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A91419	A treatise of the Sabbath. Wherein is contained the time of the first institution of it. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained. Whereunto is annexed A treatise of holy time: and therein the great question about the beginning and ending of the Lords Day is largely discussed: and in both sundry cases of conscience are handled, and many texts of scripture are opened, the practice of the churches in New England are inquired into / by William Pynchon, late of New England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4314; Thomason E816_5; Thomason E816_6; ESTC R210987	130,807	159

the Lord was also pleased to adde a gracious promise in vers 27. saying They shall put my name upon the Sons of Israel and I will blesse Numb 6. 24 27 them and this blessing is often remembred and repeated as an incouragement to all the godly to attend his Sabbath-Ordinances Psal 115. 13. Psal 134. 3. Psal 147. 13. Object You seem to apply Gods blessing to his Sabbath-Ordinan●es only but experience doth tell us that God doth often blesse the preaching of the Word upon the Week-days to the conversion of many souls Ans I answer It is most true that God doth often blesse the preaching of his Word on the Week-days as well as upon the Sabbath days to the conversion of many thousand Souls but that lets not but that preaching must still be accounted as one of his Sabbath-Ordinances because God did first appoint it for the Sabbath day and it is now but borrowed to the Week-days by the good hand of God upon mens Spirits as a furtherance to faith and holinesse And I beleeve there are many thousand Souls that will readily witnesse to the truth of this Doctrin who by Gods blessing on the Word preached on the Week-days have been turned from Darknesse to Light and from the power of Satan to God and such persons doubtlesse will with Nehemiah account the Sabbath Day among the number of those special blessings that God bestowed upon his people as a sign of his special grace in Christ Nehem. 9. 13 14. Hitherto I have spoken of Gods blessing the seventh day with publick Ordinances now I shall speak something of private Ordinances where-with God hath also blessed the seventh day Gods blessing of the Sabbath is his blessing at large even his Private duties are commanded on the Sabbath dayes as necessary handmaids to the publick blessing upon the whole day he blessed the seventh day with as large a blessing as may be namely not onely with publick but also with private Ordinances and therefore he sanctified the whole day to his service he did not sanctifie that part onely wherein his publick Ordinances were dispenced but the whole day and therefore the whole day must be set apart to his service and therefore when the publick Ordinances are ended private duties must take place that the whole day may be blessed to our souls and sanctified to the Lords service Let no man therefore mistake me for though I do not make private duties to be commanded in the first place yet I beleeve that private duties are commanded and blessed of God as necessary handmaids to the publick and there are good reasons for it 1 Our barren hearts our stony hearts our thorny hearts will not suffer the blessed seed of the Word the take root and to thrive there unlesse we do prepare them like to well-manured ground 2 In hearing Christ gives this caution Take heed how you hear and the Hebrew Doctors say When any go to hear the Law read See Ains in De●t 31. 11. or expounded they must prepare their hearts and make their ears attentive to hear with fear and reverence and with joy and trembling as in the day when the Law was given on Mount Sinai though they were great wise men which knew the whole Law every whit they were bound to hear with great attentivenesse and so God required a carefull preparation of his people at the hearing of the Law Ex. 19. 3 After hearing our Saviour doth exhort his hearers saying Take heed what you hear Mar. 4. 24. Mar. 8. 15. and in this respect the men of Berea are commended by the Holy Ghost because they seached whether those things which Paul preached were so or no Act. 17. 11. And of four sorts of hearers our Saviour makes but one good Mat. 13. And Christ Jesus doth exhort us by Moses saying Toese words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart and thou shalt whet them upon thy children and shalt speak of them when thou fittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when thon lyest down and when thou risest up Deu. 6. 6 7. Now if God required such diligence as this every day then much more upon the Sabbath day and especially after the publick Ordinances are ended And all this did Adam well understand when God is said to blesse and sanctifie the seventh day as I shall further shew on the word Sanctifie in the next Chapter CHAP. X. Shewing how God did Sanctifie the seventh day 1 GOD did not sanctifie the seventh day by putting any inherent sanctity into that day more than into the other six dayes of the week for God doth not put inherent sanctity into any earthly creature but into the Elect number onely 1 Pet. 1. 