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A44280	An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2564; ESTC R28681	38,857	162

ERRATUM Page 74. Sect. 7. Line 1. rea● Uncontradictably AN ESSAY Concerning the Sabbath OR THE SABBATH-DAYS REST FROM CONTROVERSIE Wherein is asserted That our CHRISTIAN SABBATH Lords-day or Sunday is the very same day of the Week which was Anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the Solemn day of their Solemn weekly Worship before Israels coming out of AEGYPT and after that by the Gentiles PREFACED With an INTRODUCTION thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2. v 2 3. And on the Seventh day God ended his work and rested that day and blessed and sanctified it In parvo magnum By N. Homes D. D. LONDON Printed for the Author 1673. THE EPISTLE TO THE Reader INgenious and Ingenuous Candid Reader I had thought that by this time I had been Rude donatus freed from any further attendance at the Press having toyled so much and so long in that Warfair But seeing that neither all Men nor all pretenders to Learning are yet satisfied about our Christian Sabbath some Hesitating about the time others about the number a third sort about the morality of it And others on the other hand encouraging me to set forth this Irenicon I yielded to them their desire Of which that I might not be fond as of a birth of my Brain I anticipated it by following in some degree Quintilian's advice to the Author of any Book Nonumque prematur in annum ut refrigerato inventionis amore tanquam Lector perpenderet That he should suppress his Treatise for Nine years whereby he cooling the fervor of his Affectionate love to his own invention he might peruse and weigh it rather as the Reader of it then the Author This Counsel I have followed halfe way my judgment in Opposition to fond Affection leading me thereunto Quartumque repressit in annum and supprest this Treatise this Four years and upon the same account as aforesaid viz. to prevent doting upon it But when its Lease was out it was releast and got abroad into the World more to oblige Conscience to a more serious solemnizeing the Lord's-day and to mind us of that Eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sabbatisme of which it is the Typical Representation A fit Subject for my old Age and all that are ancient in days Yet let no man Dream that in this Treatise I dote as if that little Learning I have had made me besides my self or that it is now too late for me to meddle with Mathematical Numbrings Measurings and Revolutions of times So that they dare say I cannot make good the Title of the Book I think I may as boldly say such Confidents endeavour to advance their nescience above anothers Knowledge yea and indeed to make rash Censoriousness to ride in Triumph over sober Consideration For they judge of things as we say unsight and unseen and so make their illiterateness ad hoc to be the measure of another mans discoveries But he only that is Learned is able duly to judge of a Man of Learning Nor doth God discover all truths at once Heb. 1.1 nor to all men alike to some more to some less One Micajah let me speak it without boasting my self but in a way of Apology for my loneliness in this Tenet I say one Micajah in 1 King 22.6 c. was in the right when Four hundred false Prophets were in the wrong And so was Elijah in the right when the Four hundred and fifty Prophets of Baal and the Four hundred Prophets of the Groves greatly erred 1 Kings 18. v. 19. c. And of latter times one Paphnutius by his Wisdom and strength of Reason turned a whole Council A memorable story Men building on false Principles are sure to erre in their Conclusions For Example The Sabbath say most is the Seventh day from the Creation which say we cannot be because no Mortal Man could ever tell where the Sun first appeared to the World N. B. whether in the East or in the West whether at Noon or at Midnight whereby to fix the Beginning and the Ending of the Natural Sabbath-day that is The Natural Seventh day of Twenty four hours Besides no one day so measured out could be comensurate to make an Vniversal Seventh day to serve all Nations to begin their Sabbath at the same hour For the Sun in its swift Course makes in every hour a new Horizon and so a new hour to every Nation according to their various Situations So that the Seventh day from the Creation is quite out of doors N. B. and the Seventh day after Six days labour in every Countrey must be taken into the room thereof In this Essay as I follow no Common Rode or plural of Authors so nor do I as if displeased tread upon any mans heels that hath gone before bearing Witness to the Divine Authorization and Morality of the Sabbath though on different Principles But my greatest care is least the Reader should not be as clear in his apprehensions of my expressions as I am in this Notion touching the Identity and sameness of our Lord's Day or Sabbath with that from the