21 23. 1 Tim. 2. 8. God is a Spirit and his true worshippers did do and shall worship him in spirit and in truth And I know no colour now for the Holiness of Places for which yet as the Dr. p. 3. some are zealous I agree with him that Christmas is of Human Institution which I think he admits by the words so be it p. 3. which I think does also lay aside all other Holy Days which are but of Human Institution and p. 13. about Christmas the Doctor says It is not agreed amongst Chronologies either what Year or what Month much less what day of that Month our Saviour was Born yet he says we keep December the 25th in memory of his Birth as supposing him to have been then Born And p. 45. he says No Man at this Day knows what Day it was and p. 13. That we are at so great uncertainty as we reckon the Year 1692 from his Circumcision to begin the first of January and the same Year his Conception not till the 25th of March after as if his Birth and Circumcision had been a quarter of a Year before his Conception And so the Doctor leaves those days If I mistake not utterly uncertain In p. 12. he tells us The Pascal Tables which should direct us what day to keep Easter on do put us further out then if we had none at all I agree with the Doctor p. 2 3. that our Lord Jesus Christ according to his Divinity was God and is so the true God the God that made Heaven and Earth the God who delivered the Law at Mount Synai and I think those three the father the Son and the Holy Spirit are on Jehovah Deut. 6. 4. 5. Jehovah Aelohenu Jehovah our Mightiest is Jehovah Aechad is one Jehovah was is and will be one Jehovah i. e. the Lord our God is one Lord and Mark 12. 29 30. The Lord our God is one Lord which are the words of Jesus And I agree also that the Blessing and Sanctifying the seventh Day Gen. 2. 3. was by Jehovah the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit which goes far in this Question and I think proves the seventh Day to be the Lord's Day And when he has acknowledged the Father Son and the Holy Spirit to be three yet but one God the Lord Jehovah c. he adds p. 3. But he cannot agree that Christ as God and Man in Contradistinction to the Father and Holy Spirit did all those things for he that is Christ was not then Man Which Words of the Doctor of what he does agree and what he cannot agree insinuates as if I had said that Christ as God-Man did all those things which the Doctor cannot agree whereas he must needs know that is not so for I neither say nor ever thought till that I read it in Mr. G. T. and the Doctor that Christ was Incarnate at the making of the World or at his giving of the Law on Sinai so as the Doctor has not well surmized in this and any Reader may see it is not so for Christ took our Nature on him about 4000 years after the Creation and I find not a word of any Contradistinction between the Father and the Holy Spirit and the Son in the Enquiry but the direct contrary viz. their oneness with the Son in those Works which they both cannot but know And he adds p. 3. what he should rather say about our Lord Jesus Christ's blessing the seventh Day because he was not then the Lord Christ God and Man c. seems to make the Surmize somewhat worse upon which he says that I p. 64. lay great stress for neither I nor any other that I know has said or thought that Christ when he Blessed the seventh Day was then in the Flesh so that in this I think the Doctor blamable But the Doctor does acknowledge that the Son is Jehovah i. e. that he is Lord for which see Enquiry p. 9. 10. c. and I think he does believe that the Son of God is Jesus that is the Saviour the only Saviour and that he is Christ that is the anointed for that Glorious Blessed Work of Redemption that is the Messiah he is called as I think often in the Old-Testament For the Father has chosen us in him before the foundation of the World in him that is in the Lord Jesus Christ and our Lord Jesus Christ as Christ is expresly named Eph. 1. 2 3 4. And in Colos 1. 16. speaking of Christ as he by whom all things were created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth v. 17. and he is before all things he that is Christ is expresly Colos 1. 