Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	rest_n	sabbath_n	2,883	5	9.7656	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89189	A sober ansvvere to an angry pamphlet, or, Animadversions, by way of reply, to Robert Barclays late book (entituled, Truth cleared of calumnies) in answere to A dialogue between a Quaker and a stable Christian by VVilliam Mitchell.	Mitchell, William, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2294; ESTC R43708	69,116	149

fourth Command instance in the seventh day that is for number yet it speaketh not precisely of the seventh day in order from the creation It is said six dayes shalt thou labour but the seventh is the Sabbath mark the seventh is the Sabbath the Lord saith not the seventh from the creation It is likewise worthy special observation to consider the preceptive and the benedictive part of the fourth Command or the beginning and conclusion of it In the beginning it is said Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy In the conclusion it is said Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it observe the phrase not seventh day but Sabbath day is blessed so that the fourth Command neither begins nor ends with that terme the seventh day but with that of the Sabbath day which is an evidence that the designe of this Command is not to bind the Church to a precise keeping of the seventh day from the creation for there is no express mention of that day in all the fourth Command the maine intendment therefore of the fourth Command is to prescribe a seventh day to be keept holy after six dayes labour which GOD appointeth And this to the People of GOD under the Old Testament was the seventh day of the week it being appointed by GOD in the first institution of the Sabbath Gen. 2 3. but to us it is the first day of the week the Sabbath being translated and changed to this day by divine authority as will afterwards appear 1. Object The keeping of one day of the week for a Sabbath is not perpetual but abolished Coloss 2.16.17 let no man judge you in meat or drink or in respect of a holy day or new Moon or of the Sabbath dayes Answer Here the Apostle opposeth ceremonial ordinances but not Gospel institutions Indeed the Old Anabaptists and Familists with whom Quakers go along they urged this text against all difference of dayes under the Gospel though the Apostles onely designe be to decry the several sorts of dayes which were in use among the Jews of which he gives an observable enumeratiō proceeding from their yearlie holy dayes to their monethlie new Moons and from them to their weeklie Sabbaths so that granting the weekly Sabbath to be here taken in yet it maketh nothing against the Christian Sabbath but against the old seventh day Sabbath 2. Object Rom. 14.6 plainlie holdeth forth all dayes to be alike Answer What was said before serveth to clear this Scripture it speaketh of ceremonial daies of such dayes as are in the rank with ceremonial meats and therefore opposeth not the moral weekly Sabbath 3. Object Gal. 4.10.11 Ye observe daies and moneths times and years I am affraid of you Ans There is a twofold observation of dayes moral and ceremonial now the Apostle speaketh not against the former but the latter he would not have Jewish times such a their Sabbatical yeares their annual feasts their monethlie feasts called new Moons their weeklie seventh day which is probably thought to be included in that clause ye observe dayes to be observed which the Jewish false teachers cryed up but he was far from crying down the fourth Command which is no less binding then the rest of the Decalogue it being delivered in the same majestick manner pressed with the same severitie and written by the same finger of GOD and put into the same Ark with the rest He that said Thou shalt not commit adulterie Thou shalt not steal said likewise Remember the Sabbath day keep it holy and therefore if persons take upon them to sacrifice this Command to their wild fancies they need not spare the other Commands And in very deed the Commands of GOD are little beholden either to Papists or Quakers for Papists reject the second Command and Quakers give the same usage to the fourth And this puts me in mind of a Story I have heard concerning an Honest Countrey-man who travelling on the rod there were two who denyed the Sabbath came up to him upon a designe to try his knowledge the question they propounded was concerning the number of the Commands the well meaning man knew the persons and shapt an answer sutable to their principles telling them there were eight Cōmands whereupon the Querists made sport and upbraided the poor man with his profession and his ignorance but he gravely replyed that the scripture indeed spake of ten Commands Deut. 4.13 but they had taken away one Command and the Papists another so that between them they had brought the Commands from ten to eight In his answer to Matth. 