Creation to Israels coming out of Aegypt The Reader therefore N. B. that is desirous to understand is intreated studiously to read the whole and then compare and ponder part with part and then impartially judge of all And may perhaps thereby be provoked and be enabled to speak more fully to the Point then I have done as a looker on we say sees oft-times more then he that plays the Game If I have broken the Ice another may wade further Truth say the Ancients lies hidden in a quick-Spring-Well therefore is not drawn out but by degrees And every degree gives Light into further Truth Impossibles as deemed become possible possibles to appear probable probables to evidence themselves demonstrable Is it impossible for a Master of Reason to imagine this Supposition That he sees Noah in his Ark and while he there sees him one while in the upper room of the Ark another while in the lower that still he sees him in the Ark No more is it impossible for a man to conceive that whiles he considers the Sabbath day in the upper region of the time of the natural Sabbath day of Twenty four hours to wit in the Evening or consider the Sabbath in the lower Region of it namely in the Morning and beginning of the said day that still it is Materially the same Sabbath day though Formally it became the Jews Sabbath as limited by Moses's Administration And it becomes formally the Christian Sabbath as it was first stated by the Patriarchs before the Flood c. and afterwards stablished by Christs Resurrection I shall conclude with this confidence in the sight of God that if I have not promoted the Stablishment of our Christian Sabbath which was my whole design I am sure it is not prejudiced by Nathanael Homes THE INTRODUCTION Concerning the ESSAY Touching the SABBATH CAPITULUM I. 1. The Thesis

Bethel Gen. 12.8 and Chap. 13.4 and there called on the name of the Lord the true God And likewise he planted a Grove in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord Gen. ●1 33 the Everlasting God And prepared all things at God's command to offer up his Son Isaac for a burnt-offering though afterwards he was forbidden the Execution Therefore Idolaters planted Groves Gen. 22. and Worshiped in High-places their Idols and made their Children to pass through the fire to them mentioned as high Crimes throughout the Old Testament Even such is the Rise of the highest Idolatry to wit of worshiping of false Gods That because Godly men Worshiped the true God according to his divine Inspirations and Institutions therefore Idolaters it an inique and unequel imitation Worshiped their false Gods according to their own inventions And this Idolatry is most Ancient N. B. and practised by Abraham Terah and Nachor in Chaldea before they were called out Josh 24. v. 3. and Converted from it Gen. 12.31 And Chap. 12.1 Now to draw down our discourse to the particular point in hand ¶ 2. The great and Universal Monarches Saturnus Babylonicus and Belus his Son and other Potentates of Assyria and Chaldea having Idolatrously se● up the whole Host of Heaven i. e The Sun Moon and Stars to be their Gods it is not imaginable that they would Dedicate any other day to the honour of their greatest God viz. the Sun the●● the day which the Patriarchs before the Flood Dedicated to God the Creator of the Sun which doth further appear in that those Worshippers of the Sun having robbed God of his Worship they robbed him also of his Name For Nimrod having given to the Sun his greatest God the Name of Baal ●e afterwards assumed that name ●o himself * Jo. Gr. Assyr Monarch And Belus giving ●o their greatest God the Sun ●he name of Jove the Contract of Jehovah the said Belus afterwards took that name to himself and was called Jove Bel. * Idem Biblian ¶ 3. And moreover seeing ●he Idolaters assigned to every of their Seven Planet-Gods one of the seven days in the week ●o considering sober man can ●hink otherwise but that they would Dedicate and Celebrate ●o their greatest God the SVN whom they called God of Gods and Lord of Lords the day formerly observed and celebrated to the great and true God of Heaven and Earth rather then to the Moon and Mercury or other their inferior Gods And therefore nothing can be more probable then that the Seventh day with the ancient Patriarchs was no other but that which afterwards was the SUN-DAY Sonnes-day or Day of or to the Sun with the Assyrians and from them was called Sunday or Day of the Sun by other Nations also as the other days of the week were called by the other names of the Planets as we do to this day viz. Moonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday all Saxon names of the Six inferiour Planet-Gods Whereupon as I said before this was one reason why the Lord changed to the Jews the Seventh day from our Sunday to the Jews Saturday CHAP. VIII Proving that the Heathen Gentiles did of old in all Countries and Generations Worship the Sun Sect. 1. HAving shew'd how and by what means the Heathen Gentiles