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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

Consequence from Scripture is either a necessary Consequence and being according to Scripture is of as full force as any plain Scripture as John Rogers granted in his Answer to the first Question or else it is a Consequence seemingly deduced from Scripture but is really a perverting of and contrary to the Scripture as some unlearned and unstable who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction 2 Pet. 3.16 and then it is far off from being of the same force with the Scripture But we have given Iohn Rogers necessary deductions from plain Scriptures in the Old and New Testament to prove that the first day of the week is the Lords day and our Christian Sabbath and it is in vain for Iohn R. to deny this until the Arguments be confuted Qu 7. Iohn Rogers his seventh Question Whether or no there be a possibility to take out the day commanded out of the fourth Commandment and put in one of the six working dayes in the room thereof and not alter one jott or one tittle of the former Law if there be a possibility of such a thing or ever such a thing was I desire a Copy of it may be sent me to the Prison as soon as may be Ans My Answer to this seventh Question is that I have already proved in my Reply to his Answer to the tenth Question that this change of the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week is no destructive but a perfecting change and so far from destroying the Law in a jott or tittle of it that it is a fulfilling of the Law as really and fully as the performances of Prophecies are the fulfilling of Prophecies and it is too late for John Rogers now to question whither that be possible to be done which is already certainly performed and done as we have proved already and as for some fragments of Objections and Cavils which I. R. hath gathered out of some late Authors and yet if all these be put together he is unable to defend his seventh day Sabbath And it is as possible for I. R. to hinder the charge of the Moon as he can hinder the change of the seventh day Sabbath seeing it is founded upon the works of Creation which is given to change but who can hinder the stability immutability of the first day of the Week the Lords day which is grounded upon the unchangeable work of our Redeemer according to an immutable and everlasting Covenant And if it be not possible for I. R. yet to see the reason of this but admire at his legal light and despise Gospel visions Behold ye despisers wonder and perish for I work a work in your dayes a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Act. 13.41 and yet those who have the Revelations of the Spirit of Wisdom in the Gospel shall say this is the Lords doings it is marvellous in our eyes this is the day which the Lord hath made Save now I beseech thee O Lord blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Psal 118.23 24 25 26. And if he that despised the Law of Moses and particularly did prophane the seventh day Sabbath was so severely punished as Iohn R. did note of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath despised the Gospel Commandment and particularly the Lords day the Christian Sabbath the Ordinance and Institution of Christ which he hath by his Blood purchased Heb. 10.28 29. And thus I have done likewise with Iohn R. his Questions at present and if I. R. or any for him shall undertake to make a Reply to that which hath been said I expect they should answer my Arguments interminis according as they are in the frame and method of them I do not intend for the future to trouble my self with an Answer to such Lax Discourses as have nothing of the frame of an Argument with them And thus at present I have done speaking to Man but this I may say Oh Lord I have not desired the woful day that which came out of my ●ips was right before thee be not thou a terror to me thou art my hope in the day of evil Jerem. 17.16 17. And if in any thing I have said for matter or manner or in any respect whatsoever I have erred let it not be confirmed but confuted and let me be convinced but if that which hath been said be according to thy Holy Word revealed by the Apost●es of the Lord Jesus let those who do or shall oppose be converted and repent of this their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of their heart may be forgiven them or else let them be confounded and cut off Act. 8.22 Gal. 5.12 And whereas the Plague is come into a neighbouring Plantation and some Families already shut up the Lord have mercy upon them and humble us deeply for our great unfruitfulness and especially for our prophanation of the Lords D●y what is the cau●e of this so fierce wrath to let loose a Spirit of Error an● Delusion thus to rage that those who received not the love of the truth may be delivered up to believe a lye and damned that have pleasure in unrighteousnes● 2 Thess 10.11 12 And whilst some rise up that they might cast down the Christian Sabbath under a pretence of advancing the seventh day Sabbath Oh Lord let not the evil one prevail with the prophaneness of others to cause them to neglect holy time and holy things Do good O Lord to those that are good and to them that are upright in their hearts As for such as turn aside to their crooked wayes the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace shall be upon Israel Psal 125.4 5. Decemb. 12. 1682. JAMES FITCH Senior FINIS

