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A97211 The Jevvs Sabbath antiquated, and the Lords Day instituted by divine authority. Or, The change of the Sabbath from the last to the first day of the week, asserted and maintained by Scripture-arguments, and testimonies of the best antiquity; with a refutation of sundry objections raised against it. The sum of all comprized in seven positions. By Edm. Warren minister of the Gospel in Colchester. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. Warren, Edmund, minister of the Gospel in Colchester. 1659 (1659) Wing W955; Thomason E986_26; ESTC R204006 221,695 275

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Act. 3.8 so ch 14 10. There was therefore certainly more in this Command then what did barely refer either to the confirmation of the miracle or the publication of Gods glory in that sense supposed and what it was the above mentioned Author does thus resolve us namely that it was See Dr. Lightf Harm of the 4 Evang. p. 3. in John 5. Partly in respect of the man Partly in respect of the day In respect of the man it was to trye his faith and obedience whether upon the bare word of Christ he would venture upon so hazardous an action In respect of the day it was to shew Christs power and authority over the old Sabbath that as elsewhere in restoring the man sick of the Palsy he not onely shewed his power over the disease in healing it but also over sin in forgiving it So it pleased him here at one and the same time to shew his Divine power over the distemper in curing it and his soveraignty over the Sabbath in dispensing with it and disposing of it as he thought good 'T is objected against this by T. T. whose usuall trick it is to clamour where he cannot answer That in argueing thus we joyn with the blasphemous Pharisees in charging our Saviour as a Sabbath-breakere Obj But we easily cleare opur blessed Saviour and quit our selves of this false and injurious charge affirming That our Lord could be no more taxed for Sabbath breaking in requiring this man to beare his bed on the Sabbath-day then God himself in Commanding Joshuah to march about Jericho seven times on the same day He did not hereby transgress the Law but shewed his soveraignty over the day which will the better appeare if we consider What he sayes to the Jewes in answer to their cavils about it In the sequel of the Chapter where all along we may observe how he justifies his act by asserting his power He tels tehm verse 17 that he had the same authority over the Sabbath that the father had The Father worketh hitherto and I work This answer refers cheifly to that part of the objection which lay against his healing on the Sabbath day and it is continued to verse 20. Then he answers more directly to that other part of their accusation his supposed violation of the Sabbath in giving the man a dispensation to carry his bed verse 20 The father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things that himself doth yea he will shew him greater things then these that ye may mervel Greater workes then these why as the forementioned Authour speakes they were great things that our Saviour had now done in curing a desperate disease and dispensing with the Sabbath but he must do yet greater Workes then these v. 16. namely raise the dead and change the Sabbath that Jewish Spirits might mervel The Jewes persecuted him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day that is healed the man and commanded him to carry his bed So the word judgment is used Psalm 9.11 Psalm 94.15 Isai 28.6 Jerem. 33.15 John 8.16 Now in answer to these two particulars he tels them that the Father would shew him greater workes then these for verse 21. As the Father raiseth the dead so the Son And verse 22. The father judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgment to the Son that is government or Legislative power about the affaires of men and in particular about the disposall of the Sabbath which was now under dispute They carped and cavill'd at his present carriage towards the Sabbath He tels them that he had authority to do what he did yea and more then that came to for all judgement was committed into his hands to do some greater things then barely to dispense with the Sabbath and something at which the Jewes should marvell and for which all should honour the Son as they honour the Father Verse 23 That as the Father was honoured in giving the Law so should the Son be honoured in giving the Gospel and as the Father was honoured in appointing the old Sabbath so should the Son in ordaining a new Sabbath not in confirming the old as T. T. would have it for so the Son is not honoured even as the Father was honoured pa. 145. For the Father was honoured as the institutor of a Sabbath therefore so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even so must the Son be honoured The argument is very ponderous if we consider the scope of our Saviours oration which was to justifie what he had done on the Sabbath-day To this purpose he pleades his designment to do greater things then these and some greater thing in reference to command and disposall over the Sabbath which was the thing in question And this plea he proves by his power to raise the dead and to dispose of all things in a way of judicature or government under the new Testament as the Father had done under the Old and to this intent that all men should honour the Son as they honour the Father which being spoken with reference to the Sabbath and to his present dispensing with it doth plainly speake his intention to alter and change it Again here is one thing more observable namely that Christs power to raise the dead and his power to dispose of the Sabbath are carryed along both together in this discourse And the one is made an argument of the other plainly intimating the change of the day upon the resurrection upon his own resurrection in the first place which is hinted at verse 26. and others with himself at his resurrection according to that ancient prophecy Thy dead men shall live Isai 26.19 Mat. 27.52 53. together with my dead body shall they arise which was fulfilled when our Saviour rose from the dead So that all things considered here is a most pregnant Scripture to prove that it was our Redeemers purpose to alter the Sabbath And therefore as in Preface to such a thing he both gives the man a commission to carry his bed on that day and pleads for what he had done by his divine authority as beginning to shake the day which within two years after was to be unhinged and actually changed for another at least it speaks his power to alter it And he that shall dare deny this must make Christ Jesus the Lord inferiour to David the servant for even David had power to alter a circumstance in the Law of Moses 1 Chron. 23.24 25 26. ordaining that the Levites should officiate at twenty years old Numb 4.3 Numb 8.24 when as Moses had appointed that they should not officiate till 25. or 30. yet when the reason of the Mosaical ordinance ceased and the Ark had rest you see David changes that order And if David who was but a meer man though a King and a Prophet might alter a circumstance about the Priesthood Isai 9.6 Revel 15.3 Mat. 28.18 how much more might the Lord Jesus who is