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A53192	The doctrine of the Fourth Commandement, deformed by popery, reformed & restored to its primitive purity wherein is clearely proved by Scripture, arguments, and reasons, that the seventh day of the week, and not the first, viz. the day called Saturday (and not the day called Sunday) is the true Christian Sabbath ... / objections answered, and the truth cleared, by Gods unworthy servant, J.O.	Ockford, James.	1650 (1650)	Wing O128AA; ESTC R41358	35,090	80

an Edict to all Governours of Provinces in his Roman Empire that they should forthwith observe the Lords day and honour Holy-daies consecrated to the memoriall of Martyrs and solemnly observe the Feasts of the Church * At this time or a little before is the time that Socrates speaketh of lib. 5. chap. 21. saying some despised the commandements of God and made them cannons of their owne they set at nought and made no account of the law published by the Apostles so unadvisedly saith he they put in practise decrees contrary to the will of God himself Ibid. Chap. 23. Note I doe not say the first day of the week was not observed till this time for evident it is it was observed by many Churches in few years after the decease of the Apostles Yea Dr. White on the Sabbath pag. 193. saith The Vniversall Church before the decree of any Generall or Nationall Counsell made the Sunday or Lords Day a weekely Festivall But I endeavour to denote when it was that the Church rejected the Sabbath and observed the first day of the week in stead of it The third Reason why it is probable the putting down of the Sabbath and the setting up of the first day of the week in stead of it was contrived in the Nicen Councel is because Christians before that Counsell were not forbid to observe the seventh day-Sabbath nor threatned to bee Excommunicated if they did observe it for that was not done till the Counsell held at Laodicea Anno 364. which was about 38 yeares after the Nicen Councell where they made a Law that Christians should not Jewdize and rest upon the Sabbath day but rather worke upon it and that they should prefer the Lords day above the Sabbath day and if any were found observing the Jewish Sabbath they should be excommunicated or accursed as Mr. Brabourn hath it in his forementioned Book pag. 482. Out of Hospine de Origen Fast Chap. 9 pag. 27. about this time many other Errours were set a foot for Mr. Brabourn in his forementioned Book pag. 482. saith you may read in Mr. Perkins his Demonstration of the Probleme about the 300 and 400 years after Christ Then began Images to creep into Churches the Crosse to be adored Invocation of Saints praiers for the dead Pilgrimage Purgatory single life of Ministers Monkery and Monasticall profession c. Thus have I shewn the time or neere about when the Lords holy seventh day-Sabbath was rejected and the first day of the week instituted in its stead which causeth me to say with the Prophet Psal 119.126 It is time for thee Lord to worke for they have made void thy Law Yea it appeareth to me to be a great cause of Gods Judgments on the World Isa 24.4 5. Lamentable it is that the Learned of this Land which professe themselvs to be guids to the blind and lights of them which are in darknesse and teachers of them which want knowledge and to have the forme of knowledge and truth of the Law that they should teach men to observe the first day of the week in stead of the seventh contrary to the Law upon a pretence that Jesus Christ abrogated the Sabbath and that he and his Apostles instituted the first day of the week in its stead when there is not any Word of God that teacheth either the one or the other I confesse there are many weak reasons produced by many men to prove their doctrine and practice * Note I pray if it be not according to the words of the law and testimony it is because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 both for the abrogation of the Sabbath as also for manifesting that the first day of the week is of a divine institution some principall places of Scripture produced and perverted by them I will briefly weigh and examine committing it to wise mens consideration and the Almighties blessing Anti-sabatharians say Our Saviour to manifest the change of the Sabbath day did plead for and performe some things that the Jewes upon the Sabbath might not doe and to prove it they urge two Scriptures the one Mark 2.23 24. Where it is said our Saviours Disciples plucked the eares of Corne on the Sabbath day and the Pharises urged at our Saviour for that fact Now say they Our Saviour justified that fact although it was a doing of that which the law of the Sabbath forbids Ergo the Sabbath was to be changed Answer Our Saviour did not justifie them in that act as an vnlawfull fact but justified them in it as a lawfull or justifiable fact as the cause stood with them they being hungry and that from a president in David and those that were with him who in the like case did eat the shew bread c. As also from that Of the Priests in the Temple which brake the Sabbath and were blamelesse Mat. 12.4 5. which words of our Saviour doe imply that had there not bene a necessity their action had not been lawfull but being a cause of necessity as Davids and the Priests was the one having a relation to Charity and the other to Piety they were blamelesse And therefore in answer to the necessity of his Disciples our Saviour said to his Adversaries If you had known what this meaned I will have mercy and not sacrifice Math. 12 7. A repulse to their cavill And withall our Saviour caused them to know that the sonne of man is Lord also of the Sabbath Which words of our Saviour doe imply he being Lord of the Sabbath knew the extent of the Sabbath better then they for had they known the extent of the Sabbath they would not have condemned the innocent Mat. 12.7 Let no man thinke that our Saviour either by his goodnesse or greatnesse did vouchsafe a dispensation to his Disciples to act that which was in its nature evill for that he did not neither doth those words of our Saviour in saying he was Lord of the Sabbath import that he had changed the Sabbath or would doe it But those words are to be understood far otherwise and that very proper to Our Saviour may be rightly said to be Lord of the Sabbath in a threefold respect 1. In that as he was God Iohn 1.1 2 3. In which sence the Sabbath was made by him 2. In respect it was upheld by him Iohn 5 17. Col. 1.20 3. He is rightly said to be Lord of the Sabbath in that he only holily kept it in his person for the perfecting of the Saints imperfect obedience to it Rom. 8.3 4. chap 10.4 Had our Saviour abolished the law of the Sabbath he had diminished from the morall Law which thing he did not Mat. 5.17 For being man and circumcised he was bound to keep the whole Law Gal. 5.3 In which regard he was a subject to it and so he acknowledged himselfe to be Mat. 4.7 10. Yea I say It was impossible that he could or did diminish from the morall Law

