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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

their backs upon the visible Covenant and the administrations of it do by their practice disown God and say the true God is not their God for how can God be their God but by Covenant and what is the Church Covenant but an Administration of the Covenant of Grace and that Soul who doth by words or works by opinion or practise turn away from the Covenant by neglecting to prepare for it or take hold of it is a stranger from the Covenant and liveth without God Eph. 2.12 and if by his Parentage and Birth he is in visible Covenant and when grown up yet doeth neglect to look after it or take hold of it he doth by his practise despise his Birth right and the time may come when he may seek for a Blessing with tears and yet find no place of Repentance Heb. 12.16 17. 2. Or those who neglect the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and can content themselves to be Baptized or to have their Children Baptized but are insensible of the need of the Lords Supper that great Seal of Communion with Christ and his Church 1 Cor. 10.16 17. or that hastening to this great Ordinance without due and that worthy preparation in the way of self-examination and discerning the Lords body and these do eat and drink their own damnation 1 Cor. 11.29 and if the Church doth admit those to the Lords Table who are visibly unworthy they will provoke the Lord against them as the Church at Corinth did that for this cause many amongst them were weak and many sickly and some were taken away by death 1 Cor. 11.30 3. Or those who in their Church Relation do live in the neglect of Church Discipline that is they give offence but will not give satissaction Mat. 5.23 or they will take offence but not manage it according to Christs Order Mat. 18.15 Lev. 19.19 and whatever their goodly words are yet they are but as a Hind let loose Gen. 49.21 and their works say they will not have Christ to rule over them and the quarrel the Lord hath against these the al●rementioned is that which is called the quarrel of his Covenant Lev. 26.25 a most searful quarrel And to conclude this Discourse we may consider 1. Some do despise the Covenant in the administrations of it or by their practice profess that the Covenant is not worthy of their care labour and cost and it may be drop some scoff or mocking expression but will not seek the Lord in the way of his Covenant these are in the high way to that unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost of counting the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and of doing despite to the spirit of Grace Heb. 10.27 28. 2. Some have visibly taken hold of the Covenant but do live in the breach of it Psal 78.37 38. 50.16 17. and the Lord saith what hast thou to do to take my Covenant into thy mouth seeing thou hatest instructions and castest my words behind thee And the quarrel the Lord hath against a People or particular persons whether it be for despising his Covenant or breach of Covenant ever implieth 1. These are guilty of sinning against the greatest love for the love of God in condescending to enter into Covenant with a sinner is the highest act of love and to despise this Covenant or the things of it or live in the breach of it is to spit reproach and contempt in the most beautiful face of divine Love do you thus require the Lord O foolish People and unwise Deut. 32.6 2. These sin against the only Remedy What cure and relief can there be for sinners but from Christ and how doth Christ relieve but in the way of his Covenant in the administration of it how can those escape who neglect this great Salvation Heb. 2.3 and hence follows the greatest punishment for the quarrel of the Covenant Amos 3.3 You I have known of all the Families of the Earth and you I will punish when the inquiry is made when they see what plagues sicknesses come upon the Land wherefore hath the Lord done thus to this Land and the Answer is because they have forsaken the Covenant of the Lord God of their Fathers Deut. 29.23 24 25. and thus we see how Apostasie doth shew it self in the degrees of it 1. How gradual it is First A growing cold in secret Duties then remiss and formal in Family duties and at length slighty and cold in communion with Saints in private and publick Ordinances and at last twice dead and pulled up by the roots Jude 12. they were dead as to a principle of spiritual life as all are by nature and they are dead as to the life and zeal of visible Profession which they sometimes had 2. As these declensions are gradual so they grow on upon an Apostatizing people insensibly at first somewhat afraid and startled but by a customary declension grow insensible of the danger and so ready to heal themselves with lazy desires and pretended good meanings and formal covenantings until at last they are left to a good opinion of their state that they say Wherein shall they return as if