2 3. there named the Lord Jesus Christ and our Lord Jesus Christ who v. 19. created all things and Christ is named our Lord Jesus Christ in every Epistle from Rom. to the Heb. for so far I searched a little and that frequently and sometime after also Mr. G. T. whom the Doctor in this Objection seems to follow writes of this great Mystery in two or three places under the like and greater mistakes and so at present I leave him But for the Doctor to impose upon his Readers herein as he does p. 2 3. seems blameable And why he thus begins in a Case which relates to the Deity of Christ with such Insinuations for which he has no colour that I know from the Enquiry wherein Christ's Deity and his being Jehovah is directly affirmed unless it be at first to infuse some Prejudice I am not willing to conjecture And as to this if the Holy Spirit by Paul names Christ the Lord Jesus Christ and our Lord Jesus Christ in whom the Father hath chosen his before the foundation of the world by whom all things were created and who was before all things I see no reason why Mr. G. T. and the Doctor should vary from the Apostles expressions and divers other Scriptures And such Artifices the Reader may discern afterward I agree also with the Doctor That God who made the world in six days rested the seventh day Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 11. And that he blessed the sabbath day and hallowed or Sanctified it Doctor p. 3. and here he does read it not a seventh bue the seventh Day the same Hebrew word here in Gen. 2. 2 3. Hashebigni which is used in Exod. 20. 10 11. which some would render there a seventh and the Reason and Sence of Gen. 2. 2 3. does require that it be rendered as the word signifies the Seventh Day for no man that I know does imagine that the Lord Gen. 2. 2 3. Blessed and Sanctified any other Day of the Week for Rest but that only on which he Rested and that was expresly not a but the Seventh and no other day of the Week and so I think for all after Seventh days in the Circulation of after Weeks and Christ in the time of his Incarnation kept not a Sabbath
ADVERTISEMENT There is 〈◊〉 Printed a Book Intituled A Treatise of the Holy Trinunity in two Parts The First asserteth the Deity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Vnity of Essence with God the Father The Second in Defence of the former answereth the chiefest Objections made against this Doctrine By I. M. Chap. I. THe Case is briefly stated Chap. II. Sheweth that there is but one God the Creator and Former of all things Chap. III. Asserteth a Plurality of Divine Subsistences Chap. IV. Of the Father Chap. V. Proveth the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ 1. By his Names 2. That God in the Old Testament in divers Places is Christ in the New 3. By seven particular Texts of Holy Scriptures 4. That Christ pre-existed his Incarnation in his Divine Nature and is no Angel incarnate but is Coeternal with the Father 5. His Deity is proved by his Works And 6. By Divine Worship given to him Chap. VI. Proveth the Deity of the Holy Ghost 1. That he is a Divine Person 2. His Deity is asserted from several Texts of Scripture 3. By his Works 4. By Divine Worship given to him Chap. VII Proveth the Unity of the Holy Trinity Chap. VIII Containeth some Explications of the Holy Trinunity 1. Of the Essential Being of God 2. Of the Divine Persons the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit 3. Of the Distinctions of the Divine Nature and the Persons and some Shadows by way of Comparison of the incomparable and inconceivable Being of God and of the Union of Christ's two Natures PART II. Chap. I. Answereth Objections against the Scriptural Proofs of Christ's Deity Chap. II. Answers to Objections drawn from several Texts of Scriptures Chap. III. Answers to several Arguments against the Deity of Christ Chap. IV. Answers to several Objections against the Scriptures that prove the Deity of the Holy Ghost Chap. V. Answers to some Objections drawn from divers Scriptures to disprove the Deity of the Holy Spirit Chap. VI. Answers to some Scriptures from whence our Adversaries assert that the Father only is the true God With a general Answer and Conclusion Price bound one Shilling A REPLY TO Doctor Wallis HIS DISCOURSE Concerning the Christian SABBATH By THO. BAMPFIELD LONDON Printed for Thomas Fabian at the Bible in Cheapside near Bread-street End 1693. A REPLY TO Dr. WALLIS's DISCOURSE Concerning the Christian Sabbath SIR A Little after the Printing the Enquiry Whether the Lord Jesus Christ made the World and be Jehovah and gave the Moral Law And whether the Fourth Command be Repealed or Altered There was Reprinted a Tract of Mr. Chafies on the Fourth Command I think as Answer to that part of the Enquiry which referred to the Fourth Command and then another by one Mr. G. T. both which I had no sooner Examined but another was Published by John Wallis D. D. Which Discourse of the Doctor 's as containing the strength of what is said for the First Day I hold my self principally concerned to consider I find the Doctor p. 1. would not on the account of the Day whether the Seventh or the First give any Disturbance to the Peace or Practice of the Church where he Lives so that a Sabbath be duly observed