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A56366	I. The time when the first Sabbath was ordained ... II. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained ... Part II, III. A treatise of holy time concerning the true limits of the Lords day ... / by William Pynchon.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time, or, The true limits of the Lords day.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4313; ESTC R27470	236,938	328

3. for by these Ordinances it is published to the world that Christ is the Seed of the Woman in whom all Nations of the earth are blessed Gen. 12. 3. Act. 3 26. Gal 3. 14. Object But here it may be objected That in likelyhood God did not ordain any publick Ordinances in the first seventh day nor in many other Sabbaths after because for a long time there was no competent number of persons to make a publick meeting and after that Adam Eve had children yet for many yeers they could not be able to understand the use and benefit of Ordinances and Ordinances cannot be called Publick where there is no more but two persons to meet together two persons cannot be called a publick Church-Assembly Two persons where no more can b● had may be called a true Church of Christ and may exercise Gods Ordinance● after a publick maner Rev 11 3. Answ Two persons where no more can be had may be called a true Church of Christ and may exercise Gods Ordinances in a true publick manner for the Church of Christ under the persecutions of Antichrist is called by the name of Two Witnesses Rev. 11. 3. though the Church of Christ were many thousands in those times yet it is called by the name of Two Witnesses because by Moses Law two Witnesses were accounted sufficient to confirm any truth Deut. 17. Hence I infer that if no more but two can be had to testifie the truth against Ant●christ they are to be esteemed as a true Church of Christ and therefore they may be called a true Church of Christ as well as two thousand and our Saviour saith That where two or three are gathered together in his name there he will be present in the midst of them Matth. 18. Mat. 18. 19 20. 19 20. Simeon and Levy made a Church when they agreed together to Gen. 49. 6. destroy the Sichemites for Jacob saith of them thus My glory be thou not joyned with their Rahal that is to say with their Church Gen. 49. 6. Their Church I grant was a Church of evill doers but yet they were a sufficient number to make a Church though at this time overcome with the temptation of revenge then why might not Re-created Adam and Eve make a Church of Christ much more and so consequently injoy Gods Ordinances as publick Ordinances seeing God did blesse the seventh day with Ordinances and sanctifie it that is to say God did command them to sanctifie it by the use of the said ordinances I conclude therefore that Christ Jesus did command Adam and Eve to exercise those Ordinances wherewith he was pleased to blesse the Sabbath as a Church of Christ and from thenceforth he hath and will continue his Church upon the face of the earth to the worlds end though it may and hath oftentimes been brought to a very small number as it was at the Flood and at the building of Babel and in the dayes of Abraham when God called him to come away from his Country and from his Idolatrous kindred Gen. 12. and in the dayes of Job and in the dayes of Enosh for after Seth had lived a hundred and five yeers which was Gen. 4. 26. two hundred thirty five yeers from the Creation of Adam then many of Adams children did not abide in the Truth they did not regard the Sabbath nor the Sabbath Ordinances but they regarded the Daughters of Cain more than the children of God and took them wifes of all that they liked And then grew prophanesse instead of calling upon the name of Lord Gen. 4. 26. Godly Seth for very grief of this prophane generation called his son Enosh that is to say Sorrowful So Tremelius in his Elder Editions doth read the text though Junius hath since altered him to a clean contrary sense and so doth Mr. Broughton read it and all the Hebrew Doctors in general and Mr. Ainsworth comes neer them But if the children of the Church had but continued to regard the holy Sabbath and the Ordinances thereof as they did in The disregarding of the Sabbath and the Ordinances thereof is the high way to all prophaness and Apostacy Adams first dayes before Abel was killed for Religion they could not have faln into so deep an Apostacy as they did in the dayes of Enoch for if men will but reverently attend unto the exercise of those spiritual Ordinances wherewith God did first blesse the seventh day they should doubtlesse be made partakers of the spiritual blessing that Christ Jesus hath annexed thereto for the good Shepherd Christ Jesus hath promised to all his Sheep that will be guided and governned by his Ordinances That he will make them and the places round about his Hill and to be a blessing and that there shall be showers of blessing upon them Ezek. 34. 26. and so the Prophet Isaiah Ezek. 34. 