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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44280	An essay concerning the Sabbath, or, The Sabbath-days rest from controversie wherein is asserted that our Christian Sabbath, Lords-day, or Sunday is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by the Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship, before Israels coming out of Ægypt and after that by gentiles : prefaced, with an introduction thereunto touching the true meaning of Gen. 2 v, 2, 3 / by N. Homes.	Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing H2564; ESTC R28681	38,857	162

8. transferred and applyed to the Heathen Gentiles He therefore saith the Appostle that ministreth to you the Spirit and doth he it by the works of the Law or by the hearing of FAITH Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for RIGHTEOUSNESS Know ye therefore that they which are of Faith the same are the Children of Abraham And the Scripture foreseeing that God would JUSTIFIE the HEATHEN by FAITH Preached before the Gospel to Abraham The injunction of Faith in God upon all men according to the intent of the First Commandement is fully held forth Heb. 11.6 Without Faith it is impossible to please God For he that cometh to God must believe that HE IS and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him So likewise the Matter of the Second Commandement forbidding all Idolatrous and false Worship not Instituted by God is intimated in times before the setting forth of the Moral Law at Sinai and the breach thereof severely punished or reproved Exod. 32. While Moses was on the Mount receiving the Two Tables of the Law at God's hand the Israelites make a Molten Calfe and Proclaim To morrow is a Feast to Jehovah and do then Sacrifice to it and dance about it This the Apostlecalls Idolatry 1 Cor. 10. Because though they pretended the Worshiping of the true God yet they did it through an uninstituted and false medium or mean And therefore are there punished with a great slaughter And from the beginning c. Cain Abel Noah Abraham Sacrificed And Laban yea Abraham before his Call are reproached for their Idolatry Josh 24.15 So also the matter of the Third Commandement touching Honouring Gods Name in fearing him and swearing by it Deut. 6.13 was in use and practise long before the giving of the Law Gen. 14.22 And Abraham said to the King of Sodom I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord the most high God the Possessor of Heaven and Earth That is he had sworn by the Name of the Lord. So it is said of Jacob Gen. 31.53 That he Sware by the FEAR of his Father Isaac that is he Sware by the true God whom Jsaac truely feared yea the Idolatrous Laban Gen. 21 23. And the Heathen Abimelech Gen. 2. v. 22 23. practised obedience to this Command The matter of the Fourth Commandement touching Sanctifying the Sabbath day is also in use before the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai as hath been abundantly cleared in the preceding discourse though that one place Exod. 16.22 23. would have sufficiently evinced it where it is said And it came to pass on the SIXTH day they gathered twice as much bread viz. Manna And all the Rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses in which words is necessitatedly supposed an observation of the Sabbath preceding See the English Annotations on Gen. 2 3. arguing the Point The Matter of the Fifth Commandement of due Subjection o● Inferiours to Superiours is also imposed and practised long before the giving of the Law See Gen. 3.16 And the Lord said to Eve Thy desire shall be t● thy Husband and he shall rul● over thee And Sarah honour her Husband Abraham with th● Title of Lord Gen. 18.12 Which was her commendation 1 Pet. 3.5 6. See further concerning Subjection and Dominion Gen. 27. v. 29 37. So is the Sixth Commandement evidently extant forbidding murder long before the giving of the Law at Sinai Se● Gen. 9.6 Who so sheddeth man's Blood by man shall his Blood be shed As for the Seventh Commandement touching Adulterie see the unlawfulness of it in Judah the Son of Jacob lying with Tamar and the Judgment passed upon it Gen. 38.24 See the Dutch and English Annotations upon it Of the Matter of the Eighth Commandement touching Stealing and the unlawfulness thereof See Gen. 31. v. 32. In that Jacob would not justifie any of his Family that had stolen ought from Laban but would give them up to punishment And in v. 39. Jacob made good to Laban any thing that had been Stolen from him whiles Jacob kept his Flocks Concerning the Ninth Commandement forbidding all false Witnessings it was of such consequence in the esteem both of Jews and Heathens viz Abraham Jacob and Abimilech Picol and Laban that to make sure a● agreement they called God 〈◊〉 Witness that they spake tr●●● by an Oath Gen. 14.22 Gen. 〈◊〉 31. Gen. 31.53 All which w●●● long before the giving of 〈◊〉 Law The Tenth Commandement Thou shalt not Covet and its Vnlawfulness We have intimated Gen. 6.2 The Sons of God saw the Daughters of Men that they were fair and they took to them Wives of all which they chose This their Seeing the beauties of the Daughters of men was their Lust or Concupiscence It was a double or compound Lust 〈◊〉 partly the Lust of the Flesh 〈◊〉 partly the Lust of the Eyes r●●●tioned there as their great 〈◊〉 and amplified v. 6. and th●●●ned in the remainder of 〈◊〉 Chapter N. B. For Concupiscer 〈◊〉 an Introduction to the breach of all the Five Commandements of the second Table because it is an inordinate and unjust desire after that which is my Neighbours without due consideration for it When therefore a man doth Concupiscentially desire his Neighbours Wife he is disposed towards the breaking of the Com●andement against Adulterie When he desires Concupiscenti●lly his Neighbours Servant he ●s inclined towards the breach of the Commandement of every ●ne to honour his own Superior Master or Governor When ●e Concupiscentially desires his Neighbours House Oxe or Ass ●e is disposed in his heart towards the breach of the Commandement of Theft Lastly ●●en it is said Thou shalt not co●et any thing that is thy Neigh●ours it signifies that this Concupiscence will incline and dispose a man to take away his Neighbours Life good Name and Trade contrary to the former Commandements Thus ye see my asserting the Morality of the Ten Commandements and my Reason for it and that Morality is to be stampt and fixt rather upon the Christians Sunday-Sabbath then upon the Jew● Saturday-Sabbath And thus o● the First Conclusion ¶ 2. The Second Conclusion to be cleared as before named is That the Jews Artificial Sabbath-day of Day-light an 〈◊〉 Christians Artificial Sabbath 〈◊〉 of Day-light were Materia 〈◊〉 to Day-light the very self 〈◊〉 at the very first Change 〈◊〉 Sabbath Ex. 12.42 unle●●● will say that there is one 〈◊〉 day lost since Israels goi●●● of Aegypt when God Insti●●● That the Jews should begin 〈◊〉 Sabbath at Evening Which if admitted would odd the Accompt and make an interval in the Calculation of time since the Creation to this time Now for the clearing of this Conclusion Consider That if we grant what is before undeniably proved Chap. 9th That both the Jews and Gentiles before the change of the Sabbath observed our Sunday whose Day-light began both with Jew and Gentile at Sun-rising And at the Institution of that Change of the Sabbath