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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93321	An appeal to the consciences of the chief magistrates of this Commonvvealth, touching the Sabbath-day: as held forth in a book intituled, Articles of religion approved and passed by both Houses of Parliament, after advice had with the Assembly of Divines, &c. Printed in the year 1648. As also in another book intituled, The grounds and principles of religion, contained in a short catechism, &c. And published by the same order. By William Saller, and John Spittlehouse, in the behalf of themselves and several others, who think themselves obliged to observe the seventh day of the week, for the Lords holy Sabbath ...	Saller, William, d. ca. 1680.; Spittlehouse, John.	1657 (1657)	Wing S397; Thomason E909_8; ESTC R203443	8,111	15

that he that faileth in his obedience to any one point of the Royal-Law hath thereby made himself guilty of the breach of the whole Law so that we are bold to conclude they were no Sabbath-breakers From all which with several other Reasons we might have urged we deny that Act. 20.7 proveth any thing as to what they have urged it 3. The First-day of the week is not so much as mentioned in Rev. 1.10 Secondly the Lords-day there named may be ascribed unto all that time wherein John was conversant in that Revelation which probably was of a longer continuance then one Natural or Artificial Day Thirdly If it must needs be applied to such a Day then why not more properly to the seventh-Day Sabbath as in the fourth Commandment then to the First-day of the week Seeing Jehovah himself there stileth the seventh Day to be his Sabbath Exod. 20.10 But the seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God c. vid. also Isa 58 13. yea the Lord Jesus himself speaking of the seventh-Day Sabbath afore named professeth himself to be the Lord thereof Mark 2.27 28. Luk. 6.5 Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath-day Fourthly Why may not the Day commonly called Christmass-day or Good-friday or Ascension-day be as properly stiled the Lords-day as the Day called Easter-day Fifthly Neither this Text or the two former have any tendency to the Resurrection of Christ more then that he arose from the Grave on the First-day of the week and consequently of no more force to prove a change of the Sabbath instituted by God then the Day of Christs-birth or Passion or Ascention hath to change it to the Days they happened to fall on for any thing that the Scripture doth attribute to the day of Christs Resurrection more then to any of the other Sixthly The Rhemists upon this Text of Rev. 1.10 do ingenuously acknowledge That the Church made a change of the Sabbath from the Seventh-day unto the First-day in the week and that without all Scripture or commandment of Christ that they read of Yea say they which is more not onely otherwise then he ordained in the first Creation but plainly otherwise then was prescribed by God himself in the Commandment yea and otherwise then he ordained in the first Creaetion when he sanctified precisely the Sabbath-day and not the Day following To which may be added the Testimony of Doct. Prideaux in his work upon the Sabbath where he querieth saying Where is the least mention of Surrogating the First-day of the week in Room of the Sabbath or where among the Evangelists is there any distinct institution of the Lords-day or where will you necessarily prove it Mr. Bond also speaking of the change of the Sabbath concludeth that it was an Ecclesiastical constitution and not an Apostolical precept to which may be added the Testimonies of several other Writers to the same purpose Doct. Willet also in his Comment upon Exodus speaking of the changing of the Sabbath urgeth Vrsinus to prove That the Church did it ut se à Judaica synagoga discerneret That they might be discerned from the Jewish Synagogues which we conceive to be a very weak Argument to change a Moral and perpetual Commandment of God binding all men in all ages As the forementioned persons have granted it to be All which being seriously weighed and considered by you we appeal unto your Consciences whether it be not the duty of all Christians to obey the positive command of the one Law-giver rather then the determinations of Parliaments and Synods without any warrant from the Word of God Seeing the Lord Jesus himself hath declared it to be a vain worship where the Commandments of men are made Doctrinal Mat. 15.9 as also in that the Apostles of Christ did publickly oppose the Rulers Elders and Scribes upon the like account Act. 4.18 19 20. And seeing you have ingaged to establish the Christian Religion contained in the Scriptures Article 35 of the present Government and seeing Jehovah himself hath so plainly determined which of the seven Days in the week he will have us to observe for his Sabbath and that by three notable Characters i. e. the Sabbath-day the Seventh-day and that Seventh-day where on he himself rested Exod. 20.10 11. which reason cannot be given for any other Day in the week the seventh