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A30704	The judgment of Mr. Francis Bampfield late minister of Sherborne in Dorsetshire for the observation of the Jewish, or seventh day Sabboth with his reasons and Scriptures for the same, sent in a letter to Mr. Ben of Dorchester : together with Mr. Ben's sober answer to the same and a vindication of the Christian Sabboth against the Jewish : published for the satisfaction of divers friends in the west of England.	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.; Benn, William, 1600-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing B624; ESTC R22838	34,738	95

other day as a Weekly Sabbath day but only the Seventh day which is the last day of the Week in the weekly returns of it Exod. 20.9 10. and 31.13 14 15. and 35.3 Jer. 17.27 Exod. 20.21 Nehem. 13.15 21. 3 dly Thirdly Because God hath put this into Nature Exod. 20.10 thy Stranger Deut. 5.14 the three first Chapters to the Romans particularly chap. 2 14 15 26 27. and 3.9 20. 1 Cor. 11.14 Nature hath its teachings the Humane nature in the first Adam was made and framed to the perfection of the Ten Words some notions whereof are still retained even in the Corrupt state of fallen Man compare Gen. 1.26 27. Ecles 7.29 Ephes 4.20 Col. 3.10 The Law of the seventh day Sabbath was given before the Law was proclaimed at Sinai Exod. 16.23 even from the Creation Gen 2.2 3. given to Adam in respect of his Humane nature and in him to all the World of humane creatures compare Gen. 1.14 and Psal 104.19 with Levit. 25.21 and Num. 28.2 9 10. it is the same word in the Original Mognadim contracted Mognade Set times of Divine appointment for solemn Assembling and for Gods instituted Service are directed to and pointed at by those great Lights which the Creator hath set up in the Heavens Psal 19. throughout compared with Rom. 10.4 5 6 7 8 18 19 20. Deut. 30.10 15. Joh. 1.9 Every man hath a Law and Light of Nature which he carrieth about him and is born and bred together with him Those seeds of Light and Truth Rom. 1.20 though they will not Justifie him in the sight of God and bring a Soul through and safe home to Glory yet there even since Adam's fall are those reliques and dark letters of His holy Law of the Ten words to preserve the memory of our first created Dignity and for some other ends though these Seeds are utterly corrupted now Tit. 1.15 Natural Reason will tell men that seeing all men in all Nations do measure their times by Weeks and their Weeks by Seven days they should besides what they offer up of their time as due to God every day give one whole day of every Week to their Maker who hath allowed them so liberal a portion of time therein to provide for themselves there being no other proportion of time that can so well provide for the necessities of Families as Six dayes of every Week and that is so well fitted to all functions callings and employments And the light of Nature when cleared up will tell men That all labour and motion being in order to rest and rest being the perfection and end of labour into which labour work and motion doth pass that therefore the Seventh which is the last day in every Week is the fittest and properest day for a religious Rest unto the Creator for his Worship and Service Gen. 2.1 2 3. Exod. 20.9 10 11. Deut. 5.13 14. Heb. 4.1 11. Exod. 31.7 Rom. 14.13 Exod. 23 12. and 34.2 Nature doth suggest that Man and Beast should have a Resting-day every Week Deut. 5.14 The Lord Christs obedience unto this fourth Word in observing in his life time the Seventh day as a Weekly Sabbath-day which is the last day of the Week in the weekly returns of it and no other day of the Week as such is a part of that perfect Righteousness which every sound believer doth apply to himself in order to his being Justified in the sight of God and every such person is to conform unto Christ in all the acts of his Obedience to the Ten Words Luk. 4.16 Rom. 8. 2 3 4. and 5.12 Gal. 4.4 5. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Jer. 23.6 Rev. 19.8 Isa 45. 23 24 25. Rom. 6. throughout 1 Pet. 2.21 Ephes 5.1 2. 1 Joh. 2 3 4. 1 Joh. 1.6 1 Joh. 2.1 6. and 4. 17. Joh. 15.10 12 14. Matth. 11.28 29 30. Joh. 13.34 Heb. 12.2 Francis Bampfield Mr. BEN'S ANSVVER TO Mr. BAMPFIELD'S PAPER The will of Gods good pleasure is the sole Rule and reason of all his actings towards the Creature The holy Will of God revealed in his holy Word is the sole Rule and Measure of all the Creatures actings towards God Honoured Sir and very much Reverenced in the Lord GReat is the Obligation you have laid upon me in condescending so far as to communicate unto me those Scripture grounds and reasons which have had such an irresistable influence upon your Conscience as to undergo such a change in your Judgement and Practice relating to the observation of the Weekly Sabbath from what you have formerly believed and practised and that I am fully perswaded in Godly sincerity This Sir is as I understand the discourse of many the wonder of not a few and the grief of some I do acknowledge