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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

an Edict to all Governours of Provinces in his Roman Empire that they should forthwith observe the Lords day and honour Holy-daies consecrated to the memoriall of Martyrs and solemnly observe the Feasts of the Church * At this time or a little before is the time that Socrates speaketh of lib. 5. chap. 21. saying some despised the commandements of God and made them cannons of their owne they set at nought and made no account of the law published by the Apostles so unadvisedly saith he they put in practise decrees contrary to the will of God himself Ibid. Chap. 23. Note I doe not say the first day of the week was not observed till this time for evident it is it was observed by many Churches in few years after the decease of the Apostles Yea Dr. White on the Sabbath pag. 193. saith The Vniversall Church before the decree of any Generall or Nationall Counsell made the Sunday or Lords Day a weekely Festivall But I endeavour to denote when it was that the Church rejected the Sabbath and observed the first day of the week in stead of it The third Reason why it is probable the putting down of the Sabbath and the setting up of the first day of the week in stead of it was contrived in the Nicen Councel is because Christians before that Counsell were not forbid to observe the seventh day-Sabbath nor threatned to bee Excommunicated if they did observe it for that was not done till the Counsell held at Laodicea Anno 364. which was about 38 yeares after the Nicen Councell where they made a Law that Christians should not Jewdize and rest upon the Sabbath day but rather worke upon it and that they should prefer the Lords day above the Sabbath day and if any were found observing the Jewish Sabbath they should be excommunicated or accursed as Mr. Brabourn hath it in his forementioned Book pag. 482. Out of Hospine de Origen Fast Chap. 9 pag. 27. about this time many other Errours were set a foot for Mr. Brabourn in his forementioned Book pag. 482. saith you may read in Mr. Perkins his Demonstration of the Probleme about the 300 and 400 years after Christ Then began Images to creep into Churches the Crosse to be adored Invocation of Saints praiers for the dead Pilgrimage Purgatory single life of Ministers Monkery and Monasticall profession c. Thus have I shewn the time or neere about when the Lords holy seventh day-Sabbath was rejected and the first day of the week instituted in its stead which causeth me to say with the Prophet Psal 119.126 It is time for thee Lord to worke for they have made void thy Law Yea it appeareth to me to be a great cause of Gods Judgments on the World Isa 24.4 5. Lamentable it is that the Learned of this Land which professe themselvs to be guids to the blind and lights of them which are in darknesse and teachers of them which want knowledge and to have the forme of knowledge and truth of the Law that they should teach men to observe the first day of the week in stead of the seventh contrary to the Law upon a pretence that Jesus Christ abrogated the Sabbath and that he and his Apostles instituted the first day of the week in its stead when there is not any Word of God that teacheth either the one or the other I confesse there are many weak reasons produced by many men to prove their doctrine and practice * Note I pray if it be not according to the words of the law and testimony it is because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 both for the abrogation of the Sabbath as also for manifesting that the first day of the week is of a divine institution some principall places of Scripture produced and perverted by them I will briefly weigh and examine committing it to wise mens consideration and the Almighties blessing Anti-sabatharians say Our Saviour to manifest the change of the Sabbath day did plead for and performe some things that the Jewes upon the Sabbath might not doe and to prove it they urge two Scriptures the one Mark 2.23 24. Where it is said our Saviours Disciples plucked the eares of Corne on the Sabbath day and the Pharises urged at our Saviour for that fact Now say they Our Saviour justified that fact although it was a doing of that which the law of the Sabbath forbids Ergo the Sabbath was to be changed Answer Our Saviour did not justifie them in that act as an vnlawfull fact but justified them in it as a lawfull or justifiable fact as the cause stood with them they being hungry and that from a president in David and those that were with him who in the like case did eat the shew bread c. As also from that Of the Priests in the Temple which brake the Sabbath and were blamelesse Mat. 12.4 5. which words of our Saviour doe imply that had there not bene a necessity their action had not been lawfull but being a cause of necessity as Davids and the Priests was the one having a relation to Charity and the other to Piety they were blamelesse And therefore in answer to the necessity of his Disciples our Saviour said to his Adversaries If you had known what this meaned I will have mercy and not sacrifice Math. 12 7. A repulse to their cavill And withall our Saviour caused them to know that the sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath Which words of our Saviour doe imply he being Lord of the Sabbath knew the