not the way of the Lord and the judgement of their God they have rejected the knowledge of God and are therefore left to the darkness of gross Ignorance A second sort are those upon whose Consciences the light hath shined but have not loved truth as truth these have knowledge and will be searching and proving excellent things and having a form of knowledge may be guids to the blind and hold forth light to those who are in darkness Rom. 2.18 19 20. and these love to live under an able Ministry and will uphold Schools of Leaaning and be in the use of all means of knowledge but yet never did receive the love of the truth 2 Thes 2.10 the truth it self and the true knowledge of it was never the ultimate and principal object of their love but only a mediate object that by means of their light and knowledge they set up advance and serve some Idol in their hearts but do not like to retian to God in knowledge as its the knowledge of God Rom. 1.28 2. The punishment upon these is therefore they are left to abuse their light and knowledge to their destruction either to pride and vain glory their knowledge hath puffed them up 1 Cor. 8.1 or they are by means of their light become the more subtile to devise coverts for sin and the more slye in opposing secretly the life and power of Godliness the more crafty to deceive others and to cheat their own Souls the more wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge and are blinded at last with self conceitedness and say the Law of the Lord is with them but they have rejected the Word of the Lord and what wisdome is in them Jer. 8.8 9. 1. Some truths of greatest concernment to them they shall not see but groap for light at noon day as if it were night Deut. 28.29 Isai 59.10 2. Those Truths which they do see yet they shall be left to misapply pervert and wrest to their destruction Act. 13.10 11. 2 Pet. 3.16 3. Those Truths which they do apply rightly yet their hearts shall not be affected with them and not be reformed by them but to them it shall be as if they knew nothing Isai 6.8 9. these have often perverted their understanding and abused their knowledge and their understanding and knowledge shall pervert and mislead them Isai 47.10 The second follows concerning Prophaneness the Question is How it comes to pass that some under the means of Grace are givtn up to Prophaneness The Answer is Because some under the means of Grace have rejected saving Grace in the Gospel and therefore the Lord withdraws common restraining Grace from them and they become prophane 1. Some are prophane although they live under the means of Grace these will not shew a civil respect to Religion and that good manners which civility will teach their words are scornful and mocking abusing the Holy Scriptures in a jesting and deriding manner like those Scoffers who said where is the promise of his coming 2 Pet. 3.3 4. these are a pest and a most dangerous infection in societies by their evil communication do corrupt good manners 1 Cor. 15.33 their Countenance Gestures and Lives do declare them to be like a mocking Ishmael or prophane Esau Heb. 12.15 16. look diligently lest any man fail of the Grace of God lest there be any Fornicator or Prophane Person as Esau 2. These have rejected saving Grace in the Gospel the God of all Grace by the means of his Grace the Ordinances and by the gracious Examples of the godly seconded by some afflicting providences and sometimes with convictions and terrors of Conscience hath been striving with these but they would not hearken to his voice and would have none of him and his saving Grace and therefore are given up to their hearts lusts Psal 81.11 12. Wo unto thee wilt thou not be clean when will it once be Jer. 13.27 3. Hence the Lord hath withdrawn restraining Grace that those who reject saving Grace in the Gospel and will not live as becometh godly men the Lord withdraws common restraining Grace from them that they shall not live as becometh men this is the reason why some are so lewdly filthy that in their filthiness is lewdness because they would not be purged and therefore the Lord saith they shall not be purged but the Lords fury shall rest upon them Ezek. 24.13 this is the reason why some under the means of Grace are more prophane than some others who enjoy no such means to reform them and that they are become more prophane then before they enjoyed the means of Grace because they have provoked the Lord by their resistings of the strivings of the Spirit of Grace to give them up to most horrid and hellish prophanenss that as Israel's abominations shall exceed the filth of Samaria and Sodom Ezek. 16.51 and of this bitter fruit of Apostasie that Man