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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	call_v	day_n	supper_n	10,399	5	10.1829	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93321	An appeal to the consciences of the chief magistrates of this Commonvvealth, touching the Sabbath-day: as held forth in a book intituled, Articles of religion approved and passed by both Houses of Parliament, after advice had with the Assembly of Divines, &c. Printed in the year 1648. As also in another book intituled, The grounds and principles of religion, contained in a short catechism, &c. And published by the same order. By William Saller, and John Spittlehouse, in the behalf of themselves and several others, who think themselves obliged to observe the seventh day of the week, for the Lords holy Sabbath ...	Saller, William, d. ca. 1680.; Spittlehouse, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing S397; Thomason E909_8; ESTC R203443	8,111	15

it meet to shew you the gross absurdities that will follow if the said Texts make such a change of the Sabbath as pretended For 1. If the Law written in mans heart by Nature were such a Law by which Adam and all his Posterity were bound Personally Entirely and Exactly unto a perpetual obedience thereunto as they have confessed And if the Day that God instituted for a Sabbath Gen. 2.2 3. was the same Day that God intended Man should observe in that Law of Nature he had written in his heart Rom. 2.14 15. as certainly none will deny the Day of the commemoration of the Creation to be in that there could be no greater ingagement in Nature to keep a Sabbath-day Then it will follow That if the said Texts do make a change of that Sabbath-day as they pretend they do then they plainly make a change of that Personal Entire Exact and Perpetual obedience required by God in the Law of Nature 2. If the Law written in mans heart by Nature continued after the fall of Adam to be a perfect Rule of Righteousness to all his Posterity both toward God and their neighbors as they have granted Then it will follow That this perfect Rule of Righteousness became in part imperfect at the Resurrection of Christ for otherwise what needed the Sabbath day which was part of that perfect Rule of Righteousness and had so continued from the Creation until that time admit of a change by the Resurrection of Christ as they pretend it did 3. If the said Law so written in Mans heart by Nature was the same which was afterward renewed in Mount Sinai in ten Commandments and written in two Tables do for ever binde all as well justified persons as others to the obedience thereof in regard of the Matter contained therein as also in respect of the Authority of God the Creator who gave it Then if the three Texts urged by them do make a change of the Sabbath day then they cleerly change the Matter in the Law where it is said The seventh Day is the Sabbath c. as also of the Authority of the one Lawgiver Jam 4.12 who gave that Law as also plainly contradict what the said Persons have affirmed Namely That Christ in the Gospel doth not any way dissolve but much strengthen the Obligation of justified Persons and others to their obedience to the Matter required in the said Law and that from Mat. 5.17 18 19. Jam. 2.8 and Rom. 3.31 But lest that which hath been said should not give you full satisfaction as to the Matter in difference we shall in the next place reply to these three Texts apart and so shew the invalidness thereof to what they urge them to prove First 1 Cor. 16.2 doth not in the least presuppose a Congregation gathered together to have the Word preached or Sacraments administred for the Text saith the cleer contrary i. e. Let every one lay aside by himself as God hath prospered him which doth cleerly evidence That the Apostle spake not of giving forth their liberality by way of Collection but of laying up by a mans self Singularly as a man doth when he is at home which moyety so laid up apart by themselves was afterward to be given to those Messengers whom they should afterward approve of by their Letters which Persons the Apostle promised to send unto them to receive it from them so that the Collection was to be afterward by the Apostles Messengers but on what day they so collected it is altogether uncertain Wherefore we conceive this Text doth not tend in the least to change the Sabbathday instituted by God to the First-day of the week 2. The Apostle Paul's preaching at Troas Act. 20.7 was extraordinary and no president he being to depart the next day for otherwise Ministers of the Gospel are thereby obliged to preach every First day of the week until midnight and then break bread afterward Secondly it is questionable whether the breaking of bread there mentioned is to he understood of the Lords-supper seeing the interpreters refer that Text to Act. 2.46 where it is said That the Church brake bread Dayly from house to house and consequently upon other Days as on the First-day of the week Thirdly If the administration of the Lords Supper be an unerring mark of the sabbath-Sabbath-day then the Day called Thursday is the sabbath-Sabbath-day if Christs example be as binding as they would have Pauls to be in this place the first institution therof being of a Thursday night It is clear also that Philip baptized the eunuch upon a travelling day Act. 8.36 37 38. c. and that preaching is also no certain mark of a Sabbath-day appeareth in that the Apostle Paul exhorted Timothy to preach in season and out of season 2 Tim. 4.2 which doth admit of Day or Night and of other Days as on the Sabbath-day It behooved them therefore to have proved first That the Apostle Paul preached then at Troas in obedience to the fourth Commandment Secondly That the seventh day Sabbath from the Creation was then changed to the First-day of the week and when and where and by whom and upon what account it was so changed Thirdly they should have shewed us as plain a Commandment for the keeping of the first day of the week upon the account of the Resurrection of Christ as there was for the keeping of the seventh Day of the week upon the account of the Fininishing of the Creation and that by the same Authority by which the former Sabbath was injoyned as in Gen. 2.2 3. Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. there being but one Law-given as hath been shewed Fourthly They should have shewed some President where one or more of the Apostles of Christ did preach two first Days immediately and successively one following the other and in obedience to the fourth Commandment or otherwise For a single action if they could prove it is no Practice All or any of which we are assured is impossible for them to prove from the Holy Scriptures And therefore in the three Texts so urged by them they plainly beg the Question i. e. that the First-day of the week is the Sabbath which is denied them by us and which we have just grounds to do in that the Apostle Paul who albeit the greatest opposer of ceremonies of all the Apostles did constantly preach upon the seventh Day of the week and that after the Resurrection of Christ as appeareth from Act. 13.14 42 44. 16 13. 17.2 18.4 as also in that we read not in the least that any of the other Apostles did ever neglect the observation of the seventh Day of the week as injoyned in the fourth Commandment and therefore we dare not but judge they walked in obedience thereunto as also in that the Lord Jesus affirmeth that he that breaks the least of them Commandments c. shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven as also in that the Apostle James affirmeth