they were not convinced although from the dayes of their Fathers they had gone away from the Ordinances of the Lord and not kept them in that purity and power as they were left to them by their Fathers Mal. 3.7 Jer 8.5 6. In the next place follows the consideration of the bitter fruits of Apostasie as they are specified in the advertisement of our Rulers and for the clearing the particulars let us especially observe how it comes to pass that a People living under the means of Grace are left to those abominations and the Question in the first place is How it comes to pass that some living under the means of grace are left to gross Ignorance or abuse of their light and knowledge Ans Because some under the means of Grace have rejected the knowledge of God and therefore are left to gross ignorance or not loving truth as truth and therefore are left to abuse their light and knowledge to their destruction 1. Some have rejected knowledge that its become the object of their hatred as if instruction was not worthy of their love and if they be reproved they do despise reproof and the reprover and will not obey the voice of their Teachers Prov. 5.12 13. the reading good Books the Writing and Repeating of Sermons the Schools of Learning the conversing with the wise and all good means of knowledge in their hearts they despise Prov. 1.22 How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and scorners delight in scorning and fools hate knowledge Prov. 1.22 2. The punishment upon these followeth therefore they are left to a sottish ignorance they have not so much light as shall keep them from sottish and bruitish ignorance Jer. 4.22 they are sottish Children they have no understanding Jer. 5.4 surely they are poor and foolish they know

are Strangers and will give no heart-encouragement to other Christians to come near to them with intimate Conference about personal and particular Experiences of the Lords dealing with them and these know not what it meaneth to come into that broken hearted way of acknowledging one to another their temptations snares and Soul-hazards and that which is called by the Apostle a confessing of Faults one to another and a praying one for another Jam. 5.16 But the specialty likewise we intend in this is to shew how far these neglects do argue declensions 1. These neglect a principal means of practical communion of Christians that wherein much of the life of it doth consist for practical Christian Communion cannot principally consist in Apellations and Titles nor in meeting together at a Sacrament but in caring one for another as members of the same body 1 Cor. 12.25 bearing one anothers Burdens Gal. 6.2 communicating one to another of spiritual gifts Rom. 1.11 12. but those solemn Christian Meetings or occasional intimate Discourses whereby Christians are intimately acquainted with one anothers Burdens and Soul-concerns these lead into the life of practical communion and where these Christian Meetings fail their communion vanisheth into Names Titles or some very powerless forms of communion 2. These do give place to many dangerous Temptations and distempers for while they live as Strangers from the Souls one of another or any such intimate Christian Conferences the Tempter is at hand upon the least occasion to come in with uncharitable suggestions and to imploy any evil In●rument to sow seeds of discord amongst Christians 2 Cor. 12.20 and when these come to the ●ords Supper the Gospel Passeover if they be not past seeling they will find it too hard for them to eat with the unleavened Bread of Sincerity 1 Cor. 5.8 with that true Gospel spirit of unity as becometh those who eat of the same spiritual Bread 1 Cor. 10.16 yea it s usually seen through the Lords just judgement that those who are become Strangers from Christian Meetings or the hearty way of the management of them that they are left to too much familiarity with other Companions to the reproach of their Profession and harm to their own Souls and at last the wrath of God comes and finds them in fellowship with Children of Disobedience in some works of darkness which they ought to have reproved Eph. 5.11 The next Consideration follows Quest How Apostasie doth shew it self in the neglect of publick Worship The Answer is In neglect either of those Ordinances which all are commanded to attend as publick Prayer and hearing the Word of God Preached and particularly of Sanctifying the Sabbath Or a neglect of those Ordinances which do properly belong to those in Church Relation and particularly in neglect of the Lords Supper and Church Discipline 1. A neglect of those publick Ordinances which all are commanded to attend as publick Prayer and hearing the Word preached and this neglect is either 1. Upon some unnecessary occasions not works of Mercy as Mat. 12.13 but from an unwillingness to break throng any considerable difficulty or to beat cost about publick Worship not as David who would not offer that to the Lord