that the report which you say was brought unto you was true I did indeed desire that you would be pleased at your leisure if you thought good to add some Scripture-proofs to those Propositions which I had formerly received from you Which I think I should not have taken the boldness to have done but that you had given me encouragement as I suppose you remember when and where and how which now that you have done I shall endeavour to observe your order in giving you my thoughts of them and that as they stand in your Paper and according to your desire expresly declare my assent and consent to the several particulars so far as I am convinced that they are according to the mind of God and wherein I dissent to give you my reasons thereof and yet as you expect in a Scripture way so far as I am able and understand the meaning of that expression and submit all to your serious examination 1. Concerning your three first Propositions I do both heartily assent and unfeignedly consent unto you so far as I apprehend aright your mind in them as divine truths of infallible veracity deeply engraven in the Word of Truth Oh that they were as deeply engraven in the hearts of all the Lords professing People Only I crave leave to tell you 1. That whereas for the proof of the first That Jehovah Christ is by the appointment of the Father c. whereas I say for the proof of this you quote if I mistake not near about 26 Scriptures I cannot either assent or consent that every one of them speaks clearly to the confirmation of the Proposition possibly they are mis-written ●y the Transcriber however the Truth is sufficiently confirmed by some of them and I think all of them may afford matter of comfortable meditation for the right improvement of Christs Kingly Office which perhaps is all that you intend by them Blessed be the Lord the Government is upon his shoulder Isa 9.8 that he is the King of Nations Jer. 10.17 that he is the King of Saints Rev. 15.3 head over all things to the Church Ephes 1.22 hath power over all flesh to give eternal life to all those the father hath given him Joh. 17.2

Scripture This to me is certain for the Will of God concerning Sacrificing was without doubt revealed unto Abel before the Law for Sacrifices was given for what he did therein he did in Faith and eminently found acceptance with God in what he did therein Heb. 11.4 neither the Light of Nature which is the knowledge of Principles neither the Law of Nature which is the conclusions drawn from these Principles could ever have made known this way of Worship to be a Duty if God had not some way revealed his Will to him therein This I hope will be made evident when I come to speak of the third general Reason If he had imposed this upon himself and that it had been the Product of his own imagination it had been will-worship Therefore certainly he had some word for it but when he received it and where and how that way of Worship was instituted for him to come to the knowledge of I never heard of any that could find it in the Scripture Great use may be made of this if need were for the clearing up of this present Controversie concerning an express word for the institution and observing the first day of the Week to be the Lords-day the day for his Weekly Sabbath we might say that it might be instituted though it be not recorded when and where as it was in the case of Abels Sacrificing but I hope we shall not be driven to this however I cannot but suppose it is of good use for some especially to consider of 6 thly Sixthly I desire that this also may be considered that what was delivered by the Apostles as they were guided by the holy Spirit of Truth ought to be received and believed as delivered and spoken by Christ himself Christ himself was never in person at Ephesus and yet 't is said Eph. 2.17 that he came thither and preached peace unto them we must understand it that he did so in the Ministry of the Apostles which was all one as if he had been there himself None that I know of durst ever undertake to prove that ever they prescribed any thing for all the Churches to observe but what they received in Commission from the Lord Jesus This was their charge Mat. 28.20 Teach what I command you and this was their practice 1 Cor. 11.10 23. What I received from the Lord that I delivered unto you so 1 Cor. 15.3 It is evident Act. 1.3 that Jesus Christ spake many things unto them betwixt his Resurrection and Ascension concerning the Kingdom of God i. e. especially the state of the Gospel-Church of all which we have no knowledge I have not I am sure in particular what they were farther than is found in their precepts and practice recorded in the New Testament And what if I should say that the change of the day from the last in seven to the first in seven was one of these things I know not what could be said against it but of that more hereafter 7 thly Seventhly Though I have declared as above my assent and consent concerning the Ten words to be perpetually obligatory or a standing and unchangeable rule for all Christians in