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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

therefore Christ's Resurrection his Converse with his Disciples and their celebration of holy Assemblies on Sundays do warrant us to keep that day as sure and infallible Guides to the Old Patriarchal Sunday-Sabbath mentioned in the fourth Precept which was to take place again on course at the expiration of the Temporary and Ceremonial Sabbath enjoyned the Jews for a time as a badge to difference them from other Nations but is too sandy a ground whereon to build the Institution of a new Sabbath-day in direct opposition to the express Precept and example of God And thus the mouth of the Saturday-Sabbatarians is stopt But tho I might without deserved blame being back'd with so great Authorities prefer the Septuagint before the Hebrew Exod. 16. 1. yet I presume not to prefer the Text of the Septuagint before the Text of the Hebrew but only compare the Text of the Septuagint which is utterly incapable of any other pointing than what I urge with the pointing of the Hebrew which referrs to the 15th day of their coming into the Wilderness And here the preference may without disparagement to the Hebrew Text be given to the Septuagint considering 1. That it is a question amongst the Learned whether the Pentateuch had any Vowels or so much as distinctions of Words but was all as one word before the Masorites 2. That it is not agreed who those Masorites were that distinguish'd the Old Testament into Sections and Verses whether the wise Men of Tiberias or those of Ezra's Synagogue c. 3. And that the Hebrew Text without distortion is capable of the same pointing that I urge but the Septuagint capable of no other And therefore to ask whether the immoveable pointing of the Septuagint should yeild to the moveable point of the Hebrew is to question whether the Mountain should come to Mahomet or Mahomet to the Mountain 4. I have the Suffrage of Learned Men to stand by me in asserting that the Quails fell and were gathered on the fifteenth day For Bochart in his Hierozoicon Cornelius a Lapide Menochius c. on Numb 11. affirm that the Quails mentioned Exod. 16. fell on the fifteenth day of the second month and it is certain from the Text that the Quails fell on that day they murmured SECT V. The next Inference I draw from this Text is this That this Assembly hath all the Characters of a Church-Assembly 1. It is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole Congregation or Church of the Children of Israel to difference it from the People or mixt multitude that murmured at Marah Chap. 15. 24. that marched in one Body with the Israelites and are implied in the first clause of verse 1. They took their Journey from Elim And in that Chapter 15. 27. and they came to Elim meaning the Israelites with the mixt multitude And as they came to Elim so here the same they are said to journy from Elim but when Moses gives an account of what fell out when they came into the Wilderness of Sin he shakes off the mixt multitude and leaves them out of his Discourse by changing the phrase he used when he speaks of their Journeying and saying The whole Congregation of the Children of Israel came into the Wilderness And the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel on the fifteenth day murmured By which he intimates this Assembly to have consisted wholly and solely of Israelites and to have been of the same make with that which St. Stephen calls the Church in the Wilderness consisting of our Fathers as he stiles them he and those he spake to being Jews Act. 7. 28. Briefly this was not a murmuring in their Tents like that Psal 106. 25. and that Numb 14. 2. at the return of the Spies or that through their Families every Man at his own Tent-door Numb 11. 10 where we have the mixed multitude represented as the fomenters thereof And therefore if they had been of this Murmuring Assembly in my Text they would have been mentioned here as well as there 2. Here is the whole Church of Israel assembled on course before the Lord for Moses did not call them but finds them together Aaron indeed bids them come near before the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the face of the Lord but all he meant by that was that they should turn their faces towards the Pillar the then token of God's special Presence for that was all they did in compliance with that Injunction ver 9. And as Aaron spake unto them they looked toward the Wilderness and the Glory of the Lord appeared in the Pilar of Cloud And that is an Argument they were already before the Lord though not so as to face the cloudy Pillar as they did in their Journyings yet they were assembled before or about the Tabernacle the ancient token of God's Presence I mean that little Tabernacle which they had before the erecting of that which Moses received the Pattern of in the Mount and therefore brought with them out of Egypt to which they had used to repair for Divine Worship for the sake of publick Prayer so Mede Rivet Willet It was saith Vatablus a little portable Chappel this was it that Moses after they had worshipped the Golden Calf took and pitched far off from the Camp to which every one that sought the Lord went out Num. 33. 7. this was called the Tabernacle of the Congregation of the sacred Convention so Junius and Tremelius of the Church Pagn The Hebrew word is Mogned whence is derived Lemognedim Gen. 1. which signifies solemn stated Assemblies as hath been observed before Towards this they directed their Faces in their sacred Assemblies and therefore Aaron withdraws their Faces towards the Pillar of Cloud vers 11. where Moses stood praying while Aaron was speaking to the Congregation saith Mr. Mede upon the place 3 This Assembly hath this Character of a Religious Convention that it was instructed by an Ecclesiastical Minister Aaron the Priest for Moses commanded Aaron expresly that he should speak to them ver 9. Now if this had not been Coetus Ecclesiasticus a Church Assembly it had been more proper for Moses himself to have come with his Rod in his hand and have spoken to them for he might with Authority have silenced their murmuring as he did Numb 11. 24. when they murmured for want of Flesh And as Caleb and Joshua stilled them Numb 14. 6. after the return of the Searchers It is said indeed vers 6. that Moses and Aaron spake to them but the meaning of that is no more than thus that Moses spake mediately and Aaron immediately Moses by putting words into Aarons mouth and Aaron by conveying those words into the Peoples Ears according to the instruction given Exod. 4. 15. Thou shalt speak to Aaron the Levite and put words into his Mouth and I will be with thy Mouth and with his Mouth and he shall be thy spokesman unto the People It is also said vers 8.