which cost nothing 2 Sam. 24.24 2. Or not careful to come seasonably to the publick Worship as before the first Prayer or entrance be made into the publick Worship in these they are careless not as those in Nehemiah's time who were seasonably ready and waited for the publick Worship of God Neh. 8.1 3. Or attending upon the Ordinances in a slighty and sleepy manner not offering their Bodies as a living Sacrifice Rom. 12.1 4. Hastening a way upon unnecessary occasions before the last Prayer be ended or before the Blessing be dispensed not as those who went not away before the Name of the Lord was put upon them in a way of blessing by the Lords Messenger Numb 6.26 27. More particularly this neglect doth shew it self and Apostasie therein in the neglect of Sanctifying the Sabbath and that is either 1. In neglecting to prepare for the Sabbath by a timely breaking off from worldly Occasions but do run on to the very time of the beginning of the Sabbath to that in their Worldly concerns their foot steppeth into the time of the Sabbath or so nigh to it that they cannot prepare for holy time and the Duties of the same so suddenly Isai 58.13 2. Or in the time of the Sabbath a neglect to Sanctifie the Holy time having forgot to practice that which is so plainly declared Call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own wayes not finding thine own pleasure not speaking thine own words Isai 58.13 3. As soon as the Sabbath is ended those who do fall into vain and unprofitable discourses which at all times are sinful Ephes 5.4 but in a Sabbath Evening are the Soul robbing temptations by which Satan does bereave them of all the good they have seen or heard of God in the holy Day or are running into their worldly Discourses as if they were glad the Sabbath were ended Ames 8.5 But let us likewise in this consider how far these neglects do argue a declension from Religion 1. These who do neglect the publick Worship and particularly the Sabbath do fall short of that Religiousness which many Hypocrites and meer Formalists do attain for these in the publick Worship of God will behave themselves as the Lords People are wont to do Ezek. 33.31 32. Many have the form of Religion and not the power 2 Tim. 3.5 Many have the letter of Worship and not the Spirit Rom. 2.28 but those who have not the form the letter and external part of worship are far off from the power the spirit and inward worshipping of God 2. These do by their practice say that the worship of God is a burden and an abhorring to them their loathness to come to the publick Worship their wearisome Behaviour in the time of it and their hastening from it do testifie to their faces that the Sabbath and the Word of the Lord is a burden to them and these are a burden to the Lord and he threatens to forget them to forsake them and to cast them out of his presence Jer. 23.39.40 17.27 these by their works do say their Souls have abhorred God and the Lord he saith he hath abhorred them and that he will not feed them but that which dieth let it die and let the rest eat the flesh one of another Zech. 11.8 9. The second follows and that is the neglect of those Ordinances which do properly belong to those in Church Relation 1. A neglect of preparing for and of coming to take hold of the Covenant Isai 58.4.5 not as those whose faces are Zionward and weeping they will go to seek the Lord and joyn themselves in a perpetual Covenant never to be forgotten Jer. 50.4 5. but those who turn

to be our Christian Sabbath we may see in 1 Cor. 16.12 1. That which is there exprest is by way of precept and injunction for so the Apostle saith he had given order concerning the collection of the Saints and therefore not left it as a matter of indifferency or liberty but whosoever did neglect this did transgress the Apostolical precept and order 2. This order for the collection for the Saints was not only sent to the Churches at Corinth but to the Churches at Galatia so that it was an order and injunction common to the Churches 3. The order did not only respect the collection it self but the time and day of it that upon the first day of the week let every one lay by him in store as God hath prospered him so it is express in the 2 d. verse now the Argument follows Arg. The first day of the week was either a common and indifferent day or a holy day the day of the Christian Sabbath but no common and indifferent day for how could the Apostle by his injunction and order make it necessary for the Churches to attend this work of mercy collection for the Saints on the first day of the week if it was but a common day and thus esteem one common day above another contrary to his Doctrine Rom. 14.5 far be it from us to think that the Apostle could so contradict his own Doctrine but it was because the first day of the week was made to be a holy day and such works of mercy are very suitable unto the day 2 Arg. Or thus the Apostle did order collection for the Saints to be on the