of old took cognizance of the Supereminency of Sunday or day of the Sun and hinted that they on that day worshiped the Sun Now for Confirmation of it and to make way to that which must follow it is requisite that I should prove That the Heathen Gentiles did ●n all Countries and Generations of old Worship the Sun ¶ 1. The Assyrians with the help of the Chaldeans set up the Idolatry of Worshiping the Host of Heaven viz. Sun Moon and the rest of the Planets Macrob. Saturn l. 1. c. 9.17 18 19 20 21 22 23. And Rabbi Maimonides one of the soberest of the Jewish Writers as some Learned assert affirms That from the days of Enosh the Stars were Worshiped as Gods After which time the great God was generally forgotten No man scarcely knew the true God but Enoch Methusalah Noah Sem. and Heber De Jol. 1. Quest Thus Maimonides * Maimon Some yea and of the Learned Quaere How Maimonides should come to know what he hath said Ans 1 To this first we Answer from Gen. 4.26 And to Seth was born a SON and he called his name ENOS then began men saith our English Translation to call upon the Name of the Lord. But the Learned H. Broughton * Broughtons works in Folio p. 11. p. 64. p. 219. p. 339. Presented it to King J●●●s in Print five times at least in his Works blame this Translation and thus Translates it Also to Seth was born a Son and he called his name Sorrowful Enos Then had sprung up prophaneness instead of calling upon the name of the Eternal And gives these reasons 1. At Enos Birth Religion is sorrowfully corrupted through Marriage with Cain's House Enos Sorrowful and Kenan Lamentable so called for Idolatry then arising For he saith in another place of his Works That the Ten Fathers or Patriarchs before the Flood had names given to them Consignificant to the time And 2. Because presently in the next Chapter save one Moses tells us viz. in Chap. 6. is the declining of the Sons of God in Religion and of the coming of the Flood And it seems by Nicholas de Lyra That the Learned Jews did understand this Scripture of the corrupting Religion in those times The Chalde● Paraphrase likewise Translates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sons of Men gave off from calling upon the name of the Lord. And in that Edition in 4 o. Printed at London of that accurate Translation of the Bible by F. Junius a Learned Christian and J. Tremelius a Pious and Learned Jew Printed at London this Text is thus Translated Tunc coeptum est profanari in invocando nomine Jehovae That is then began men to be Prophane in calling upon the name of Jehovah And sutable are his notes upon the place Tunc sub Enoschi tempora Caeptum est profanari id est Alii posteri Schethi apud quos mansura est Ecclesia a Caiinitis corrupti caeperunt prophanare se In invocando i. e. in cultu Dei vide inquit Cap. 5.22 cap. 6.2 Now this Enos living above Five hundred years before the Flood shews us no small antiquity of Idolatry 2. We answer to the Quaere That the knowledg of the Planetary Idolatry might come down to the Ancient Rabbies by sure Tradition For as Sem lived about an hundred years before the Flood when the Planets were deemed to be the Universal Governors of the World So he lived long viz. Five hundred years after the Flood Though he lived not to Moses's time yet did he live till Abraham was an old Man if he did not live after Abraham's Burial Before which

of the Sun or Sunday was the very same day which we call THE LORD'S DAY We have already in several Sections and Paragraphs of the fore-going Chapters dropped some proofs of this But now we shall bring more particularly direct and express Testimonies to this point ¶ 1. Dr. F. White and Dr. Heylin though they were Opposers of the Morality of the Sabbath do confess That Christians of the first ages because they observed the Sunday for their Sacred Services bowing in Prayer towards the East were upbraided for Worshippers of the Sun though they neither Worshiped the Sun as the Heathen nor called the day of their Worshiping God Sunday as they called it but the Lord's day being their Sabbath or Sacred day of REST to the Lord. Therefore if Sunday had not been with the Heathen who were Sun Worshippers indeed a weekly day of solemn Worship there had been no cause of that upbraiding by the Jews or Heathen-Gentiles (a) White of the Sabbath and Heylin part 2. p. 53. But we have more approved Authors then these as it follows ¶ 2. Sozomen telleth us That Constantine Commanded Diem Dominicum quem Hebraei primum Hebdomadae appellant craeci Solis deputant a cunctis celebrari (b) Sozom. Eccles Histor L. 1. c. 8. That is Constantine commanded that the Lords day which the Jews call the First day of the week and the Greeks depute to the Sun to be celebrated of all Whence it is justly inferred That Constantine then held That the Day which the Heathen-Greeks deputed to the Sun was the very same which we call the Lord's day ¶ 3. Coeli Rhodignin tells us Nos jure optimo diem quem Mathematici Solis