of God of most blessed memory Mr Thomas Hooker was wont frequently to warn New-England saying do you wonder that some in New-England are left to such abominations I tell you that some in New-England will be given up to greater prophaneness His Sermons upon Psal 81.11 12 and Rom. 1.28 do at large declare this The third bitter fruit concerning gross neglects of relative Duties And the Question is Why are some under the means of Grace left to those palpable neglects of relative Duties in Family Church and Common-Wealth The Answer Because some under the means of Grace living in neglect of Duties towards God and of duties towards others in the Lord its just with the Lord to leave them to gross neglects of relative duties one towards another 1. There are some who though they enjoy the means of Grace yet they live in the neglect of duties in Relation to the God of Grace he hath profered a holy Marriage Covenant to them and himself as the only suitable March and Husband for the immortal Soul Isai 54.5 but they have loved Strangers and after them they will go Jer. 2.25 neither will they honour him as a Father nor fear him as their Master but despise his Name Mal. 1.6 if they call him their God yet they cast off the thing that is good Hos 8.2.5 2. Hence it follows these never did perform duties in relation to others in the Lord for this is the Religious and true Gospel band in all Relations Husbands love your Wives as Christ loved his Church Eph. 5.25 Wives submit your selves to your Husbands as is fit in the Lord Col. 3.18 Children obey your Parents in the Lord Ephes 6.1 Servants obey your Masters in singleness of heart fearing the Lord Col. 3.22 But those who do not conscientiously attend duties in Relation to the Lord do feel no such Religious band upon their hearts and Consciences in relation to others but act only as moved by some natural or moral Principles which are too weak to resist the violence of temptations

all cunning evasions to winde away from the equal scope of a Bargain and will not perform it faithfully without unjust vexing and damnifying another Psal 15.2 4. 2. In Wares Merchandize and Trading a gaining what they can possibly as if Justice had set them no bounds but to gain what they can is their professed justice and their gain is their godliness 1 Tim. 6.5 3. In Wages impoverishing him who hireth and their great design in taking work by the great as they call it is that they may receive more Wages than their labour is worth but their Money is put into a Bag with holes Haggai 16. 4. In Trespassings they are not conscientiously careful to prevent damages and when they know they have damnified a Neighbour yet if they can they will hide it and what they cannot hide yet they will not freely and fully make satisfaction so that their Neighbour can not dwell safely by them Prov. 3.29 5. In Debts they will engage that which they know they cannot perform in an ordinary way and when they have promised they are not conscientiously careful to perform their promise according to the true and equal scope of it and that which is due Prov. 3.27 28. but all these and many other unrighteous practices do proceed through the Lords just judgment from a being empty and void of sincere Love to God and those most rich and precious things of God and therefore are given up to an immoderate and inordinate love of deceivable Riches and therefore are left to hold the truth in unrighteousness and to be filled with all unrighteousness Rom. 18.28 29. And what is the horrible event of this and all the former vices and bitter fruits of Apostacy Ans Because of these vile Examples the Heathen do Blaspheme the Name of our God and are hardened in their Heathenish abominations 1. When the Heathen do behold those who do profess to know God and yet do live in prophareness sensuality contentiousness pride unrighteousness therefore they blaspheme the Name of God Rom. 2.24 whatever our words be concerning God and our Religion but the Heathen will judge speak of our Religion and the things of our God according as they see our works are 2. Hence the Heathen grow hardened 〈◊〉 their heathenish abominations and are ready to think and say they do well to run into all manner of prophaneness seeing they behold such vile examples in those who do profess to know the true and great God and especially they grow hardened and abound in that sin of Drunkenness seeing for the sake of lucre many will sell them strong drink But the abominable practise of those who are guilty of this doth testifie against them 1. That they are far off from endeavouring by good works to convince and convert the Heathen seeing for the sake of worldly gain they will feed their Lusts to the ruine of the wealth health and Souls of Heathen 1 Pet. 2.11 12. These are Taverns and Ordinarykeepers for Heathens lusts 2. These love their gain more than their Neighbours or their own safety seeing they cannot but know that many Outrages yeasome Murthers have been committed by Drunken Indians in their Drunken posture and sometimes in the Families of those who