first day of the week either because it was the Christian Sabbath or for some other reasons but I have so long waited to he●r of some other reasons why the Apostle should lay an injunction upon all Churches to have such an honourable respect to this day without any consideration of it as the Lords Day and Christian Sabbath and all the Objectors and Cavillers against the first day of the week the Lords day have not brought forth the least appearance of any reason to the contrary that I confess I begin to think that the Opponents themselves within themselves have received a Sentence of despair of giving any reason only they have travelled and brought forth one poor Objection that there is not a word spoken of a Sabbath here and who saith there is but the Argument is taken from the Apostles Order and by Apostolical Order advanced the first day of the week above any other day and that the reason of this is either because it is the day of the Christian Sabbath or for some other reason which never yet was brought to light and therefore we conclude as in the former that the Apostle by his Doctrine did settle the first day of the week to be a holy day a Christian Sabbath Now in the next place concerning the practice of the Apostles the practice of the Churches of which much may be said in order to their attendance to holy Duties in the first day of the week because it was a day separated for holy Worship but at present we may consider Acts 20.7 First it was a Church assembly there spoken of for it is said the Disciples came together 2. Secondly the end for the sake of which they came together it was for the sake of religious duties that they might partake of the Lords Supper called breaking of Bread in this place as in Act. 2.42 and did not go alone without other Religious performances viz. Prayer and hearing the Word Preached 3. Thirdly It is spoken of as a custom and usuall practice of the Disciples therefore it is said on the first day of the week when the Disciples came together Paul having waited for and taking this opportunity to Preach to them for he abode seven dayes among them but this was the last day his being ready to depart on the morrow as is exprest in the 7th verse Arg. Hence the Argument is Paul and the Disciples with him either kept the Seventh day Sabbath or the first day of the week a Christian Sabbath or else they kept no Sabbath at all if they had kept the seventh day Sabbath that was the day before this First day of the Week then they had a meeting after a Sabbath manner for Religious Duties then the Evangelist would not have spoken of this Meeting on the First day as the only Church Meeting of the seven dayes of the Apostles abode amongst them therefore it was the first day of the Week in which Paul and the Disciples assembled and kept as a Christian Sabbath Much more hath been said by others and I have somewhat more in readiness to say if the occasion calleth for it and God giveth opportunity But at present having proved that the first day of the Week was by the Lord himself made by his Word and by his Works to be the Lords day and our Gospel and Christian Sabbath and his Apostles were guided by the Holy Ghost to settle it in the room and place of the seventh day both by their Doctrine and by their Practice we proceed to make Reply to John R. his Answers to the Questions And concerning his Preface to his Answers I shall at present omit it until I come to his Conclusion and then consider both his Preface and Conclusion together these and the Superscription being to the same Purpose and the same for substance Quest 1. The first Question Are not just and necessary Consequences from Scripture to be taken for the mind of the Holy Ghost in Scripture or else how shall we Answer the Papists against the error of Transubstantiation John R. his Answer is Ans If the Consequence drawn from Scripture is agreeable to the Scripture and no wayes contrary to the Scripture it must be granted truth because it speaks what the Scripture speaks But as to the Papists John R. saith they had no Scripture that said a piece of Bread was the body of our Lord or that our Lord was turned into a piece of Bread or that Bread was turned into our Lord for our Lord did not say to his Disciples Take eat this Bread is my Body as the Papists did affirm therefore they said that which the Scripture did not say so do you say that which the Scripture doth not say for you call the first day of the Week the Christian Sabbath but the Scripture doth not you call every first day of the Week the Lords Day but the Scripture doth not so Reply The Reply to Iohn R. his Answer follows His Answer consists of two parts 1. First partly of a seeming Concession granting that Consequences drawn from Scripture and agreeable to Scripture are truth c. 2. Secondly he compareth us unto the Papists for saying that which the Scripture doth not say and the Argument he gives is If we say the first day of the Week is the Lords day