extent of the Sabbath better then they for had they known the extent of the Sabbath they would not have condemned the innocent Mat. 12.7 Let no man thinke that our Saviour either by his goodnesse or greatnesse did vouchsafe a dispensation to his Disciples to act that which was in its nature evill for that he did not neither doth those words of our Saviour in saying he was Lord of the Sabbath import that he had changed the Sabbath or would doe it But those words are to be understood far otherwise and that very proper to Our Saviour may be rightly said to be Lord of the Sabbath in a threefold respect 1. In that as he was God Iohn 1.1 2 3. In which sence the Sabbath was made by him 2. In respect it was upheld by him Iohn 5 17. Col. 1.20 3. He is rightly said to be Lord of the Sabbath in that he only holily kept it in his person for the perfecting of the Saints imperfect obedience to it Rom. 8.3 4. chap 10.4 Had our Saviour abolished the law of the Sabbath he had diminished from the morall Law which thing he did not Mat. 5.17 For being man and circumcised he was bound to keep the whole Law Gal. 5.3 In which regard he was a subject to it and so he acknowledged himselfe to be Mat. 4.7 10. Yea I say It was impossible that he could or did diminish from the morall Law

affirm that Dr. Rivet one of the four Professours in Leyden doth affirm that the appointing of the Lords day for Gods publicke service was neither done by God himselfe nor by his Apostles but by the authority of the Church 18. Dr. Hylyn saith The Emperour Constantine was the first that made any law for the keeping of the Lords day see his History on the Sabbath part 2. chap. 3. sect 1. And again ibid. part 2. chap. 1. sect 3. speaking of Christ and of the Sabbath saith Neither did Christ nor his Apostles ordain another Sabbath instead of this as if they had intended onely to shift the day and to transferre this honour to another time their doctrine and their practice are directly contrary to so new a fancy It is true saith he in some tract of time the Church in honour to his Resurrection did set apart that day on which he rose to holy exercise but this on their own authority and without any warrant from above that we heare of 19. Muskulous in his Book of Common places fol. 66. thus saith We Christian men leaving the Jewes Sabbath doe keepe our holy rest upon the first day c. 20. Know also what the originall Actors or Authors of changing the Lords holy Sabbath to the first day of the week in the Remish Annotations on Apocalips chap. 1. verse 10. saith If the Church had authority and inspiration from God to make Sunday being a working day an everlasting holy day and the Saturday which was before a holy day now a common working day Why may not the same Church prescribe and appoint the other Feasts Easter Whitsuntide Christmas and the rest for the same warrant she had for the one that she had for the other c. I need not produce larger testimony to demonstrate who it was that abolished the Lords seventh day-Sabbath or who it was that instituted the first day of the week in its stead but that which is already said doth sufficiently declare who were the originall Authors of it and of all other superstitious holy dayes to the dishonour of God and the destruction of the world without Gods especiall and abundant mercy But blessed be God we have yet time to fly unto the Lord for mercy and to conforme our selves to the obedience of his will and let it be our comfort he is abundantly pardonfull Isa 55.6.7 James 1.21 To be short as it is well known the Church changed the Sabbath to the first day of the weeke so also it is known and acknowledged the Church hath power to change the day to some other day For Dr. Prideaux in his Book of the Sabbath page 34. affirmes that Calvin Bullinger Bucerius Brentius Chimnitius Vrsinus and others of the reformed Churches still affirmes the Church hath power to change the Lords day to some other day Yea happy shall the Church be that worshippeth God according to his Law and giveth him his due by placing on the seventh day the honour which God requireth to be performed on it which hath been taken from it this 1300. yeares for greatly hath God been dishonoured by mens consecrating the first day of the week to be a holy rest instead of the Sabbath seeing God never instituted it nor commanded it to be and therefore I say with Dr. Prideaux on the Sabbath page 22 sect 7. The institution of the Lords day out of the Scripture either expresly or by necessary consequence shew me he that can As I have disavowed That the honour due to God on the seventh day-Sabbath to be placed on the first day of the week called Sunday or Lords day or Sabbath as mens opinions leads them So I doe disavow the Title of the Lords day properly to belong to the first day of the week and therefore I say very improperly are the words of St. John Revel 1.10 applied to it for there is no such thing there manifested in the Text that the Apostle had any such meaning Yea I say there is no more reason that that Title should be given to the first day of the week the day of our Saviours Resurrection than to the day of his Birth Death or Ascension unlesse because it was anciently given to it or else because men will have something to credit that which they will have Honourable Ignatius calling it by the name of the Lords Day