Day and the Sabbath-day both pointing at the very same day and time so that take away one and take away both and grant one and grant both they being like the Name Jesus and Christ which both belong to one Person And seeing the Lord Jesus and his Apostles have as much ratified and established the fourth Commandment in every jot and title thereof as of any other of the nine Matthew 5.17 18 19. Romans 3.31 James 2.10 11. We cannot but stand in admiration that you should take upon you being poor Mortals and such as Jehovah can destroy in a moment to countenance and much more to establish such a Day for the Lords holy Sabbath as hath no warrant from the Scriptures as hath been shewed and to restrain the people of this Commonwealth from working on that Day wherein Jehovah himself hath commanded or at least freely permitted them to labour in Exodus 20.9 and to grant free liberty to work on that Day in which he hath positively commanded them to cease from their labour Exod. 20.10 And therefore it doth doubtless very neerly concern you to consider your present condition in this matter seeing it will no more avail you at the Day of Account to say you have observed a Sabbath in stead of the Sabbath then it will be for the Heathen to say they have worshipped a god instead of the true God Or no more then it will excuse Jeroboam to say That he kept the fifteenth day of the eighth moneth even the moneth that he devised of his own heart c. 1 Kings 12.33 Secondly In hat it is as much a changing of the Truth of God into a lie as in any other action of the Man of sin 2 Thes 2.4 c. it being a grand Character of the man of sin to change Times and Laws Dan. 7.25 All which we hope the Ingagement you have taken will be a means to incline you to hearken to what hath bin said And hoping you have been better learned then to reject good advice though tendered by contemptible Persons We do hereby in Gods stead exhort you to reduce the Lords holy Sabbath to its proper Day which you may do without the least prejudice to the people if you will but remove the Markets and Fairs which fall on that Day to some other day in the week which until you have done you do not onely live your selves in a manifest disobedience to the fourth Commandment but are also a grand Cause of the peoples living in the same sin and that by reason of the strict injunction you lay for the observation of the First-day of the week many not being able to leave their callings two Days in a week and therefore albeit convinced of the truth of the seventh Day to be the Lords Sabbath yet are by reason thereof necessitated to break the Lords Sabbath and to observe that of Mans erecting O remember the brand fixed on Jeroboam namely That he sinned and caused Israel to sin We are also perswaded That if the Clergy of this Nation would set themselves conscionably to preach from Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. they might in a very short time convince the judgement of their Congregations so as that they would willingly shake off the traditional Sabbath and yield a filial obedience to the true Sabbath in case the aforenamed impediments were removed and free liberty granted to all that have a desire to observe the seventh day of the week for their Sabbath to work on their callings on the First-day of the week which God himself hath permitted them to do as hath been shewed Which if done it would be a means to remove a great stumbling-block to the Jews who make it an Argument that Christ is not the Messiah because Christians who profess themselves to be his followers are Sabbath-breakers concluding from thence that Christ himself was a Sabbath-breaker and consequently a sinner and if so then there can be no benefit by his blood Again as the change of the Sabbath to the First-day of the week was chiefly done to raise a wall of partition betwixt the Gentiles and the Jews as hath been shewed so we hope the pulling down of that wall will be a preparative to the accomplishing of those glorious Prophesies which hold forth the unity which shall be betwixt Jew and Gentile as our Saviour himself hath foretold Joh. 10 16. as also the Apostle Paul Rom. 11.25 26 c. and Rev. chap. 7. which surely ought to be the earnest desire of all the people of God and especially of such as are in a waiting posture to see the fulfilling thereof and most of all by such as profess themselves to be the Rulers and Pastors to such a people as you and the Clergy of this Nation account your selves to be But if after all the praying for the conversion of the Jews and having now power in your hands to further it you are yet resolved not onely to continue this stumbling-block before them but also to harden your hearts and blinde the eyes of your understanding because this wholesom advice is not tendered unto you by the great Potentates and learned Rabbies of the Nation Yet we hope by what we have here spoken we have delivered our own souls from what will follow thereon having faithfully discharged our duty herein both towards God and our Neighbor FINIS Errata for grants read graces Pag. 5. li. 11.