tho' perhaps not upon what Day he should choose What Day he would choose I know not but hope it would be the Day the Lord hath Chosen and Blessed But the Question is not what Day he would choose to rest upon but what day we ought to choose and I am willing to hope he would choose that Day which after the best Judgment I can make upon his Book I think is the Seventh Day and that he means that Day by that otherways Doubtful Expression And I think the Word is the Rule of Worship c. And not the Practise of the Church where we live Nor know I certainly what Church may be meant for that he and I live in an Age wherein there are variety differing a little from one another nor am I willing to disturb the true Peace of the Churches of Christ but if in any thing they be defective in their Judgment or Practice their Peace lies in their returning to their Obedience which is better than Sacrifice 1 Sam. 15. 22. And till the Lord bring that about I see little likelyhood the Sabbath should be duly observed or have the full Blessing bestowed on it which is annexed to it Nor do I think the true Sabbath is so hard to be found as he supposes to whom I may say as Moses to the Israelites Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14. This Commandment is not hid from thee neither is it far off 'T is not beyond the Seas that we should need to go round the Earth to fetch it as the Dr. p. 79. pleasantly adviseth but the Word is very nigh unto thee in thy Mouth and in thine Heart that thou mayst do it He says also p. 1. That he does not know whether Sunday be a first or second a third or a seventh Day in a continual Circulation of Weeks from the Creation or from Christ's time and if so he is at a great uncertainty and I do not wonder if he be yet to choose his Day which Expressions in his first Page may give some Light to state this Question for if he does not know from Christ's time which Day of the Week Sunday as he calls it is I see very little reason why he should observe it He adds And what it is impossible for him to know he thinks will be no Cirme to be ignorant of and if he do not know what Day of the Week Sunday is and much more if it be impossible for him to know it I see no reason at all why he should write a Book for the Observation of a Day impossible for him to know All the Christian and Hebrew Churches in the World I think are agreed that Sunday is the first Day of the Week which Day I presume by the rest of his Book the Doctor observes and if we be right in that as I think we are that Sunday is the first Day it will be no great Task by telling seven to resolve which is the seventh Day But notwithstanding the impossibility for him to know what Day of the Week Sunday is he is sufficiently satisfied that we ought to keep a Sabbath and so am I and I think we may be sufficiently certain which is the seventh Day in the weekly Circulation and am willing to observe that Blessed and Sanctified Day and Time which I think is the Lord's Day and not changed and so not hard to be found And I do not think God has left the stress of a Point whereon his Publick Worship doth somewhat depend upon a thing impossible for us to know by his Word and Works he can make this plain to all First I agree with him that the place of Worship under the Gospel p. 2. is not so material whether this or that John 4.
here is not one word in this order to keep Holy the First day nothing of that day as a Sabbath nothing of Praises breaking Bread Praying or Preaching or of any Worship or Resting here but only an order for every one of the Christians there to lay by him in store as God had prospered him which seems also when they were asunder and at home that there might be no gathering when Paul came and this I should think any who read it without great prejudice must needs see and know so that for the Doctor to say he thinks it plain there that the First day was weekly observed and wont to be observed at Corinth and Galatia and that Paul takes it for granted and supposeth it c. without any word for it seems all from a strong and willing fancy and very blameable as highly imposing on the World And in p. 38. and 39. he reassumes what he had written to before which in me without any great cause that I know he p. 39. calls trifling and Childs-play which shews him to be angry and p. 41. says It must be great Ignorance or somewhat worse which sort of Language agrees well enough in this Cause to prop it up instead of Word and Argument with hard Expressions and if that will please him I shall easily acknowledge my Ignorance and Weaknesses which are many and great but withal I think a weak and simple Man who has the word and command of God on his side as I think I certainly have in this case may contend with the most Learned for whom otherwise I yield my self much too weak Nor do I find in all his Book any reason much less any reason to believe as he p. 42 c. that the First day was then generally observed or wont to be observed or at all observed unless by the Heathens nor that it was according to Christs direction because we have no word that I know for either which word is the highest Reason and why then does the Doctor top upon others those Words According to Christ's Direction And a like saying of the Doctor 's we have p. 43. by Christs giving commandments to the Apostles about things pertaining to the Kingdom of God Acts 1. 