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A91419	A treatise of the Sabbath. Wherein is contained the time of the first institution of it. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained. Whereunto is annexed A treatise of holy time: and therein the great question about the beginning and ending of the Lords Day is largely discussed: and in both sundry cases of conscience are handled, and many texts of scripture are opened, the practice of the churches in New England are inquired into / by William Pynchon, late of New England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4314; Thomason E816_5; Thomason E816_6; ESTC R210987	130,807	159

all into his possession 2 Hence follows That Adam must fall and be Re-created on the day of his Creation This is proved by an induction of some pariiculars 1 THe Angels were made to serve the Mediator even at he was ordained to be the seed of the woman Psal 91. 11 12. Heb. 1. 6. and therefore they did sing for joy not onely at the birth of Christ when he was born of the Virgin Mary Luke 2. 14. But doubtl●sse they did as much rejoyce to hear that joyfull news to fallen Adam and Eve that he should be the seed of the woman to break the Devills Head-plot and ever since that day they desire to pry into that joyfull and glorious mystery 1 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Pet. 1. 12. 2 The woman was in a special manner made for the Honour of the Mediator as well as for Admas Society and Posterity for without the womans seed Christ could not have been promised to be the seed of the woman that was fallen and that her seed should break the Devils Head plot Gen. 3. 15. 3 The Sabbath was made for the Honor of the Mediator for he was Lord of the Sabbath even as he was the Son of Man Mar. 2. 28 4 The distinction of the natural day into Morning and Evening was so contrived by Gods providence for the Honour of the Mediator for the glad tydings of his Propitiatory Sacrifice was constantly remembred and typified by the Morning and Evening Sacrifices for that division of the day into morning and evening is a differing division from day night as I have shewed at large in my book of Holy Time and therefore according to the usual time of the Evening Sacrifice Christ performed his Propitiatory Sacrifice of Attonement about the midst of the first Evening for the first natural Evening begins at Mid-day at the first declining of the Sun and continues till Sun-set where the night begins and in the midst of this evening namely about three a clock in the afternoon Christ made his soul an Evening Sacrifice of mans Redemption 5 The several sorts of Beasts and Fowls were made for the Honour of the Mediator and though some of them were by Gods Providence to be of a ravenous kind namely as soon as Adam fell yet they could not destory fallen man from the face of the earth neither could they wholly destory their fellow-creatures that were of a tame kind because the Lord God had ordained a Mediator to be the right Heir of them all and to rule them all by restraining their corrupt desires and guiding them as soon as Adam fell so that the hungry Lions could not devour Daniel without his license and as for the rest of the creatures which were ordained to be of a more quiet and harmless kind God called them clean Beasts and some of them he ordained for the use of Sacrifices as the fittest to typifie the innocency of Christs humane nature and the perfection of his Sacrifice 6 All sorts of creatures were made for the Honor of the Mediator and therefore as soon as Adam fell God put all things in subjection under his feet And there was nothing that was not made subject un●o him Heb. 2. 8. Psal 8. 6. Col. 1. 16. Eph. 1. 22. Yea God made him the head over the spirits of just men made perfect by the Fathers forgivenesse that is to say by the Fathers justification Heb. 12. 23. and that Dominion is called the first or the chief●st Dominion Mic. 4. 8. and this Dominion God gave him in the day of Adams Fall and Re-creation Yea all creatures in general do yeeld obedience unto the Mediator as their proper Lord and Governour Rev. 5. 13. as I have noted more at large in Chap. 3. R. 2. and in Chap. 4. Yea when the Mediator was here upon earth in his humane nature all creatures obeyed him as their Lord for he rebuked the boysterous winds and the raging sea and they obeyed him He commanded the liquid waters to bear him as the dry land and they obeyed him He commanded a hundred fifty three great fishes to come into Peters Net and not to break it and they obeyed him Job 21. He commanded that fish that had swallowed a Stater to come to Peters Angle to pay his tribute and that obeyed him He commanded the Asse-colt whereon never man sate to carry him with all gentlenesse to Jerusalem as if it had been tamed by former riding and it obeyed him He commanded diseases of all sorts to depart from the sick and they obeyed him Yea he commanded the Devils to come out of certain men and women and they obeyed him Yea at the time of Noabs flood He commanded all sorts of creatures as well the wild ravenous kind as the tame kind to come of their own accord into Noabs Ark and to live quietly together and they obeyed him Gen. 7. 89. But the wicked world because they despised the Spirit of Christ in Noab therefore Christ commanded a deluge of water to seize upon their bodies and their souls he sent to the prison of Hell I Pet. 319. 