proves not that that Title is due to it by a Divine institution no more than his bringing in of Anthemes into the Church doth prove that it was of a Divine institution Socrat. Lib. 6 Chap. 8. Yea I say there is more reason to be given that St. John meant the seventh day of the week rather than the first because it was knowne by name the Lords day Isa 58.13 Exod. 20.11 But the first day of the week was never knowne by that name Yet I doe not say that St. John spake of that day neither but of the day of Christ or time of his Reign in Power and Glory or of the day or time of Judgment 2 Thes 2.2 2 Pet. 2.9 1 Cor 5.5 who being in the Spirit saw it in his Vision as if the day had been present What if the Roman Church hath and doth observe the first day of the week in remembrance of our Saviours Resurrection as they doe the Wednesday in remembrance that he was betrayed and the Friday in remembrance of his Passion Ought we therefore to follow their vain Idolatrous custome and tradition in these things Oh no we ought not for certainly God doth not require these things at our hands neither by Law nor Gospel If this which hath been said in this Subject will not satisfie men viz. that it is our duty to rest the seventh day to wit Saturday and worship God on it which is Gods Sabbath Exod. 20.9 10 11. As also that it is our duty to work the first day of the week called Sunday let it be proved either by Law or Gospel that it is our duty to work Saturday and to rest Sunday If this none can doe I affirme to the honour of God and the advancement of his Holy Law and for the beating off of all unrighteous and ungodly intrenching upon the Lords Holy Sabbaths and for the awaking of all those out of errour which would not willingly perish in it and to reduce all that love Gods Law to the due obedience of it I affirme that it is as great a sinne to observe the first day of the week in stead of the seventh as it is to worship an Image in stead of the true God For to doe the one is contrary to the Second Commandement of Gods Law and to doe the other is contrary to the fourth Commandement of the same Law It being so I desire my Brethren my Friends yea and all men to consider of this which condemneth Idolatry and yet justifieth themselves in a weekly trangression of the Lords seventh day-Sabbaths that they may cease to doe evill and learn

shall be abominable Prov. 28.9 A Conclusion to the Work TO resist the duty of the seventh day-Sabbath which God requireth by the fourth Commandement Be not of those which say the Law of Gods ten Commandements is not given to the Gentiles Nor of those which say Jesus Christ hath abrogated the whole Law Nor of those which confesse the morality of the 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10. and denyeth the morality of the fourth Nor of those which say every day is a Sabbath and keep no Sabbath at all Neither say thou what a stir is heare about the observation of a seventh day as if peace here and glory hereafter did consist in a corporall abstaining from labour on the seventh day and so put off a duty which highly concerneth Gods honour and thy owne salvation Therefore know the duty which thou owest to God is not onely an abstaining from corporall labour on the seventh day But also an abstaining from all actions contrary to the law of God as also a holy consecrating it to his service by worshipping him on it in spirit and truth as God by the Gospel requireth of thee Therefore be not hasty to reject the duty of the seventh day-Sabbath which God by his holy Law requireth of thee Neither study to raise up objections against it least thou be found a fighter against God and also become like unto the Scribes and Pharises spoken of Mat. 23.13 which shut up the Kingdome of Heaven before men refuse to go in themselves nor suffer them that would enter to come in But be of those which have respect to all Gods Commandements and of those which have walked in all the Commandements and Ordinances of God without reproof Luke 1.6 see Mat. 5.48 Love Gods Law as the Prophet did Psal 119.77 97. and delight in it as the Apostle did Rom. 7.22 and obtaine blessednesse Psal 1.1 2. Revel 22.14 to justification Rom. 3.13 through faith chap. 3.33 Hebr. 11.6 Finally There are many men which thinke they know much of God in the Gospel and that they observing what Jesus Christ requireth of them by it they performe what duties soever God requireth of them by the Law and indeed so they did if they did rightly understand the duties which Jesus Christ by the Law requireth of them but in that they doe not verily they come shott of the duty of observation of the seventh dayes-Sabbatb commanded in the first Table of Gods Law The duties of which Table our Saviour in Mat. 22.37 compriseth into one Commandement and in requiring obedience to God by it he doth as strictly command obedience to the seventh day-Sabbath the duty commanded in the fourth Commandement as he doth require performances to the duties commanded either in the 1 2 or 3. commandements of that Law see also Mat. 5.18 19. Chap 19.17 1 Cor. 7.19 James 2.10 Therefore let no man think that by his love to Jesus Christ in the Gospel he doth fulfill the Law in that way spoken of Rom. 13.10 Gal. 5.14 If he refuse to perform that duty to God which Iesus Christ in the Gospel requireth of him by the Law in some measure For