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A69076 A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.; Christian religion Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.; Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618. 1616 (1616) STC 4707.7; ESTC S107471 214,101 390

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b Psal 32. 1. 2. happinesse to haue our sinnes couered and not imputed it must needs bee extreame miserie to haue them reckoned and imputed vnto vs. Therefore the transgressors of this Commandement the more free that vsually they are from the iudgements and punishments of men the more heauie plagues and vengeance will surely light vpon them from God except they repent Q. What is summarily required in this Commandement A. The setting apart of a speciall day euery weeke Neh. 13. 15. 23. Esay 58. 13. wherein we are to separate our selues from our worldly businesses and ordinarie callings concerning this life that we may wholly attend to the seruice and worship of God alone Q. What need is there of one whole day in a weeke to serue God in seeing we may serue him euery day A. To the end that wee should not plunge our selues so deepely into the affaires of the world as that we should not recouer our selues the wisdome of God hath thought it good that one day in seuen there should bee an intermission from them that wee might wholly separate our selues to the seruice of God and with the more freedome of spirit performe the same Secondly for that a whole day is needfull for the performance of all the parts of Gods worship as hearing of publike Prayer and the Word preached Catechizing administration of the Sacraments exercise of holy Discipline consideration of the glory of God in the creatures Thirdly If Adam in his perfection had need of this helpe much more haue we who are so grieuously corrupted Q. Is there any one speciall day of the weeke set apart by God himselfe A. Yea. Q. What day is that A. The first day in the week called the Lords day 1. Cor. 16. 2. Reuel 1. 10. Act. 20. 7. Q. VVas this day set apart thereunto from the beginning A. No for from the first Creation till the Resurrection of Christ the last day of the weeke commonly called Saturday was the day that was appointed thereunto and that which the people of God constantly obserued Q. And why so A. Because vpon that day God ceased from the Gen. 2. 2. worke of Creation Q. How came this day to be changed A. By Diuine Authority Q. How doth that appeare A. First by the a Ioh. 20. 19. 26. Act. 2. 1. 20. 7. practice of our Sauiour Christ and his Apostles which should be a sufficient rule vnto vs b 1. Cor. 16. 1. especially the Apostles hauing added a commandement thereunto Secondly there is no reason why it should bee called the Lords day but in regard c Reuel 1. 10. of the speciall dedication thereof to the Lords seruice For otherwise all the daies of the weeke are the Lords daies and hee is to bee serued and worshipped in them Q. What was the cause why the day was changed A. Because it might serue for a thankfull memoriall of Christs Resurrection for as God rested from his labour on the last day of the weeke so Christ ceased Mat. 28. 1. Gen. 2 1. 2. from his labour and Afflictions on this day as the one therefore was specially sanctified in regard of the Creation of the world so was the other in respect of the restauration and Redemption thereof which is a greater worke then the Creation it selfe Q. Cannot this day then be altered A. No not by the power of any creature in heauen or earth Q. But doth not this Commandement directly require the seuenth day from the Creation A. No but the seuenth day in generall Q. But doth not the reason annexed where the Lord is said in sixe daies to make heauen and earth and to rest the seuenth and therefore to hallow it confirme so much A. No not necessarily for it doth not thence follow that we should rest the same day the Lord rested but that wee should rest from our workes the seuenth day as he rested from his which seuenth as vnder the Law hee appointed to bee Saturday so nothing hindreth but that by his speciall appointment vnder the Gospell it may bee Sunday and yet the substance of the Commandement nothing altered Q. Why doth not the New Testament specially mention this change A. Because there was no question moued about the same in the Apostles times Q. Is not this Commandement Ceremoniall A. No First if it were so then the Morall Law should consist but of nine words or Commandements which is a Deut. 4. 13. contrarie to Gods word Secondly this Commandement amongst the rest b Exod. 31. 18. was written by the finger of God whereas no part of the Ceremoniall Law was Thirdly it as well as the other was written c Deut. 5. 22. in Tables of stone to signifie the continuance of this Commandement as well as the rest Fourthly d Gen. 2. 3. it was before any shadow or Ceremony of the Law yea before Christ was promised whom all Ceremonies of the Law haue respect vnto Q. But it sometime shadowed our a Coloss 2. 16. 17 Exod. 31. 13. Eternall Rest and is therefore Ceremoniall A. That followeth not for the ceremoniall representation of our Eternall Rest came after the Commandement of the Rest and therfore is accessorie and accidentall for which cause b Dan. 9. 27. Matth. 11. 13. Act. 15. 6. Coloss 2. 13. 14. Heb. 10. 14. Gal. 5. 2. the time of correction and of abolishment of ceremonies being come that vse may well fall away and yet the Commandement remaine it being not of the substance of the Commandement Q. Haue you yet any further reason to confirme the perpetuitie of the Rest of the seuenth day A. Our Sauiour Christ willing his followers which Matth. 24. 20. should liue about 40. yeeres after his ascension to pray that their flight might not be vpon the Sabbath to the end that they might not be hindred in the seruice of God doth thereby sufficiently declare that he held not this Commandement in the account of a ceremonie Q. When doth this our Sabbath begin A. At the dawning of the day for Christ rose in the dawning thereof whereby is put a difference betweene the Iewish and the true Christian Sabbath for as the Iewish Sabbath began in that part of the day in which the Creation of the world was ended and consequently in the euening so the celebration of the memorie of Christs Resurrection and therin of his Rest from his special labors being the ground of the change of that day into this it also by the same proportion of reason is to begin when the Resurrection began which was in the morning Q. Can you shew this by example A. Yea Paul being at Troas after hee had preached Act. 20. 7-10 a whole day vntill midnight celebrated the Supper of the Lord the same night which was a Sabbath daies exercise and therefore that night following the day was a part of the Sabbath for in the morning he departed hauing stayed there seuen daies