all ages to walk by that so they may walk in all well-pleasing unto God as once I heard very solidly proved by your self in an Exercise wholly upon that subject from Psal 19.6 7 8 9. As I remember though I say and say it again that herein I consent with you yet I say it now and must say it again hereafter that the day of weekly holy Rest is altered and yet that alteration is no dissolution of the Commandment and that no tittle of the Law is broken thereby and that the first day of the week is and ought to be as much the weekly Sabbath for the Christians now as the last day of the week was to the Jews of old and that there is as good ground though perhaps not so clear to every one for the change of the day as there was at first for the choice of the day this is directly contrary to what you asserted in your paper I come now according as you desired me to take your 4th Proposition into consideration and your Reasons in order as they stand whereby you endeavour to confirm it having again and again in some weak measure I praise the Lord prayed for the assistance of the holy spirit of truth to guide and direct me that I may write nothing against the truth but for the truth being at this present under the actual consideration of the dreadful sentence that I may be called to an account I know not how soon before the great and glorious God for what I think for what I write as well as for what I speak or what I do I bless God I am willing that truth should be truth and appear to be truth Your fourth Proposition though I have repeated it already yet I think it meet to repeat it here again is this The seventh day which is the last day in every week in the weekly returns of it c. And for the proof of this you produce Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. Deut. 5.12 15. I conceive you lay the whole stress of your Arguments upon that in Exod. and that you do not so much as imagine that Deut. the 5th affords you any more help than what you have from the other alone This is that which is to be taken into serious considerations whether your Proposition takes in or be agreeable unto the full sense of the Commandment and that the Commandment speaks the same thing that the Proposition doth it seems as yet far otherwise to me and that the Commandment requires only the observation of one day in seven and doth not institute any particular day either the last or the first The last of seven had its institution as you seem to acknowledge which I was glad to find in your paper in Gen. 2.3 where and when the first day had its institution will be enquired into when this Proposition is cleared viz. That the fourth Commandment requires only the observation of one whole day in seven for the weekly Sabbath not instituting either the first or the last for any such intent or purpose And because as Solomon saith Prov. 6.23 that the Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is a Light I desire therefore in the strength of the Lord Jesus depending upon him for light and direction to look into the sense and meaning of this Law But first I shall premise this That As the second so the fourth Commandment comes in some things under a difrferent consideration from most if not from all the rest my meaning is this There is something in each of them is morral natural and something which is only positive In the second Commandment this is moral natural that God ought to be worshipped not as men will themselves but as God himself wills and describes but in what ordinances or acts of worship this

That Scripture which is well observed by you in Isa 33.32 is much to be taken notice of for understand the words in a Spiritual sence and they are exclusive of all other Christ alone Christ and no other is our only King and our only Law-giver It is true the Commands of the Magistrate bind the Conscience and we must be subject for Conscience sake Rom. 13.5 yet not immediately but by the intervention of Gods Command Rom. 13.1 2. nor yet universally but with limitation we must obey the Lord Christ upon the bare sight of his Will But the Laws of 〈◊〉 are farther to be considered of that so our obedience unto them may be without scruple and our subjection not from self-interest but in deed and in truth from principles of Conscience 2 dly Whereas for the proof of the second Proposition that the Holy Scripture of truth is a perfect and sufficient rule for Doctrine Worship and Discipline you produce eleven or twelve Scriptures Thus far I consent that the proposition is true and sufficiently proved though some of the Scriptures are upon some account or other mistaken or misquoted as Gal. 3.15 which perhaps you intend for Gal. 6.16 The one speaks not to the point as the other doth from the latter Chemnitius as I remember conceives that the Scriptures may be said to be Canonical they are indeed a perfect Canon nothing to be added thereunto not by any Revelation from the spirit much less from any humane Traditions 2 Thes 3.2 Gal. 1.8 9. If an Angel from Heaven preach any other Doctrine let him saith the