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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41684	An Epistle to all the Christian magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom and professors, and teachers, and Christians that witness the end of the law, and the Levitical priesthood, and confess Christ Jesus ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Gould, Anne, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1414; ESTC R15794	14,696	17

AN EPISTLE To all the Christian MAGISTRATES And Powers in the whole CHRISTENDOM And Professors and Teachers and Christians that witness the end of the Law and the Levitical Priesthood and confess Christ Jesus the substance the Rest of the People of God the substance the Sabbath that ends the Day which was a Sign and likewise that owns the Doctrine of the Apostles c. LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. AN Epistle to all the Christian Magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom and Professors and Teachers and Christians that witness the end of the Law and the Levitical Priesthood and confess Christ Jesus the substance the rest of the people of God the substance the Sabbath that ends the day which was a sign and likewise that owns the Doctrine of the Apostles To such I say that owns Christ Jesus the substance and his Doctrine and the Apostles Doctrine I say do not persecute one another about dayes Sabbath-dayes Holy-dayes Festival-dayes Fasting-dayes or in meats or drinks which the Kingdom of Heaven stands not in but in power for the Sabbath which the Lord gave unto man a sign to man and the Creation Ox and Asse six dayes the Lord saith shalt thou labour the seventh thou shalt rest and keep holy to the Lord Which seventh day he that did transgress was to be stoned to death read Numb 15. 26. And every one that did not keep the Sabbath but did work therein should be cut off from among the people so according to the Law of God which was given forth that they should keep the Sabbath day which is the seventh day which ye keep Markets and Fairs on in most of the chief Towns and chief Markets of the Nation ye are all by the Law of God to be cut off for this Law was given to the Children of Israel this Law and Commandement which was a Covenant a perpetual Covenant and a sign between the Children of Israel and the Lord for ever the Children of Israel found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day the seventh day on which ye keep Markets and Fairs and they brought him unto Moses the chief Magistrate and unto Aaron and unto the Congregation and they put him in Ward for it was not revealed what they should do to him the Lord said unto Moses the man shall be put to death and all the Congregation shall stone him with stones Now if ye go according to the Law of God which ye do pretend and keep Markets and Fairs and buying and selling and your work upon those dayes both ye and your cattel and horses which is contrary to the Law of God Are not ye dead men all by the Law of God and men to be stoned to death according to your own Judgement as ye may read Numb 15. 35 36. The Law of God which is for the breakers of the Sabbath day the seventh day which was not for the first day of the week And ye do not read that there was any punishment by any Law for working upon any other dayes but for the seventh day the Sabbath day which God gave as a sign and a Covenant between him and the Children of Israel before Christ was come into the flesh the substance of all signs Do you own Christ come in the flesh the substance that ends the signs that persecutes people about the Sabbath Are ye not according to the Law of God to be stoned to death not to strain their goods but stone them to death that transgress the Sabbath day And did not the Prophets cry out often when the Children of Israel had transgressed the Sabbath and broken the Sabbath and kept not the seventh day they did not cry out against them for working on the six dayes And have not ye broken the Sabbath and keeps Markets and Fairs upon it And the Sabbath was not given to the Gentiles from the Lord but if the Gentiles and strangers came among the Jews they were to rest within his Gates that had the figure and his man-servants and his maid-servants and cattel it was a sign and a Covenant between God and the Children of Israel of the everlasting rest of Jews and Gentiles and the whole Creation Christ Jesus the rest and the giver of rest Now the Gentiles the Jews was not to stone them to death that kept not the Sabbath without them six dayes the Children of Israel was to gather Manna the seventh they was to rest from gathering their meat and if they did gather it it stunk Now do not you gather your meat on the Sabbath day And have not ye broken the Law of God And are ye not finding fault with others that breaks the Sabbath But where was any Sabbath dayes commanded by Christ or the Apostles to be kept by the Christians if not to fine or imprison them shew me that Scripture that Christ or the Apostles gave forth such a Law upon record then ye will not be found usurpers of Authority and Ministry and so is not this doctrines of men and Commandements of men to set up a Sabbath-day and your own precepts which are taught and no Scripture can shew of Christ or the Apostles for it And Nehemiah the Tenth If the people of the Land bring wares or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell they was not to buy it of them on the Sabbath day the Holy day Now do not you sell victuals on the Sabbath day open your shops on the Sabbath day and drive your cattel to the Markets on the Sabbath day the seventh day and set open your shops of all sorts which by the Law of God was to dye to be stoned to death and will you persecute or imprison and fine such as open their shops on the first day one of the six dayes Who gave ye this Law Where is it written in the Scriptures by Christ or the Apostles that professeth the substance is come that ends the Sabbath the Jews Sabbath Then men should be fined or persecuted for working on the six dayes Did not they prophane the Sabbath in the tenth of Nehemiah that bought victuals on the Sabbath day and fish and such as trod the Wine-press These polluted the Sabbath day the seventh day and broke the Law of God Do not ye reap down your Corn on the Sabbath day the seventh day till your ground and buy your wares and meat and sell it again upon the seventh day which was the Lords Sabbath which was a Covenant and a Law between him and the Jews and death to the transgressor to be cut off and stoned to death And so was not there a Command among the Jews that the Gates should be shut up when it began to be dark till after the Sabbath that no burden should go in or out that no Merchant or seller of any kind should sell that day among them Now this Law was among the Jews but not among the Gentiles it was not