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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

that he that faileth in his obedience to any one point of the Royal-Law hath thereby made himself guilty of the breach of the whole Law so that we are bold to conclude they were no Sabbath-breakers From all which with several other Reasons we might have urged we deny that Act. 20.7 proveth any thing as to what they have urged it 3. The First-day of the week is not so much as mentioned in Rev. 1.10 Secondly the Lords-day there named may be ascribed unto all that time wherein John was conversant in that Revelation which probably was of a longer continuance then one Natural or Artificial Day Thirdly If it must needs be applied to such a Day then why not more properly to the seventh-seventh-Day Sabbath as in the fourth Commandment then to the First-day of the week Seeing Jehovah himself there stileth the seventh Day to be his Sabbath Exod. 20.10 But the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God c. vid. also Isa 58 13. yea the Lord Jesus himself speaking of the seventh-seventh-Day Sabbath afore named professeth himself to be the Lord thereof Mark 2.27 28. Luk. 6.5 Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath-day Fourthly Why may not the Day commonly called Christmass-day or Good-friday or Ascension-day be as properly stiled the Lords-day as the Day called Easter-day Fifthly Neither this Text or the two former have any tendency to the Resurrection of Christ more then that he arose from the Grave on the First-day of the week and consequently of no more force to prove a change of the Sabbath instituted by God then the Day of Christs-birth or Passion or Ascention hath to change it to the Days they happened to fall on for any thing that the Scripture doth attribute to the day of Christs Resurrection more then to any of the other Sixthly The Rhemists upon this Text of Rev. 1.10 do ingenuously acknowledge That the Church made a change of the Sabbath from the Seventh-day unto the First-day in the week and that without all Scripture or commandment of Christ that they read of Yea say they which is more not onely otherwise then he ordained in the first Creation but plainly otherwise then was prescribed by God himself in the Commandment yea and otherwise then he ordained in the first Creaetion when he sanctified precisely the Sabbath-day and not the Day following To which may be added the Testimony of Doct. Prideaux in his work upon the Sabbath where he querieth saying Where is the least mention of Surrogating the First-day of the week in Room of the Sabbath or where among the Evangelists is there any distinct institution of the Lords-day or where will you necessarily prove it Mr. Bond also speaking of the change of the Sabbath concludeth that it was an Ecclesiastical constitution and not an Apostolical precept to which may be added the Testimonies of several other Writers to the same purpose Doct. Willet also in his Comment upon Exodus speaking of the changing of the Sabbath urgeth Vrsinus to prove That the Church did it ut se à Judaica synagoga discerneret That they might be discerned from the Jewish Synagogues which we conceive to be a very weak Argument to change a Moral and perpetual Commandment of God binding all men in all ages As the forementioned persons have granted it to be All which being seriously weighed and considered by you we appeal unto your Consciences whether it be not the duty of all Christians to obey the positive command of the one Law-giver rather then the determinations of Parliaments and Synods without any warrant from the Word of God Seeing the Lord Jesus himself hath declared it to be a vain worship where the Commandments of men are made Doctrinal Mat. 15.9 as also in that the Apostles of Christ did publickly oppose the Rulers Elders and Scribes upon the like account Act. 4.18 19 20. And seeing you have ingaged to establish the Christian Religion contained in the Scriptures Article 35 of the present Government and seeing Jehovah himself hath so plainly determined which of the seven Days in the week he will have us to observe for his Sabbath and that by three notable Characters i. e. the Sabbath-day the Seventh-day and that Seventh-day where on he himself rested Exod. 20.10 11. which reason cannot be given for any other Day in the week the seventh Day and the sabbath-Sabbath-day both pointing at the very same day and time so that take away one and take away both and grant one and grant both they being like the Name Jesus and Christ which both belong to one Person And seeing the Lord Jesus and his Apostles have as much ratified and established the fourth Commandment in every jot and title thereof as of any other