2 3. that we are to presume this in particular about the observing the First day of the Week and yet there confesseth what those Commandments were in particular we cannot tell so we are to presume what he admits we cannot tell which to me is a new Article in Religion made for this purpose And upon such Presumptions without one word from Christ that I know the Doctor 's opinion seems built P. 41. He considers Mark 2. 28. The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath and supposeth by Son of Man is there meant Christ and if he suppose it why then does he there controvert it which Text shews the Sabbath to be the Lords Day as ver 27. The Sabbath was made for man shews it was made for the good of Man for his Spiritual and Eternal good And says I can't shew that ever the Jewish Sabbath is called the Lords day although he knows if he have read the Enquiry p. 64 65 66 67. that I there quote divers Scriptures where the Lords Seventh day is called the Lords Day whereof more by and by upon Rev. 1. 10. What he says p. 43. that I cannot tell whether of the two that is the Seventh or the First day is the Seventh day of the Week does again overturn all his Book for if it be as he says uncertain so as we know not which day is which how can any Man observe his day in Faith and what is not of Faith is Sin and what then is become of all his Arguments for an uncertain weekly First day But I think we can tell which is the Seventh-day-Sabbath and I say as before from Nehe. 9. 13 14. that the Lord made known to them his Sabbaths his Sabbaths so the Sabbath was the Lords Day which they knew and from him and them we have his Sabbaths And Rom. 3. 2. to the Jews were committed the words of God which with the Old-Testament and therein the Ten Commands they still have and I think we ought to believe what the Lord Christ accounted and named to be the Sabbath day was then and I think is now his Sabbath-day that is the Lords Day Mark 2. 28. P. 44. 45 46. Rev. 1. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lords day which he would have to be on the First day which I think I have shewn by the Scriptures Enquiry from p. 64. to 68. to be the Seventh day to which I do not remember he offers any answer unless some Traditions to which to avoid Tautologies I refer the Reader and am of the same opinion as there and without Prejudice which he would often insinuate I think the Lords Day Rev. 1. 10. was not only the name of a day but the name of the Seventh-day-Sabbath Gen. 2. 2 3 4. Exod. 20. 10. Deut. 5. 14. Isaiah 58. 13. Matth. 12. 8. Mark 2. 28. Luke 6. 5. which Scriptures he that will examine and consider may easily see that the Seventh-day-Sabbath is the Lords Day if the Scriptures be as they ought to be the rule of judging in this case which the Doctor would fain have to be the First day and cannot tell us which day of the Week the First day is now from Christs time as before and does not know it and thinks it impossible to know it And p. 46. 47. he again admits That Christ was the God who gave the Commandments by which he does admit that the seventh day there given by Christ is the Lords day for Exod. 20. 10. the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God i. e. the Seventh day is the Lords day And so it often falls out in this debate that what he and others are constrained to admit in one point answers what they would deny in another as I think this does for if the Lord gave the Commandments as he did and as the Doctor admits together with the Father and Holy Spirit then he gave the Fourth Command and therein the Seventh day Exod. 20. 10. which Seventh day is there expresly said to be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God that is to be the Lords day which as I think by his own admission tells us which is the Lords day Rev. 1. 10. Of his Traditions p. 48. 49. on which the Doctor before I think there is or can be no certainty from them And their Authority to alter any thing in Doctrinals or Practicals stated in the Scriptures is of no force with me nor with any Protestant that I know nor I hope with him and he may see in the Enquiry divers Traditions Histories and Records for the Seventh-day-Sabbath which the Doctor answers not although I build all upon the Scriptures and not on Traditions I say as before that Christs manner was not