have sold them strong Drink or at least the hazard is great 3. These love worldly gain more than God and their own Souls happiness for if they had love to God and to their own Souls good they would practically intend the glory of God in all they do and give no occasion of offence to Jew or Gentile nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10.31 32. but if these who thus practise had any use of their Consciences as a witness or judge their consciences would tell them that while they sell strong Drink to those whom they know will abuse it to Drunkenness and in this act contrary to to the saw of the Common wealth founded upon moral and religious Principles and yet in this to intend Gods glory is as far off from the hear●-intention of these Heathen Taverners and as contrary to their practice as Heaven and Hell are contrary one to the other And how just it is with the Lord that the Heathen should be the rod of his anger to punish these crying abominations The selling of Amunition was for many years prohibited but some for gain would secretly sell Guns c. to the Heathen and at last prevailed to make the Law of the Common-wealth of none effect and since that time New-England knows by woful experience the difference between fighting with Indians armed with Guns and those who had only Bowes and Arrows But the selling of strong Drink to the Indians hath by strict Laws frequently revived been prohibited and yet how incorrigibly some do proceed is very manifest and since the Wars more abounding And will not the Lord avenge himself of these for their Provocations and provoke them with a foolish Nation Deut. 32.21 If our Rulers grow weary of punishing this horrible practice the Lord God of Gods will begin to punish it after another manner and make these who are guilty to know that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God when his time is come to take vengeance for the despising of Moral Laws and the strivings of his Spirit of Grace Heb. 10.31 32. Thus of Apostasie considered in the Nature Degrees and bitter Fruits of the same but before we come to the conclusion of these Discourses let us consider 2. How it doth appear that the judgements come upon New-England are because of the sins of New-England and not for probation or any other cause Answ Because New-England found guilty of those very sins for which the judgements come upon them are threatned by the Word of God and therefore we must confess that what God hath spoken against us by his Holy Word he hath inflicted upon us by his righteous hand And for the Clearing of this let us consider 1. That the judgements come upon New-England are those which are threatned by the Word of God are manifest to all Who knows not the mortal sicknesses the withering blastings the Drought and the Sword to avenge the quarrel of the Covenant threatned in Lev. the 26. the 28. of Deuteronomie and in many other places of Scripture and none can be ignorant that the Lord hath by his righteous hand executed these threatnings upon us unless it be those who are more senseless then the Stork the Turtle and the Swallow who know their appointed times and observe the time of their coming but my People saith the Lord know not the judgment of the Lord Jer. 8.7 2. That these judgements are come upon New-England for the sins of New-England will appear if we consider negatively 1. That these judgements are come not for probation only nor principally for God is not wont to inflict publick judgements upon a people for trial although he doth sometimes send affliction upon an upright

only savour those common gifts of the spirit which they can receive and abuse unto carnal and inferior purposes and ends 4. And Hence it is that some do expend more upon their sensual lusts than to uphold the work of Christ in Church and Common-wealth wealth and are more in debt annually in the Ordinary keepers Book for strong Drink than in the Town Countrey Rate these have prepared their Corn their Flax and their Wool for their sensual lusts as sometimes they did for Baal Hos 2.8 9. and the Lord threatens to take away their Corn and Flax c. in the season of them The fifth bitter Fruit of Apostasie is Pride Quest How is Pride a bitter Fruit of Apostasie Ans Because those who will not seek the praise which is of God by a humble walking are given up to seek the praise which is of men by lifting up themselves by some vain glorious means 1. We ought to seek the praise which is of God Rom. 2.28 29. and this by a humble walking which is alwayes in every state good Mich. 6.8 2. Those who will not seek the praise which is of God are given up to seek the praise which is of men for they love the praise which is of men more than the praise which is of God John 12.43 and this their ambition doth shew it self in lifting up themselves by some vain-glorious means in which we may consider 1. The lifting up 1. In respect of Inferiors contemning them Luk. 18.9 and sometimes oppressing them abusing of power and greatness to the wronging of Inferiours as great Fishes devour the lesser Hab. 1.13 