24.20 where Christ intimats the continuance of a Sabbath He saith that Sabbath is neither here nor else where said to be the first day of the week Answer Though there be no express mention in this place of the first day of the week yet in that it proves the continuance of a Sabbath it overthrowes the Quakers opinion who would be levelling all dayes making them alike And it is to be remarked that Christ was come into the world relateth the sad things which were to befal his Disciples after he was ascended to the Father and yet even then a Sabbath was in being He addeth page 60. That as the outward Jew ma● not be put to fly on his outward Sabbath so the inward Jew desireth much more that he may keep hi● Sabbath which is his spiritual rest in Christ Heb 4.9 Answer The Apostle in this chapter speaketh of a rest which Believers onely enter into And sheweth 1. That this rest is not the rest of the Sabbath verse 4. 2. That it is not the rest of the Land of Canaan verse 8. If Jesus that is Joshua had given them rest then would he not have spoken o● another rest It followeth then that the rest which Believers onely shall enter into is the rest of Heaven verse 9. there remains therefore a rest for the people of GOD. Now because there is an eternal rest promised to the Believing obedient people of GOD saith this any thing why they should not observe one day of seven as a Sabbath unto the Lord Oh the conscientious keeping of the Sabbath is a comfortable evidence of those that shal be admitted to this rest SECT II. The first day of the Week is set a part for the Service of GOD by Divine Authority He addeth If we have the same authority for keeping the first day of the week as the Jews had for keeping their day then let it be produced Answer It was produced before but he would not see it however for the sake of others we shal cōsider again that Scripture Rev. 1.10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords day Now that by the Lords day is meant the first day of the week will be clear if we advert that there are peculiar grounds why this day is singularly to be called the Lords day beyond other dayes Because 1. on this day our Lord arose and ceased from the work

say they have no sin they are but liars and the truth is not in them 1. Ioh. 1.8 It is remarkable to consider whom the Apostle speaketh of if we saith he what we look to verse 1. we that have heard and seen and handled the word of life verse third we who have fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ verse 7 we who by our Justification are cleansed from the guilt of all sin yet it we say we have no sin we are not sincere but hypocrites deceiving both our selves and others Object This Scripture 1. Iob. 1.8 is conditional otherwise it would contradict what followes verse 9. and chapter 2.4 and chapter 3.9 Answer There is no contradiction but sweet agreement between these Scriptures for verse 9. speaketh of forgivness of sin which consisteth in freedom from the guilt of sin and this may be where sin is nor utterly abolished And 1. Ioh. 2.4 is understood of a sincere nor absolutlie perfect keeping of the Commands of GOD. And as for 1. Ioh. 3.9 it was formerly opened and may be further cleared by comparing it with chapter 5.16 where the Apostle speaketh of a sin unto death which they that are born of GOD cannot commit verse 18. we know that whosoever is born of GOD sinneth not but he that is begotten of GOD keepeth himself and the wicked one toucheth him not That is so as to draw him to that unpardonable sin the Child of GOD is secured from this sin HEAD XVII Wherein Truth is cleared of Calumnies Page 72. He cometh to examine whether their or our principles will be most acceptable to the wicked And first he saith wicked men and hypocrites love well to hear that they can never be free from their sins in this life Answer Some wicked men are so well conceited of the honesty and integrity of their hearts that it is a hard thing to get convictions of sin fastened upon them and as for mortification of sin which we urge as necessary to Salvation there is nothing more distastful to the wicked then this Secondly He saith they love well to hear to be justified by Christ without them Answer How is it then that so many wicked men scoff at justification by Christs righteousness without them Calling in contempt this imputed righteousness an imaginary putative righteousness Is it not natural for persons to seek to be justified by something within them Thirdly He saith they love well to hear that the words without them are the onely rule Answer Doubtless there are many wicked persons who could wish there were no such rule Hath it not been the attempt of the wicked to destroy the Scriptures In the tenth Persecution the books of the holy Scriptures were ordered to be burnt and to this day there is a secret enmity in the hearts of thousands of sinners against the Scriptures Fourthly He saith they love well to hear that they may use the customes and fashions of this world and that they may use sports games and playes and weare laces ribbons c. Answer They hear from none of us any thing to encourage them in following sinful customes and fashions these we oppose yea we think that people should be sparing even as to lawful games and recreations As for wearing ribbons laces gold-rings c. we judge it not simply unlawful and yet persons sin when in this they exceed their degree and rank which is the thing condemned by the Apostle 1. Tim. 2.9 Fifthly He saith they love well to hear that men must not expect to hear GOD immediatly Ans Some of them know not what is intended by