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A66372 An answer to the address presented to the ministers of the Church of England Williams, John, 1636?-1709. 1688 (1688) Wing W2680; ESTC R96 20,716 37

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to have a real but a phantastic Body And the Ministers of the Church of England notwithstanding the denial of his learned Men do yet maintain the Incarnation of our blessed Saviour to be evidently delivered in the words The word was not is as he mistakes made Flesh. For who was the Word but he that is called God ver 1. that made all things ver 3. And what was his being made Flesh but his being made of the Seed of David Rom. 1.3 And how was he made Flesh but by being united to it and becoming Man Now if the Word that was God was the Word and not Man before he was made Flesh and when he was made Flesh did not cease to be the Word then there must be in him two Natures united which is the Incarnation His 3 d Instance is as he saith in order to Practice and the Query upon it is Then in order to Practice I desire to know whether it be necessary to Salvation to keep holy the Lord's-Day that is Sunday and not Saturday If it be I desire to know in what Chapter and Verse it is clearly contained in Scripture as also where the Abrogation of the Saturday is clearly expressed If it be not necessary for Salvation to keep holy the Lord's-Day I desire your warrant for it in these or the like terms It is not necessary to keep holy the Lord's-Day that is Sunday To this I answer That the obligation to observe the Lord's-Day is more or less necessary or unnecessary according to the Institution of it for such as the Institution is such is the Obligation If it be of mere Humane and Ecclesiastical institution it may by the same Authority be altered as it was established If of Divine Institution it 's not subject to humane arbitration And if it be of Divine Institution we must have it by the Revelation in Scripture or else it cannot be Divine And that it 's established upon such Authority I shall offer these considerations 1. There is as much in the Reason of the thing for this peculiar Day to be observed in the Christian Church as there was for the Sabbath in the Patriarchal and Jewish Church for what the Moral Sabbath was to Man upon his Creation and the Ceremonial Sabbath was to the Jews upon their Deliverance out of Egypt Deut. 5.15 that is the First Day of t●● Week or the Lord's Day to Christians upon our Redemption by Christ which was accomplished and testified in his Resurrection on that Day 2. There is the Mark of Divine Institution set upon it when that which was otherwise called the first Day of the week was afterwards called the Lord's Day Rev. 1.10 It being usual in Scripture after that Times Places Things and Persons were set apart for the Service of God by Divine Institution to have his Name as a Mark of Propriety given to them Thus we read of the Lord 's Passover Exod. 12.11 The Sabbath of the Lord Exod. 20.10 The Temple of the Lord. The Lord's S●pper 1 Cor. 11.20 Now I know not what Reason can be assigned that when the Things thus dignified by this Title are elsewhere of Divine Institution and so named because of that Institution that this Day should be called the Lord's Day and not be of Divine but Humane Institution 3. We may observe further That as the New World of Redemption began upon that Day so upon the same Day did Christ solemnly consecrate the Christian Church by the Descent of the Holy-Ghost upon the Apostles Acts 2.1 2. as of old the Jewish Church was by a Cloud or Divine Appearance Exod. 40.34 1 Kings 8.10 11. which they had the Promise of and until which they were not to depart from Jerusalem and to enter upon the work of gathering a Church Acts 1.4 4. It was the Day which the Primitive Christians in the Apostolical times held their stated Assemblies upon for Divine Worship as appears Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 This may suffice for the first branch of his Query I desire to know in what Chapter and Verse it is clearly contained in Scripture His next is Where the Abrogation of the Saturday he means the Sabbath is clearly expressed I may answer him it 's in the same Chapter and Verse where the Abrogation of Circumcision is clearly expressed And when he can find out Chapter and Verse for the one I will undertake to shew him Chapter and Verse for the other Indeed there was no need of an express Abrogation of either For Baptism being instituted by Christ as a means of Initiation into his Church Circumcision that was the old way of admission must fall in course because the one was inconsistent with the other So the Lord's Day being set a-part for the publick and solemn Worship of God in the Christian Church the Sabbath that was before appointed for it must in reason surrender to it So the Apostle Col. 2.16 17. Let no man judge you in meat or drink or in respect of an holy-day or of new-moons or of th● sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ. Where the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tho in the plural signifies the Seventh day or Jewish Sabbath as it doth Matt. 25.10 12. and for the most part in the New-Testament And which being a shadow as well as Meats and Drinks Holy-days and New-Moons was with those and for the same reasons to cease by the coming of Christ. Now as the Institution of Baptism abrogated Circumcision and the Lord's Day abrogated the Sabbath so we may certainly infer that if the Sabbath was a shadow and abrogated as such which the Apostle here asserts that there was some other day instituted in the place of it these things mutually inferring each other and what that day is I may leave to our Author's guess without again going to Chapter and Verse If you say that everyone is only bound to believe what is clear to him in Scripture reading it with Sincerity and Humility then I must desire to know What if I reading Scripture Sincerely and with Humility cannot find clearly expressed either the Trinity or Incarnation will it not be necessary for the Salvation of my Soul to believe these two Mysteries I Answer 1. Sincerity and Humility do imply the due use of all the means a person hath in possession for the finding out the Truth such as diligent reading the Word of God Prayers and Consultation with such as are most able and fit to assist him And where this temper is and this course is taken there will never be wanting what is necessary John 7.17 If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self 2. No man can believe but according to the motives of credibility and the reasons he hath for his Faith. An obligation lies upon all to believe all things necessary to Salvation but that is