7 God gave the Mediator an absolute Dominion over all Tyrants so that they cannot do as much mischief to his people as they desire For Christ ruleth even in the midst of his enemies Psal 110. 2 5 6 7. Psal 29. 10 11 12. Prov. 8. 15 16. And therefore the Father hath commilled all judgement to his Son because all men should boner the Son as they honor the Father Joh. 5. 22 23. And hath given him Authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of Man Joh. 5. 27. And if he had not been declared to be the Son of Man just upon Adams Fall the Devill would have made a hellish confusion of the Creation at that instant but he was prevented by the right Heir that stood ready to take the Government of all upon him as soon as ever Adam fell From these and the like considerations it is evident that God created the world for the Honor of the Mediator and that he might rule it as the right Heir of it And the Hebrew Doctors have a common saying agreeing with this That the world had not been created but for the Messiab And therefore hence it follows That God could not keep a perfect Rest on the seventh day untill he had put all things in subjection under the feet of Christ as the proper Lord and right Heir of all the Creation and therefore Adam must fall and also be Re-created before the seventh day Conclusion God did perfect the whole Creation on the sixth day by ordering all things according to the Plat-form of his eternal Counsel and Providence 1 By ordering the Devils Fall 2 By ordering Adams Fall 3 By ordaining a Mediator and instating of him into his Priestly Office 4 By creating a humane nature for the Mediator of the seed of Eve 5 By his Office of Mediation he purchased the Spirit of his Father for

worship 2 Chr. 7. 16. 2 Chr. 30. 8. he did thereby command man to sanctifie it by performing every particular just as he commanded Solomon might not build the Temple after the fashion that he thought best but he must do it in all particulars as God commanded 1 King 9. 3. God did not leave any sanctified thing that did any way appertain either to the service of the Tabernacle or of the Temple neither to Moses discretion nor to Solomons wisdome but when God sanctified these places for his worship he commanded how and after what manner Heb. 9. 19. 21. every thing should be done Ex. 25. 8 9 10. Exod. 39. 42 43. Heb. 9. 19 21. 3 When God sanctified Cities of Refuge he did thereby command his people to sanctifie them it is said that they sanctified Kedesh in Galilee for a place of refuge Jos 20. 7. they did sanctifie it because God had commanded them to sanctifie it Deut. 19. 2. they might not sanctifie any City but by vertue of Gods command as it is expressed in Num. 35. 6 11. 4 When God sanctified Festival dayes or Festival Sabbaths he did thereby command the Sons of Israel to sanctifie them Lev. 23. and Jeroboam is branded as a wicked opposer of Gods sanctified Sabbaths because he commanded a standing Holy-day to the Lord of his own head 1 King 12. 32 33. From these and such like examples it follows that when God sanctified the seventh day he commanded Adam and Eve to sanctifie the seventh day in the use of such Ordinances as he was pleased to blesse the seventh day withall Jesus Christ did not leave the sanctifying of the seventh day to Adams discretion in an arbitrary way how much time he would set apart for Gods service but by sanctifying the seventh day God commanded Adam to set apart the whole day for his service in such publick and private duties he had blessed the Sabbath withall 2 The word Sanctified implies another command to faln When God sanctified the seventh day he did thereby command Adam to prepare himself for the better sanctifying of the seventh day Joel 2. 15. Adam namely to prepare himself to the sanctification of the Sabbath First By an outward And secondly By an inward preparation Sanctifie a Fast call a solemn Assembly Joel 1. 14. that is to say Prepare your selves to meet me in a day of publick Fasting as it is explained in Joel 2. 15. Blow the Trumpet in Zion Sanctifie a Fast Calla solemn Assembly that is to say Warn the people by a Trumpet to prepare themselves to sanctifie a Fast Joels three terms in vers 5. are all Synonima and do all imply that Gods people must prepare themselves for a day of Fasting First Outwardly by sanctifying or washing their bodies and garments And secondly Inwardly by true humiliation of soul and in this sense also God commanded Joshua to sanctifie the people against they came into his presence on the morrow Jos 7. 13. Now all that Joshua did to sanctifie the people was no more but to warn them by a Proclamation through the Camp which usually was attended with the sound of a Trumpet saying Sanctifie your selves it is as much as if he had said God hath commanded you to sanctifie your selves First Outwardly by washing And secondly by inward repentance against you come into his presence on the morrow So when God commanded Moses to sanctifie the people to hear the Law delivered at Mount Sinai Moses did no otherwise sanctifie them but by commanding the people to prepare themselves in a sanctified manner First By inward fear and reverence And secondly by outward washing and by abstinence from their wives two dayes together for their more reverent attention of Gods Law Exod 19. 