26. testifieth saying Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath and poluteth it not and that taketh hold of my Covenant as Adam did when he beleeved that the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head them will I bring to my holy Mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their Burnt-offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar Es 56. 2 6 7. Hence it is manifest that those that regard the Sabbath and the Sabbath Ordinances shall be blessed with spiritual blessings in heavenly things And if God blesse who shall curse for his blessing maketh rich Prov. 10. 22. it makes them rich with temporal blessings that diligently attend upon their Civil imployments and so it also maketh them rich with spiritual blessings that diligently attend upon Gods Sabbath Ordinances Gods blessing did increase the Widows oyl and the five loaves and two fishes and therefore his blessing is called Multiplication Gen. 1. 22. and sometimes it is called A rich reward 2 King 5. 15. and sometimes it is called Gods Liberality Prov. 11. 25. compared with 2 Cor. 9. 5. Yea Gods blessing is so plentifull and so powerfull upon his Sabbath Ordinances that he is said to Command his blessing upon Sion and life for evermore Psal 133. therefore his blessing wherewith he blessed the first seventh day must needs be mighty in operation even to the Re-creation and Conversion of many ten thousand souls Heb. 4. 12. Luke 11. 28. and therefore David doth by way of Exclamation cry out O blessed are they that dwell in thy house Psal 84. 4. namely they are thus blessed that do as it were dwell there by their frequent and constant resort to his Ordinances for his Ordinances are apt to convey blessings to the diligent soul And therefore Paul told the Romans that when he should come unto them He should come with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 15. 29. The Apostle made account that the preaching of the Gospel would inrich them with abundance of spiritual blessings and this blessing doth

Seed of the Woman But yet still as the seventh day was the sanctified time of Gods worship so it must still continue for the exercise of those Spiritual Ordinances wherewith God hath blessed the seventh day for the use of all Nations to the end of the world and because there must not be any intermission of the seventh part of time according to the dayes of the week therefore the seventh day could not be changed to any other day than the first day of the week wherein the Seed of the Woman arose from the dead as an absolute Lord and Conqueror of Sathans Head-plot CHAP. XII Shewing how God did make the first seventh day famous by honouring the number Seven ever after with famous respects 1 GOD hath made the first seventh day famous in three regards 1 Because God did blesse it with many Spiritual Ordinances above all the other six dayes for mans best good 2 Because God did sanctifie it as so much time for the solemnity of his publick worship for ever 3 Because God did ordain it as a sanctified type or sign of fallen mans resting on the Seed of the Woman for the breaking of the Devils Head-plot II. God doth often use the number seven in an honourable memorial of the first famous seventh day 1 God hath contrived many of the Typical Ceremonies of our Redemption to be numbred by seven in an honourable respect to the first famous seventh day 3 He hath marked out many holy men of speciall note by the number seven in an honourable remembrance of the first famous seventh day 3 He hath framed many parts of the Scripture Chronologie to the number seven in an honourable remembrance of the first famous seventh day 1 I will begin to open the first touching the Typical Ceremonies 1 The typical Ceremonies of our Redemption are often numbred by Seven in an honourable memorial of the first famous seventh day Lev 8. 33. 35. Lev. 29. 30. of our Redemption Seven dayes were appointed for the consecration of the Priests into their Priestly office Exod. 29. 30. in all which seven dayes they must abide at the door of the Tabernacle night and day to keep the watches of the Lord that no defilement might befall them or the Sanctuary Lev. 8. 33 35. And the chief reason why their Consecration must last seven dayes was because the Sabbath which was ordained as a typical sign of our sanctification by Christ might passe over them in that space and therefore the Hebrew Doctors say of this action Great is the Sabbath for the High Priest entreth not upon his service after he is anointed untill the Sabbath do passe over him And also from these seven dayes of their Consecration the Hebrew Doctors did gather That the High Priest must be separated from his house before he might do the service of the day of Attonement seven dayes every yeer See Ains in the said places 2 The Altar was seven times sprinkled with oyl when it was consecrated to be a type of the Mediators anointing When he should make his soul a sacrifice for our sins Lev. 8. 11. Lev. 8. 11. 3 The blood of the Sin-offering which the High Priest offered must be sprinkled seven times before Jehovah for Attonement Lev. 4. 