to keep A but The Sabbath during his Life and the Women and others kept it whilst his Body rested in the Grave whilst he was in Paradice that is in Heaven not only on what they called the Sabbath as the Doctor p. 50. which I think not well surmised by him as if they or rather the Holy Spirit there called a wrong day the Sabbath but on what was the Sabbath and that some of the Disciples travelled upon the very Resurrection day and that Paul and other Christians did not only seem to which are the Doctor 's words and I think are hard words but expresly and actually did observe not only what they called the Sabbath but what was the Sabbath the true Seventh day-Sabbath not only after Christs Resurrection but after his Ascension and after the Holy Spirit given and that that was Paul's manner and of others every Sabbath day as before these Repetitions I am forced to Which I think do prove that Christ and the Apostles did then take not A but The Seventh day to be the Christian Sabbath as it was or why else doth the Holy Spirit so very often in the four Evangelists before his Death and Resurrection and in the Acts after his Resurrection and Ascension and after the pouring out the Holy Spirit name it not A but The Sabbath not only what they called but what was the Sabbath Yet the Doctor p. 51. thinks Paul's Preaching upon the Sabbath days to be occasional by which if he means as it there seems occasional only I know no word he has from God in the Scriptures for his Sence of occasional and I think Paul's constant Practice to Preach upon the Sabbath days was according to the Duty of a Minister of Christ and in Obedience to Christs express Command Matth. 28. 19 20. by which Command I think all other his Ministers are obliged And as to the Passover and all Sacrifices and other Ceremonials that they are abolished by the Death of Christ I think certain and to what is said in the Enquiry as to that I add this That the Passover sacrifices are all set aside by that word Luke 22. 19. and 1 Cor. 11. 23 24 25 26. This do in remembrance of me and so the Passover c. are laid aside by the Lords Supper by which Ordinance of the Supper we declare that Christ was sacrificed for the Sins of his People and by this we declare his Death till he come in Glory to judge the Quick and Dead and there was or is no further need of Sacrifices or Types to represent Christs Death And so the Passover and all other Sacrifices to be at an end by these words This is my body which is given for you or which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me Which Lords Supper was then instituted and immediately succeeded the Passover which Passover then ceased Matth. 26. 17 20 26. And as they were eating Jesus took bread c. Mark 14. 22 c. And to what is offered p. 54. from Rom. 14 4 5 6. He that regardeth a day regardeth it to the Lord and he that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it It is not said what was the day there in question but the Doctor thinks it most likely to be that of the Jewish Sabbath What day this was is hard for any Man at this distance of time to determine and more hard to build any certain Doctrine upon it as a certain Day when God has not that I know told us in his Word what day it was but left it wholly uncertain I find nothing in that Epistle about days till Rom. 14. 4 5 6. where one Man esteemed one Day before another another esteemed every day he that regardeth the day regardeth it to the Lord and he that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doth not regard it And it is not there said as the Doctor acknowledges p. 54. what was the Day there nor do I now see how possibly to know what Weekly or Monthly or Yearly or Feasting or Fasting or other day it did refer to but of the Sabbath there is no mention and why is it then most likely to be the Sabbath which he confesses is not there said and whatever day it was it seems it was no great matter whether they regarded it or not ver 6. And whatever day that were it was certainly such a day as Paul would not have them judge one another for ver 4. which makes it likely to me that it was not the Sabbath day which Paul so constantly preached Christ upon and observed as before which Sabbath is a part of that Moral Law which Paul was under to God but was such a day whatever day it was as he thought fit at that time and place to leave undetermined As for Gal. 4. 3 8 9 10. In Galatia were some Disciples Acts 18. 