10. Jos 3. 5. Exod. 3. 5. 1 Sam. 16. 5. Num. 11. 18. Exod. 19. 10. Jer 6 4. So in like sort when God said Sanctifie War it is a command to prepare for War Jer. 6. 4. Jer. 51. 28. From these and such like instances it follows That when God sanctified the first seventh day he commanded Adam and Eve for the more solemnity to prepare themselves for the sanctifying of the seventh day God having made a promise to them in the end of the sixth day that the Seed of the Woman should break the head of the Serpent he sanctified the next day for a Sabbath of rest because he had blessed it with Ordinances and thereby he did command Adam and Eve to prepare themselves against they came into his holy presence on the morrow for sin had desiled them and therefore they needed to prepare themselves not onely by outward washing but also inwardly by true repentance Act. 22. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 15. Es 29. 23. or else instead of receiving good by that blessing wherewith God had blessed the seventh day they might expect a curse at least an outward curse upon their bodies as it fell out upon Aarons Sons when they did not sanctifie the Lord in his worship according to his command the Lord struck them with present death saying I will be sanctified in all that come neer me Lev. 10. 3. and when some of Ephraim and Manasses did come to the sanctified Passeover in the dayes of Hezekiah God was displeased with them because they had not prepared themselves thereto according to the sanctified or commanded preparation of the Sanctuary but Hezekiah prayed for them and the Lord heard him and healed the people 2 Chr. 30 18 19 20. 2 I will speak a little more of the word Sanctified as it implies a command to fallen man to prepare himself to sanctify the seventh day for all sanctified things must be remembred by way of preparation before hand that so they may be done in due time and order or else God that is jealous of his sanctified things will be displeased And therefore one Reason why the word Remember was after added to the fourth Commadement was not to adde a new sense to that Command more than it had to Adam under the word Sanctified but to increase the charge of preparation with more vehemency which at the first was co●ched under the word Sanctified for now the people of God had forgotten the charge that was contained in the word Sanctified and therefore when Jesus Christ did give the fourth Commandement at Mount Sinai by the Ministery of Moses he added the word Remember saying Remember the Sabbath day to sanctifie it Exod. 20. 8. for about three Exod. 20. ● weeks before this as the time may be calculated by comparing Exod. 16. 1. with Exod. 19. 1. Christ Jesus by Moses had said thus to the people Tomorrow is the Rest of the Holy Sabbath unto the Exod. 16. 23 Lord Exod. 16. 23. Christ Jesus did not now speak these words to them by way of a first Institution of the Sabbath but by way of admonition to prepare themselves to observe it as a holy or sanctified day already commanded for how else did

the Re-creating of faln Adam and Eve 6 6 By this means they were made a part of Gods heavenly Host 7 By this means they were made the chiefest part of Gods Host here on earth 8 When all this was done then Christ was Heir of all things 9 When all this was done then Sathans Head-plot was broken 10 When all this was done then and not till then God could keep a perfect Rest on the seventh day from all his works because by this means he had finished that work that at first he had made but mutably perfect in the former part of the sixth day And therefore it follows by good consequence That the Sabbath was not ordained in the time of Adams Innocency But after his Fall and Re●creation by the Promised Seed CHAP. VII Proving that Gods rest on the soventh Day was such a perfect rest that nothing could happen afterwards that could any whit lessen or disturb the perfection of his rest on the Seventh Day as it would have hapned if God had kept a sabbath of rest whiles Adam stood in a mutable condition The Text saith in the latter clause of Gen. 2. 2. That God rested the Seventh day from all his Works which he had made But God could not be said to keep a perfect rest from all his Works which he had made as long as Adam stood in a mutable condition for God knew from Eternity that Adam and Eve would presently fall from their Created perfections through the temptation of Satan and that thereupon the whole Creation would fall into utter confusion and that then God must either suffer Satan to take the Dominion of the whole Creation or else that he must begin again to make it more perfect than it was before by a new Creation Seeing therfore that one of these two things must necessarily follow upon Adams fall God could not keep a perfect rest on the Seventh Day from all his Works untill he had installed the Mediator into his Office and setled the whole government of all things upon his shoulders as upon our mighty God and Prince of peace Es 9. 