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A55487	Sabbatum. The mystery of the Sabbath discovered Wherein the doctrine of the Sabbath according to the Scriptures, and the primitive church, is declared. The Sabbath moral, and ceremonial are described, and differenced. What the rest of God signified, and wherein it consisted. The fourth commandment expounded. What part of the fourth commandment is moral, and what therein is ceremonial. Something (occasionally) concerning the Christian Sunday. By Edm. Porter, B.D. sometime fellow of St John's Colledge in Cambridge, and Prebend of Norwich.	Porter, Edmund, 1595-1670.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2984; ESTC R218328	143,641	276

the maker of Peace or Atonement or Reconciliation of Man with God He is called Messiah or Christ that is anointed fitted and prepared for the great Work of Mans Redemption Then he is properly named Jesus and this in order to the benefit of Man for so the holy Angel said Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his People from their sins Mat. 1. 21 And that it may appear that this Person Jesus is qualified and endowed with sufficient power to effect that great and merciful purpose of the Godhead toward Mankind the same Prophet cals him Wonderful Counseller The Mighty God The Everlasting Father This I trust is enough to shew the meaning of Gods Rest Now to the second Querie above mentioned 2. Querie Answered viz. Why God is said to Rest on the Seventh day precisely and not before Our Answer is 1. Because on the Seventh day and not before the Creation of Mankind was completed for on that day was the Woman taken and built out of the Man and not before as is above shewed 2. God is not said to Rest until he had actually begun the Work of Mans Rest which was not done untill the Man and the Woman were both of them finished for then and not before was the Saviour of Mankind really and actually laid as the foundation of Mans Rest in which Rest or Sabbath of Man the Rest or Sabbath of the Godhead consisteth and in nothing else What God in his Divine and Secret Counsel had determined before all times to be done that did he now on this Seventh day begin which was the building of his Church for now the first stone was laid even Christ who only is the founda●ion and the Rock and the chief corner-stone thereof The house built upon a Rock Matth. 7. 24. signifieth the Church when Peter had said Thou art Mat. 16 16 Christ the Son of the living God Christ presently replied Upon this Rock will I build my Church The Apostle tels us Christ was 1 Cor. 10 4. the spiritual Rock And Other foundation can no man lay then that is laid which is Jesus 1 Cor. 3 11 Christ Now this foundation of Rest must needs be made known unto the Man for otherwise it could not be his Rest and consequently it could not be the Rest of God until Man did so know it that he might relie and trust and set up his Rest upon it that is upon Christ Therefore the holy Scripture doth by divers intimations signifie that this great Mystery was then revealed to Adam for he was illuminated with prophetical Wisdom He knew as well as Moses that he was made in the 〈◊〉 of God that is in the same shape which God his Redeemer would one day assume as is before shewed He knew the Woman was taken and built out of him on purpose to produce a Redeemer in that only way which might fitly serve for that Work when no other way could for upon the forming of her he said This is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh This speech doth shew that the Man was not ignorant in the great Mystery of the Union of Himself and the Woman and their future progenie with Christ also in one lump which union was contrived by the Godhead only in order and necessity to the Redemption of Adam and his off-spring and nothing else And it is the same which by the great Apostle is applied to the mysterious union of Christ and his Church They two shall be one flesh This Eph. 5. 31 32 is a great Mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church After the Fall of Man it pleased the merciful Godhead to give a more open and evident notice by an express promise of this Rest than was before when it was said The Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head for after this the Man named the Woman Vita i. e. Life as is before shewed whereby he declared his Faith and expectation of a new and better life to come by the fruitfulness of the Woman than that Life which he forfeited by his fall as may reasonably be thought All these intimations and overtures being but descriptions of the great Saviour to proceed from the Man and the Woman in whom they might set up their Rest as surely they did And God having now actually begun that great Work of Redemption and laid the foundation thereof in the Earth of ou● first Parents and made it known unto them Therefore he doth now and not before call this blessed Rest of Man His own Best For the Church of God which consisteth of Christ and his Members united not only in the nature of our first Parents but also cemented by one and the same Spirit of God residing both in Christ the Head and also in all holy Men as inferiour Members under that Head This Church I say is very often in Scripture represented as a building even from the beginning of the World and so continued in the Gospel The Woman is said to be builded of the Rib aedificavit costam in Gen. 2. 22 Multierem Rachel and Leah are said to build the house of Israel The natural Body of Ruth 4 11 Christ is called a building by King Solomon Wisdome hath built her an house So is his mystical Body also Ye are Gods building Prov. 9. 1 1 Cor. 3. 9 And Acts 9. 31. The Churches had rest and were edified The Word of God and preaching and brotherly exhortation are resembled to buildings The Word is able to Act. 20. 32 build you up St. Paul calleth preaching there where Christ was named before building on another mans foundation and Rom. 15 20 exhorteth the Thessalonians to edifie one another 1 Thes 5 11 The prime foundation of this building is Christ upon Him the Prophets and Apostles are laid as Super-structures or second Foundations Of Christ the Prophet saith Behold Isa 28. 16 I lay in Sion for a foundation a Stone a tried Stone a precious corner-Stone a sure foundation And this is so applied to Christ by St. Peter who also calleth the Members of Christ Lively stones built up a spiritual 1 Pet. 2 5 6 house And Sion is mentioned because as the same Prophet foretold Out of Sion shall Isai 2. 3 go forth the Law and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem For so indeed the Law of Christ and the preaching thereof began there as Christ appointed Luk● 24. 7. And of Apostles and Prophets and Christ St. Paul telleth the Ephesians That they are built upon Eph. 2. 20 the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone It hath been an ancient Custome amongst Men to express a joy and delight both at the laying of the foundation and also at the raising and dedication of magnificent or holy Edifices So did the Jews at the laying of the foundation of the second Temple praising the