1 4 23. In which Chapter it is said Paul preached at Corinth every sabbath to Jews and Gentiles And Paul Gal. 1. 2. directs that Epistle to the Churches of Galatia where probably were some converted and many unconverted And Gal. 4. 3. Paul says When we were children we were in bondage under the Elements or under the Rudiments of the world which seems the Heathen World ver 8. When they knew not God they did service to them who they knew by nature were no Gods which was the case of the Heathens for the Israelites did then and do still Worship Jehovah who is God the true God and so do actually Worship Christ the only Messiah who is Jehovah as in the Enquiry p. 9 c. And the Father Son and Holy Spirit are one Jehovah Deut. 6. 4 5. Enquiry p. 12. But the Israelites don't yet know Christ to be Johovah their Messiah Saviour and Redeemer which Truth upon their Conversion and Restoration remains to be revealed to them So as this place seems specially directed to those who had an Heathenish Education who before served those who were no Gods who after they knew God Gal. 4. 9. were turning again to the weak and beggarly Rudiments to their first Teachings and Heathenish Instruction which Paul there blames ver 10. you observe days and months and times and years ver 11. I am afraid of you least I have bestowed upon you labour in vain What days these were is the Question the Doctor says t is not here said in particular what those days were that are here meant yet he thinks it is most likely and scarce to be doubted to be meant of the Sabbath To which I answer That I think days there cannot be meant of a weekly Rest and if it be it is directed there not to rest upon Sunday which was observed by the Heathens in honour of the Sun as we may see afterward And every Sabbath being observed by Paul and the Sabbath not being that I can find in question days there I think cannot refer to the Sabbath Which the
this Reply too large And he there makes the Sabbath abolished By which affirmings he may make other Commands abolished if his Sayings and Comments may pass for Doctrine to abolish and overthrow any part of the Law of God And adds there That it is as meerly circumstantial as the place of Worship is whether a Sabbath be kept on this or another day which is the Doctor 's Opinion I think directly against Gen. 2. 2 3. and against the Moral Law Exod. 20. 9 10 11. Established and made perpetual by Christ Matth. 5. 17 18. Luke 16. 17. besides his indifferency to this or another day My taking notice of the Doctor 's Allegations about Facts which much concern this question may be excused for that otherways some Readers may take them for true and so be misled in their judging this Case and many I have passed by which observing Readers may note Pag. 61. he repeats from Exod. 31. 13. that the Sabbath is a Sign and yet p. 60. 61. doubts was either not observed at all or long before this time had been forgot To which I Reply if the Sabbath were a Sign and such a perpetual Sign to be kept throughout their Generations as it was as the Doctor and if it were a perpetual Covenant between the Lord and them as it was as the Doctor and made known to them as before then surely they knew what day of the Week it was and forgot it not but observed it as they do every where where they live to this day which the Doctor has no reason that I know to doubt And if that were so that the Sabbath was long before forgot and if the days of the Week are all uncertain and none can tell which was which Where are we then but in utter uncertainties And these Objections from the Seventh-day-Sabbath being abolished and a perpetual Sign and yet forgot and uncertain contradict one another Pag. 61. he says God had a particular respect to their Rest from their Bondage in Aegypt by the Preface to all the Commands I the Lord thy God which brought thee out of Aegypt and by the close of this Command as repeated Deut. 5. 15. I Reply be it so yet that was such a Deliverance as the Gentiles then had a share in and as concerned all the People of God at that time in the World to take special notice of and such a Deliverance as is celebrated by all the Christians in the World to this day and doubtless will be so by all such to the end of the World and is celebrated as such I think in the English Common Prayer Book See their Catechism He there again recurs to Exod. 16. for a new Epocha of days which is Replyed to before that I find no such thing there as a new Epocha And pag. 62. he says As God by Moses did give a new Epocha or Beginning to a Circulation of Sabbaths at Marah so might Christ by himself or his Apostles fix another Epocha from his Resurrection I Reply that neither of these Epocha's being found in the Word I think the Doctor blameable for saying God did give a new Epocha by Moses which we do not read he did give and if it be not in the Word Why does the Doctor affirm that God by Moses gave it And he says It is not expresly said that Christ did bid his Apostles to fix another Epocha from his Resurrection yet he says he gave them Commandments for that purpose Acts 1. 