of the nine Matthew 5.17 18 19. Romans 3.31 James 2.10 11. We cannot but stand in admiration that you should take upon you being poor Mortals and such as Jehovah can destroy in a moment to countenance and much more to establish such a Day for the Lords holy Sabbath as hath no warrant from the Scriptures as hath been shewed and to restrain the people of this Commonwealth from working on that Day wherein Jehovah himself hath commanded or at least freely permitted them to labour in Exodus 20.9 and to grant free liberty to work on that Day in which he hath positively commanded them to cease from their labour Exod. 20.10 And therefore it doth doubtless very neerly concern you to consider your present condition in this matter seeing it will no more avail you at the Day of Account to say you have observed a Sabbath in stead of the Sabbath then it will be for the Heathen to say they have worshipped a god instead of the true God Or no more then it will excuse Jeroboam to say That he kept the fifteenth day of the eighth moneth even the moneth that he devised of his own heart c. 1 Kings 12.33 Secondly In hat it is as much a changing of the Truth of God into a lie as in any other action of the Man of sin 2 Thes 2.4 c. it being a grand Character of the man of sin to change Times and Laws Dan. 7.25 All which we hope the Ingagement you have taken will be a means to incline you to hearken to what hath bin said And hoping you have been better learned then to reject good advice though tendered by contemptible Persons We do hereby in Gods stead exhort you to reduce the Lords holy Sabbath to its proper Day which you may do without the least prejudice to the people if you will but remove the Markets and Fairs which fall on that Day to some other day in the week which until you have done you do not onely live your selves in a manifest disobedience to the fourth Commandment but are also a grand Cause of the peoples living in the same sin and that by reason of the strict injunction you lay for the observation of the First-day of the week many not being able to leave their callings two Days in a week and therefore albeit convinced of the truth of the seventh Day to be the Lords Sabbath yet are by reason thereof necessitated to break the Lords Sabbath and to observe that of Mans erecting O remember the brand fixed on Jeroboam namely That he sinned and caused Israel to sin We are also perswaded That if the Clergy of this Nation would set themselves conscionably to preach from Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. they might in a very short time convince the judgement of their Congregations so as that they would willingly shake off the traditional Sabbath and yield a filial obedience to the true Sabbath in case the aforenamed impediments were removed and free liberty granted to all that have a desire to observe the seventh day of the week for their Sabbath to work on their callings on the First-day of the week which God himself hath permitted them to do as hath been shewed Which if done it would be a means to remove a great stumbling-block to the Jews who make it an Argument that Christ is not the Messiah because Christians who profess themselves to be his followers are Sabbath-breakers concluding from thence that Christ himself was a Sabbath-breaker and consequently a sinner and if so then there can be no benefit by his blood Again as the change of the Sabbath to the First-day of the week was chiefly done to raise a wall of partition betwixt the Gentiles and the Jews as hath been shewed so we hope the pulling down of that wall will be a preparative to the accomplishing of those glorious Prophesies which hold forth the unity which shall be betwixt Jew and Gentile as our Saviour himself hath foretold Joh. 10 16. as also the Apostle Paul Rom. 11.25 26 c. and Rev. chap. 7. which surely ought to be the earnest desire of all the people of God and especially of such as are in a waiting posture to see the fulfilling thereof and most of all by such as profess themselves to be the Rulers and Pastors to such a people as you and the Clergy of this Nation account your selves to be But if after all the praying for the conversion of the Jews and having now power in your hands to further it you are yet resolved not onely to continue this stumbling-block before them but also to harden your hearts and blinde the eyes of your understanding because this wholesom advice is not tendered unto you by the great Potentates and learned Rabbies of the Nation Yet we hope by what we have here spoken we have delivered our own souls from what will follow thereon having faithfully discharged our duty herein both towards God and our Neighbor FINIS Errata for grants read graces Pag. 5. li. 11.