12. 2 How then did God sanctifie the seventh day Answ In a two-fold respect 1 As the separated time of his publick and private worship 2 As a sanctified sign of Rest in the Seed of the Woman for the breaking of the Devills Head-plot 1 God did sanctifie the seventh day for the separated time of his publick worship and in this sense the word Sanctified doth imply a double command of God to fallen man 1 It implies that God commanded Adam to set apart the seventh day from all worldly uses and to attend upon those spiritual Ordinances wherewith he had blessed the seventh day 2 It implies that God commanded fallen Adam to prepare his soul and body to come with all due care and reverence into the presence of God to be partakers of his Sabbath-Ordinances 1 I will speak of the word Sanctifie as it implies the command of God to Adam to set apart the seventh day from all worldly uses and to attend upon those spiritual Ordinances wherewith God had blessed the seventh day And this is evident 1 Because God did never sanctifie any thing for the use of fallen man but he did thereby command fallen man to sanctifie When God did sanctifie any thing for man he did by that act command man to s●nctifie that thing by separating it to the Lords use Num. 8. 17. it to the Lords use As for example when God did sanctifie any persons to his service he did by that act command man to sanctifie such persons to the Lord Every first-born of the Sons of Israel saith the Lord are mine both of Man and Beast for in the day that I smote every first-born in the Land of Egypt I sanctified them unto me Numb 8. 17. that is I commanded my people to sanctifie them to my service which they did perform First By setting apart some of the clean kind for Sacrifice And secondly by redeeming the rest with money which money God commanded to be imployed to his service either by buying some Sacrifices of Attonement therewith for the publick or else it must be for the repairing of Gods Sanctuary as Exod. 13. doth explain it 2 When God did sanctifie the Temple for the publick place of his Typical

man was so conceived and born but Jesus Christ alone whose conception was not by the ordinary way of generation between Man and Woman but by the mighty power of the Holy Ghost hence it follows 1. That the Serpent had seduced the Woman before she knew her Husband after the manner of all flesh And 2. Hence it follows That she was seduced in the very day of her creation Master Calvin saith If they had stood but a short time the See Calv. on Gen. 3. 6. Blessing of God had not been in vain for propagation And Paul may wel allude to Eves being deceived by the Serpent even whiles she was a Virgin for he writeth thus to the Corinthians I have espoused you to one Husband that I might present you a chast Virgin to Christ but I fear lest by any means that as the Serpent beguiled Eve so your minds should be corrupted 2 Corinth 11. 1 2. The Apostle compares the guiles of false Teachers to the guiles of Satan and he compares their sincere mindes as long as they kept fast to the Truth to the Virgin Eve for so long as they kept their mindes unpolluted with false Doctrin they were Virgin-like but as Eve the Virgin was beguiled and defiled by Satans fair but false Doctrin so the Apostle feared lest their minds should be corrupted by the fair though false Doctrin of their false Teachers from that plainesse that is towards Christ for the Tempter did tempt them by many seducing Teachers 1 Thessal 3. 5. and the Spirit saith the Apostle speaketh evidently that in the latter days namely in the days of the Gospel some should depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrins of Devils 1 Timothy 4. 1. as the Virgin Eve once did Erasmus maketh this Comparison As Evah a Virgin married and undefiled beleeved the speech of the Serpent brought forth Disobedience and Death so many a Virgin married and undefiled beleeved the Angle brought forth Obedience and Life Conclusion Having proved hitherto by five Reasons that Adam fell in the day of his Creation it follows by good consequence That the Sabbath was not ordained in the time of Adams Innocency but after his Fall CHAP. II. Proving by three Reasons that Adam was Re-created in the very same day in which he was Created and Fell. 1. IT is evident to me that Adam was Re-created in the very self-same Reason 1. day in which he was created and fell by the order of Gods dealing with him immediately after his Fall For immediately after he had bitten of the forbidden fruit and was thereby dead in corruption and sin from the life of Gods Image in which he was created Then God of his rich mercy came to him in the * The cool or wind of the day means the Even tide as the Seventy translate it which begins at Mid-day for the Evening begins when the Sun begins to decline and then there doth usually arise a cooling wind called a Sea-turn which the God of nature hath ordained to cool the air in hot Countries cool or in the wind of the same day Gen. 3. 