6. And on the day of Attonement he sprinkled the blood Lev. 4. 6. of Attonement seven times before the Mercy-seat Lev. 16. 14. and seven times upon the Altar Lev. 16. 19. This seven-fold Lev. 16. 14. sprinkling of the blood of Attonement did type out the perfect Attonement that the Seed of the Woman should one day make for all the true Israel of God by his propitiatory Sacrifice of Attonement and therefore it was offered but once for all because it was perfect at once Heb. 10. 10 12 14. Heb. 10. 10 12 14. 4 The number of seven Sacrifices was often used as a typical number that God did much delight in no doubt in relation to the first famous seventh day As for example When David did fetch the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed Edom they offered seven Bullocks and seven Rams because the Lord inabled the Levites to bear the Ark 1 Chr. 15. 26. And when Hezekiah caused the Levites to cleanse the Temple then he together with the Princes brought seven Bullocks and seven Rams and seven Lambs and seven He-goats for a Sin-offering 2 Chr. 29. 21. In like manner Jobs three friends brought unto Job as the Priest in those dayes seven Bullocks and seven Rams for a Burnt-offering Job 42. 8. Job 42. 8. And in the New Jerusalem the Prince shall offer in the dayes of unleavened-bread seven Bullocks and seven Rams without blemish daily at the time of the seven dayes Ezek. 45. 23. And Balaam in imitation of such customes and in imitation of the first famous seventh day which doubtlesse was famous a long time among the Heathens he caused Balack to build seven Altars and to prepare seven Bullocks Num. 23. 1. 5 In cleansing of Lepers the Priest must sprinkle them seven times with water wherein the blood of the Bird that was slain was mixed Lev. 14. 7. and seven times with oyl before the Lord vers 16. 51. 6 Elisha the Prophet bad Naaman to wash seven times in Jordan and then he should be cleansed of his Leprosie 1 King 5. 10 14. 7 God allotted seven dayes for the time of Purification from sundry kinds of uncleanesse 1 The Woman in child-bed must be seven dayes separated from the company of her husband for a Man-child just as long as she was separated in the time of her menstruousnesse and twice seven dayes for a female Lev. 12. 2. Lev. 15. 19. 2 He that touched a dead man must be unclean seven dayes before he could be purified 8 God ordained every seventh yeer to be a Sabbath of Rest in the land of Canaan after that Joshua had given the people rest in the seventh year of his reign and when seven times seven yeers were compleat then began the Jubilee with the fiftieth yeer Lev. 25. 4 8. 20. 9. The Lord ordained seven sorts of Festivial Sabbaths besides the seventh day as they may be counted in Lev 23. and the Feast of Unleavened bread was a Feast of seven dayes and the seventh month was famous above other months because it had most Festival Sabbaths in it and in the seventh month Solomon kept the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple seven dayes and seven dayes 1 King 8. 2. 65. and Hezekiah took order because of the general uncleannesse of the Priests and of the greater number of the people in the first month that the Feast of Unleavened-bread should be put off unto the fourteenth day of the second month and then after they had kept the Feast seven dayes the whole assembly took counsel to keep it other seven dayes not with another Paschal Lamb but onely with voluntary Peace-offerings and by this means they kept that

going down of the Sun in Deut. 16. 6. must not be understood of the very time of Sun-set but of the whole time of the Suns declining from Mid-day till it went down out of that Horizon Object 3. Though the Jews might not kill their Passeovers in Canaan in their private houses as they did in Egypt yet they might kill them at more Altars than one for the Lord was pleased to allow several Altars for Sacrifices in several places and by this means all the Passeovers in Canaan might be killed and the blood sprinkled just about the time of Sun-set Ans I grant that the Lord was pleased to permit the use of many Altars and High-places in the dayes of Samuel for there The Lord permitted many private Altars in the dayes of Samuel but he allowed but one publick Altar for the general Feasts of the twelve Tribes and for the Passeover day and for the daily Morning and Evening Sac●ifice was an Altar at Gilgal 1 Sam. 10. 8. 1 Sam. 11. 15. Secondly There was an Altar at Betbel 1 Sam. 10. 3. 5. Thirdly At Mizpeh 1 Sam. 7. 9. Judg. 21. 1 4. Fourthly At Ramab 1 Sam. 7. 