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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89189	A sober ansvvere to an angry pamphlet, or, Animadversions, by way of reply, to Robert Barclays late book (entituled, Truth cleared of calumnies) in answere to A dialogue between a Quaker and a stable Christian by VVilliam Mitchell.	Mitchell, William, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing M2294; ESTC R43708	69,116	149

fourth Command instance in the seventh day that is for number yet it speaketh not precisely of the seventh day in order from the creation It is said six dayes shalt thou labour but the seventh is the Sabbath mark the seventh is the Sabbath the Lord saith not the seventh from the creation It is likewise worthy special observation to consider the preceptive and the benedictive part of the fourth Command or the beginning and conclusion of it In the beginning it is said Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy In the conclusion it is said Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it observe the phrase not seventh day but Sabbath day is blessed so that the fourth Command neither begins nor ends with that terme the seventh day but with that of the Sabbath day which is an evidence that the designe of this Command is not to bind the Church to a precise keeping of the seventh day from the creation for there is no express mention of that day in all the fourth Command the maine intendment therefore of the fourth Command is to prescribe a seventh day to be keept holy after six dayes labour which GOD appointeth And this to the People of GOD under the Old Testament was the seventh day of the week it being appointed by GOD in the first institution of the Sabbath Gen. 2 3. but to us it is the first day of the week the Sabbath being translated and changed to this day by divine authority as will afterwards appear 1. Object The keeping of one day of the week for a Sabbath is not perpetual but abolished Coloss 2.16.17 let no man judge you in meat or drink or in respect of a holy day or new Moon or of the Sabbath dayes Answer Here the Apostle opposeth ceremonial ordinances but not Gospel institutions Indeed the Old Anabaptists and Familists with whom Quakers go along they urged this text against all difference of dayes under the Gospel though the Apostles onely designe be to decry the several sorts of dayes which were in use among the Jews of which he gives an observable enumeratiō proceeding from their yearlie holy dayes to their monethlie new Moons and from them to their weeklie Sabbaths so that granting the weekly Sabbath to be here taken in yet it maketh nothing against the Christian Sabbath but against the old seventh day Sabbath 2. Object Rom. 14.6 plainlie holdeth forth all dayes to be alike Answer What was said before serveth to clear this Scripture it speaketh of ceremonial daies of such dayes as are in the rank with ceremonial meats and therefore opposeth not the moral weekly Sabbath 3. Object Gal. 4.10.11 Ye observe daies and moneths times and years I am affraid of you Ans There is a twofold observation of dayes moral and ceremonial now the Apostle speaketh not against the former but the latter he would not have Jewish times such a their Sabbatical yeares their annual feasts their monethlie feasts called new Moons their weeklie seventh day which is probably thought to be included in that clause ye observe dayes to be observed which the Jewish false teachers cryed up but he was far from crying down the fourth Command which is no less binding then the rest of the Decalogue it being delivered in the same majestick manner pressed with the same severitie and written by the same finger of GOD and put into the same Ark with the rest He that said Thou shalt not commit adulterie Thou shalt not steal said likewise Remember the Sabbath day keep it holy and therefore if persons take upon them to sacrifice this Command to their wild fancies they need not spare the other Commands And in very deed the Commands of GOD are little beholden either to Papists or Quakers for Papists reject the second Command and Quakers give the same usage to the fourth And this puts me in mind of a Story I have heard concerning an Honest Countrey-man who travelling on the rod there were two who denyed the Sabbath came up to him upon a designe to try his knowledge the question they propounded was concerning the number of the Commands the well meaning man knew the persons and shapt an answer sutable to their principles telling them there were eight Cōmands whereupon the Querists made sport and upbraided the poor man with his profession and his ignorance but he gravely replyed that the scripture indeed spake of ten Commands Deut. 4.13 but they had taken away one Command and the Papists another so that between them they had brought the Commands from ten to eight In his answer to Matth. 24.20 where Christ intimats the continuance of a Sabbath He saith that Sabbath is neither here nor else where said to be the first day of the week Answer Though there be no express mention in this place of the first day of the week yet in that it proves the continuance of a Sabbath it overthrowes the Quakers opinion who would be levelling all dayes making them alike And it is to be remarked that Christ was come into the world relateth the sad things which were to befal his Disciples after he was ascended to the Father and yet even then a Sabbath was in being He addeth page 60. That as the outward Jew ma● not be put to fly on his outward Sabbath so the inward Jew desireth much more that he may keep hi● Sabbath which is his spiritual rest in Christ Heb 4.9 Answer The Apostle in this chapter speaketh of a rest which Believers onely enter into And sheweth 1. That this rest is not the rest of the Sabbath verse 4. 2. That it is not the rest of the Land of Canaan verse 8. If Jesus that is Joshua had given them rest then would he not have spoken o● another rest It followeth then that the rest which Believers onely shall enter into is the rest of Heaven verse 9. there remains therefore a rest for the people of GOD. Now because there is an eternal rest promised to the Believing obedient people of GOD saith this any thing why they should not observe one day of seven as a Sabbath unto the Lord Oh the conscientious keeping of the Sabbath is a comfortable evidence of those that shal be admitted to this rest SECT II. The first day of the Week is set a part for the Service of GOD by Divine Authority He addeth If we have the same authority for keeping the first day of the week as the Jews had for keeping their day then let it be produced Answer It was produced before but he would not see it however for the sake of others we shal cōsider again that Scripture Rev. 1.10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords day Now that by the Lords day is meant the first day of the week will be clear if we advert that there are peculiar grounds why this day is singularly to be called the Lords day beyond other dayes Because 1. on this day our Lord arose and ceased from the work