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A93852	The royal law contended for, or, Some brief grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandments are yet in full force, and shall so remain till heaven and earth pass away. Also the seventh day Sabbath, proved from the beginning, from the law, from the prophets, from Christ, from his apostles, to be a duty yet incumbent upon saints and sinners. / By a lover of peace with truth Edward Stennet.	Stennett, Edward, d. 1690?	1658 (1658)	Wing S5402B; ESTC R184622	38,860	48

and the Gentiles besought him that these words might be taught to them the next Sabbath vers 42. And the next Sabbath came almost the whole City together to hear the word of God vers 44. So that its clear that the Sabbath was Pauls resting day and preaching day both to Jews and Gentiles that being the day that the Gentiles used to hear and though they had a desire to hear the same words again yet it must be next Sabbath and Paul fulfils their desire and preaches to them the next Sabbath and almost the whole City came to hear Can we think that if there had been no Sabbath that Paul would have countenanced them so in their ignorance Or if the first day had been a day that were observed would he not have told them so and that they might have heard the word before the next Sabbath And when Paul came to Philippi a Gentile City mind what is said Act. 15.12 13. We were in that City abiding certain days and on the Sabbath day we went out of the City by a river side where prayer was wont to be made and we sate down and spake unto the women that resorted thither The seventh day hath its title still as is said by the spirit in the Acts speaking of certain dayes this is singled out and called the Sabbath day with an account how they spent it and the blessing they received upon it they resorted to the place of prayer and there they preached and Lydias heart the Lord opened to attend to the words of Paul And in Act. 17.2 it is said That Paul as his manner was went in unto them and three Sabbath dayes reasoned with them out of the Scriptures And when Paul came to Corinth which was a Gentile City he found Aquila a Jew and his wife Priscilla and because they were of the same craft he abode with them and wrought for by their occupation they were Tent-makers and he reasoned in the Synagogue every Sabbath day and perswaded the Jews and Greeks Act. 18.2 3 4. So that its manifest that the Greeks kept the Sabbath as well as the Jews and that though Paul wrought at his trade and made Tents yet he rested every Sabbath day and as we have an account how he spent his time namely in working at his trade so we have an account how he spent this time to wit the Sabbath Now if it be such a strong argument for the observation of the first day because Paul preached upon it once what is this for the observation of the seventh day that Paul did not only preach constantly upon it but where ever the Spirit speaks of it he calls it the Sabbath day without the least hint that so he did to condescend to the weakness of others And let it be shewed by the Scripture that the Apostles did countenance and own any shadow that was done away so as they owned and countenanced the keeping of the Sabbath and therefore we may follow the Apostles as they followed the Lord in this matter though we have not a express word that the Churches kept it And indeed I think I may say in this case as the Apostles said in another case that it would have been superflous for the Apostles to have told any people in their time that such or such a Church kept the Sabbath it being a truth not so much as questioned that we hear of but Jew and Gentiles both observed it But now I cease answering objections having spoak to those that are the most material of them that I have heard and I shall proceed to another ground 8. Consider the bondage and slavery that both man and beast would be in if this doctrine were received for truth would it no● how ever have this tendency to bring the world more into Atheisme For men would not allow themselves nor servants time to rest in nor to hear the word of God if they were perswaded that there were no Sabbath yea and the greatest part of Saints are left to the mercy of mercyless men most of them being children and wives and servants and they cannot challenge a day in seven nor a day in seventy as their right to rest upon and to worship the Lord in from any command of God if this doctrine be true that the Sabbath is abolisht and what is this but to bring a yoak of bondage upon us that neither we nor our fathers were able to bear we should not so much as take notice of the time how it goes in probability for the way of numbering is by sevens But some will say it is good to observe one day in seven if it be not a constant day that will be confessed for one to observe one day and another to observe another day others are for a seventh day to be constantly observed but why not the seventh day which God hath commanded for the seventh day is the Sabbath it plainly appears that there is something of the Table Law yet upon the Table of the hearts of most men though much worn out by much transgression for men generally plead to have one day in seven to rest in and yet because of custome they contend against this Holy Just Law of God that was made in mercy for man I am perswaded in my very heart and that not without good ground that if the seventh day had been observed as the first day is that no man that owns the Scripture would have questioned whether it ought to be observed or no or at least no opposition would have been made against it and when all is said custom and worldly interest are the two great things that stand in opposition to it 9. And lastly Consider those great and precious promises made to them that keep the Sabbath according to the inside and spirituality of it not that we are so to spiritualize it as to make void the letter but according to the letter as Christ doth for instance Ye have heard saith Christ it hath been said of old time thou shalt not commit adultery but I say unto you whosoever looketh on a woman and lusteth after her hath committed adultery with her in his heart Mat. 5.28 Now if it be adultery to lust doubtless it is to act and this is forbidden in the Commandment for the Commandment is thou shall not commit adultery but Christ unfolds this Commandment and gives such a sense of it as the Scribes and Pharisees understood not Again the sixth Commandment is Thou shalt do no murther and John saith Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer 1 Joh. 3.15 Now all murther was forbidden in the command but this was not understood to be murther but John opens the spirituality of the command and the same may be said of the fourth command Remember the Sabbath to keep it Holy all servile work is forbidden in it and that the Pharisees understood but they did not understand that works of mercy as curing the sick healing the diseased

