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rest_n	day_n	law_n	sabbath_n	6,778	5	9.7429	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76101	The arrovv of the Almighty shot out of the creatures bowe, against the uncalled ministers in England. Or, A messages sent to them to forewarn them of their determined destruction, before it fall upon them. Likewise here is shewed, from whence they had their calling into the ministery; and how all people have been decieved by them. Here is also a glass wherein all formalists may see their own deformity, and so seek after that which is the substance, wherein all their deformity shall be done away. Likewise here is opened the mystery of the Lords Supper, and the mystery in Baptism; and how there is a threefold Baptism, having relation to the three fold name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; with other truths very needful to be known. All of them being laid down in as brief a manner as possiblemay be, for the use and instruction of the Presbyterians, Independants, and Anabaptists, so called; or for the good of all others who have a minde to seek God in a right way; and in the conclusion, a word to the free-gracians. By Geo. Baitman.	Baiteman, George.	1653 (1653)	Wing B1095; Thomason E712_16; ESTC R207148	119,470	138

in themselves and would secretly be oblieging him to it and Moses gave them a caveat of the same when he bad them take heed to themselves least they should say in their hearts for my righteousness c. Hath the Lord done these things for me Deut. 15.9 And for this very thing the Sabbath was to be a sign of his sanctifying them and that sanctification was not of themselves but that they were as clean stript of all righteousness to sanctifie themselves as he gave out strict command to cease from all labor whatsoever and that they should always be looking out of themselves unto the Lord their God who sanctified them and that they should know that sanctification was of him he did very oft rehearse the same to them as may be seen Levit. 20.8 21.8 22.9 16. and Ezek. 37.28 and many other places And as it was given them for a sign of the sanctification of God so it signified a spiritual rest unto them which rest should be in God that as their bodies was refreshed in and by that rest so should their spirits be refreshed in him and be at rest when they had laid aside and cast off all toyl and labor of spirit viz. Caring fearing loving and desiring to be satisfied with created things and that they were brought out of and beyond all their secret dependancy of what they acted or observed which while they lived in they were the cause why all toyl and labor hapned to their spirits in which they were deprived of the sweet rest in God For when the heart of man is carried out from the rest in God then is it in toyl about some created thing and whatsoever it be it affordeth nothing but restlessness and this made Solomon say who had tryed all things and found that those who would seek rest in any thing created should be deceived and that he should finde nothing but sorrow and grief yea his heart taketh not rest in the night Eccles 2.23 And because the Lord knew the people would be seeking rest in other things therefore he gave them this sign of the Sabbath wherein they should know from whom the rest of their spirits should come And when they were gone out from him and had not kept the Sabbath which held out to them the rest of their souls but were turned from him yet he would have them to return again to him and ask and enquire for the way that they had left and in walking therein they should finde rest for their souls Jer. 6.16 And David knew full well what was the rest of spirit and said to himself O my soul return to thy rest c. Psal 116.7 And thirdly This Sabbath was a sign of the eternal rest that souls should have in him after the end of so many several orders and dispensations both inwardly and outwardly these being darkly held out to them by the number of six days and the seventh to be the day of rest and kept holy to the Lord And that order of numbering six days was by the Lords own example held out to them in the first Creation where it is said the Lord was six days in working and creating all things though God himself wrought not in that manner but to stoop to our weak understanding of him that in our weak knowledge could apprehend nothing at all of him if he were not pleased to let out himself in ways whereby we might darkly grope after him And so in these several out-lettings of himself in these weak ways we might be brought by little and little passing through these dispensations that we thereby might be made fit and able to come to a condition of persecution wherein we should be in a capability to behold and stand in the presence and right knowledge of God himselfe And because to speake of these seven fold dispensations is not suitable for you at present and because of the ignorance of the times as yet else it may bee you should have heard them more clearly defined to you for I assure you there is a Mystery in these numbers which as yet the most of the Sons of men be ignorant of and the Mystery in them was wrapt in them in the beginning and was mystically holden out to the Sons of men by Iohn in the Revelation by the seven Seales the seven Angels who sounded the seven Trumpets and the pouring out of the seven Viols which no man can or ever shall understand untill he be brought to live in the heart of God and God to live in his heart for none else is fit to know his secrets And under these three considerations it was that God gave out so strict command for the observation of the seventh day or Sabbath and under these considerations was Christ held out to them in his properties of Sanctification and spiritual rest and eternal rest of Souls and in this respect he was Lord over the Sabbath as himself testifieth in Mark 2.28 And as the Leviticall or Ceremoniall Law held out or were the shadows of the Office of Christ both of suffering and sacrifice which all of them was to be excluded after his death so was the Sabbath to be excluded when the thing signified by it was come and till that time that commandement was in force but when Christ was come you may observe how oft himself did crosse the Scribes and Pharisees in not observing the Sabbath according to their order Mar. 2.23 And when our Saviour upon divers occasions was to speake of the Lawes of Commandement which was to stand in force and should not in any wise passe away till they were fulfilled as may be seen in Mat. 5. c. yet never did he so much as touch or give command to keep the Sabbath because hee knew the same was fulfilled in his appearing of which he was Lord and whosoever doth observe the seventh day upon the obedience of the Commands before the appearance of Christ in the Flesh they erre not knowing the minde of God in his Commands and so they are blinded from beholding Christ in his properties therein contained and so by and in the observation of that day they become that to themselves which of right doth belong to Christ But I know you will say you doe not observe that day upon the same account as the Jewes did but under a Gospel consideration having the same day changed unto another day viz. the first day in which Christ rose from the dead and in that respect we call it not a Sabbath but the Lords Day It is true you call it the Lords Day but for that you have neither command nor example in all the New Testament but only as you may infer from that saying of St. John in Revel 1. the which you cannot justly affirme that it was the first day of the week in which Christ rose from the Dead but I would have you to know what the Lords Day is and how John called that

