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A26814 The morality of the seventh-day-Sabbath disproved in answer to C.T. Tillam's book, entituled, A present from prison, dedicated to L.C. Hobson ... / written by the learned J.B., Master of arts, at the request of the said L.C. Hobson. J. B. 1683 (1683) Wing B113; ESTC R32844 17,167 24

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done though God had not Instituted and enjoyned the same which if you can make good concerning the Observation of the Seventh-day-Sabbath then will I readily assent to you that it is Moral Page 7. Where did you learn that the work of the Law written in mens Natural hearts is the Old Covenant For doth not the Scripture oppose the New Covenant to that Covenant which God made with the Children of Israel when he brought them out of Egypt Heb. 8.8 9 10. And doth not the Author of that Epistle in the 13th Verse affirm That in as much as he saith a new Covenant he hath made the first old So that it undeniably follows That the first Covenant which God made with the Israelites when he brought them out of Egypt is the Old Covenant It is also as evident that the words of the Law is that Old Covenant there being no other Old Covenant but the Law delivered in Writing by Moses Again where did you learn That the words of the Law written in the Christians hearts is the new Covenant 'T is true indeed that the Scriptures saith the New Covenant consisteth in this That God will write his Laws in his peoples hearts but doth not affirm that he will write the words of the Law whereby Moses Law is usually alone understood in the Scripture on their Hearts So that by the laws which God promiseth to write on the Hearts of his People must needs be understood not the laws which he had formerly delivered by Moses the Mediator of the Old Covenant but those which he would afterwards deliver by Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant Whereby you may perceive that the New Covenant differs from the Old in the very laws that were written as well as in the Tables whereon they were written these being Tables of the Heart the other Tables of stone and also in the Instrument of writing them these being written by the Spirit of the Living God the other with Ink 2 Cor. 3.3 So that your Error in distingushing as you did the Old Covenant from the New is conspicuous As for those words then Rom. 2.15 by the works of the law is meant the works of Moses Law for of that it is treated in the fore-going words and consequently the word or matter or things for these Expressions amount to the same of Moses Law written in the Hearts of the Gentiles not the things that are therein meerly of Institution and so Ceremonial or Positive for none can know such things unless they be told him but only those that be Natural and Moral For that such things of the Law were written in the Hearts of the Gentiles appeareth every where by their writings and for the breach of them they are reproved in the Scripture as the Tyrrians are blamed for not keeping Covenant Amos 1.9 The Edomites for Cruelty ibid. ver 11. The Ammorites for insulting over other mens Calamities Ezek. 25.3 But no where shall you find that the Heathens are Rebuked in Scripture for not keeping the Sabbath neither is there any hint in their Writings that they thought themselves bound to such a Duty Wherefore it is manifest that the keeping of the Sabbath is no Moral Duty which the Light of Nature doth dictate unto men that they ought to perform But you will perhaps demand of me how the Condition of Christians excelleth that of Heathens and Jews if the work of the Law was written in the Hearts of the one as Paul testifieth and the word of the Law was in the Heart of the other as Moses saith Deut. 30.14 The word is nigh thee in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that thou mayest do it I Answer that the difference lyeth chiefly in two things First the things of the law are not said to be written in the Hearts either of Jews or Heathens by the Spirit of the living God and so not so plainly and so easily Legible to them the contrary whereof is affirmed of Christians Secondly their Hearts are not said to be Hearts of Flesh but on the contrary the Jews hearts are called hearts of stone Ezek. 11.19 which may be as truly affirmed of the Heathens hearts whereas the hearts of Christians are by Paul termed Hearts of Flesh 2 Cor. 3.3 Page 9. You are here as well as in other passages of your Book somewhat injurious to me in imposing that upon me which I neither said nor meant For did I give this as a ground for us to forget the Seventh-day-Sabbath because God hath Commanded us to remember it Yea do I not again and again tell you that God hath no where Commanded us Christians to remember any such Sabbath What can I with Reason conclude from hence but that you had a mind to render me Contemptible in the eyes of the Brethren by ascribing so Ridiculous a kind of Reasoning to me As little ingenious is your Reprehension of me a little after saying that I am mistaken in denying that to be Naturally Moral which depends upon Memory where you leave out the words as to know as you do in sundry other Passages afterwards which expression quite varieth the Case For certainly that which a man cannot know but by means of his memory is such a thing as is not Naturally written in his heart but suggested to him from without Neither doth the greatness and goodness of God depend upon memory as to know which words you again leave out dealing as unfaithfully as before For it is Naturally imprinted in the Heart of every man that God is good and great but not that we ought to keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath as will appear to any man that is acquainted with the Writings of such as are meerly Naturalists The Gospel as to the principle Mysteries therefore transcendeth the Natural Understanding of man to find out For so the Apostle intimateth when he saith We preach the things that neither Eye hath seen nor Ear hath heard neither hath it come up into the Heart of man Wherefore no man was bound to know or publish these things without Divine Revelation and Command And consequently they are not Naturally Moral that being Naturally Moral which is taught by the Light of Nature Page 12. 'T is true a Child can of himself no more know who are his Parents than he can which is the Seventh day But prove that it is as much written in the Nature and Heart of man that he should Celebrate the Seventh day when he is told which day of the Week is it as that he should honour his Parents when he hath once learned who are they Were this so the Heathen who are very studious of the Law of Nature and have left us Excellent Treatises concerning the same would as well have delivered Precepts about the Observation of the Sabbath as they do about Honouring our Parents Pag. 13. When I affirm that the Sabbath was a sign of Gods Sanctifying his own People you would had you intended the finding out of the Truth