THE ROYAL LAW CONTENDED FOR OR Some Brief Grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandements are yet in full force and shall so remain till Heaven and Earth pass away ALSO The Seventh Day Sabbath proved from the Beginning from the Law from the Prophets from Christ from his Apostles to be a duty yet incumbent upon Saints and Sinners By a Lover of Peace with Truth Edward Stennet They that forsake the Law praise the wicked but such as keep the Law contend with them Prov. 28.4 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man Eccles 12.13 The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath therefore the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath Mark 2.27 28. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy Commandments Psal 119.6 LONDON Printed in the Year 1658. TO ALL That truly fear the LORD and tremble at his Word IT was not in the least my purpose to expose the ensuing discours to publique view but to communicate it onely to some private Christian friends as a reason of the hope that is in me in relation to the Law of the Lord. I being in a good measure sensible of my own weakness and unfitnes● for such a work but the Lord was pleased to bless these my weak endeavours with the successes of conviction to some and refreshment to others of his dear servants who were my encouragers after solemne waiting upon our Heavenly Father unto this which I can truly say I was dead unto although I was and am perswaded that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the truth therein contained but my weakness in the management of it was the great obstruction But I am willing to press after a likeness to Jesus Christ who made himself of no reputation and to learn of him who was meek and lowly in heart I am not so conceited to present this Treatise as a thing that 's rare or new either to the Saints or World for if they will look about them they may see this truth in a better dress and lustre but it may be the tender Lambs and Sucking-Babes of Jesus Christ may better understand my stammering tongue then those that speak more distinctly and that 's one main encouragement to me I do profess in the presence of him who tryes the heart and reines Light hath broak forth since I wrote these papers about the Law in general and the Sabbath in particular it being five or six months since they were written yet notwithstanding I am now encouraged by the Lord I trust and by his people to speak this on the house top which was spoken to me in secret because so many of the Lords people are so deluded that they have rejected the Law of God and live in a weekly profanation of his Holy Sabbath thinking that Christ abolisht the whole Law at his death though Christ utterly denys it and would have none to harbour such a thought Mat. 5.17 although many of the men of this opinion may be good yet it makes their error not one Jote the better For this flows from their carnality and not their spirituality for the carnal mind is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8.7 But because truth springs up out of the earth and righteousness looks down from Heaven and the ancient honourable institution of Jehovah now begins to shine with such clearness that it cannot be razed out of the tables and therefore all is cast away together which is such an invention as would not have been thought on by many I am certain if Sabbath Light had been concealed The two ancient institutions of the Lord in Paradise were Mariage and the Sabbath both which are called and esteemed honorable Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honorable in all and in Isay 58.13 the Sabbath is called the Holy of the Lord honorable and Christ leads us to the beginning of them both when the question was whether men might put away their wives for every fault the answer is that Moses did but suffer it to be so because of the hardness of their hearts but from the beginning it was not so Mat. 19.34 35.36 37. and when the Pharisees were so ignorant that they thought works of mercy were not to be done upon the Sabbath day Christ leads them to the first institution of it and tels them it was made for man Mark 2.24 27. Both these institutions were made for the good and benefite of man in his Paradise estate which is sufficient proofe for their duration Paul saith that the man was not created for the woman but the woman for the man 1 Cor. 11.9 and our blessed Lord of the Sabbath saith that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath Then Christians be noble spirited and search the Scriptures with all readiness of mind and with hearts longing after truth get as remote from earth and earthly things as you can and into the secret chamber of your beloved and when you are the most transported from earth to heaven in near and close communion with him then try and judge by his word and spirit weighing Scripture with Scripture in an equal ballance and be as cautious in taking up objections against this truth as you are of being in the practise of it T' is sad to see and that which wounds my spirit much that persons professing godliness should be so inconsiderate as to catch at any thing that comes next to hand to strike at that which a differing Saint affirms is truth without considering the weight of what is offered or whither their own objections lead them I have seen more gall and wormwood at the bottom of those objections that have been made against the Sabbath then ever I saw in any objections against any other command and even some Christians are so weak that all passes for currant that flows from a man that 's good and able but where are those virgin spirits that are redeemed from the earth and from among men that lay persons interests customes by whilest they judge between truth and error where ever they are they are men which will follow the Lamb when others are left behind They will not be affrighted at the seventh day Sabbath because nicknamed called the Jews Sabbath no more then they are at the God of the Jews they will not refuse to keep the Sabbath because a man was stoned any more then they will refuse Jehovah to be their God because those that worship strange Gods were to be put to death and if they be told they go back to the Law they can answer blessed are they that do his Commandements that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gate into the City when the breakers of the Law are left without Rev. 22.14 15. Do you therefore that fear the Lord