doubtless our obedience to the Commandements of God is the fruit of true love Iohn 14.15.21 compared with Ch. 10.30 For thus saith the Apostle This is the love of God that we keep his Commandements 1 Ioh. 5.3 which thing Iesus Christ did Joh. 15.10 Yea and we are to imitate him therein 1 Joh. 2.6 Chap. 4.17 And he that so doth in him dwelleth the love of God perfect indeed 1 John 2.5 But he that saith he knoweth God and kepeth not his Commandements is a lyar 1 Joh. 1.10 What union and communion there is betweene the Law and the Gospel see page 20. And he that walketh in that union dwelleth in God and God in him and such a one brings forth the fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 And where the Spirit of the Lord is there is libertie 2 Cor. 3.17 And against such there is no Law to condemn him Rom. 8.1 For indeed it was not made to that end 1 Tim. 1.9 But yet they are not delivered from the obedience of it but injoyned to it Mat 19.17 Rom. 13.9 Eph. 6.1.2.3.5 James 2.10 11 12. But indeed the Law is made for the lawlesse and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and prophane c. 1 Tim. 1.9 as namely for Anti-nomians and Anti-Sabbatharians and all Libertines which will be above Ordinances wh●●● make their boast they have nothing to doe with the Law nor the Law with them I say as the Scriptures teach for such men the Law was made and it hath dominion over them although they will not beleeve it yet surely they will know it if they repent not of setting themselves against it and refuse to conforme to the obedience of it as Jesus Christ in the Gospell requireth of them Mat. 22.37 for their avoiding of wrath and obtaining of mercy through faith I am sorry for their delusions and shall not cease to pray for their conversion That their sinnes may be blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. That they may be made partakers of that purchased felicity by the merit of Jesus Christ through faith which hath life without death peace without trouble and joy without sorrow which unspeakable blessednesse I desire may be confirmed on all those which love Jesus Christ in sincerity Amen This also know I am no Jew nor inclined to any Jewish opinions I seek not righteousnesse by the Law but by faith in the Son of God according to the Gospel * Those opinions are Jewish which lead men to seeke Justification by the works of the Law or by observing abrogated precepts or Jewish customes or traditions of their inventions none of these I owne as being of God or from God But as for the fourth Commandement by which God requireth obedience to the seventh day-Sabbath being one of the ten morall precepes is of God and from God and to observe it is no more Jewish than to observe the duties commanded by God in the 1 2 or 3. commandements of that Law Yet I know I cannot obtaine righteousness by the Gospel if I walke contrary to the express duties which God by his Law requireth of me the reason is because there is no way to blessedness contrary to the way of righteousness Rom. 9.31.32 Mat. 19.17 which is the Law of Gods Ten Commandements But if thou knowest a way to obtaine salvation without it or contrary to it declare it But if this thou canst not doe then conforme to all duties commanded by it and neglect it not and have not any dis-respect to any truth in this Subject declared by me because of any personall failing which thou maist perceive in me But this know it is in me the manifestation of the words of truth made known by the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.17 That God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise c. and the things that are not to bring to naught the things that are for the foolishnesse of God is wiser than men and the weaknesse of God is stronger than men vers 25. That no flesh may glory in his presence vers 29. All Praise to God The Authors cited in this TREATISE Iustin Martyr Athanasius Eusebius Socrates Scholast Augustine Calvin Tremelius Tindall Bucer Brentius Chimnetius Muskulus Beza Bullenger Mr. Perkins Centuries The Confession of the Church of Helvetia The Confession of Auspurgh Vrsinus Mr. Frith Dr. Whitgift Mr. Gracehop Mr. Ainsworth Dod Clever Dr. Bayly Dr. Prideaux Mr. Revert Mr. Brabourne Dr. Willet Dr. White Dr. Hyling Mr. Bisco The Rhemist Annotation A Table to find the principall points contained in this Treatise Viz. IN pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. is manifested that 〈◊〉 Decalogue is morall and bindeth Gentiles 〈◊〉 well as Jewes to the duties therein expressed In pages 8 9 10. are 12 absurdities which 〈◊〉 follow on the Assertion that the fourth commandment or part thereof is abrogated From the 12 page to the 35. is manifes●ed that the observation of the 7th day-Sabbat● is morall and we are injoyned to the duty of it In pages 36 37 38 39. is manifested that 〈◊〉 Church changed the 7th day-Sabbath to the fir●● day of the week and why they did it In pages 40 41 42 is manifested the time whe●● the Church changed it or neere about From page 43. to 52. is manifested that our S●●viour Christ did not abrogate the 7th day-Sa●bath As also that the first day of the week is 〈◊〉 of a divine institution Pages 59 60 61. manifesteth that the Ti●●● of the Lords day appertaineth not to the first d●● of the week Pages 63 64. manifesteth that every day is 〈◊〉 a Sabbath FINIS