8. to confer with him and to enquire of him into what state and condition he had brought himself by eating of the forbidden fruit saying unto him by way of Query Adam Where art thou not in what particular place art thou as some ignorant persons do understand it for God was come to the very place where Adam was But into what case hast thou brought thy self by eating of the forbidden fruit And unto this searching Query Adam made a plain Answer saying in ver 10. I heard thy voyce walking in the Garden and I was afraid and because I was naked of thy Image in which I was created I hid my self This plain Answer of Adam doth imply two things 1 His fear of Gods wrath 2 The Reason of it 1 His fear of Gods wrath in these words I heard thy voyce walking in the Garden the word implies That it walked along by him like roaring Thunder among the trees of the Garden And with such a dreadfull voice Christ manifested himself to the Israelites when he gave the Law at Mount Sinai to awaken and over-aw their sinful consciences as Gen. 3. 8. compared with Ex. 19. 16. doth manifest and explain the matter and in this respect the dreadfull voice of Thunder is called Gods voice Psal 29. 3. And this dreadfull voice of God did so terrifie his guilty conscience that it forced Adam to say I heard thy voice walking like Thunder in the Garden and I was afraid for the guilt of his conscience told him that he had grievously transgressed against Gods positive command in eating of the forbidden fruit 2 He gives another reason why he hid himself among the trees of the Garden namely because I was naked both in body and soul of my created qualities and therefore I hid my self among the trees of the Garden And thus Adams conscience was convinced of his sin and terrified with Gods dreadfull voice of inquiry concerning his sin and guilt and thereupon he made a plain confession That he was afraid and that he hid himself because he was naked The Text runs thus in Gen. 3. 8. They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool or in the wind of the day And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the Garden vers 9. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him Where are thou vers 10. And he said Who told thee that thou wast naked Hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat And by this searching Query Adam Where art thou Adam was convinced and terrified with the sense of his sin and with the dread of Gods wrath and when he saw that he could by no means escape it he made a plain confession of his sin and misery and that he hid himself because he was naked of Gods Image and subject to inordinate lusts and thereupon to shame and horror of conscience and in like sort it is said that Aaron made the people naked to their shame when he made a Molten Calf for them to worship as a God Exod. 32. 25. for by that sin God was departed from them and so they were made naked both of Gods graces and of Gods protection and the like is expressed in Rev. 3. 18. Rev. 16. 15. Ezek. 16. 22. Hos 2. 3. 2. Cor. 5. 3. God did purposely enter into a parly and communication with Adam that thereby he might prepare him for a Reconciliation saying to him in ver 11. Who told thee that thou art naked By this and the former searching Queries God was pleased to help Adam to search himself the more deeply and to affect him the more throughly with the sight of his sin and with the sense of his miserable spiritual death in sin because he intended

all his works when he had made the Creation perfect and intire lacking nothing by the Redemption and Gubernation of the Promised Seed 11 It is not without a divine Allusion to the seventh day that the Golden Candlestick was framed into seven branches yea all the particulars of it were so contrived that when they are exactly counted they do amount to just six sevens as the Hebrew Doctors have cast them and they say that this number is so necessary that if it did but fail in one particular it failed in all See Ains in Exod. 25. 31. And accordingly if it be but regarded the sixth day and the seventh day have the most famous stories belonging unto them that are in all the Bible 12 The number seven is made famous by the Holy Ghost in the Mystical Revelation which Christ commanded the Apostle John to write for the use and benefit of his Redeemed seryan●s to the end of the world There the Vision of the seven Golden Caandlesticks represented the seven Churches of Asia and to the said seven Churches there doth belong seven Stars and seven Angels there are also seven Angels with seven Trumpets and seven Angels with seven Incense cups of wrath pouring out seven plagues there are also seven Thunders uttering seven voyces and a Book with seven Seals there are also seven Spirits seven Horns and seven Eyes Rev. 5. On the contrary there is given to the Dragon seven Heads and seven Crowns Rev. 12 3. and the seven Heads are the seven Mountains Rev. 17. 