6 7. If God had rested on the Seventh Day before he had setled the whole Creation upon the Mediator then the Devil might have rejoyced more upon the first seventh day than God 1 Because the Devil had made frustrate the glory of God in Mans Creation 2 Because he had spoiled the glory of Gods order in the residue of the Creation But God could not suffer this and therefore it follows that God could not keep a perfect rest as long as Adam stood in mutable condition neither could he keep a day of rest after Adams fall until he had made Adam and Eve perfect again by a Recreation and until he had establised all the residue of the Creation upon that sure Rock whose work is perfect Deut. 32. 4. But as soon as God had re-created fallen Adam and Eve as the first fruits of his Holy Militant Church here on earth and of his Church Triumphant in Heaven then and not till then God rested on the seventh day from all his Work which he had made and then his rest was a most perfect rest so that nothing was lacking to the perfection thereof and therefore nothing could happen afterwards that could any way lessen or disturb his rest because he rested upon that sure Mediator who had Covenanted to break the Devils Head-plot by his propitiatory Sacrifice or Sacrifice of attonement for fallen Adam and Eve and for all the Elect to the end of the world CHAP. VIII Of the true nature of Gods rest on the Seventh Day First It must be remembred That Gods rest on the seventh day was not a Natural rest after the labour of his six Days Work for the Creator of all the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary Esa 40. 28. Secondly Neither was Gods rest on the seventh day a bare cessation from Creating any other sorts of Creatures though some inconsiderate Professors would have it to be no more thinking thereby to warrant their Carnal ease and their carelesse keeping of the Lords Day but such kinde of rest as this is Gods Soul doth hate Thirdly Neither was Gods rest upon the seventh day a bare contemplation of his visible Creation as others would have it thinking thereby to warrant their pleasant Re-creations and Contemplations upon the Lords Day by walking out into the Fields to be hold the Works of God and to behold his eternal Power and God head in the Creation this is not the true rest of the Sabbath for such duties as these a Heathen Philosopher may do upon the Sabbath Day and yet not observe the true rest of the Sabbath but this sort of Persons are mis-led by a false supposition that the Sabbath was first ordained as a day of rest in the time of Adams innocency for contemplation on the visible Creation only Fourthly The true nature of Gods rest on the seventh day That the true nature of Gods rest on the seventh day was his sweet content in the Medi●tor was his sweet content in the Mediator because he had made all his Creation perfect in the Mediator and because he had established Adams happiness upon the promised Seed as upon a sure Rock and firm Foundation and because he had put all the rest of the Creation under his feet As soon as God had thus renewed the face of the earth Psal 104. 30. and setled the government of all his Works upon the Person and Office of the Mediator then God rested on the seventh day with infinite content and sweet satisfaction rejoycing in the Works of his hands Psal 104. 31. but the thirtieth verse makes Gods Creation to be Spiritual as well as earthly and so doth Psal 100. 3. Psal 102. 18. Es 54. 5. Es 65. 18. This sweet satisfying rest which God took in setling all the works of his hands upon the Mediator is thus expressed by Moses In six days Jehovah made the Heavens and the Earth and in the seventh day he rested and was refreshed Exod. 31. 17. Gods resting was not from his wearinesse of labour in the work of Creation but from the heavie burden of Adams sin which had spoiled all his Creation till he had re-created Adam and setled him and all the rest of the Creation upon the Rock Christ and in this respect God doth often complain of Mans sin as a heavie burden to his Soul Amos 5. 2 13 Es 1. 14. And as the sin of the old World did grieve God to the heart Gen. 6. 6. so no doubt but Adams sin above any other sin did grieve him to his heart untill God had re-created Adam and Eve by the promised Seed and put the whole Creation under his government and then God rested the seventh day and was refreshed that is to say the grief of his heart which fell upon him in the sixth day by reason of Adams sin was removed from him

Circumcision in the time thereof Joh. 7. 22. drives away the Sabbath that is to say A man must omit to keep the rest of the Holy Sabbath to circumcise his child on the eighth day if the Sabbath be the eighth day seven dayes together the young Infant was in his blood of uncleannesse but on the eighth day it must be circumcised for the full cleansing of it from all the pollution that did accompany it in the birth And Rab. Menachem on Gen. 17. saith Circumcision was therefore done on the eigth day that the Sabbath might passe over it for there is no eighth day without a Sabbath and then as soon as it was circumcised it was accounted as a new creature as if it were risen again from death to life and this did typifie our first resurrection from the death of sin to the life of grace by vertue of Christa Resurrection whose Resurrection-day is called the eighth day as I have ere-while noted from Joh. 20. 26. A third Reason is taken from the consecration of the Priests Reason 3. their persons were not perfectly consecrated to minister in their office untill the eighth day Lev. 8. 33. 35. Lev. 9. 1. Ezek. 43. Lev. 8. 33. 45. 