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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53192	The doctrine of the Fourth Commandement, deformed by popery, reformed & restored to its primitive purity wherein is clearely proved by Scripture, arguments, and reasons, that the seventh day of the week, and not the first, viz. the day called Saturday (and not the day called Sunday) is the true Christian Sabbath ... / objections answered, and the truth cleared, by Gods unworthy servant, J.O.	Ockford, James.	1650 (1650)	Wing O128AA; ESTC R41358	35,090	80

to doe well Isa 1.16 17. For their obtaining of grace here and glory hereafter For the worke of Righteousnesse is Peace and the effect of Righteousnesse is quietnesse and assurance for ever Isa 32.17 And so I conclude with the saying of Solomon Eccles 12.13 14. Let us heare the conclusion of all Fear God and keep his Commandements it is the whole duty of man CHAP. VI. A refutation of the opinion of those which affirm there is no Sabbath day whereon Christians are to abstain from corporall labour As also their saying that holy walking every day is the keeping of the Christian Sabbath I Shall not need to be large in this particular by reason I have already proved that the seventh day to wit Saterday is the Sabbath which Christians ought to keep holy to the Lord and to abstain from servill work on it therefore I shall be brief These men following the generall notion that the seventh day Sabbath is abrogated and finding no other day instituted in the new Testament in its stead for a day of publick worship they conclude all dayes are alike to those that are in Christ and no one day to be observed above another apprehending the Apostle affords them such a liberty Rom. 14.6 From whence they infer they are not oblieged to the observation of the seventh dayes Sabbath but that they have liberty to doe common work thereon Great is their errour herein the Lord disclose it unto them for doubtlesse the Apostles meaning was farre from theirs for they shall never be able to prove that ever the Apostle gave Christians liberty to walk in disobedience to the morall law the docalogue And therefore it cannot be that where the Apostle saith he that observeth a day observeth it to the Lord and he that observeth not the day obserueth it not to the Lord That he spake of rhe seventh day-Sabbath there is not a word of any such thing nor any sound of any such meaning that the Apostle had And therefore it must be that he spake of observing a day for acting common or indifferent things and not in keeping the Sabbath or not keeping of it and that for the avoiding of these absurdities If the seventh day-Sabbath be abrogated and no other day of rest instituted in its stead then there is one holy day lesse then God in the beginning instituted and one working day more a very absurd thing for any so to affirme Yea that which followeth thereon is worse viz. That God is lesse mercifull to man and beast since our Saviour suffered death then he was before In that before he suffered death hee afforded man and beast a day of rest to refresh their bodies after their wearisome and toylsome labour And since he came and suffered death he hath not afforded them any at all These things suiteth not with Gods ordering providence therefore to say there is no day of rest is an errour These men doe also apprehend the seventh day-Sabbath figured out to us faith in Christ Hebr. 4.3 because the Apostle saith We which have believed doe enter into rest From whence they conclude that when men beleeve they have that sanctification in Christ of which the Sabbath was a signe If it be granted or if it could be proved that the seventh day-Sabbath was a signe of our sanctification in Christ It will not therefore follow that when men beleeve they are discharged from the duty of observing it unlesse it can be proved a ceremoniall precept also the reason is because a sign properly or simply differeth from a ceremony and that shall thus appeare Ceremoniall Sabbaths spoken of Levit. 23 Col. 2.16 17. which God gave to the Isralites to be a signe that the Lord sanctified them Exod. 31.13 Ezek. 20.12 being signes and ceremonies was taken away by Christ and nailed to his Crosse of this kinde of signes was Circumcision Gen. 17.11 and the Passover Exod. 12.13 But signes which were not ceremoniall being given of God remaineth to the end of the world Gen. 1.14 chap. 9.13 Mat. 24.29 And in this sence indeed the seventh dayes-Sabbath is a signe Exod 31.17 But not as a signe in relation to a figurative ceremony Again the seventh dayes-Sabbath which was given to be a signe that God made Heaven and Earth in six dayes c. was wrought in Tables of stone But the Sabbath which was given to be a signe that the Lord sanctified them was not Therefore although these Sabbaths were abrogated it is no argument to prove the other was abrogated also Secondly These men which will have no Sabbath in that sence which the fourth Commandement requireth namely to abstaine from servile labour on the seventh day doe apprehend their ceasing from sinne and growing in grace every day is the true keeping of the Christian Sabbath and not ceasing from labour any one day if it cannot with conveniency be omitted Answ I doe very well approve of a holy walking every day both for mortifying of sin and grouth in godlinesse and doe heartily desire there may be a daily progresse therein by us all But I must tell them as the truth is their holy devotion in the way they intend doth not discharge them of any duty that God requirerh of them by his Holy Law the Decalogue and willing I am that they should know it to And therefore I desire to know of them whether Gods people before Christ suffered death were not to walke holy every day as well as we If yea as doubtlesse they did But had they omitted the duty of the seventh dayes rest could they have been said to have walked holy every day Oh no they could not Even so it standeth with men ever since our Savtours death for the same Law which bound the Israelites to keep a holy rest on the seventh day bindeth Christians now as hath been shewn pag. 34. 35. Therefore surely men doe deceive themselves to thinke they walk holy every day when they doe directly contrary to the Law of God on the seventh day Yea I say albeit they cannot find any of the ancient six working dayes instituted nor commanded in the Gospel to be a day for performance of publick worship yet they may find Gods ancient Sabbath in the Law where he commandeth them to keep the seventh day holy unto the Lord whereon they are not to doe servile work Exod. 20. Deut. 5. It being so I desire that we may imploy it in his worship and service and not after our owne wills either for pleasure or profit but that we call the Sabbath a delight to consecrate it as glorious to the Lord and honour him not doing our owne wayes nor seeking our owne wills nor speaking a vaine word This is the Sabbath to be observed Isa 58.13 And this let us doe for whosoever keepeth the whole Law and faileth in one point is guilty of all Jam. 2.10 11. Mat. 5.19 Yea certaine it is Whosoever turneth away his eare from hearing the Law his Prayer