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A26468 VindiciƦ sabbathi, or, An answer to two treatises of Master Broads the one, concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day, the other, concerning the Lord's-day or first of the weeke : with a survey of all the rest which of late have written upon that subject / by George Abbot. Abbot, George, 1604-1649. 1641 (1641) Wing A66; ESTC R3974 196,378 288

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other types had which notwithstanding were of afarre different nature and institution to this for they were appointed since the fall and occasioned by it and in themselves temporary but this was before the fall and given for ever to the whole Church for a standing type which yet it doth not to us and yet so as the primary force and use of this is no lesse appertaining to us then them For so that other ordinance which was instituted in innocency marriage it also lasted in respect of diverse circumstances of their times and discipline which yet wee retaine pure from the first institution Secondly wee under the Gospell have also an alteration made of the individuall but not of the numerall day for wee now keepe the seaventh day according to the commandement remember that thou keepe holy the seaventh day but not theirs Thirdly in respect also of the reason whereupon the commandement was inforced upon them to wit Gods resting from the creation For whilest the law or first covenant was in force the creation was in force which still remaines with us but subordinated to the adequate reason of our Sabbath where to use Master Dowes words pag. 24. All lawes being on●ly positive though made by God himselfe admit mutation at least when the matter concerning which or the conditions of the persons to whom they were given is changed For as the Iewish types so many grosse and sensitive grounds and reasons are pilled of and swallowed up by the comming of Christ and more spirituall ones risen in their stead As wee see it very apparant in the 65. Isa. 17. I will saith God create a new Heaven and a new Earth and the former shall not bee remembred nor come into mind * Old things are possed away behold all things are become new Which to mee seemes a pertinent prophecy of the alteration of the Sabbath from the Iewes day to ours it being as much as to say that in comparison of the excellency of the things that shall bee under the Gospell the other things shall bee nothing worth Sence shall bee swallowed up of Spirit types of truth And though the creation bee admirable of it selfe and so also is at this day the consideration of it being exceeding usefull yet nothing comparable to our redemption Our rejoycing in the one is nothing comparable to our rejoycing in the other * So that the ●lteration of the Iewes Sabbat● into ours by reason of the new creati● which God made 〈◊〉 the time of the Gospell doth further typis●●●n● assure us of the last and best alteration of new Heaven and new Ea●●h ●●ok●n of in th●● of the first of 〈◊〉 which we shall be made partakers of by the Go●spell As a right worthy Doctor Sibbes by name observes Gods last works are his best works the first being but preparatives and occasions of the later the new Heaven and the new Earth are the best the second wine that Christ created himselfe was the best Spirituall things are better then naturall And Master Dow pag. 27 saith as muc● that the reason Drawne from the example of God who rested upon the Sabbath namely when the creation was finished endured onely till the time of the new creation in which all things were made new by Christ at which time it ceased or at least a second reason taken from the new covenant comming in place the former both reason and day become now old are passed away And behold all things are become new For this worke of redemption or new creation being the greater may deservedly take place of the other and as the Prophet Ieremy speaking of the deliverance that God would vouchsafe his people from the Babylonish captivity saith Behold the dayes shall come saith the Lord that it shall no more bee said the Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt but the Lorth liveth that brought them up from the land of the North so may wee say of the day appointed for his worship that the day wherein hee finished the worke of creation shall no more bee observed but the day wherein our Lord Christ by his resurrection from the dead finished the worke of our redemption Thus speakes Master Dow. And how ever in other things the constitution of the Iewish Church and ours differ yet in this they are united the Sabbath being first ordained before there was distinction made or wall of partition built for an ever-lasting signe betweene God and his Church for his sanctifying it and a perpetuall rule of duty and practise chalked out to his Church for the direction of his more solemne worship Like as was his marrying of Adam and Eve in innocency both a perpetuall type of that union which is betweene God and his Church as also a perpetuall rule for the ordering of that affaire amongst mankind ever after both which were alike given in innocency and were alike both perpetuall rules and perpetuall types unto his Church Broad This booke beeing the last I intend to write of this Argument my desire is it should bee read of many before it bee published that if just exceptions can bee taken to ought I have written or that an objection of moment bee not here fully answered I may know it and afterwards may alter or adde as there shall bee cause Iohn 3. 21. Hee that doth truth commeth to the light that his deeds may bee made manifest that they are wrought in God Broad 2. Treatises 1. Concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day 2. Concerning the Lords day or first of the Weeke Gal. 4. 10 11. YEe observe dayes and monthes and times and yeares I am afraid of you least I have bestowed on you labour in vaine Answer You play the Souldier in the On-set at first discharging your greatest ordinance to impresse the greater feare but as you use the matter you misse the marke For this place of the Galath fals farre short of your aime as you might have perceived if without prejudice you would have perused Master Perkins upon that place whose whole discourse thereof is worth inserting if it were not too long And if you examine the context you may perceive how that the Apostle was angry at the Galathians for leaving Christ the substance and betaking themselves even in point of justification to the carnall observation of Iewish shadowes and ceremonies which in comparison hee calleth beggerly Rudiments and hee the rather tearmed them so because they were then utterly uselesse and insignificative being fulfilled and so abrogated But the Sabbath is for the equity and substance of it still of the same use as ever to wit fit for the be●ter procuring of mans refreshing and Gods more solemne worship Nor is it in-significative or ever shall bee till wee sing a requiem to our soules in heaven For as it concluded our creation so shall it our salvation And therefore by no meanes to bee numbred with the observation of dayes and monthes and yeares seeing that the