means here the Sodomites and their Destruction intimating that Job's Friends had heard of Sodoms Destruction and therefore were younger than Abraham But if it had been Sodomites in the Text as it is not that would have been no Argument that Job had heard of Sodoms destruction For Sodom migh the infamous for its Uncleanness many Ages before its destruction seeing men do not arrive at such an height of impudent sinning but by degrees neither doth God inflict such strange and exemplary Judgments till his Long suffering be tired out Besides that their Luxury and beastly Lusts might bring the Sodomites one by one to an untimely Death might fall under the observation of their Neighbours long before Fire and Brimstone from Heaven sell upon them all together I have but one Note more to evince that the Text Gen. 6. 2. is the most proper Text to expound this of Job by Viz. That the best account I find given of the Penman of this Book of Job is that which is grounded upon Job 32. 15. they were amazed they left of speaking they answered no more When I had waited for they speak not but stood still and answered no more I said I will answer also my part I will shew mine Opinion Can any thing be more apparent than that Elihu doth not speak here to Job and his three Friends but of them Who then can he speak to but the Readers of this Book of Job It is certain the Dialogue is here interrupted For Jobs Words were ended Chap. 31. ult Causa perorata tacet he having said what he could in his own defence held his peace And Elihu here declares the Issue of his Reproof of Jobs three Friends to wit their being silent as well as Job to whom then doth he make this Declaration Not to Job that had been superfluous for he himself was both an Ear and Eye witness of their being silent by Elihu's precedent speech to them and besides he does not apply his speech to Job till c. 33. 11. Wherefore Job I pray thee hear my speeches c. not to Job's Friends for he saith they were amazed which is not the form of speech wherein we speak to men that are present It must be therefore to them that should read this Book that he here speaks Again it is in answer to Job's wish that he offers himself to him in God's stead Ch. 33. 6. it is probable therefore that in order to the gratifying of another as an earnest wish of Jobs he might write Job's words and by Consequence this whole Historie of his trial in a Book Job 19. 23. O that my Words were Written that they were Printed in a Book that they might remain for ever And such a wish as he had renewed with very passionate expostulations immediatly before Elihu began his speech to Job's friends and Job himself Chap. 31. 3 5. 10. That one would hear me behold my desire is that the Almighty would answer me and that mine Adversary had written or as it is in most Translations would write a Book surely I would take it upon my Shoulders and bind it as a Crown to me as a Prince would I go near unto him Well saith Elihu I am here in Gods stead according to thy wish Now if Elihu had onely discours'd with Job in God's stead as