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A62992	A letter to Mr. Mead, in answer to several unscriptural, and unsound sayings of his in a sermon against the seventh-day-sabbath, preached at his place of meeting, the twenty third of the second month. 1682. Wrote the same day the sermon was preached, refuting his arguments, and turning them back, making their unskilfulness and weakness manifest; and clearly evidencing, that the seventh-day is the sabbath day; by clear scripture-testimony, and sound arguments grounded thereon. Published for his hearers, because he would neither hear an objection in publick, nor admit of a conference in private.	Tovey, W.	1682 (1682)	Wing T1957B; ESTC R222359	11,750	16

accept it in Love and if I shall get the farther Knowledge of Sin in my self by this Controversy so that I may overcome it I shall count I have good Gain but if I can also convince him and you of the Error in his Doctrine which I write against I shall gain that I Labour for Though what I have said in hast be very short of what might be pleaded for the Truth yet if fudes be laid aside and a Conference be admitted in a calm cool Spirit I doubt not but to Answer whatever this Objecter hath to say against the Truth and Duty I pleaded for But if instead of that Sin be added to Sin and I am slanderously reported and scandals be raised of me which for matter of Fact are not true and need to be answered you must not expect that I can print books to clear my self No that will be too costly The cheapest way I can think of at present is to publish my Defence if I am wronged in some of the News books And there you may expect to hear of me on any such Occasion W. T A LETTER to Mr. MEAD c. Honoured Sir THe Leave I Craved with humble submission in your publick Assembly this day being not granted I have wrote some of those Objections I had then to make Ex Tempore against the greatest part of your Sermon which you delivered premeditately and with the help of Notes And though I am but a Youth in Years and of mean Capacity whereby I am much your Inferior and Unequal yet I hope through Grace I am a Babe in Christ having a Spiritual Pallate whereby I can in some good measure discern the sincere Milk of the Word from the unsavory sayings of men without and against the word of truth And from thence it is I am Emboldened to ingage in this Controversie with you And before I ingage in the Refuting your Arguments against the Lords Honourable-Seventh-day-Sabbath I first assure you that I will endeavour to keep as close as I can to the exact form and due order of your Arguments and if in any thing I miss it if you will make it known to me in writing I will admit that to be your mind and meaning which you shall so declare to me in writing to be your meaning And that you may not mistake me I declare to you that it is not any Argument against the God-head or against the Power of Christ that I do oppose for I do firmly believe The Lord Jesus Christ to be God Equal with the Father that he is Jehovah and the Holy Spirit is Jehovah Father Son and Holy Spirit one Jehovah But my Objections are against your Assertion That Jesus Christ has Changed the day of the Sabbath And that it was necessary he should so do Your Scriptures for it you said you laid down the day before and I not being present then do not know them and so cannot Answer to them but those Texts of Scripture which have usually been brought against it by Dr. Owen and other Objectors against the Lords Honourable day are largely discoursed and their Genuine sense and proper meaning are held forth and cleared up agreeing with the whole Scripture where it Treats of that Subject matter in a Treatise of the Sabbath wrote by Mr. F. Bampfield sold by Mr. Lawrence at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange Your humane Authorities which you brought to back your other plea have no Authority with me neither ought they to have any Authority in the conscience of any man being contrary to Christ and the word of Christ and contradicting of one another Justin Martyr your first Author saith they assembled on the Sunday and gives this as the ground of it That being the first day wherein God separating the light from the darkness did Create the World And Jesus Christ our Saviour rose again from the dead This is the ground of their Assembling and both groundless For the world was not made in a day but in Six days and the Seventh was Created a Sabbath and Sanctified a Sabbath and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Fourth Command being future Piel he shall Sanctifie does clearly prove the Continuance of its Sanctifiedness for it is still a speaking word the like you have in the first of Genesis concerning the light which your Author would make a wrong use of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there shall be light and there shall be light the Word not only gave light a being but continues it in its being so this Word not only Sanctified the Sabbath but continues it Sanctified as long as the word remains in the Command what because Justin Martyr and the people with him voluntarily met on that day and gives a groundless reason for it will you from thence Embolden your hearers to Transgress the Seventh-day-Sabbath which sin the Lord hath Threatned so many Judgments against and which fin you can hardly prove your Author Guilty of for although they met upon Sunday and observed several other Festivals with as great Veneration and imposed them with as great Authority even Easter day and all the fifty days from Easter to Whitsuntide were accounted Holy and Solemnized with no less observation than the Sundays were Thus the Church was Corrupted with the observation of Holy-days so early and with divers other Superstitions as Mixing water with the Wine in the Lords Supper and standing in their devotion making Kneeling which is the proper posture in prayer to be a crime in those Holy-days with many other Corruptions and must the practise of such a corrupt generation of Churches be brought forth for a Confirmation of a Doctrine in this age of growing light No it s too late to impose upon us with such Authorities Yet your own Authors call no other day the Sabbath but the Seventh nor for a thousand years after Christ were Historians so bold to call any other day by that name or give that day any other name and very many Churches did observe the Seventh-day-Sabbath as your Historians mention and one main difference between the Eastern and Western Churches was that the Western Churches fasted and afflicted themselves on the Sabbath which being no proper work on a Sabbath day the Eastern Churches admonished them to reform it Neither did they observe Sunday as a Sabbath but did their common business thereon when their Assembling was over neither did they pretend any Scripture ground for their meeting on Sunday but took it up Voluntarily and afterwards when it came to be confirmed by Edicts of men even then much work was allowed to be done upon it and the Seventh-day-Sabbath was not made void but obedience required to that also but I am a weary of this How contrary to the word of God in your own Judgment was the sentence of the venerable Counsel of Laodicea that you even now when your first day is at the height durst not say Amen to it but the Churches were

