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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69228	A discourse of the Sabbath and the Lords Day Wherein the difference both in their institution and their due observation is briefly handled. By Christopher Dow, B.D.	Dow, Christopher, B.D.	1636 (1636)	STC 7088; ESTC S110113	45,823	80

He alone could change the day of the Sabbath that was Lord of it that is Christ So that according to him Christ was the Author of this change and that either mediately by his Apostles whom he assisted by his Spirit in the Institution of it no lesse then he did in the doctrine which they taught or else as hee holds to bee most probable immediately and in his owne person and the probability of this he labours to prove by divers Arguments wherein hee doth as one hath well observed in the like case as if one should demand a Legacy by force and vertue of some written Testament wherein there being no such thing specified he pleades that there it must needs be and bringeth arguments from the love and good will which alwayes the Testator bore him imagining that these or the like proofes will evince a Testament to have that in it which other men by reading can no where finde Certainely it is a bold and a strange course for men to adventure to argue that God must needs have done the thing which they imagine was to bee done whereas in matters that concerne the actions of God the most dutifull and safe way on our part is to search what God hath done and with meekeresse to admire that rather then to dispute what he in congruity of reason ought to doe Hee might therefore have spared all the reasons he brings and in stead thereof to have alledged one place out of the New Testament which doth command the change of the Day especially seeing he denies it and that for many reasons by him there urged to bee an unwritten Tradition which seeing hee doth not nor indeede can doe what doth he else by all his arguments but endeavour to lay an aspersion of imperfection upon the Scriptures and of neglect in Christ himselfe of that office which as the great Prophet of his Church belonged to him As if unlesse hee had beene as carefull to appoint the observation of this day as Moses was to appoint the old Sabbath hee could not absit verbo blasphemia be as faithfull in the house of God as Moses was But farre be such blasphemous thoughts from us farre be it from us to measure the faithfulnesse of our blessed Saviour by our phansies or to judge him unfaithfull because he did omit that which our shallow conceits judge necessary and fit for him to doe Wee know that the high Priest of our profession Christ Iesus was faithfull to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithfull in all his house And this faithfulnesse of his was by him sufficiently demonstrated in that hee fully declared the will of his Father to the world in all things to be beleeved and done and shewed how and what worship Christians must give unto God though the circumstances of that worship as Time and Place in as much as concerned the particular designing of either hee left to be determined by the Church whom he promised to be with to the end of the world And as he cannot be said to be lesse faithfull in the house of God then Moses or Salomon who provided the one a Tabernacle the other a Temple because he did not appoint set places for Gods worship so neither can hee be justly taxed for not appointing the set times for the same these two circumstances of time and place being of equall necessity and use and joyned together by God himselfe Lev. 19. 30. Yee shall keepe my Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuarie I am the Lord. Neither is the difference of Places more taken away now under the Gospel then of Times But as the true worshippers of God are not tyed to worship either in Ierusalem or any other peculiar place but may worship him in spirit and truth in all places lifting up pure hands so neither are they tyed to any speciall time or day but may pray continually and at all times And therefore they who are so indifferent for the place that they can be content to account a Wood a Parlor or a Barne place good enough for Christians to meete in for the performance of Gods publick worship have no reason to complaine for want of a set day or time for the same purpose The truth is that that peculiar blessing which God once bestowed upon the Sabbath of the Temple thereby differenced them from all others is enlarged to all times places and any day and place may by the Church be dedicated and set apart for Gods worship and being so dedicated set apart they inherit that holinesse which was once peculiar unto the in relation to the duties then there performed to God who in regard of the abundance of grace vouchsafed now in the time of the Gospell may be said to be more present at such times and in such places then heretofore in those of his own assigning But it was not necessary that Christ himself or his Apostles from him should by expresse precept particularly designe either of these if any think such precept to be necessary let them shew the place of Scripture where such precept is to be found or else confesse the Scripture to be deficient in things necessary and so forsake their colours of reformation and passe over into the Campe of the Romanists If they be ashamed of this let them learne and confesse That however it be necessary that some time be dedicated to Gods service yet the determination to this or that particular day is not necessary to be defined by Scripture which they may perhaps the more easily be brought to see if they consider that in this it is no otherwise then it is with other things of equall necessity with this in the generall as the Sacraments Fasting and Prayer it selfe which yet for the particular when and how often they are to be used is not any where in Scripture defined nor necessary so to be But some who will have the Lords day so called because Christ himselfe instituted it say That the Apostles by the authority of that Spirit that alway assisted them in their ministeriall office did alter the day and themselves kept and ordained it to be kept in all Churches as may appeare 1. Cor. 16. 1. Where he saith Every first day of the weeke when yee meete together c. But certainly it is most evident even to a vulgar consideration that no such thing doth appeare out of that place For what doth Saint Paul say there That hee would have Christians meete every first day of the weeke to serve God No surely there is not a word of meeting in the text but what is foysted in to deceive the credulous Reader That which S. Paul saith is That on that day hee would have every one lay by him in store as God hath prospered him This implies neither the meeting together of the Church on that day nor the performance of any religious duty but onely a repositing or laying up