vocant Domino ascripsimus dicavimusque illius Cultui totum mancipavimus That is with the greatest Equity we have ascribed and Dedicated to the Lord and wholly given up to his Worship that day which the Mathematicians call THE DAY OF THE SVN (c) Coel. Rho. Antiq. L. 13. c. 22. ¶ 4. Bonaventure tells of the pious fraud that Christians acted to rob the Sun of its Idolatrous Worship and transfer the observation of that day to Christ His Words are these Secundum Gentiles dies Dominicus primus est Cum Principio illius diei incipit dominari principalis Planeta Sol propter quod vocabant eundem Diem Solis exhibebant ei venerationem Vt ergo error ille excluderetur reverentia cultus Solis Deo exhiberetur praefixa fuit Dominica Dies qua populus Christianus vacaret cultui Divino (d) Bonavent 3. Dist 37. That is According to the Heathen the LORD'S DAY is a CHIEF day when in the beginning of that day the Principle Planet the SUN begins to Rule For which cause they called it the Day of the SUN and gave Worship thereunto To the intent therefore that Error might be shut out of doors and that reverence of Worship of the Sun might be given to God The LORD'S DAY was prefixed wherein the Christian people gave themselves to Divine Worship For a close of this Chapter we add a Fifth Paragraph ¶ 5. Justin Martyr doth diverse times in his Works call the LORD'S DAY 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE DAY OF THE SVN as then the Gentiles or Greeks called it (e) Just Mar. Apol. 2 pro Christian 2. centur So also Tertullian sometimes calles it Diem Solis Sunday sometimes Diem Dominicum The Lord's day And in the Edicts of Constantine Valentinian Valens Gratian Honorius Arcadius Theodosius all of them Christian Princes our LORDS DAY is commonly called Dies Solis Sunday A DIAGRAM OR Representation as to the Eye of the Summe and Design of the whole Treatise preceding CHAP. X. THE PREFACE To the said DIAGRAM THE Jews as we have shewed were to begin their Sabbath at the Even next before the succeeding Morning And after the immediate Morning or Day-light preceding Levit. 23.32 Consequently the rest of the Seven days of the Week so began or else they could not measure out the Sabbath to begin as aforesaid As also the Jews Festivals and Solemnities would justle out or rob one another of their due time when diverse come together As Levit. 23.5 6 7 8. In the Fourteenth day of the First Month at Even is the Lord 's Passover On the Fifteenth of the same Month is the Feast of Vnleavened-bread c. Grotius on v. 32. of that Levittic tells us punctually the mode of this Mutation Cum dies per annum inaequales fint c. That is Seeing that days by the year are unequal and in Summer the Sun sets much more slowly or laterly as to us then in the Winter the Hebrews begin their Rest on the Sabbath six hours after the Noontyde Now for an example to the point in hand Let us consider the Measures an● Mutations of Friday Saturday and Sunday in this Diagram The Diagram or Representation According to the Jews Account 1. FRIDAY which was th● day of the Week when Christ suffered i● as to the beginning thereof put back to take its beginning at the immediate preceding Evening of that day as but now is afor● described by Grotius viz. it began at the sixth hour after th● Noon or Twelve of the Clock 2. SATVRDAY consequentially which was the day of the Wee● wherein Christ lay in his Grav● did begin at the immediate succe●ding Evening of that Day 3. SVNDAY therefore whic● was the day of the Week whe● Christ arose from the Grave b●gan at Sunday Evening And 〈◊〉 that Evening with the Day-ligh● next following make the Thir● day And so in the rest of the day of the Week proportionably Thus ye see the Jews Measure and Computation of the Week by Days by the Example of the three Days before exprest The Parallelogram what proportion the Christian Account holds with the Diagram of the Jewish According to the Lord Jesus Christ Account 1. But Christ by his Resurrection beginning the Third Day That is Sunday in the Morning which takes to it naturally the succeeding Evening to make it a compleat day calling it the Third Mat. 20.19 Mal. 9.31 10.34 Luk. 18.33 24.7 2. Now as linck after linck in a Chain Friday begins that day of 24. hours at Friday-morning SATVRDAY begins at Saturday Morning 3. SVNDAY begins at Sunday Morning And so all the Evenings re-associated with their Mornings move forward and slip into their natural places the Sun constantly measuring out a Night to every Day and naturally makes the Night the latter part of its race as if the Sun rested after its Labour in the day whilst it gives good nights rest to the labouring man And now as the close of the Diagram ye may behold Sunday-Sabbath standing by it self distinguishedly in Mode Measure and Order Thus The Jewish Sabbath doth consist 1. Of the Evening which began Six hours after the Noon At which they killed their Paschal Lamb. 2. Of the Dark-night at which time Israel went out of