17. and there were several Altars also in the dayes of Elijah for he complained to God that Jezabel had broken down his Altars But notwithstanding all this no Passeover might be killed at any of these Altars for the Passeover in Canaan was commanded to be observed as a general Feast but these Altars were private Altars onely raised by Gods allowance by some particular person upon some special occasion and were after permited to be used by some adjacent Tribe or persons and in that respect these Altars were made but of earth or stone that was unhewn But the Altar that God commanded to be erected as the general publick Altar of all the twelve Tribes was made of brasse at the cost of the twelve Tribes and this was placed at first in the Lords Tabernacle in the Wildernesse afterwards this Tabernacle together with the brazen Altar was placed by Joshua and the whole Congregation in Shilo in the Tribe of Ephraim Josh 18. 1. and there it continued for the place of the general Assembly of all the twelve Tribes for three hundred and fifty yeers till the death of Eli but after the Philistims had taken the Lords Aark 1 Sam. 4. 10 11. and slain the most valiant men of Ephraim in that battel Psal 78. 9. God was wroth with Shilo and forsook it Psal 78. 60. for by that great destruction of all the valiant men of Ephraim Shilo was now become too weak a place to guard the holy Tabernacle and the holy Altar and therefore it was by the Lords advice removed to Gibbeon 2 Chron. 1. 3 4 5. which was a Royal City and a place of great strength Josh 10. 2. lying in the Tribe of Benjamin and it was allotted to the Priests Josh 21. 17. and the Gibbeonites the ancient inhabitants were given to the Priests to cut wood and draw water for the house of the Lord Josh 9. 21 23. 27. and afterwards in Solomons dayes they were called Nethinims 1 Chron. 9. 2. And from henceforth this place was called the chief High-place because the Lords Tabernacle and the Lords Altar were placed therein 1 King 3. 4. and in that respect David took care to provide a competent number of Priests to attend it But afterwards when David had recovered the Ark from the Philistims and had brought it into the Tent that he had provided for it in Jerusalem He divided the Priests into two parts and he appointed Asaph and his brethren to minister before the Lord at Jerusalem 1 Chron. 16. 37. and he appointed Zadoc and his brethren to minister at the Lords brazen Altar at his Tabernacle at Gibbeon 1 Chron. 16. 39. But when Solomon had finished his Temple he caused the Priests first of all to bring the Ark of the Lord into its place provided for it in the Temple and then he caused the Priests to bring up the Tabernacle of the Congregation with all the holy vessels into the Temple 1 King 8. 4. and after this manner the Lord refused Ephraim and chose the Tribe of Judah and Mount Sion of Benjamin which he loved Psal 78. 68. This brazen Altar was made and consecrated to be the publick Altar for the General Assemblies of all the twelve Tribes Exod. 27. 1. Numb 7. 1. and in that respect where ever this Altar was placed there was the chief High place untill Solomon had made another brazen Altar in the place of it 2 Chron. 4. 1. At this Altar was offered the daily Morning and Evening sacrifices for all the twelve Tribes and the Passeovers of all the twelve Tribes and they might not be offered in any of the former private High places The Hebrew Doctors say They sacrificed not the Passeover in a private High-place no not in the time when private High-places were permitted and whosoever offereth the Passeover in a private High-place is beaten for it is said in Deut. 16. 5. Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passeover in any of thy gates we have been taught that this is a prohibition to kil it in a private High-place although it be in the time when private High-places were permitted See Ains in Deut. 16. 5. and such a private Altar as this was at Bethlem where Ishai had a yeerly Sacrifice and Feast for all the family 1 Sam. 20. 26. and such a private Altar as this did Saul build with stone 1 Sam. 14. 35. And of these Altars it is said that when Asa and Jehosaphat destroyed the Idolatrous High-places that they did not destroy these High-places 1 King 22. 43. 2 Chron. 15. 17. Now from all the premises it follows That seeing they might not kill their Passeovers at several High-places nor sprinkle the blood on several Altars but at the general High-place and at the general Altar onely That all the Passeovers in Canaan could not be killed and their blood sprinkled in so short a time as about the time of Sun-set and therefore that Command in Deut. 16. 6. at the going down of the Sun must not be understood of the Sun-set Evening but it must be understood of the whole time of the Suns declining from Mid-day till Sun-set just according to the time of the two Evenings in Exod. 12. 6. 2. Let me adde another Reason why the going down of the Sun in Deut. 16. 6. cannot be understood of the time of Sun-set namely The Passeover day was no Sabbath it was but a half holy-day because the fifteenth day according to the date of the person purified began at Sun-set but no Passeover might be sacrificed after the fifteenth day was come but all are commanded to be sacrificed in the fourteenth day at Even 3. No other part of the fourteenth day was commanded to be kept holy but the Evening of the fourteenth day The Jerusalemy and the Babylonian Thalmuds say that men