9. and there are also seven Kings c. Can all these particulars be without any allusion to the first famous seventh day I suppose that no advised Expositor dares affirm the contrary 2 I come now to the second thing to be marked touching the 2 Divers ho●● persons of rare eminency in Sc●ipture are marked out by the number 7. in an honorable remembrance of the first famous seventh day number Seven namely that God hath marked out many holy men of special note by the number seven in an honourable remembrance of the first famous seventh day 1 Henoc is noted by the Holy Ghost to be a Prophet and to be the seventh from Adam Jude v. 14. He was rare in the faith of Christ Heb. 11. 5. and he was by the mighty power of God taken away from the wicked Apostate world because they were not worthy of him when he was Three hundred sixty five yeers old Gen. 5. 23. just answerable to the dayes of the yeer according to the course of the Sun and as he was the seventh Patriarch so when he was taken away there remained seven Patriarchs alive as witnesses of his Translation And by his name it is evident that his Father did at his Birth dedicate him to God in opposition to those Apostate times for the impiety of those dayes is noted out to our hand by the Prophecie of Enoch in Jude v. 14 15. Behold saith he the Lord cometh with thousands of his Saints to give Jude 14 15 judgement upon all men and to rebuke all the ungodly among them of all their wicked deeds which they have impiously committed and of all their wicked speakings which wicked sinners have spoken against him The horrible impiety of those days is also noted out unto us by the wicked tyrannical speeches of Lamech and Cain in Gen. 4. 23 24. and Gen. 4. 23 24 Job 22. 15 2 Pet. 2. 5 their impiety and wicked speakings is also noted out unto us by Job 22. 15. and by Peter for he calls them the world of the ungodly 2 Pet. 2. 5. Obj. Here it may be demanded how it can be proved that Enoch did Prophesy that the wicked world should be drowned by a deluge Ans Jude saith that Enoch did Prophesy saying Behold the Lord cometh with thousands of his Saints to give judgement upon all men and what other Judgement did come in general upon all men but the floud Secondly His Prophecy that God would destroy the wicked World by a Floud is briefly and yet plainly enough declared in the name which he gave to his Son at his birth for he called him Meth-u-shelach which in English sounds thus Meth hee dyeth or when this Childe dyeth u then Shelah he sendeth or God sendeth and what else did God send but the Judgement threatned upon all men in general as I noted above and what judgement was that but the floud This famous Prophet is called the seventh from Adam doubtlesse in an Honourable remembrance of the first famous seventh Gen. 5. 24 Heb. 11. 5 day Moses saith He walked with God Gen. 5. 24. but the Apostle doth thus expound it He pleased God Heb. 11. 5 6. for when hee offered sacrifice he looked to Christ the true Sacrifice which only p●easeth God Mat. 3. 17. and in the course of his life he walked in obedience to Gods will Secondly Eber was the seventh from Enoch he was another rare man for grace and godlinesse for he kept the faith at the building of the Tower of Babel when all the other Families of Noah did Apostatise therefore God hath honoured his memorial in a double respect 1 In communicating unto him the spirit of Prophecy as well as he had done to Enoch as we may gather by the name which he gave his Son at the building of Babel for it is said that hee called his Son Peleg and the reason is added because in his days the earth was divided Gen. 10. 25. Now he that could give his Son Gen. 10. 2● such a name as to declare such an event must needs be a Prophet and by this wee may certainly know that he preached to the builders of Babel that though they had high imaginations to build a Tower whose top might reach unto Heaven that they might in a near distance worship the Sun Moon and Starres thinking thereby to get themselves another Sem or name for now they had rejected Sems Tents and had removed themselves from Canaan where Sem and Eber lived into Babylon in despite of Sem who had the promise of the blessed Seed to come from his Ioyns therefore the Prophet Eber did tell them that for that impiety and Apostacy God would confound their Language and scatter them upon the face of the earth and in memory of that Prophecie he called his Son Peleg and truly hee must needs be a rare Sabbath-keeper that kept the faith when all the rest of Noahs family fell away 2 God hath honoured Ebers memorial in another respect namely in that all the Nations of the Jews are called Ebrews after his name Gen. 14. 13. Gen. 39. 14 17. and it seems to mee that his constant abode was in the Land of Canaan because the Land of Canaan is called the Land of the Ebrews long before the Jews came out of Aegypt to dwell there Gen. 40. 15. And secondly because his great Grand-father Sem who was the King of Salem in the Land