2 3. Now for the Greatest Man living to say Christ gave them Commandments for that purpose without a word from Christ for that purpose seems to me highly blameable Every word of God is pure add thou not unto his words least he reprove thee Prov. 30. 5 6. We do suppose with Reason the Commandments given by Christ to the Apostles were to preach the Gospel to disciple all Nations to baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and to teach all things he had commanded them Matth. 28. 19 20. And see Mark 16. 15 16 17 18. Luke 24. 46. to 52 c. And we have other Commandments of Christ to some of his Disciples John 21. 1 2. where he gave this to Peter and in Peter I think to all the rest and to all succeeding Ministers of Christ ver 15. feed my Lambs ver 16 17. feed my Sheep ver 19. follow me which things did and do pertain to the Kingdom of God of which things Acts 1. 3. Christ spake but what Commandments in particular Christ gave to the Apostles for a new Epocha does not appear that I know there or elsewhere in the Word But when they are produced I hope his Ministers and Churches will receive them and what else the Apostles had by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit after Christs Ascension concerning the ordering of his Churchse and rightly constituted Offices or concerning any thing else which are recorded in the Scriptures we readily embrace And I may request the Doctor to take heed how he grafts any other Commandments for any purpose on Christ but what are written in his Word and if there be no such Commandment from Christ in the Word for that purpose for his Apostles to fix another Epocha from his Resurrection Why does the Doctor affirm it if his Cause were good yet such means to defend it I think cannot be justified and such affirmations in Facts material to the main question I think ought to be reproved As to what is said p. 62. That not one jott or tittle of the law meaning the Decalogue is destroyed I think he means that in Matth. 5. 17 18. but doth still continue in force and that we are all under that Law as to the substance of the Duty I Reply that he there again acknowledges that we are all under that Law that is under the Ten Commands and that they still continue in force And if so I would ask the Doctor one Question who asks me Divers Who can resolve us what is and what is not Substance in Gods Commands but God himself who gave them he knows what bad work several have made by endeavouring to mangle them especially those of the first Table and indeed those of both Tables For what is said p. 62. that Matth. 24. 20. Pray that your flight be not in winter nor on the sabbath day which flight was about thirty eight Years after Christs Resurrection that that makes nothing at all to my purpose I think a fair answer to that is in the Enquiry p. 73. 74 to which I add that we cannot as well argue from hence that it were a Sin to Labour in Winter as on the Sabbath day as the Doctor p. 63. for that the Sabbath and Winter stand on different Reasons which are obvious the Sabbath was commanded and the Winter bad to fly in because of the Cold Wet c. and work was not forbidden in Winter which was forbidden on the
may resort to the Book And to conclude Instead of further summing up what I have weakly written here in Reply to the Learned Doctor and others as I could I commend to the Reader a few Scriptures Gen. 2. 2 3 4. On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested the seventh day from all his work which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because that in it he had rested from all his work which he had created and made and so the Sabbath is the day upon which God rested after his Work and which he Blessed and made Holy who is v. 4. Jehovah Aelohim the Lord God so the Seventh day is the Lords day Exod. 16. 29. The seventh-day-sabbath is said to be as it is a gift The Lord hath given you the sabbath and so we should take it as a Gift from him as his Gift and as the Lords day Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy c. The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God and so the Seventh day is the Lords day Exod. 31. 