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 as in the fourth Commandment of the Royal-Law of Jehovah Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Psal 119. 46. I will speak thy testimonies also before Kings and will not be ashamed Mat. 15.6 9. Thus have ye made the Commandment of God of none effect by your tradition but in vain do ye worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Printed for the Author 1657. An APPEAL to the Consciences of the chief Magistrates of this Commonwealth touching the Sabbath-Day c. GENTLEMEN IN as much as the 35 Article of the present Government doth grant liberty to confute Error and Heresie and whatsoever is contrary to sound D ctrine We have therefore as obliged in Duty and Conscience Lev. 19.17 Luk. 22.23 taken upon us to present unto you as the most properest Judges in this matter wherein the Persons mentioned in the Title-Page have erred in their judgement touching the Lords holy Sabbath And to the end you may the better discern the said error and be thereby induced to reform the same We shall in the first place lay before you what they have asserted touching the Law in which the said Sabbath is included In Pag. 19. of that Book of Articles as in the Title Page they have ingenuously and christianly confessed 1. That God gave to Adam a Law as a Covenant of Works by which he bound him and all his Posterity to Personal Entire Exact and Perpetual Obedience promising life upon the fulfilling and threatning death upon the breach of it and indowed him with Power and Ability to keep it Gen. 1.26 27. with Gen. 2.17 Rom. 2.14 15. Rom. 5.12 19. Gal. 3.10 11. Eccles 7.29 Job 28.28 2. That this Law after his fall continued to be a Perfect Rule of Righteousness and such as was delivered by God in Mount Sinai in ten Commandments and written in two Tables Jam. 1.25 28 10 11 12. Rom. 3.8 9. Deut. 5 32. 104. Exod. 34.1 The four first Commandments containing our duty towards God and the other six our duty to Man Mat. 22.37 38 39 40. 3. That the Law commonly called Moral doth for ever binde all as well justified Persons as other to the obedience thereof Rom. 13 8 9 10 Eph. 6.2 1 Joh. 2.3 4 7 8. and that not onely in regard of the Matter contained in it but also in respect of the Authority of God the Creator who gave it Jam. 2.8 Rom. 3.31 neither doth Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve but much strengthen the Obligation Mat. 5.17 18 19. Jam. 2.8 Rom. 3 31. 4. That although true Believers be not under the Law as a Covenant of Works to be thereby justified or condemned Rom. 6.14 Gal. 2.16 3.13 4.4 5. Act. 13 32. Rom. 8.1 yet it is of great use to them as well as to others in that as a Rule of Life it informs them of the will of God and their Duty it directs and binds them to walk accordingly Rom. 7 12 22 25. Psa 119.4 5 6. 1 Cor. 7.19 Gal. 5.14 16 18 19 20 21 22 23. discovering also the sinful pollutions of their Nature Hearts and Lives Rom. 7.7 3.20 so as examining themselves thereby they may come to a further conviction of and humiliation for and hatred against sin Jam. 1.23 24. Rom 7.9 14 24. together with a cleer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of his obedience Gal. 3.24 Rom. 7.24 25. 8.3 4. It is likewise of use to regenerate and to restrain their corruptions in that it forbids sin Jam. 2.11 Psal 119.101 104 128. and the threatning of it to serve to shew what even their sins deserve and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them although freed from the curse thereof threatned in the Law Ezra 9.13 14 Psal 89 31 32 33 34. The promises of it in like manner shew them Gods approbation of obedience and what blessing they may expect upon the performance thereof Levit. 26.1 10 14. with 2 Cor. 6.16 Eph. 6.2 3. Psal 37.11 with Mat. 5.5 Psal 19.11 although not due unto them by the Law as a Covenant of Works Gal. 2.16 Luk 17.10 so as a mans doing good and refraining from evil because the Law incourageth to the one and deterreth from the other is no evidence of his being under the Law and not under Grace Rom. 6.12 14. 1 Pet. 3.8 9 10 11 12. with Psal 44.12 13 14 15 16. Heb. 12.22 29. 5. That the forementioned Uses of the Law are not contrary to the grants of the Gospel but do sweetly comply with it Gal. 3.21 the spirit of Christ subduing and inabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God requireth to be done Ezek. 36.27 Heb. 8.10 with Jer. 31.33 In all which expressions we acknowledge our selves to be of the same judgement with them Again as touching the observation of the seventh Day Sabbath in Cap. 21. of the forenamed Book page 35. they use these following words As it is the Law of Nature that in general a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God so in his Word by a positive Moral and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages he hath particularly appointed one Day in Seven for a Sabbath to be kept holy unto him Exod. 20 8 10 11. Isa 56.2 4 6 7. which from the beginning of the World unto the Resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week Again in pag. 16. of the Catechism mentioned in the Title Page they also acknowledge That the fourth Commandment requireth the keeping holy to God such a set time as he hath appointed in his Word expresly one whole day in seven to be a holy Sabbath to himself and that from the beginning of the world to the Resurrection of Christ God appointed the seventh Day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath And in this particular also we judge they have dealt far more candidly then most of these will do who pretend to a higher dispensation Having thus shewed you their judgements in reference to the Moral Law and the Sabbath therein conteined we shall in the next place recite the Scriptures they urge to prove a change of the said Sabbath day unto the first Day of the week viz. 1 Cor. 16.2 Act. 20.7 Rev. 1.10 But before we shall speak thereunto we first conceive

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-day then the Day called Thursday is the 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