bread called say they a Sabbath vers 7. Yea and to put the seven weeks or fifty dayes out of doubt these learned men do expresly declare in the same place the punctuall day of the Feast and of the moneth which begins our account even the second day of the Feast which is say they the 16th day of the moneth Nisan from which day were reckoned the fifty dayes ended at Pentecost reckoning that second day inclusively Here 's the most clear confession that the Sabbath leading to the account of fifty dayes is not the weekly Sabbath but that the morrow following the waved sheaf is the certain fixed 16th day of the moneth and begins the number of 50 days or seven weeks and on what day this 16th of Nisan fell at the death of Christ is clear for upon the 14th day of the first moneth at even Exod. 12.18 Coll. 2.16 17. Matth. 26. did our Lord Jesus who is the true body of these shadows punctually celebrate the Passcover and upon the morrow being the 15th day and commonly called good Friday was our first fruits waved by the Priests upon the Crosse So that the 16th day being the seventh day Sabbath must unavoidably begin the seven weeks or fifty dayes and this is easily known that the same day which begins the account must needs end it and be the true day of Pentecost Though this clear confession from the Sabbaths adversaries might suffice yet through strength from on high with demonstrations of the spirit and power I shall further produce three infallible proofs that the Apostles Pentecost was none other then the sanctified seventh-day Sabbath And this will be evident by Gods institution of a Feast for he assigned a certain day from which the number of fifty dayes began That Christ was punctuall in time see Mat. 27.55 56. Luke 22.35 John 8.20 and this day was the morrow of or after a certain Sabbath which must be punctually fulfilled in and by Christ as well in the Time as in the Type or else why was the time so precisely appointed and the fifty days so exactly to be numbred The morrow after this certain Sabbath will be readily known First by the sickles first entring the Corne Deut. 16.9 Secondly by the waving of the first fruits Lev. 23.11 Thirdly by offering the same day a Lamb without spot Lev. 23.12 The time when these shadows were all punctually fulfilled in Christ the body is abundantly manifest And first the certain day when the the sickle was first put to him Isai 53.8 to cut him downe the whole world knows to be that they call good Friday Luke 23.54 55 56. that is the sixth day of the week The day of the preparation before the 7th day Sabbath from which sixth day Gods account of the seven weeks begun by his appointment Deut. 16.9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the Corne. Is it possible for any truth to shine more clearly Now either Mr. Jenison must deny what he grants pag. 38. That Christ was by the sickle of death cut down upon the sixth day of the week or else he must give glory to God by beginning to number the fifty dayes or 7 weeks from that time the sickle first entred our corn and cut him down by death from which day the holy Sabbath is the very first of the account and at the end of seven full weeks the same blessed seventh day Sabbath that began must needs end the fifty daies exactly upon the Apostles Pentecost Heb. 10.1 although the Law was not the very image of good things to come yet certainly this Sickle was a notable shadow in many particulars 1. It was put to the corn Deut. 16.9 which the Jews performed the night following the Passeover with great solemnity and just so was it fulfilled in Christ Ioh. 18.3 2. They were to cut down green ears Lev. 2.14 Hos 14.3 And even so our Saviour expounds himself the very day of his suffering Luke 23.31 when our green fir-tree was cut down 3. The green corn was bound as the Hebrew signifies Lev. 23.10 and brought to the Priests and so was our green plant Ioh. 18.12 13. 4. The green corn was to be dried by the fire Lev. 2.14 neither was this wanting to our first fruits Luk. 22.54 55. 5. It was to be beaten out of full ears Lev. 2.14 and just so was our Saviour served at full age Matth. 26.67 68. and 27.26.30 After the first fruits were thus fitted as the English Annotations shew on Levit. 