Apostle again and again he saith it let him be accursed Yet I think this limitation is fit to be inserted that there are some Circumstances concerning Worship and Administration of Church affairs such I mean as are common to humane Actions and Societies which are to be ordered by Christian prudence but still according to the general rules of the word which ought always to be observed that so as 1 Cor. 14.40 All things may be done decently and in order that all things that is all the Ordinances of God for of them he speaks as appears in the foregoing verses Prayer and Singing of Psalms c. This text give no other power to any Church or Church Governors but that all such things as God appoints be done decently without uncomliness and orderly without confusion 3 dly That whereas for the proof of the third Proposition That the ten words are a perfect compleat and standing rule c. you produce at least twenty Scriptures I both Assent and Consent acknowledging the Proposition sufficiently proved though I must say as I said before that every particular text which is quoted comes not up fully to prove the point but a divine truth it is beyond all contradiction that as Psal 119.96 the commands are exceeding broad containing an infinite and incomprehensible treasure of heavenly wisdom nothing perteining to holiness nothing is wanting that is necessary for direction to all men in all conditions being it is an eternal rule of Righteouseness and as Matth. 24.31 Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my word saith the Lord Jesus Christ shall not pass away Thus God hath magnified his Law and made it honourable Isa 42.21 Thus you see how in truth of these three propositions I consent with you 4 thly But now for the fourth Proposition that the seventh day which is the last day in every week in the weekly revolution is alone that peculiar day in every week which is the weekly Sabbath day to be kept holy to Jehovah in obedience to his Commands For the proof whereof you bring Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. Deut. 5.12 13. to this I must crave leave to say that as yet I can neither Assent nor Consent being no ways convinced by any thing I find in your paper that is according to the mind of God revealed in his word or proved in the least either by these Scriptures or the reasons produced for the proof thereof That which takes hold of my Conscience in this matter I shall lay before you when I have 1. First told you what is the General I observe in your paper 2. Secondly given you some few propositions which I think meet to be inserted here to avoid repititions hereafter 1. I observe that all your Arguments are grounded upon a strong apprehension you are under that the Seventh day the last day in every Week is the substance of the fourth Commandment And that it is moral natural written in the Humane nature in Adam which was framed to the perfection of the ten words as you express it in your third general reason But in this I can neither Assent nor Consent The reason of my Dissent you shall have in its proper place I mean why I conceive that though the Humane nature in Adam was made after the Image of God in Righteousness and true Holiness yet the Law for the last day of seven in every Week to be the only day for the Weekly Sabbath was not written there 2 dly I observe that your apprehensions are strong that the last day of seven in every Week and the Sabbath day that is the day of holy rest of Gods appointment for his solemn worship in every Week are and must be terms Convertible and that the last of seven in every Week as it was at first so it is now and must so continue to the end of the World is the only day for that purpose This I gather from those Reasons given to inforce obedience to the Commands which you say properly belong to this day and are as you think applicable to no other day Herein I can neither assent nor consent and why I cannot I shall give you my grounds when I have first considered the propositions you lay down before them 3 dly I observe and that not without some wonder that though the whole stress of all your Arguments is in a manner laid upon the 9 10 11 verses of Exod. 20. Yet I find nothing at all Argumentatively to prove that the scope sence and meaning of these words is to establish the last of seven in the revolution of every Week to be the only day of Holy rest which is to be observed to Jehovah to the end of the World which is the proposition you engage your self to make good which till you have done by some other Arguments than this paper affords or by these Arguments more clearly I do believe that what you now assert will not be so generally received for truth according to the mind of God as you think it ought and as it ought if it be indeed the mind of God in his Word 2 dly Having observed these things I now crave leave to lay down some few propositions which being considered of may be according to what I apprehend of some use they are at least to me towards the clearing up of the matter under debate and meet to be inserted