in regard circumcised men were forbid so to doe Deut. 4.2 chap. 12 32. It being so I affirme that whosoever doth teach or affirme that Jesus Christ did diminish from the holy law the decalogue doe charge our Saviour with sinne although they deserue it not But to defend his Innocency therein I doe affirme our Saviour Christ did not before his death nor at his death nor by his resurrection diminish any precept of that Law nor any part thereof Therefore it followes that we are as firmly and as unchangeably bound to the observation of the seventh day-Sabbath as we are to any duty commanded in that Law A second Scripture oft urged by them is Iohn 5. where mention is made of our Saviours curing the Impotent man and bidding him take up his Bed and walke verse 18. It being the Sabbath day a thing fordidden by the Law as they say therefore they infer it manifested that the Sabbath was or should be changed Answer Surely it is a very weake and slender ground to bear so weighty a matter yea so weake it is that they know not well what to infer something they would have to prove their purpose if they knew what but surely there is nothing of any force to be gathered from thence to prove that either the Sabbath was or should be abrogated and therefore I passe over this Objection as not worth the answering 3. Anti-sabatharians to prove the change of the Sabbath and to manifest the first day of the week to be of a divine institution They say The Apostles assembled on the first day of the weeke the day of our Saviours Resurrection and our Saviour honoured them with his presence Mark 16.19 Ergo the Sabbath was changed c. Answer The inference is not to be proved by Scripture the premises proveth not the thing intended and therefore I say not any of this doth prove the change of the Sabbath nor that the first day of the week is of a divine institution not in the least Neither did their assembling prove that it was for the celebration of that day in remembrance of any Grace that was brought to the Church or World by the resurrection of our Saviour from the dead as some doe surmise and that for two Reasons The first is because Saint John saith chap. 20.19 That they assembled together for feare of the Iewes had it been for any other end doubtlesse he would have made it known unto us 2 Because when they assembled they knew not that he was risen from the dead no neither did they believe the testimony of the Disciples which Reported it to them after they were assembled Mar. 16 11. for which cause our Saviour reprehended them v. 14. 4 Our Saviour appearing to his disciples after eight days Joh. 20.26 is oft vrged to prove the change of the Sabbath and that the first day of the weeke to be of a Divine Institution but this helpeth to prove their purpose as the former in regard it was not upon the next first day as many do think But it was upon some one day after the first day of the week had it been on the first day of the week that our Saviour appeared to his Disciples it had been on the eighth day But St. John expresly saith it was after eight dayes therefore not on the first day which was the eighth day It being so this serveth not in any wise to prove the abrogating of the seventh day-Sabbath nor that the first day of the weeke is of a Divine Institution for performance of publique Worship 5. Another Scripture urged to prove the first day of the week to be a set time for performance of publick worship is Act. 20.7 where it is said when the disciples came together to break bread upon the first day of the week Paul preached unto them c. This doth not prove the first day of the week to be of a Divine institution nor that their breaking of bread was the communion of the Misteries of the Lord in the Sacrament seeing it was an usuall thing for the Disciples to assemble together to break bread daily Acts 2.46 Chap. 5.42 6. Neither did the Apostles Ordination for Collection at Corinth and Galatia on the first day of the week 1 Cor. 16.1 prove that the Churches then were to assemble on the first day of the week to performe publique worship Surely there is no such word to be found in the Text or elsewhere but that which the Apostle did appoint in Corinth and at Galatia was that every one on the first day of the week should lay a part by himself as God had prospered him c. Or this it may be read for our more proper understanding of the Apostles meaning upon one of the week daies let every one of you lay apart by himselfe c. Note not at Church there is no such word but at home And so doth Mr. Tindall and Tremelius Translate it It being so what doth this serve to prove that all Christian Churches then and ever since were to assemble for performance of publique worship on the first day of the week or that those words of the Apostles did either institute or constitute it to be a Sabbath Surely nothing at all See Dr. Prideaux on the Sabbath pag. 28. And also Dr. Hylyns History upon the Sabbath Part. 2. Ch. 1. Sect. 10. Neither did the Apostles or Evangelists ever call the first day of the week by name of a Sabbath in relation to a day of Rest nor when ever they spake of the first day of the week they never cald it by the name of the Lords day or Sunday Had these Titles appertained to it doubtlesse they would not have been slack to have bestowed them on it 7. To prove the Sabbath abrogated Anti-Sabbatharians doe oft urge the Apostles words Col. 2.16.17 Let no man condemne you in meat or in drink or in respect of a Holy day or of the New Moon or of the Sabbath dayes c. Answ The Apostle speaketh not in this place of the seventh day-Sabbath Exod. 20.8 which our Saviour ratified Mat. 5. It being a part of the Morall Law yea and also commanded obedience to God by it inclusively Mat. 22.37 38. But of the Ceremoniall Sabbaths forementioned which were shadows of good things to come as Meats Drinks and New Moons were which being abolished by Christ became beggerly Rudiments Gal. 4.9 and frustrateth the work of Grace in the observers thereof v. 11. Chap. 5.4 Evident it is these things there mentioned by the Apostle were not written in Tables of stone therefore serveth not to prove the duty of the seventh day-Sabbath abrogated Yea I say certain it is there is no appearance in the New Testament that the seventh day-Sabbath was abrogated by Christ or should be after his death Or that ever the first day of the weeke was instituted or commanded by him or his Apostles to be observed for performance of publique worship Neither