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A26814 The morality of the seventh-day-Sabbath disproved in answer to C.T. Tillam's book, entituled, A present from prison, dedicated to L.C. Hobson ... / written by the learned J.B., Master of arts, at the request of the said L.C. Hobson. J. B. 1683 (1683) Wing B113; ESTC R32844 17,167 24

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upon words seeing it is apparent from the 4th Verse of this 23d of Levit. that by Feasts are not meant times of Belly-cheer but Holy Convocations wherein men ceased from their ordinary Labour and were employed in Religious Duties whether they made Mirth or Afflicted their Souls In the third place to return to the fore-cited Text Col. 2.16 17. Where the Apostle super-addeth which are a shadow of things to come but the Body is of Christ This hath relation to rhe five things mentioned in the 16th Verse at least to that which is immediately fore-going the Sabbath So that the Sabbath distinguished from Feasts and New Moons and so according to the perpetual usage of the Scriptures signifying no other than the Seventh-day-Sabbath is by the Apostle Paul called a shadow the Body whereof is exhibited to us in Christ namely in the Everlasting Sabbath of the Kingdom of Heaven Wherefore to bring us back to shadows after that the Body is come is not only Preposterous but tendeth to the enslaving us under the Rudiments of the World and instead of Sons to make us Servants Pag. 57. For as much as the Adversary not only here but elsewhere in his Book saith that Christ delivered the Law to Israel at Mount Sinai I would fain hear from him why the Scriptures Heb. 8.6 and 12.24 calleth Jesus the Mediator of a New and better Covenant For certainly this implyeth that some other Person was the Mediator of the Old and wose Covenant Again why doth the Apostle John prefer Christ before Moses in this regard namely that whereas the Law was given by Moses Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ Chap. 1.17 Undoubtedly this strongly Argueth that the Law was not given by Christ wherefore you deal ridiculously in desiring me to take heed of perswading others to transgress any one word that Christ immediately Commanded at Mount Sinai To what purpose do you bestow such Elegies upon the Law of God Pag. 61. Is it not to insinuate into the Minds of the unwary Readers that I am a Contemner yea an Opposet thereof Whereas I think very Honourably of it as being Holy Just and Good Only I believe what you your self dare not disavow that all the Ceremonial and Shadowy things thereof are now done away in Christ And that the Sabbath is one of those Ceremonial and Shadowy things I have undenyably evinced as from other passages of the Scripture so especially from that Text of Paul Col. 2.16 17. which plainly signifieth that as the difference of Meats and Drinks and the Celebration of Feasts and New Moons so also the keeping of the Sabbath was a shadow of things to come the Body whereof is now held forth unto us in Christ Pag. 68. As for that passage Mat. 24.21 where our Saviour Christ bids his Disciples pray that their flight might not be on the Sabbath day the words plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee on that day and consequently that the Law concerning the Sabbath would cease whereby it was enjoyned that no man should remove out of his place on the seventh day Exod. 16.29 The words I say plainly intimate that it would be Lawful to flee upon that day otherways why should they pray that their flight might not be then Nevertheless it would not be expedient in that the unbelieving Jews thinking the Sabbath still to remain would be ready to offer Violence to such as should attempt to fly on that day Yea perhaps the believing Jews themselves not understanding their own Liberty in Christ but thinking the Sabbath still in force would be exceedingly grieved if they should be reduced to a Necessity either of Perishing or of Flying on the Sabbath day Of which thing I will speak more anon If you Reply that Christ calleth it the Sabbath in relation to the time that should be long after his death whereas I believe that by his death the difference of times in point of Holiness and consequently the Observation of the Sabbath was abolished according to the Doctrine of Paul Col. 2.14 I Answer that the Scripture calls the times of the Jewish Feasts after the death of Christ by the same names they had formerly See Acts 12.3 and Chap. 20.16 when notwithstanding you your self will not deny that the Obligation to observe those Feasts had then ceased Pag. 69. What needed the mention of the first day of the Week commonly called Sunday when I never affirmed that Christ hath left us any Precept for the Observation of the same Howbeit we have the Practice of all believing Gentiles down from the Apostles unto our time who have unanimously and constantly observed the same as being that day which is in Rev. 1. called the Lords day which perpetual Custom of Christians is sufficient to Warrant our keeping of the Lords day Whereas no such thing can be alledged to justifie the observing of the Seventh-day-Sabbath And therefore when you say that Christ hath established in his House all the Moral Duties of Moses House it is nothing to the purpose unless you first prove that the keeping of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty the contrary whereof my comparison taken out of the Scripture doth evince For Christ being as Faithful in the House of God as Moses If it had been his Will that his Disciples should have observed the Seventh-day-Sabbath he would have expresly enjoyned it and not have left them to gather it by I know not what uncertain Consequences such as you and others of your Opinion make use of For Moses openly and frequently Commanded to the Israelites that they should keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath So that your proceeding herein is just like the dealing of the Papist about the Popes pretended Supremacy For when it is Questioned whether he be the Judge of all emergent Controvercys amongst Christians the Papist having no such Precept from Christ in the Scripture where Christ Ordaineth the Pope or Bishop of Rome to such Judicature bring instead thereof certain far-fetch'd probabilities and consequences to prove it In like manner you when you are urged by me and other Christians to shew where Christ who was as faithful in the House of God as Moses hath Commanded his followers to keep the Sabbath alledge Ordinances for other things and similitudes and strains of your own Poetry and other like impertinences without producing so much as one undoubted Precept for the same But whereas you say that Christ hath confirmed all the Moral Precepts of Moses Who denies it You should have done well not to have begged the thing in Question but to have proved that the Celebration of the Sabbath is a Moral Duty But this you have not yet been nor ever shall be able to perform Pag. 79. That Paul excluded the Law touching the Seventh-day-Sabbath out of the Counsel of God towards believing Gentiles is evident both from his perpetual silence in his Writings touching such matters the contrary whereof you being unable to prove do here as well as