Acts 7. 37 38. And will you reject this Law as given at Sinai because it was handed to us by Moses Is not this Law of Moses to be remembred in the Last Days Mal. 4. 4. and the Context Unless Christ's Righteousness be imputed to you for your Justification Moses will accuse you to the Father John 5. 45. Had the unbelieving Jews believingly heard Moses they would have believed Christ ver 46. If you will not believe Moses his Writings how can you believe Christ I know not how you will Evidence your Faith in Christ but by your Obedience to this Law of Moses James 2. 18. especially Will you not hear Moses then you are not of the mind of Glorified Abraham Luk. 16. 29. Will you not hear Moses then you will not be perswaded though one Rose from the Dead Thirdly The third part of your Argument was That Believers are not tyed by the Law of Christ to observe the Seventh-Day-Sabbath for Christ never Re-inforced this Law and the Apostle who spake by Command from Christ leaves Men to their Liberty whether to observe it or not Answ How unskilfully do you divide the Word of God Have I not proved in my last Answer that Christ gave the Law at Sinai And is not that the Law of Christ And of unchangeable Nature And does not that Law plainly require it Nay Does not our Lord Christ declare That the Sabbath was made for Man Mark. 2. ver 27. and Does he not say he is Lord of the Sabbath ver 28. What would you Rob Christ of his Lordship and give him another for it It will not be accepted by him no other is a Type of our Eternal Rest Compare King Ahab and Jezebels Dealing with Naboth for his Vineyard to this Why should our Lord bid the Jews pray that their Flight be not on the Sabbath Day which was to be near Forty Years after if they were not bound to observe the Sabbath Mat. 24. 20. How can our Lord's Word be Fulfilled Mat. 5. 17 18. if the Sabbath be changed from the Seventh-Day to the First For more than one jot or one tittle will pass from the Law if the Sabbath Day be changed which is so pointed out by Notes of Demonstration by Particles by Pronouns by Prepositions all significant to point out the Seventh Day as I have shewed already Have a care of Teaching Men to break any one of Christ's Commands or of Erring in one point James 2. 10. If you would have any other Re-inforcing of this Law than what I have mentioned pray shew me where the Seventh Part of time hath any other Re-inforcing and yet you assert a Seventh Part of time to be Moral and to be the Law of Christ How Vnskilfully did you open and apply Rom. 14. 5. One Man esteems one day above another another esteems every day alike This you said Related to the Seventh-Day-Sabbath and that the Apostle by Command from Christ left Men to their Liberty to do as they were perswaded in their own Mind What if a Man be perswaded the Seventh-Day is the Sabbath according to your Doctrine he is to be left to do as he is perswaded in his own Mind and not to be set against with Frightful words as if he were departing from the Living God as your Text was nor set against with whole Sermons that have no Alliance to the Text they are raised from Neither should a Man of this perswasion be slandered as if he fell into an Error that had many other Errors attend it No he should be left to do as he is perswaded in his own mind What if a Man esteems every day alike and Works every day and keeps no Sabbath or Idles every day and does no Work By your Doctrine he must be left to his perswasion You went to contradict your self by bringing another case which would no wayes agree nor run paralell with it that of Christ's saying to the Woman of Samaria about Jerusalem and that Mountain not being the places of Worship Whence you Argued every place is alike a place of Worship which has no footing in that Scripture but I will let that pass to shew you how Unskilfully you Argued from thence for if all places were alike places of Worship yet that does not leave Men to their own perswasions whether to Worship or not No our Lord tells us The Father seeks true Spiritual Worshipers so that Worship is still required there and if you would have any inference from this it must be then Men may Worship where they will as to the place if it be indifferent then in the Idols Temple or where Men have a mind This is the most you can get by this Unskilful Comparison O but you added We were freed from Moses his Yoak and were to take Christ's Yoak upon us Are we then we must not walk after our own perswasions and if we are to take Christ's Yoak upon us then we are to keep his Sabbath that plain pleasant Way of his and to call it our delight c. and he will multiply Blessings upon us Thus I have been helped to throw down your strong hold in which you trusted Yet for fear this should fail you brought another from the constant practise of the Apostles who you said slighted the Seventh-Day and met upon the First Tremble at the VVord of the Lord which gives the lye to your Assertion Acts 14. 13. 44. and 16. 13. and 17. 2 3. and 18. 4. and if you will prove the Apostles met on the first day of the week for Instituted VVorship first tell me whether in Matt. 28. 1. Mark. 16. 2. Luke 24. 1. John 20. 1. 19. Acts 20. 7. and 1 Cor. 16. 2. that which is Rendred the First day of the week be not in every one of those places one of the Sabbaths and if so what those Sabbaths are and whether then you will find any ground to bottom your Assertion upon that the Apostles met on the first day for Instituted VVorship You also had a third Argument from Revel 1. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day which you would have to be the first day of the week but gave not one Scripture for your Interpretation VVhat must it be taken for granted upon your saying But I will offer Scripture and Argument against that Interpretation Did you not acknowledge the Seventh-Day is call'd the Sabbath of the Lord and the Lords Holy Day and doth not our Lord Jesus Christ say he is Lord of the Sabbath-Day so that if it meant any one particular day in the week it must be this Seventh-Day-Sabbath and this is a solid ground so to judg But I think it is no ingenious Interpretation of the place to limit it to any particular day in the week for John saw in Visions and heard by Voice all those things that are Revealed in that book and was Removed from place to place a work too great to be concluded to be done in