Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	day_n	sabbath_n	week_n	2,310	5	10.5996	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27442	The Church of England evidently proved the holy catholick church by Peter Berault ...	Berault, Peter.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1948A; ESTC R22975	53,217	264

upon the first day of the week to abolish the true Sabbath to transpose it to another day without an express Commandment either of Christ or of his Apostles And if that Reason were good might we not say because he dyed on such a day we ought also to transfer the Sabbath unto it And to the third Objection it is true saith he we read in our Translation that the Apostles met on the first day of the week but mark ye that it was Concerning the Collection for the Saints as ye may read in the 16th Chapter of the first to the Corinthians And though it were also to Preach and break Bread as it appears in the Acts yet saith he if this Reason were sufficient for the changing of the Sabbath into the first day of the week this should be sufficient also for the continuing of it in the seventh since we read that the Apostles met oftentimes together on the Sabbath to pray preach and baptize And Christ himself and his Apostles were strict Sabbath-keepers they even after his death And Christ seems to favour this Opinion when in the 24th Chapter of St. Matthew speaking not only concerning the Destruction of Hierusalem but also concerning the last day of Judgment he saith Pray ye that your flight be not in the Winter neither on the Sabbath day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From which words this Argument is deduced In Christ's time the Sabbath was on the seventh day therefore when he commanded us to pray that at the day of Judgment our flight should not be on the Sabbath day he commanded us to pray that it should not come on the seventh day and since this Commandment of Christ is still the same at that time in reference to the last day of Judgment the same day ought to continue still otherwise his Commandments and Threatnings are vain And it signifieth nothing to say that in the words of the fourth Commandment there is something moral as the Sanctification of days without any determination which cannot be abolished and something Ceremonial as the determination of a day which may be changed For if the determination of the seventh day be meerly Ceremonial and consequently may be changed likewise the Determination of the first day of the week is meerly Ceremonial and therefore may be changed also Wherefore the Reason why this is kept rather than another is meer Policy and to avoid Confusion which we could not prevent if there were not a day determined But if that Reason be valid is it not better to take the day assigned by God whereon he rested which he sanctified and blessed above all others upon which he declares he will bless them that keep it holy as he will curse and punish the Transgressors of it which was kept by Jesus Christ and his Apostles which God commanded usin express words and which Christ doth now command for as I have made it appear this Ordinance Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter neither on the Sabbath stands at this very day Is it not better I say to take that day than that whereof we find no Commandment in the holy Scripture Again It signifieth nothing to say it is written in the 2d Chapter to the Colossians Let no man judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new Moon or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ for in this place the word Sabbaths instead of shewing that the seventh day could be changed into the first of the week serves only to make it appear we ought to have no determined day Therefore since it is certain and granted by all men that though we are to sanctifie all the days of our life that is to say to live holily yet we ought particularly to set aside one day of the week whereon we ought to rest and keep holy to God Almighty These words then of St. Paul to the Colossians are not to be understood concerning the Sabbath assigned in the 20th Chapter of Exodus but concerning other Sabbaths which besides this the Jews did keep It is then evident if we lay down all prejudices that the said Objections are not strong enough to contradict what is before asserted viz. that men neither can nor ought to change what is established and determined by God as it is the consent of all Divines and holy Scriptures and notwithstanding all that I have just now alledged the Church of England changing the seventh unto the first day of the week to keep it holy it is manifest she breaks the fourth Commandment of the Decalogue and consequently is not the holy Catholick Church Answ All the words contained in the fourth Commandment do not bind equally some containing a Commandment as Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day and some including a Permission as Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work as likewise these of St. Paul to the Corinthians Whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no Question for Conscience sake In these sorts of Expressions God doth not command but gives only permission and leave to eat of whatsoever is sold in the Shambles As well as to eat of the Fruit of the Trees of the Garden excepting the Tree of Life which was forbidden our first Parents It is then clear that these words Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work include but a Permission for I think no body will say that it is not lawful to a man on any other day of the week to abstain from gross and slavish works to the end he might meditate God's Works and Perfections and apply himself unto Exercises of Charity and Piety Second Answer All that are contained in the Decalogue are not ex Jure naturali nor belong to the Moral Law and consequently are not Immutable for the Preface Hear Israel I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt out of the House of bondage sheweth evidently that God speaks unto Israel according to the Flesh as they were a Type of Israel according to the Spirit and puts them in mind of his renowned favours towards them in delivering them out of the bondage of Aegypt as a Type of our spiritual Redemption and slavery under the Devil Sin and Death Now if either we consider the Type or the thing signified thereby neither of them are ex Jure naturali or belong to the Moral Law which is the same and Immutable at all times and among all Nations but are grounded upon the good pleasure of God who by his special goodness towards that People was pleased so to deal with them Third Answer These words of the fourth Commandment In it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy man-Servant nor thy maid-Servant nor thy Cattel nor the Stranger which is within thy Gates could not have relation to