all your Art and Schollarship is not worth a straw and that all your Uses and Doctrines from thence proceeding is but a meer foolish and fantastick invention whereby the form of truth hath been upholden by you and the power of truth kept down by that invention From whence it is That the hearts of the people hath been so glewed to sin and selfness and covereth themselves from the knowledge thereof by a fair seeming form taught them by your art through the help of your good thinking Friends fare you well I have no more to say at present and what you finde in these ensuing lines make good use of them for there is more in them then fools can know or beleeve but the wise shall reap the benefit thereof Yours as you love and know the truth as it is in Jesus Geo. Baitman THe rising of the Sun destroyes the darksome night The Foolmerts and the Owls therby is put to flight The ravening Wolves afraid their prey they shall not get The Fox with all his wiles is putten to his wit All Creatures who do use to raven in the night Begins to grieve full sore at splendor of this light For Nature teacheth them their working time is done When night is swallowed up by rising of the Sun Then do they hide themselves for fear they shall be found By him who seeks them out with his well-sented Hound Who wisely searcheth out each foot-step as they went For why they left behinde a very stinking sent Which doth direct unto the holes wherein they lurk And taken is also and plagued for their work When this is brought to pass then may the sucking Lamb Without being destroyed lie safely by its Dam. So may the old Sheep too feed safely without fear For why the Beasts are slain that off their Wool did tear The Epistle to the Reader CHristian Reader if thou have any desire to seek after the chiefe good for the everlasting well being of thy Spirit for thy better understanding and true information I have drawn these ensuing lines but I would not have thee to thinke that I expect any praise of thee if there be any thing in them praise worthy for I confesse these lines had never come to thy view with any consent of mine as I am a weake and worthlesse creature had it not been that he who hath the commanding power over all Creatures by the command he hath over me did over-master me and as it were forced this insuing Treatise to be written by me for I confesse I did as much resist the Word of the Lord in commanding me to write these lines as ever did any of his Prophets when hee sent them to pronounce any Judgement upon any people for their transgressions but while I gain-said the Lord in what he would have me to speake I had but little rest day or night untill I set on worke and put my Pen to paper to draw these insuing lines and as farre as I have declared to you the minde of these motions that wrought so strongly in me so farre I have found rest yet I know I have not here declared at large what I ought to have declared and therefore as yet my spirit is not at that peace the which it desires yet I have prevailed that what I have here written may be acceptable untill further opportunity But what is here presented to thy view I wish thee to weigh seriously and though it may seem to crosse thee in that which thou dost beleeve to be truth yet in questioning it I wish thee to question thy selfe also and if the same spirit be in thee which was in the Author when he wrote it thou shalt be made to see that there is a truth in it the which as yet hath been hid from thee especially if thou be one that hath had no other sight of truth but what thou receivest through the spectacles of the false Priests and hast knowne nothing of God but what thou hast been taught by their precepts and so hath blinded thee of the true knowledge both of God and of thy selfe and have closed thee up within the Prison walls of weake formes wherein thy poore soule hath been kept prisoner and fed with Pulse and Huskes and as for that which is the chiefe food of thy soule thou hast not as yet had a taste thereof But if thou have but any of the pure operations of the truth of God in thy soule by which thy desire is led out in seeking that which is the chiefe good I hope this will be of some use for thee for herein thou shalt in some measure see how thou hast been blindly led by the blinde Priests and their precepts and thou shalt see how they had their calling into the Ministery and from whence their originall beginning was and how they have continued to this day and wherein they have been the cause how the true knowledge of God is kept from appearing amongst the sons of men and likewise here thou shalt see discovered the emptinesse of all formes and the ground of formes and how the most part of things contained in formes is but only traditionall and therefore but superstitions and how the purest things in formes are but Idolatry when the minde of him that ordained them is unknown And here is set out before thine eyes that which is the mysterie and the minde of him who left the some in darke types and gave command for the observing of the same that so his minde might be found out in the mysterie of these types whereby the soule might be drawne out of that which is the type into that which is the mysterie of the type And if thou be either in the forme of the Presbyterian order or Independent Congregation or of the Brother-hood of the Anabaptists if thou be not setled on the lees in thy forme I know thou wilt be made to see that there is not that happinesse in thy form the which thou thoughtest there had been in it and then I hope this will partly shew thee what the substance of truth is and where it is to be found and how it ought to bee sought and as thy desire is upright in the seeking of that which is the life and substance of all things thou wilt be made to accept this weake discovery of truth but if thou be one who is setled on the lees in thy forme I know thou will but finde little herein to please thee for I know it will bee in appearance to thee as a thief who would take from thee thy treasure thou livest of and delightest in and wilt rather snarle and fight with it in thy wit then to yeeld thy selfe to be robbed by it But whatever thou art or in what forme soever thou livest I would have thee to understand my minde truly in what is here offered to thee for I would have thee to know that I am not such an enemy to formes as that I would