GODS immediate speaking and others have no liking to hear GOD mediatly by the Ministry of his Word this is a burdensome stone that they would faine be rid of Sixthly He saith they love well to hear that water Baptism and giving of Bread and Wine are the Ordinances of Christ for then they think they are Christians if they partake of these outward things Answer Our endeavour is to take them off from their groundless thoughts telling them that outward priviledges must not be rested on and that who ever build their hopes of Heaven meerly upon these they build upon the sand a foundation which will faile them in the day of their straite Seventhly He saith that none plead more for the observation of the Sabbath then profane light men Answer The contrary is abundantly known for none are greater enemies then they to the true observation of the Sabbath which must be devoted entirely to GOD and spent in the publick and private exercises of his worship and service Are not the wicked brought in saying when shal the Sabbath be gone Amos 8.5 Eightly He saith they love well to hear that they may be members of a Church though they have no infallible evidence of holiness Answer Have all the members of the Quakers Church infallible evidences of grace and holiness I must be free to tell you that your raw conceity Proselyts are so ignorant and yet so confident that sober men suspect them to be in a fools paradise Ninthly He saith they love well to hear of our Doctrine of Election and Reprobation Answer I have heard diverse of them Pelagians mocked at predestination wrangle against this doctrine and herein Quakers joyne with them but the truth will stand firme against them both Tenthly He saith they love our Doctrine of once in grace and ever in grace Answer What ground can graceless persons have to like this they being alienated from the life of GOD the promise of persevering in grace doth not belong to them and we do not plead for a wild perseverance the Saints who have had most perswasions of their perseverance have been most closs and circumspect in their walk with GOD. Thus it is evident that our principles do not gratifie the wicked nor give them the lest allowance in licentiousness and loosness and if any of us be looss and licentious as a lace there be too many it is our principle that the wrath of GOD will come upon such children of disobedience HEAD XVIII The Quakers tenents are pleasing to the Wicked The Quakers religion is exceeding suitable to carnal hearts First They love well to hear that a sufficient light is in them that Christ and saving grace is in them Secondly They love well to hear that all dayes are alike and that men may work and plough on the Sabbath as well as on any other day Thirdly They love well to hear that Family Prayer is but a forme Fourthly They love well to hear that they must not pray in secret but when they have an inward drawing and motion to it Fifthly They love well to hear outward teaching cryed down and mind the light within here is your teacher and this light is not a chapter without you in a book Sixthly They love well to hear the holiest Ministers spoken against as hirelings and Baals Priests Seventhly They love well to hear the LORDS Ordinances vilified and reproached carnal Bread and Wine is lovely language to them Eightly They love well to hear that Adams sin is not theirs and that the evil seed doth not make them guilty of sin before GOD untill they close with it Ninthly They love well to hear that they may sit down to eate and drink and rise up againe without a word of thanksgiving or prayer to GOD. But I am tyred with raking in this Dung hill I leave it to unbyassed persons to judge whether these principles will not sure with carnal hearts Will not the wicked be glade to hear these things cryed down which they themselves live down and cannot be brought up to the practise of them He shuts up his book charging me with a notorious lie Ans Wherein am I guilty of lying The Dialogue supposed A Conference between an enemy to a Lover of the Truth and might I not without a lie testify so much love to mens Souls as to express pity toward the seduced wishing GOD to reclaime them and to confirme his people in his wayes What is it that some will not carp at Epecially the persons that I have to do with of whom a pious Minister in England giveth this testimony saith he We have a strange generation of men abroad whose very Religion consists in railing reviling reproaching the Servants of the living GOD not the best men nor the best Ministers under Heaven can escape them Then he sets down a letter wherein the Quakers gave the Ministers of Christ these following names Conjurers Theeves Robbers Anti-Christs Witches Blind-guides Devils Lyars Dissemblers Baals Priests a Vipe●ous and Serpenti●● Generation Bloody Herodians Blasphemers Scarlet coloured Beasts Babilons Merchants Busie-Bodies Whited walls Painted Sepulchres reavening Wolves Persecutors Tyrants greedie Dogs Pharisees Then he gives good advice Christians saith he when ye hear this language learne to conforme your selves to Christ go ye first to GOD with the LORDS own plea. Zach. 3.2 Now the LORD rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee See Ambrose his looking unto Jesus pag. 1006. FINIS