ours assumed and propagated from the first Man and also as Athanasius most truly affirmeth a De Incarnat Christi p. 552. In the work of Redemption his body was given for our bodies and his soul for our souls and his whole man for our whole man Many of the Fathers and those of them who are most eminent for learning were much taken with a common fame and also perswaded thereunto as a truth by a Tradition of the Tert. Poem n. 11. Cyp. n. 97 Or●g●n 43. Athan. n. 25 Basil Mag. n. 23 Basil Seleuc n. 14. Hier n. 4 Aug. To. 10 n. 55 Epip Haer. 49 Jews That Christ was crucified in the very place where Adam was buried as we find in Tertullian Cyprian Origen Athanasius in both the Basils in Epiphanius Jerome and Austi● And that because Adam's crany or scull was there found therefore that place was named Golgotha or Calvaria which is noted by all ●he four Evangelists and called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Just as other Writers report of the Roman Capitol that at the foundation thereof the head or scull of a Man was found and because the name of that Man when he lived was ●olus as Arnob. Cont. Gent. lib. 6. Arnobius saith therefore they named that building Capi-tolium The Fathers took such special notice of this tradition of Golgotha because they conceived that it was to signifie the benefit of Christs death to be extended to the whole Adam that is both to his own person also to all his posterity The words of St. Jerome in an Epistle to Marcella are these b Hier. Epist 17 Calvaria appellata esi quia ibi Calvaria Adami condita est ut sanguis Christi stillans de cruce peccata ejus dilueret For as Christ is the head of the whole body or corporation Mystical so is Adam the fountain and head of the whole corporation Natural of Mankind There was lately a book printed and published wherein the Writer laboureth to prove that there were men before Adam If the Author so believed he was very ignorant in Christian Doctrine and if not then it may be thought he wrote it purposely to deride Christianity as a Pagan Turk or Jew would do for such another thing did the Jews invent and report as a Tradition that For the first Man God created two Wives or Women And hence it was that the Jews forged many vain Genealogies which are the same that St. Paul forbids as fabulous and endless 1 Tim. 1. 4. As c Cont. Advers legis l 2. c 1. Tom. 6. St. Austin thought This phansie doth disturb the Doctrine of Redemption by Christ who was necessarily to proceed from on Man and through that one Woman of whom it is said The Seed of her shall bruise thy head therefore for our comfort and for confirmation of our faith and for the manifestation of the just proceedings of God in the way and manner thereof he hath in the holy Scripture named the Man and the Woman from whom all Mankind together with Christ were propagated CHAP. XIV Of Adam 's Solitude and something of Monastick life and the reasons thereof That the Womans help consisted not in society nor child-bearing simply considered but only in respect of the Generation of Christ Of Child-bearing that it is not salvifical without Faith in Christ Of good and evil occasioned by the Woman Why she was named Vita or life Why God suffered the Woman to occasion the fall of Man 4. MY fourth Reason why I have said that this Rest of God consisteth in the consideration of Christ is grounded upon these words of the Godhead It is not good that Man should be alone I will make him an help meet for Gen. 2. 18 him The Heathens accounted Solitude a great infelicity although they abounded in all other provisions One saith a Tul. de Amic Si Deus nos in Solitudine c●llocare● And Si quis in coelum ascendisset in suave foret nisi aliquem cui narraret haberet i. e. If God should place a man in a desart or if a man were in heaven alone it would seem unpleasant if he wanted a companion to discourse with He thought also that b Id. inter frag God himself could not be happy if he were alone Solitariness doth indeed incline some to carelesness and nemo videt is an incouragement to vices The great Philopher soid of a solitarie man c Arist Pol. lib. 1. c. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He had need be exceeding good and likeunto God or else he wil be as bad as a beast The Poet saith d Ovid d● Remed Loca sola nocent loca sola caveto Semper habe Pyladen aliquem qui cures Orestem The man is now placed in his pleasant Paradise yet even there it is said It is not good to be alone But the Church doth not absolutely condemn solitude It hath bin accounted a great help to piety in two respects 1. as being a refuge from the scandals of sin and aversions from God The Ancient Eremitical and Monastick Christians were so called because they retired on purpose to apply their service to God only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Naz. in Poe● Nazianzen saith and therefore such were called b Salvian de gub lib. 8. servi Dei as being the principal servants of God 2. The desart was a refuge and a preservation of holy persons in the time of presecution which as c Soz. lib. 1. c. 13. Sozomen thought was the chief c●●se of Eremitical retirement Elias fled in ●●●he wilderness from the fury of Jezabel 1 Reg. 19. Rev. 12. 14. So the Church in the Apocalyps is described flying into the wilderness from the Dragon John Baptist was sent into the wilderness by his father to escape Herods massacre as Basil of Seleucia thought d Basil Seleu. in Erist can n. 17. Mat. 23. 35. where it seems he continued until the time of his ministry for which cause and also for asserting the virginity of the Virgin mother his holy father Zacharias the son of Barachias was slain as many of the Fathers affirm These two are by St. Jerome accounted the precedents of Eremitical solitude practised by many holy men such as Antonius and Paulus who continued many years so and Didymus who continued 90. years without any society of men as e Soc lib. 4. c 18. Socrates writeth The piety of such Eremites as these caused the desart to be thought the cheif school of vertue St. Jerome said that f Hier. Epist 22. he retired into the desart That thereby he might escape hell An holy woman in g Chrys cont vituperatores l. 3. To. 4. Chrysostome desired that her son might be brought up in a solitary life that thereby he might obtain heaven This kind of life was accounted a continual repentance by St. Jerome and other Ancient writer's called such Livers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as curing the