also how many ways you will object against what I have written to you but I warrant you I have an answer for every one of your objections and I would have answered them all before I had left you but that I know if you will not lay this to heart it had but been follie in me to write any more for if I as I make no doubt but I very wel could have stopped all your mouths in what you could object yet I know your will is so bent in the way that when you had nothing to say you would stone me to death if you durst for you are of the same generation with whom Stephen had to do who was not able to resist his spirit he spake with yet they could stone him to death Acts 7.58 For the truth is that the God of your Fathers whom you worship viz. Self-pride self-praise self-profit self-wisdom self-power self-righteousness c. Self being the first person in the Trinity who by his spirit of wisdom doth so inspire you and in obedience to the same you become always resisters of the Holy Ghost Acts 7.51 But being past hopes of doing good to the generality of you because I know your blindness and hardness of heart at present I will adde no more to what I have said for to you who are sealed up for destruction here is too much but if happily there be some amongst you who are not sealed and setled in blindness having some want and emptiness in their souls and the same lying upon their spirits in making them to finde little but ease comfort or content in any thing they either act or speak and that can finde nothing but wo and sorrow in all they go about either in the world or their forms of Religion I say if there be any such souls amongst you I know they have that within them that will cause them to close with what I here have offered to them and confess that I have said nothing but that which is as true as truth it self And to such souls this I know will be useful for one reproof enters more into a wiseman then a hundred stripes doth into a fool Prov. 17.10 But for all other before-said they are but fools and will not believe and therefore I leave them to be destroyed by their own folly and will return to the poor deluded people under them and give them a friendly advice and shew them how they have been cheated and cousened by these foul Beasts whom the Devil hath most subtilly brought into the Ministery and have reigned by his means so many hundred years whereby the true knowledge of God is worn out from amongst the sons of men and all under a form of faith in Christ and a brain-knowledge of God and performing some duties which they tell you is holy and therein have they strangled your souls and made you believe you were in the ways of God when alas you were but in your own ways and the way of God as yet you never knew Then hearken O ye poor deluded souls who have a desire to know your own deceit and have a willingness in you to know what the way of God is and where this God is and where the way to meet with your God is and see and know that your ways you have lived in and rejoyced in how they are but poor weak beggerly things and so long as you live in them you live but in your self and as long as you live in them you are not fit for the Kingdom of Heaven neither to know the Mysteries of God nor the misery of the sin that is in you and without you know that you shall not know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God As I have shewed you the original of the Ministers from whence they came so I will shew you your Religion and your duties and observations from whence they came and upon what grounds your forms are pitched and what is all that you can reap out of the very best of your forms and how far you may act in your forms and yet have your spirits deprived of the love of God which is the salvation of all souls that are saved and I will shew you from what principles your performances arise and by what power they are performed And first for your Religion I finde it to be nothing else but a feigned fantastick thing raised up by and through the vain conceits of your blinde Ministers who have no grounds for what they affirm but onely false conclusions which they draw from true principles in others and likewise the best grounds they have for any thing contained in the profession it is no more but examples from others who had command to observe such things and know the minde of him who commanded these things and observed these things according to the minde and intent of him who gave them command to observe such things but your Ministers being ignorant of the minde of the Commander observe the same by example not knowing the minde of the Commander and therefore they have given out these things to you and their own minde in them and from them have you observed these things in your Religion But now I will come to some particulars and I wish you to observe well what is delivered unto you by my Pen and the Lord give you hearts to understand the truth I shall deliver to you And first I come to that which is a principal point and part of your Religion viz. The observation of the Sabbath as you call it but that is not a proper name for it except you profess Circumcision and so become one with the Jews for to them was this delivered amongst the other Commandments but instituted at the beginning and when God had given out the rest of the Commandments to Moses he repeateth over this Commandment of keeping the Sabbath and telleth Moses for what end and purpose he had given that charge of keeping it viz. That it should be a sign between him and the people that they might know who sanctified them and whosoever did not refrain from all manner of work upon that day was to be put to death Exod. 31.13 14 c. And this was to be a sign between God and them in all their Generations Now if it were delivered to the Jews as a sign then was there something signified in it and appointed out by it to them I will tell you what it held out to them it held out three things in its signification As for the first it was the righteousness of God by which he sanctified them without any thing in them or by them whatsoever and as they were to cease from all labor whatsoever on pain of death so were they not to look at any thing within themselves whatsoever whereby they should look to be made holy for if they did it was the very death of their souls and God knew it well that they would be looking at something