23.10 they were upon the morrow of that Sabbath to be waved by the Priest Lev. 23.11 And this is the second infallible token what that Sabbath was namely the Passeover on the morrow of which Sabbath it was exactly accomplished in Christ by the crucifying Priest who waved him between heaven and earth upon the sixth day of the week from which day began the count of the Apostles Pentecost punctually beginning and ending upon the seventh day Sabbath The third infallible mark by which that Sabbath Lev. 23.11 15. is more then fully found was the Lamb without spot appointed to be offered the very same morrow of the Sabbath but this was such an infallible token to know the undoubted day wherein it was accomplished in Christ that Mr. Jeunison hath wholly and I doubt deceitfully omitted it And indeed it is impossible that any thing but wilful blindness should obscure the glory and stupendious eminency of that sixth day of the week whereon our Lamb without spot or blemish was offered Heb. 9.14 1 Pet. 1.19 from which sixth day begun the account of the Apostles Pentecost and as it began so it exactly ended on the seventh day Sabbath to its everlasting glory and the glory of him that sanctified it God blessed for ever Amen And thus while Mr. Jennison and his Informers affirm without one word of Scripture that the Sabbath from whence our reckoning arises Lev. 23.11 15. was the Jews weekly seventh day Sabbath I affirm with the most learned of this Age that it was not the weekly Sabbath but the first day of the Passeover Feast and I have fully proved by three infallible Scripture marks that the fifty dayes did at the death of our Redeemer most exactly begin and end upon the seventh day Sabbath Why blessed be Jehovah the Institutor of this Sabbath and glorified be Jesus the professed Lord of this Sabbath and for ever honoured be that excellent spirit who at the Apostles Pentecost most wonderfully owned and approved this same seventh day Sabbath as hath been convincingly proved by 1. The Sickles first entring our Corn. 2. The waving of our sheaf of first fruits and 3. The offering of our Lamb without spot And now unless Mr. Jennison can confute this precious point which I am sure is utterly impossible I must expect the speedy performance of his promise
14th day at even when the Passover was eaten was the beginning of the fifteenth day as is confessed by the learned commentators Anot. Lev. 23.5 Lash p. 37. and is plain Exod. 12.18 19. and however Mr. Jenison termes it a shuffle to say the first fruits were offered the morrow of or after the Sabbath Amsworth and yet this morrow was the Sabbath it seife he termes not me but Moses if not God himselfe the shufler who plainely calls the 15 th day of the first moneth the morrow after the Passeover when they came out of Egypt yet the very same night of eating the Passeover departing out of Egypt was the beginning of the 15th day Numb 33.3 Exod. 12.18 19. If this be marvellous ignorance as Mr. Jenison termes it I am content to be so sensured by him whilst I have learned Ainsworth Diodati the English commentators Moses and God himselfe to bear me out in it lash p. 38. And that Saviour who is Lord of the Sabbath Sabbath will reckon with Mr. Ienuison for his hard speeches Lash p. 38 39. for we shall seek none other Saviour but he who commands the keeping of his Sabbath Mat. 24.20 As to the judgement of God upon the Prelates indeed it is most just for their opposing the morality of the Sabbath and let those who assert it that sleight it expect the next Vial. I have seen variety of judgements even to astonishment upon rejecters of the revived seventh day Sabbath which in my Reply to the next book which I hear is in the Press I may possibly have more leisure and just ground to particularize The Stress of the Controversie AFter this brief yet full Confutation of Mr. Iennisons inferiour Arguments I find him in my entrance upon the Apostles Pentecost which he concludes the main Stress of the Controversie labouring under two very gross mistakes Act. 2. Lash p. 3. The first is a strange conceit that the first fruits enjoyned Lev. 23.11 was to be ripe corn and upon this his mistake he renders the day of reaping uncertain p. 4. 10. according as Harvest came sooner or latter and so runs on in reckoning the fifty daies or seven weeks at randome to fasten the Apostles Pentecost to his First-day Sabbath whereas the Scripture requires not ripe corn but green ears * Lev. 2.14 Exod. 9.31 Deut. 16.12 Exod. 23.14 such as the field afforded at their going out of Egypt in Memorial whereof these first fruits were appointed and Gods Israel prohibited to eat thereof until this homage were performed This foul fault in the entrance of his account of fifty daies must needs be ill in the end His second intolerable mistake Lash p. 9. which hath nothing to save it from high blasphemy but gross ignorance is his confident assertion that the feast of first fruits was not at the end of the weeks but at the beginning yea and chargeth it as a very great mistake to say the Feast it self was not till the end of the weeks This Charge flies in the face of God himself who hath thus expressy spoken by his servant Moses Also in the day of the first fruits when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the Lord AFTER YOVR WEEKS BE OVT ye shall have an holy Convocation Numb 28.26 with Lev. 23.2.4 ye shall do no servile work This was that holy Convocation Act. 2.1 2. called in Greek Pentecost whereon the bread which was made