13. The Lord calls them my sabbaths verily my sabbaths ye shall keep so the Sabbath is the Lords day it is a sign between me and you c. that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctifie you v. 14. and ye shall keep the sabbath because it is holiness to you v. 15. Six days work shall be done but the seventh is the sabbath of rest holiness to the Lord v. 16. the sabbath a perpetual covenant t is holiness to you v. 14. and holy to the Lord v. 15. v. 16. the sabbath a perpetual covenant and v. 17 a sign for ever For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed so the Seventh day is the Lords day And v. 18. The Lord gave to Moses to tables of testimony written with the finger of God And Exod. 32. 15 16. the tables were the work of God and the writing the writing of God upon which tables of testimony or witness the fourth command was one Exod. 35. 2. Six days shall work be done and on the seventh day it shall be to you holiness Lev. 23. 3. Six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest an holy convocation ye shall do no work therein it is the sabbath of the Lord c. so the Seventh day is the Lords day Lev. 23. 32. from even unto even shall ye celebrate your sabbath which I think is directing in an Humiliation day which is there to begin in the Evening when they were to afflict themselves And I think states this part of the Question when the Days began that is in the Evening and when they ended that is at the next Evening which the Dr. p. 27. thinks began and ended at mid-night In Numb 15. 32. we have the case of the Man who gathered sticks not A but The Sabbath day which is a great certain undeniable example against the least prophaning of the Sabbath day Deut. 5. 12. Keep the sabbath day to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee 13. Six days labour c. v. 14. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God c. so the Seventh day is the Lords day of Rest i. e. the seventh day is the Lords day Psal 119. 1 6. blessed are those who walk in his law and in keeping of his commandments there is great reward Psal 19. 11. Esai 56. 2. Blessed is the man who keepeth the sabbath from polluting it v. 4. 6. from polluting it Ezek. 20. 13 16 24 my sabbath they greatly polluted if we would be Blessed keep his Sabbaths and dont pollute them which it seems was Israels Sin of old Esai 58. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight or delights the holy of the Lord so the Sabbath day is the Lords day honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words v. 14. then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord c. and is not that a desirable frame Ezek. 22. 1 2. The word of the Lord thou hast prophaned my sabbath v. 26. her Priests have violated my law c. and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths So the Sabbath day is the Lords day Ezek. 44. 4 5 15 24. in the prophesie of the new temple there is a promise that the Priests who shall come near unto the Lord to minister unto him they shall hallow my sabbaths So the Sabbath day is the Lords day Matth. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law v. 18. For verity I say unto you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled dont think that Christ altered one tittle of the Law and so not one jot or tittle is yet passed from the Law Matth. 18. 8. Christ is said to be Lord of the Sabbath day and if Christ be Lord of the Sabbath day then the Sabbath day is the Lords day Mat. 24. 20. Pray that your flight be not on the sabbath day which flight was about 38 years after Christs Death which I think shews it was to continue after his Death that is as I think as long as the World lasts Matth. 28. 18 19 20. Christ to his Disciples go teach all nations teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and Christ with the Father and holy Spirit one Jehovah gave the commands as before Mark 1. 21. after Christs Baptism by John v. 9. Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God v. 14. repent ye and believe the Gospel v. 15. then he calls Simon and Andrew James and John and they followed him v. 16 to 20. and they went into Capernaum and straitway on the sabbath day he entered into the Synagogue and taught and Mark 2. 27. the sabbath was made for man for his good for his spiritual good Mark 16. 1 2. Jesus came into his own country and his disciples followed him and when the sabbath day was come he began to preach in the synagogue which also proves the Sab. made for the spiritual use of man Luke 4. 16 to 27. in v. 14. after his being tempted v. 13. Jesus returned in the power of the spirit into Galilee and v. 15. taught in their Synagogues and v 16. he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the sabbath day and stood up for to read and preached the Gospel v. 17 to 29. and then he came down to Capernaum and taught them on the sabbath day besides divers other places in the Evangelists which do all prove