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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

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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 Lord was also pleased to adde a gracious promise in vers 27. saying They shall put my name upon the Sons of Israel and I will blesse Numb 6. 24 27 them and this blessing is often remembred and repeated as an incouragement to all the godly to attend his Sabbath-Ordinances Psal 115. 13. Psal 134. 3. Psal 147. 13. Object You seem to apply Gods blessing to his Sabbath-Ordinan●es only but experience doth tell us that God doth often blesse the preaching of the Word upon the Week-days to the conversion of many souls Ans I answer It is most true that God doth often blesse the preaching of his Word on the Week-days as well as upon the Sabbath days to the conversion of many thousand Souls but that lets not but that preaching must still be accounted as one of his Sabbath-Ordinances because God did first appoint it for the Sabbath day and it is now but borrowed to the Week-days by the good hand of God upon mens Spirits as a furtherance to faith and holinesse And I beleeve there are many thousand Souls that will readily witnesse to the truth of this Doctrin who by Gods blessing on the Word preached on the Week-days have been turned from Darknesse to Light and from the power of Satan to God and such persons doubtlesse will with Nehemiah account the Sabbath Day among the number of those special blessings that God bestowed upon his people as a sign of his special grace in Christ Nehem. 9. 13 14. Hitherto I have spoken of Gods blessing the seventh day with publick Ordinances now I shall speak something of private Ordinances where-with God hath also blessed the seventh day Gods blessing of the Sabbath is his blessing at large even his Private duties are commanded on the Sabbath dayes as necessary handmaids to the publick blessing upon the whole day he blessed the seventh day with as large a blessing as may be namely not onely with publick but also with private Ordinances and therefore he sanctified the whole day to his service he did not sanctifie that part onely wherein his publick Ordinances were dispenced but the whole day and therefore the whole day must be set apart to his service and therefore when the publick Ordinances are ended private duties must take place that the whole day may be blessed to our souls and sanctified to the Lords service Let no man therefore mistake me for though I do not make private duties to be commanded in the first place yet I beleeve that private duties are commanded and blessed of God as necessary handmaids to the publick and there are good reasons for it 1 Our barren hearts our stony hearts our thorny hearts will not suffer the blessed seed of the Word the take root and to thrive there unlesse we do prepare them like to well-manured ground 2 In hearing Christ gives this caution Take heed how you hear and the Hebrew Doctors say When any go to hear the Law read See Ains in De●t 31. 11. or expounded they must prepare their hearts and make their ears attentive to hear with fear and reverence and with joy and trembling as in the day when the Law was given on Mount Sinai though they were great wise men which knew the whole Law every whit they were bound to hear with great attentivenesse and so God required a carefull preparation of his people at the hearing of the Law Ex. 19. 3 After hearing our Saviour doth exhort his hearers saying Take heed what you hear Mar. 4. 24. Mar. 8. 15. and in this respect the men of Berea are commended by the Holy Ghost because they seached whether those things which Paul preached were so or no Act. 17. 11. And of four sorts of hearers our Saviour makes but one good Mat. 13. And Christ Jesus doth exhort us by Moses saying Toese words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart and thou shalt whet them upon thy children and shalt speak of them when thou fittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thon lyest down and when thou risest up Deu. 6. 6 7. Now if God required such diligence as this every day then much more upon the Sabbath day and especially after the publick Ordinances are ended And all this did Adam well understand when God is said to blesse and sanctifie the seventh day as I shall further shew on the word Sanctifie in the next Chapter CHAP. X. Shewing how God did Sanctifie the seventh day 1 GOD did not sanctifie the seventh day by putting any inherent sanctity into that day more than into the other six dayes of the week for God doth not put inherent sanctity into any earthly creature but into the Elect number onely 1 Pet. 1. 12. 2 How then did God sanctifie the seventh day Answ In a two-fold respect 1 As the separated time of his publick and private worship 2 As a sanctified sign of Rest in the Seed of the Woman for the breaking of the Devills Head-plot 1 God did sanctifie the seventh day for the separated time of his publick worship and in this sense the word Sanctified doth imply a double command of God to fallen man 1 It implies that God commanded Adam to set apart the seventh day from all worldly uses and to attend upon those spiritual Ordinances wherewith he had blessed the seventh day 2 It implies that God commanded fallen Adam to prepare his soul and body to come with all due care and reverence into the presence of God to be partakers of his Sabbath-Ordinances 1 I will speak of the word Sanctifie as it implies the command of God to Adam to set apart the seventh day from all worldly uses and to attend upon those spiritual Ordinances wherewith God had blessed the seventh day And this is evident 1 Because God did never sanctifie any thing for the use of fallen man but he did thereby command fallen man to sanctifie When God did sanctifie any thing for man he did by that act command man to s●nctifie that thing by separating it to the Lords use Num. 8. 17. it to the Lords use As for example when God did sanctifie any persons to his service he did by that act command man to sanctifie such persons to the Lord Every first-born of the Sons of Israel saith the Lord are mine both of Man and Beast for in the day that I smote every first-born in the Land of Egypt I sanctified them unto me Numb 8. 17. that is I commanded my people to sanctifie them to my service which they did perform First By setting apart some of the clean kind for Sacrifice And secondly by redeeming the rest with money which money God commanded to be imployed to his service either by buying some Sacrifices of Attonement therewith for the publick or else it must be for the repairing of Gods Sanctuary as Exod. 13. doth explain it 2 When God did sanctifie the Temple for the publick place of his Typical