of the Sheaf or â—nâ—er waved Let. 23.11 was to be again waved before the Lord as the first fruits Lev. 23.17 20 21. I shall not henceforth wonder at Mr. Iennisons error in his reckoning the seven weeks so as to make Pentecost fall upon his first day who can so confidently affirm that this Feast was in the beginning of the weeks and charge Moses with a very great mistake for recording it to be after the weeks were out Now touching that which he terms the main Stress of the Controversie between us Lash p. 3. we have both solemnly engaged before the world in print casting as he saith our whole cause upon it That the day whereon the Apostles Pentecost fell * Act. 2.1 was and is that glorious day which the Saints did and ought to keep as their Sabbath And I desire no more but that he which shall shrink from this clear confession may be henceforth judged and deemed a deserter and profaner of the true acknowledged Christian Sabbath The fair discovery of this Question upon what day the Apostles Pentecost fell will be fully evident in the institution of the Feast Lev. 23.10 11 15. where Jehovah required Moses to speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when ye be come into the Land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the Priest and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be accepted for you on the morrow of the Sabbath for so is the Hebrew and so Ainsworth renders it on the morrow of the Sabbath the Priest shall wave it And what ever this Sabbath was this is plain that from the morrow following they were enjoyned to begin their reckoning of seven Sabbaths Lev. 23.15 16. which is expresly called seven weeks in Deut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lev. 23. 16. and the Septuagint is the same in both places And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering seven Sabbaths shall be compleat even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty dayes This Sabbath from whose morrow the account began is by Ainsworth Diodat c. called the Passeover Sabbath Lash p. 4. 5. 8. and Easter But Mr. Jenison is very angry with me for so speaking and yet from the bare authority of certain obscure Informers he confidently concludes that it was the Jewes seventh-day weekly Sabbath and so boldly begins upon the first day of the week to number the 7 weeks or fifty days so to make Pentecost fall Pat as he phraseth it upon his supposed first-day Sabbath I shall not with my small skill in the Hebrew presume to contend with his unknown informers who assures him that it can be no other then the weekly Sabbath yet I suppose modesty will even constrain both him and them to submit unto the information of the most profoundly learned which the long Parliament and Assembly could find for that eminent mark of the English Annotations upon the whole Bible whose Notes upon these very words Lev. 23.11.15 On the morrow after the Sabbath are quite contrary to Mr. Ienison and his informers who say it can be no other then the weekly Sabbath Their notes are these Not the weekly Sabbath English Annot. on Lev. 23. but the first day of the Feast of unleavened
Lash p. 3. 11 12. to own and imbrace this glorious day on which the Apostles Pentecost fell as the very day which ye did and ought to keep as their Sabbath And I shall for ever acquit him of all the abuses in his book and esteem it abundant satisfaction to see a sinner return from the error of his way Jam. 5.20 Amen As touching the second part of Mr. Iennisons Lash concerning Baptisme he must excuse me if I deem it a dishonour to that flourishing truth to contend with him after so many learned debates of persons with whom neither of us may compare much less conceit to exceed The Covenant made to litteral Israel which he would have to be one with mystical Israel do exceedingly differ As 1. In the Mediator Gal. 3.19 The servant being veiled 2 Cor. 3.13 The Son revealed Mat. 17.5 2 Cor. 3.18 Ioh. 1.14 2. In the parties taken into Covenant In the Type a fleshly seed Gen. 17.7 13. In the truth a faithful seed Gal. 3.9 29. Rev. 12.17 Then not in Covenant till first they were Abrahams now not in Covenant till first they be Christs 3. There 's difference in the Sign The shadow signed the outward man Gen. 17.10 11. The truth signs the inner man Rom. 2.28 29. Eph. 1.13 14. 4. In the Sacrifice The Type Carnal Heb. 9.10 The Truth Spiritual 1 Pet. 2.5 The Type dead Heb. 10.1 4 5. The Truth living Rom. 12.1 2. 