14. but their Pride will not suffer them to condescend to those who are of low degree Rom. 12.16 except it be Absalom like to humble themselves at a turn that they may exalt themselves 2. In respect of Equals aspiring after a firstness and honour above those unto whom honour is due equal with themselues but those who are first shall be last Mat. 20.16 3. In respect of Superiors Pride sometimes is not ashamed to shew it self in lifting up the Proud above a Superior yea to cast down a Superiour that by his fall the Proud may exalt himself Isai 3.5 this is like Absalom's lifting himself up above and against his Father 2. The means by which the Proud do usually lift up themselves are vain-glorious 1. In aspiring after some priviledge above others some freedome from a burden that they may be eased and let others be burdened 2 Cor. 8.13 14. affecting some precedency and preheminence above others when no reason can be given for it but only they having a high conceit of some supposed worth in themselves and therefore love the preheminence Iohn 3.8 but if they sought the praise which is of God by a humble walking this would teach them in lowliness of mind to serve God and to esteem others better than themselves Phil. 2.3 2. A second vain-glorious means by which the proud doth lift up himself is some sign or badge of honour 1. Some Title of Honour which hath a very pleasant sound in an ambitious ear to be called Master or to have some chief place in places of Meetings otherwise he doth not sit easie Mat. 23.6 10. Many instances may be given to shew how Pride the first born of the Devil is fruitful but the jettings and vauntings of Pride in many in their Apparel is so manifest that the humble are grieved to behold it and the proud themselves are vexed with envy to see so many equally lifting up themselves 2. That strange affectation of being first and forward and of being furthest and most in a new strange Fashion for which the Lord threatned to punish the Kings Children Zeph. 1.8 2. An affecting of such Apparel as shall make them seem to be of a higher rank than they are so that no distinction of the ranks and degrees can be discerned by their Apparel none between Rich and Poor Ruler and Subjects Master and Servant Mistriss and Handmaid these by their Apparel do shew that parity is pleasing to their Pride 3. These spend so much upon Apparel that either they wast their Estate or lie in Debt or pinch their Bellies of necessaries that they might adorn and deck themselves with the or naments of Pride But the reason of the ventings of Pride in these and in many other wayes is because these have not a high esteem of Humility as the precious cloathing 1 Pet. 5.5 and of a meek and quiet Spirit as more worth than Cloth of Gold 1 Pet. 3.3 4. but they have despised the humble walker and called the proud happy Mal. 3.15 and therefore though they have often heard of the evil of this sin and known something of the fearful events of it upon some yet Belshazzar-like are hardened in their Pride Dan. 5.22 their pride hath stop'd their ears that they will not hear and shut their eyes that they will not see and although their dangerous slippings and Stumblings upon the dark Mountains while they wander in their Pride are manifest yet they will hasten towards the top of the mountain until they be cast down head-long and leave others to mourn in secret places for their pride because they will not hear Jer. 13.16 17. The sixth bitter fruit of Apostasie Qu. How is Vnrighteousness a bitter fruit of Apostasie Ans Because those who have despised the true riches and esteemed gain to be godliness are therefore left to seek worldly Wealth by unrighteous means 1. There is the true riches Christ the Pearl of price Mat. 13.46 the graces of his Spirit to be rich in Faith Jam. 2.5 a meek and a quiet Spirit of great price 1 Pet. 3.4 and wisdom more precious than the Rubies Prov. 3.15 to lay up treasure in Heaven Mat. 6.20 by a true godly conversation for godliness with contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6.6 2. But the unrighteous have despised the true Riches they are not rich towards God Luk. 12.21 and gain is their Godliness 1 Tim. 6.5 they will have and hold such and so much of Godliness as may be serviceable to or consistent with their worldly gain and behave themselves as Demas who had forsaken Paul and loved this present World 2 Tim. 4.10 3. Hence it is that these are left to seek Worldly wealth by unrighteous means they will be rich and if they cannot compass it by just means they will get it by unjust means although at the end they are befooled to their everlasting confusion Jer. 17.11 1 Tim. 6.9 But the reason why they are left to Unrighteousness is their love to money which is the root of all evil 1 Tim. 6.10 and they having undervalued and despised the true riches are given up to overvalue and idolize Worldly wealth and hence followeth such deceit a selling truth for gain and lying to the Holy Ghost Act. 5.3 1. In Bargainings striving to defraud and go beyond another 1 Thes 4.6 and to devise