26 27. In like sort the Person and Sacrifice of the Mediator was not declared to be fully accepted untill his Resurrection on the eighth day A fourth Reason is taken from the perfect cleansing of the Reason 4. Leper on the eighth day Lev. 14. 8 9 10. And from the cleansing Lev. 15. 13 14. of unclean Issues Lev. 15. 13 14. And from the cleansing of the polluted Nazarite Num. 6. 9 10. And from sundry such like Instances where no perfect cleansing was made untill the eighth day then and not till then their persons and sacrifices were acceptable unto God as persons that were newly risen from death to life doubtlesse this full acceptance of them of their Sacrifices on the 8th day did typifie the full acceptance of Christs Person and Sacrifice which was declared by his Resurrection on the eighth day for he rose from the dead on the next day after the seventh day A fifth Reason is taken from that special eighth day of the Feast Reas 5. of Tabernacles which was called also a Sabbath day This day was called the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles and it had a Commandement by it self above the other seven dayes because it was a greater Sabbath than any of the rest and in that respect John doth call it the great and last day of the Feast Joh. 7. 37. Joh 7. 37. And all the Tribes of Israel were bound to observe this day with a general Assembly above the other seven dayes Deut. 31. 10 11. 2 Chr. 7. 9. Neh. 8. 18. And that Assembly is called a General Assembly Neh. 8. 18. by the Seventy in Amos 5. 21. And by allusion to that term the Apostle Paul calls all the Israel of God The General Assembly of the first-born Heb. 12. 23. Amos 5. 21. Heb. 12. 23. And why was this eighth day made more eminent than all the other seven dayes but to type out unto us the eminency of the Resurrection-day of Christ above the seventh day for the exercise of Gods publick worship to the worlds end and the New Testament doth tell us of a great number of Christians that were gathered into a great Church Assembly on this day at Jerusalem Act. 2. 41. And this great Assembly was from divers parts and quarters of the world for many of the dispersed Jewes that did beleeve resorted to Jerusalem from remote Countries at Festival times and many that were converted to the faith did there continue untill they were dispersed again at the death of Stephen which dispersion God turned to the further enlargement of his Church for many of these dispersed Disciples preached the Gospel in sundry parts of the world where they travelled and by that means a multitude both of Jews and Heathens became Christians and these Christians in time made many Christian Church-Assemblies and they all used to meet together on the first day of the week which was the next day after the seventh and so it was the eighth day which was typified by the eighth and last day of the Feast of Tabernacles A sixth Reason is borrowed from the Jubilee Yeer which by Reason 6. Gods special Providence was ordained to be in the eighth yeer after the seventh seven and this sabbatical yeer was ordained to be a greater Sabbath than the seventh seven because it was ordained to give a more full deliverance to Gods people than the seventh seven Lev. 25. 4 8 20. Lev. 25. 4. The seventh seven was the forty and ninth yeer and the next yeer after the seventh seven was the eighth yeer and it was also the fiftieth yeer or the Jubilee yeer And both these Sabbatical yeers thus succeeding each other do most lively point out unto us how the Lords Resurrection-day by which we have a full J●bilee of deliverance from Satans Head-plot should succeed the Sabbath or seventh day Three things are remarkable touching the number Eight 1 That the number Eight was mystical as well as the number Seven 2 That the number Eight was a number of perfection as well as the number Seven 3 That the number Eight was a Sabbatical number as well as the number Seven Now seeing these things have been made cleer and cannot be denied how can it be denied but that the number eight must needs have relation not onely to the Resurrection of Christ on the eighth day that is to say on the next day after the seventh day but also that the said day must be established as a Sabbatical day among Christians in the New Testament in the place of the seventh day II It is no lesse wonderfull that four Sabbaths did meet together and succeed each other at the death and Resurrection of Christ 1 Christ did make his soul a P●op●●●atory Sacrifice of Attonement for our full Redemption from Satans Head plot on a Festival Sabbath namely on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened-bread and this day John calls a High Sabbath Joh. Joh. 19. 31. 19. 31. 2 Christ rested all the Sabbath or seventh day namely his body rested in his grave and his soul in Paradise 3 On the first day of the week he ●rose again from the dead as the Lord and Conqueror of Satans Head-plot and in this respect he being the Lord of his Church and the Lord of the Sabbath did ordain it for the day of his publick worship in place of the seventh day to the end of the world 4 God by his eternal Counsel ordained and Christ in obedience to his Fathers will accomplished his Death and Resurrection in a Sabbatical Yeer of Jubilee And this Sabbatical Jubilee is also called The acceptable Yeer of the Lord Luke 4. 19. And from the typical signification of the Luke 4.