5. In the Inheritance The Type Temporal Deut. 4.21 38. Ier. 11.3 5. The Truth Eternal Heb. 9.15 1 Pet. 1.4 His conceits upon 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3. Lash p. 61. pleads as much for Infant Communion as for Infant Baptisme neither of which is found in Christs House That of 1 Cor. 7.14 p. 64. tells you the unbelieving wife is sanctified to the husband and so are the children Mr. p. 66. c. Iennison at length grants that he can none other way help Babes to Baptisme but by consequence and because he confesseth William Iennison cannot prove his interest in Christ but by consequence he judges the same of Tho. p. 69. Tillam who through distinguishing grace hath a fairer evidence then a bare consequence Rom. 8.16 Eph 1.13 1 Cor. 2.14 the Spirit it self bearing witness with his spirit that he is the Child of God When Scripture fails for Baby-Baptisme Mr. Iennison fetches an argument from the Turk and the Devil Lash p. 73. p. 74. but I shall not travel into their Regions to disprove him They that now censure dipping of Disciples as immodest and dangerous would much more have cried out upon the circumcision of mens privy parts But I shall cease to contend about a point so fully controverted and cleared expecting a fair and speedy submission to that Christian Sabbath whereon the Apostle Pentecost was celebrated recording to his full confession wherewith I shall conclude That the day of the first New Testament Church its meeting and that wherein the Lord so highly blessed them Lash p. 12. 3. is that glorious day which the Saints did and ought to keep as their Sabbath Amen THE END As to the Lady Abergavenny mentioned in my Information I have this to add further that I do very well remember that at the time when the five Jesuits were to be hanged drawn and quartered the said Lady came to the Portugal Ambassador and made a most dreadful Complaint to his Excellency to this Effect how that we were all ruined if the said five Jesuits should suffer for to be sure that the next man that should die would be Sir George Wakeman in regard the five Jesuits were condemned upon the same Fact that Sir George Wakeman was guilty of therefore I desire your Lordship by all means to see if your Lordship can find any way to prevent the Death of those Jesuits Upon which my Lord made answer to the said Lady that he could not Imagine or Find out any way to save their Lives but that they must die for said he we have used all our Endeavours and made all the Interest vve can and it vvill not be granted Then the said Lady made ansvver to my Lord that then Sir George Wakeman vvould have his Tryal and vvould be condemned and suffer and then all our Plot vvill be discovered My Lord made answer in these vvords No Madam vve vvill seek to prevent his Death by some Friend that vve shall make Upon vvhich my Lady Abergavenny took her leave of my Lord I Francisco de Faria vvas Interpreter betvveen them both Thus far I have followed the Series of Relation without interruption as being Occurances that happend and depended one upon another I am now to repeat some passages which as they come to my Knowledge upon Various occasions and at Several times require not to be so punctually disposed in order as being compleat within themselves In January or Febuary 1678 9. A Letter vvas sent into Portugal by a Capuchin belonging to the Queens Chappel at Somerset House call'd by the name of Paulenio to a Friend of his at Lisbon the Letter Containd Words to this Efect Our affaires are very well in London vvhere I hope in a little time there vvill be a great alteration and our business vvill be at an end in a short time so that I hope this place vvill all become Catholicks The Gentleman that received the Letter in Lisbon shewed it to a Friend of his that vvas an English Man vvho by that time had intelligence of the Discovery of the Plot in England that Gentle-Man vvrites over immediately from Portugal to a Friend of his in London vvhat he had heard by a Letter from a Capuchin of Somerset-House upon vvhich the said Gentleman vvent to the King and Counsel and declared vvhat Newes his Friend had sent him out of Portugal presently the King and Counsel caused the Queens Confessor to be called and to be Examined vvho at that time denyed all protested his Innocency that he never vvrote any such Letter vvhereupon the King and Counsel discharged him but that very Night there vvas private Intelligence given to the said Father Paulenio upon vvhich he Immediately made his Escape for Flanders vvhere he staid till the Portugaal Ambassador arrived in the Downs in his passage homevvards vvhom he then met and Embarqued vvith him for Portugal in the Ruby Frigat under the Command of Captain Allum And novv that the World may see hovv this Popish Plot vvas carryed one by General Contributions and Collected Maintenances either out of Devotion or Fear I vvill add one Certainty more vvhich is this that vvhile I vvas Employed in the service of the said Ambassador I vvas intrusted among other things to pay to Mr. Anderson Alias Munson a Secular Priest then a Prisoner in the Kings Bench upon the account of the Plot fifty Shillings a Month which money I Constantly paid to his Sister Mrs. Barbara Tempest Living in Holborn near the Kings Gate during the whole