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A90390 An epistle to all such as observe the seventh-day of the week for a sabbath to the Lord. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1660 (1660) Wing P1164; ESTC R229116 3,041 1

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AN EPISTLE To all such as observe the seventh-Seventh-day of the Week for A SABBATH TO THE LORD FRIENDS IN true love to your souls and in the fear of the Lord I have a few things to lay before you that the simplicity in you may not be deceived and yee err from the way of life while yee may be eagerly seeking and pressing towards it For notwithstanding that if with the wrong eye yee be searching into Scripture ye must needs mis-read mis-understand and mispractice and so thereby will still be running further and further from God even while yee think yee are drawing nigher towards him Be perswaded therefore seriously to consider out of the wisdome from which God hides in the Babish simplicity of his begetting where the true life springs these few things following 1. That the whole Law of Moses the ten words as well as the institutions about sacrifices and worship was added because of transgression Gal. 3. 19. 2. That the whole Law the ten words as well as the sacrifices were representations figures or shadows of somewhat relating to Christ the seed subservient to the promise not making perfect but pointing to and making way for the bringing in of the better hope Gal. 3. 21. Heb. 7. 19. The Law of Commandements or the ten words did no more make perfect than the other shadows or sacrifices did but with them made way for the better hope towards which they were to lead their Schollar or Disciple as a School-master 3. That the whole dispensation of the Law was given to the Jews and not to the Gentiles Rom. 9. 4. and so not any thing there written bindeth the Gentiles as there written but onely the Jews God had another way of making his mind known to the Gentiles Rom. 1. 19. and 2. 15. according to which he would judge them ver. 12. and not by the Law written which was given to the Jews which spake not to the Gentiles but to the Jews who were under it Rom. 3. 19. 4. That the duration of this dispensation of Moses Law in the Letter was till Christ the seed should come and fulfill it Gal. 3. 19. and ver. 24 25. Moses his family with all the Laws thereof were to prepare for Christ the seed and to give way to him when he came For when that dispensation which was figured out is come then that dispensation which did figure it out is at an end Heb. 3. 5 6. Christ came to do the will to keep and fulfill the whole Law and so to put an end to that dispensation of it Psal. 40. Rom. 10. 4. And so he taketh away the first Administration of the Law which was in the letter that he might establish the second which is in the Spirit Heb. 10. 9. 2 Cor. 3. 7 11. This then is the truth as it is in Jesus concerning this thing That Christ comming in the flesh and fulfilling all the righteousnesse as well of the ten Commandements as of the sacrifices puts an end to that dispensation wholly So that henceforth both Jews and Gentiles are to come to him to hear his voice this is my beloved Son hear him And Moses foretold that when that Prophet came he was to be heard in all things whose whole Ministration was but to figure out what the Son was afterwards to fulfill in spirit Heb. 3. 5. Who would be faithfull to give forth the entire law and substance of life to his house or family of believers as Moses was faithful to give the entire shadow to his House or Family of that Nation of the Jews ver. 6. So that here in the Gospell Christ being come the new Covenant and Law in the Spirit takes place and not the old Covenant or Law in the letter And this Law is more inward more full more close more spirituall and more lasting then the ministration of Moses Law to them of old time was Gal. 3. 25. c. And it is the ministration of this Law of the Spirit which is not to passe away from the Disciples of Christ untill all be fulfilled but is to remain a Sword against every lust and desire of the flesh in them untill they all with the very root of them be thereby cut down Mat. 3. 12. Heb. 4. 12. Mat. 5. 17 18. Quest But what were the ten Commandements a figure or shadow of Answ. The Tables of stone were a representation or figure of the fleshly Tables of the heart wherein the new Law of the Covenant of life is written The writing of the Law of Commandements in the Tables of stone was a figure of the writing of this new Law by the finger of Gods Spirit in the heart The outward writing in the outward Tables was a figure of the inward writing in the inward Tables The Law it self of Commandements which was written in those Tables was a figure of the Law of life which is to be written in these Tables And this Law thus received thus written is easily fulfilled whereas the Law in the letter because of the weaknesse of the flesh was very hard to be fulfilled and generally proved an hand-writing of Ordinances against the Jews For he that was guilty of one was guilty of all and so upon every transgression had the force and strength of the whole Law against him And whosoever now runs back to the Law in the letter to take up any command as held forth in it and so making himself a debter thereto will be found a breaker thereof in Spirit even one that hath more Gods then the Lord a maker of Images or liknesses of things in heaven or things in earth if not of both a taker of the Name in vain a prophaner of the Sabbath c. For he that hath not received the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus knoweth not the Lord of life to be the onely true God but maketh Images in his mind and taketh his Name in vain not feeling the living power thereof nor can keep his Sabbath ceasing from sin forbearing his own works his own willing and running and entring into the rest of the Gospell for there is but one day of rest holy to the Lord all the Sabbaths of the Law were but signes of it having but a significative or representative holynesse but the day of redemption which the Lord hath made Psal. 118. 24. in which his redeemed rejoyce and rest to him that hath the true holynesse This was it which came by Christ the other came by Moses Joh. 1. 17. Moses his family or children were to keep that day that was the day for the servants who were to be exercised under the shadows but the believers are to keep this day in the Spirit to enter into this rest by the faith Heb. 4. And to worship the Father in it in the Spirit and in the truth on the Mountain of his holynesse Joh. 4. 23. Whereof the other Mountain Temple Worship and day was but a shadow Now the sum or substance of this Law of the Spirit may outwardly be signified in divers short words as Love that comprehends the whole of it so doth fear there is the whole wisdom and course of the life comprehended also or thus Thou shalt not lust thus it was administred to Paul Rom. 7. or thou shalt keep the Sabbath or believe in the light folow the light The observing of any one of these in the Spirit is the keeping of the Law for every breach of the Law is out of the love out of the fear a lust of the fleshly Spirit a transgression of the Sabbath or spirituall rest to God out of the light and out of the faith But if ye will read this in the Spirit and come to the true righteousnesse of the faith which is received in the obedience of faith to the Law of the Spirit ye must come to the word of faith to which Paul directs Rom. 10. 6. by the hearing whereof is the justification and not by a bare believing that Christs blood was shed for it is the vertue of the blood which saves which vertue is in the living word and is felt and received in hearing believing and obeying that word thereby bringing into unity and conformity with him both in his death and in his resurrection and life This is the onely way to life be not deceived there is not nor ever was any other O wait on the Lord in his fear that it may be opened to you and that slain in you which cannot bear the straitnesse thereof and with which there is no entring From a Friend to your eternall peace Isaac Pennington the younger