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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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