might be done upon it neither did they understand that inward and spiritual rest that was held out in the command as appears by the words of the Lord Isay 58.13 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure upon my Holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the Holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own wayes nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words So that the Saints are not only to cease from outward work in their callings but also from works that are inward and spiritually wicked that so the Sabbath might be a delight unto them the Holy of the Lord honourable And mark the promise that it is to such Sabbath keepers vers 14. Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it First they shall delight themselves in the Lord and that will make the Sabbath a delight Secondly they shall ride upon the high places of the earth the high places of the earth holds forth as I conceive the great opposition whether of great and mighty men or great walled Cities according to that in Deut. 1.28 it hath an allusion to Israels subduing the land of Canaan Deut 32.13 thou shalt ride upon them that is subdue and conquer them as Psal 45.4 Psal 66.12 They shall tread upon their high places as in Deu. 33.39 They shall be as ashes under the soles of their feet Mal. 4.3 Now when did the Lords people do such work as this since this prophesie or is it not yet to be fulfilled Again consider what the Lord saith Isay 56.6 7. Also the sons of the stranger that joyn themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my Covenant even them will I bring to my Holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people By the sons of the strangers I understand is here meant Gentiles who were strangers to the Common-wealth of Israel and a far off but now made nigh by the blood of Christ and so they joyn themselves to the Lord and serve him and love the name of the Lord these are such as keep the Sabbath and take hold of Gods Covenant and it is such a Sabbath as may be poluted and therefore not Christ as some would have it now the promises that are made to these strangers do look at clear Gospel times They shall be brought into Gods Holy Mountain and there be made joyful when it s so mountainous that its the house of prayer for all people or for all nations as Christ saith Mar. 11.17 Isay 56.8 again in vers 2. Blessed be the man that doth this and the son of man that layeth hold on it that keepeth the Sabbath from poluting it and keepeth his hand from doing any evil thus saith the Lord unto the Eunuches that keep my Sabbath and chuse the things that please me and take hold on my Covenant even unto them will I give in my house a name and a place better then of sons and daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off vers 2 4 5. The Eunuches are such as care for things that please the Lord when the married cares for the things that please his wife 1 Cor. 7.32 33. or according to that in Rev. 14.4 These are they that were not defilled with women for they are Virgins these are they that follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth they sing as it were a new song and yet it is old it s the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb. Rev. 15.2 3. And when two parts shall be cut off and dye Zech. 13.8 the Eunuches that keep the Sabbath shall have an everlasting name which shall not be cut off Now let us not think it incredible that the Sabbath should be yet in force because it hath been so long laid by it hath been so with other truths and so with this before now it seemed to be so out of knowledge with Israel in the wilderness that when the people had gathered twice as much Manna on the sixth day they did not understand the meaning of it but the Nobles came and told Moses Exod. 16.22 and Moses told them the thing that the Lord had said that to morrow was the rest of the Holy Sabbath And also after their coming out of Babylon when they had built the house of God and set it in order placing the Priests and Levits and had chosen faithful men to distribute the maintainance to their brethren Neh. 13.10 13. In a word their reformation was much about the light of ours and is confessed by the enlightened that it was a Type of this reformation that the Lord hath begun amongst us in these Isles namely in bringing his people our of Babylon and building up of Sion and indeed as their sins and ours are alike in many things so in this namely in breaking the fourth Commandment for Nehemiah saith in Chap. 13.15 That in those dayes he saw in Judah some treading Wine-presses on the Sabbath and lading of Asses and bringing of Sheafs as also Wine-grapes and Figs and all manner of burthens which they brought into Jerusalem upon the Sabbath day and he testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals notwithstanding all the reformation yet this was seen in Judah they had layed by the observation of the Sabbath and had made it a common working Market-day as you may see at large in that Chap. It was not in vain therefore that the Lord said Remember the Sabbath he foreseeing how it would be sleighted and forgotten not only by those that were brought out of litteral Babylon but also by those that should be brought out of spiritual Babylon in the latter dayes but when the day of the Lord burns as an oven it will be remembred to some purpose Mal. 4.4 In the mean time the Lord is stirring up some of his poor babes and sucklings such he is pleased usually to discover truth unto at the first breaking out of it and they are to contend for it though in much weakness But a word to the beginning and ending of the Sabbath there are various apprehensions about it which for brevity sake I shall omit the Scripture is plain that from evening to evening is the set time or from the going down of the Sun to the going down of the Sun this is clear from the beginning Gen. 1.5 The evening and the morning was the first day evening and morning make a compleat natural day and the evening