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A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

could not stir from the place where they sate down upon which supposition indeed the Israelites might have had a conveniency of meeting without check But how weak their Arguments are who are of that Opinion hath been shewed already And I will now shew the Impossibility of it from the plain order of the sacred History For it is thence manifest that what passed in the whole 11th Chapter was after the end of the Darkness and before Moses went from Pharoah's presence That is as soon as Moses Chap. 10. ult had answered Pharoah Thou shalt see my face no more God tells Moses while he yet stood before Pharoah that he would bring one Plague more upon Egypt that would force Pharoah to dismiss them not only with their own Goods but with the Jewels Silver and Gold c. of the Egyptians also And Moses reports this Message to Pharoah and then and not till then Moses goes out from Pharoah in a rage Chap. 11. 8. Now it was after all this that God commanded Moses and Aaron to speak to the whole Congregation that should be assembled then on the 10th day Besides God's bidding both Moses and Aaron speak to the Congregation argues it to have been a Church-Assembly Chap. 4. 15. Thou shalt speak to Aaron the Levite and put words in his mouth and I will be with thy mouth and his mouth And he shall be thy Spokesman unto the People And Chap. 7. 1. Aaron thy Brother shall be thy Prophet The meaning therefore of Speak ye c. Chap. 12. 1. is That Moses should speak to Aaron and Aaron speak to the People Now why must Aaron speak to the People if they had not been a Church-Assembly seeing he was not a temporary but standing Prophet nor a Prophet who received Revelations from God but publish'd to the People divine Revelations received by Moses which is the proper work of an Ecclesiastical Minister in a Church-Assembly 1 Cor. 14. 23 24. But what is reported of this Assembly Exod. 12. 27. that at its breaking up the People bowed the head and worshipped puts it beyond all doubt that it was conven'd for Religious Worship And yet let me add as a joint-confirmation of the whole premises that it is scarce conceivable whence in more likelihood than from the Patriarchal Custom of celebrating Sunday-Sabbath could flow that most ancient and universal Idolatry of worshipping the Sun as the most generally beneficient and salvifick Deity Or from whence else could proceed the change of the Name of the City On where Joseph's Father-in-law the Prince-Priest or Metropolitan of all Egypt had his residence into that of Heliopolis or the City of the Sun but from the abuse and misinterpretation of the Patriarchal Sabbath conceiving that Planet whose name that Day bore which was celebrated as the chief Day of the Week to be the chief God For that the Sun was worshipped of the Egyptians and all Nations as the general all-healing all-saving Deity is affirmed by Diodorus Macrobius Agellius and all the Ancients with unanimous consent A quovis salubris subvenit animis corporibusque mortalium Macrob. Saturnal l. 1. c. 20. And so decry the Opinion of the Heathen that the Sun was a God because the Day called by his Name was dedicated of all the Days of the Week to divine Worship it seemed good to the Christian Church to give it a new name the Lords Day as being celebrated in memory of our Lord's Resurrection who on that Day entred into his Rest and ceased from his Works as God did from his So that we have in these two Instances which fell within the space of five Weeks an account given of the Patriarches keeping two Sunday-Sabbaths whereas we hear not of two Saturday-Sabbaths kept either by the Patriarchs or the Jews in the whole Old-Testament though that contains an History of the Church for above 3500 years I mean Saturday-Sabbaths circumstanced as these Sunday-Sabbaths are with the nomination of the day and month whereon they were celebrated CHAP. V. The new Creature Man restored by faith in the promised Seed was that finishing perfection of the Creation which made all very good and from which God smelled so sweet a savour of Rest on the Seventh Day as to bless and sanctify it SECT I. FOR the proof of this in general let us consider the order of Time respecting Moses his Narrative of Man's Creation Male and Female and the immediate Consequents thereof till they were turned out of Paradise and thence we may certainly collect that Adam fell and was restored on the sixth day 1. That Eve was formed the sixth day is without all doubt And therefore the History in the whole second Chapter from the end of vers 3. in order of time immediately follows the mention of God's creating them Male and Female Chap. 1. 27. and precedes what is recorded from the beginning of Vers 28. Chap. 1. And God blessed them and said unto them be fruitsul and multiply though in the order of narration it be set after because Moses would not interpose so long a Parenthesis in his breviate of the Creation as the manner of creation and disposal of the Female makes 2. The whole third Chapter touching the Temptation Fall Promise of Christ and turning out of Eden in time precedes God's Grant to Adam and Eve made Chap. 1. vers 29. Behold I have given you every Herb upon the face of the whole Earth and every Tree c. For while they were in Eden they had leave only to eat of the Trees of the Garden and not of all them neither Chap. 2. 17. They must therefore have starv'd after they were turn'd out of Paradise if God had not enlarged their Charter And to find what that was and when granted we must recur back from the end of the third Chapter where God takes away the Table he had furnish'd for them in Eden unto the forequoted chap. 1. 29. where he spreads a larger Table for them furnish'd with every Herb and Tree upon the face of the whole Earth For it is to be noted that although Beasts and Birds and Fishes fall to 't without saying Grace and those that live by prey sustain themselves not only with Vegitables but Animals without asking other leave than their own natures give them yet Man as he had not right to feed on Animals till God granted him that power after the Flood Gen. 9. 3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green Herb have I given you all things So neither could he deprive Vegitables of life for the sustenance of his own till God granted him liberty 3. From this Grant therefore Chap. 1. 29. we must continue the Story if we will bring it into due order of time unto the end of vers 3. chap. 2. And God blessed the seventh Day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested c. And thence pass over the remaining part of the second and