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A30730	Sabbatikh ʻhmepa ʻhmepa ʻimepa, Septima dies, dies desiderabilis, sabbatum Jehovae the seventh-day-sabbath the desirable day, the closing completing day of that first created week, which was, is, and will be, the just measure of all succeeding weeks in their successive courses, both for working in the six foregoing days, and for rest in the seventh, which is the last day, by an unchangeable law of well-established order, both in the revealed word and in created nature. The second part / by Francis Bampfield.	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing B628; ESTC R13923	284,270	156

the Prophets Should not those who are fellow-members with them of the same body under that one Head the LORD Jesus Christ rejoyce together O how delightful is it to be with them in the Spirit The Church of Believers of old was then more in her Infancy she is now grown up they now have all their Veils of Figures and Types taken off and they see and enjoy Christ face to face They are brought into the light of the Divine Majesty which is in Christ cloathed in our Flesh Christ is now no longer hidden to and from them under shadows these former Coverings are now removed and the clear Light is not kept away They are now able to look into the bottom of Moses's Ministry They now so behold the Glory of the LORD as to be possessed of the heavenly things themselves having a clear view of Christ who is the Image of the invisible God the brightness or resplendence of his Glory and the Engraven Form of his Person There they receive their Reward which God doth graciously give unto his Servants the Prophets and to his Saints and to all that fear his Name Having thus at large manifested it to be according to the Word that there was a Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament-administration and that the privileges of the LORD's Covenant-people even then were the same for kind with Believers now though differently dispensed I shall here further discover that the Seventh-Day-Sabbath it self was some ways a sign of this thus improving this Expression and Meditation to a right useful purpose which some Adversaries do wrongfully pervert to an ill end Thus they object The Seventh Day-Sabbath was a sign of their Sanctification to whom it was given and therefore of a Ceremonial nature and not given to all men These to whom the Sabbath was given to them it was a sign of their present Sanctification but it was no sign of the present Sanctification of all people over the whole World And therefore it was never given to all the people of the whole World but only unto God's people Israel And therefore of no Natural Consideration therefore Ceremonial Thus it is objected This Objection is like to have the more satisfactory Answer if there be a due clear distinguishing of the several things which are contained in it and a proper Application of each Particular unto the present matter in hand that so the understanding Reader and the spiritual Discerner may see that way plain before him which may directly lead him into the Mind and Will of Christ and he may the better learn the Truth as it is in Jesus I purpose therefore to distinguish of Signs of Sanctification of the Law of the Ten Words of Peoples of Ceremonials of Giving this Law of the Ten Words Signs are either natural Signs such as have a force of signifying from the created Nature of that thing which is the Sign Thus the Heavenly Luminaries are Signs of divers things particularly with respect to the Seventh-Day-Sabbath There is the same word in the Original A diligent Observer with the eye of the motions of those Luminaries may see that set Times and fit Seasons for solemn Assembling and for Instituted Worship are directed to and pointed at by these shining Lights to measure out Daily-Evening and Morning and Weekly-Seventh-Day-Sabbath Opportunities for our direction in Working and in Resting or the conserving of the orderly course and state of this World in the required matters of appointed Services due from Man to his Creators and Makers throughout all the Ages all the days of this Earth Which is also put into a Promise And the Covenant of Grace is confirmed by these natural Signs If these be Signs of created Nature of the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath after the six foregoing working Days in the same Week and this Seventh day-Sabbath have foundation in created Nature and both these be by the Ordination and appointment by the All wise Creator then this being so established by an unchangeable Law of pure Primitive Creation the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath must continue as long as those Luminaries do continue to be such a Sign Which Seventh-day-Sabbath is also a sign of Aelohim's creating the World of Heaven and of Earth and of all things therein in the six foreging Days and of his Resting on the Seventh which is the last Day of the Week This being expresly rendred by himself as the Reason why it is called a Sign Or Signs are instituted which do signifie somewhat by Vertue of some special appointment by the only Supreme Soveraign LORD and Lawgiver Jehovah Christ Thus the Typical Sacrifices and such Ceremonial Figures as were after wards annexed for a time to the weekly Seventh day-day-Sabbath were Signs and Shadows Types and Figures These were significative of a Christ who was then under that Dispensation to come to be born of a Virgin So they were perfected and accomplished in and by Christ when God was thus manifested in the Flesh when Christ was then born of the Virgin Mary But the weekly Seventh day-Sabbath had its created Being before this and distinct from this and so continued after this did pass into its Antitype This weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath doth stand firm established for ever in the Word and in Nature If the Objector or any other do further affirm that the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath is still a significant Sign by Institution and that this significativeness is a part of it If they mean that it is thus a shadow of that Spiritual Eternal Rest that Sabbatism which doth yet remain for the people of God in the Heavens let them look well to their Scripture-proofs for this but I shall not contend with them about it it rather making for the cause I undertake For the Type must continue till the Antitype come Let these men therefore keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath till they get to Heaven if ever they come there and then and there they will know more clearly and fully If any further Typical significativeness be pretended and urged when I understand what it is it is like to pass under Examination and Consideration with me Observe here that the Typical Signs superadded unto the Law of the ten Words did establish that Law in the natural unchangeable Holiness and Righteousness of it Only by Institution they did put some further thing into it during that former Dispensation of Grace Or they are notifying-testifying-certifying-Signs By these somewhat is made known and witnessed unto them unto whom these are given from the LORD for some particular use and end Thus the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath is a Sign Consider here the Law of the Seventh-day-Sabbath as proclaimed and given by Jehovah Christ put into a Covenant of Grace as have been proved Thus it was is and will be a Sign For there is no particular Verb of definite time expressed in one of the places in the Original to determine when and how long so as if then and

were with a Finger the Seventh day to be the Remarkable day of the whole Week a day to be Sabbatized and rested in distinct and separated from all and every of the other foregoing daies in the same Week All these Scripture-reasons are strong and might be enlarged upon This Note of Demonstration doth come from a word which doth signifie Lo Behold So that it doth set out the Gesture Posture and carriage of one who doth plainly and particularly point out a day to be specially observed by the Beholders and Hearers It doth significantly note a certain day and doth restrain and confine it to that and to that only It doth plainly Import an Emphatical Certitude Whence the Greeks have taken their Significant Article this being the Initial Letter of a Demonstrative Article And this the Hebrew Grammarians do generally acknowledge that It doth denote an Emphasis and is used to a Certain and known thing so distinctly and expresly is the Excellency of this Seventh day indigitated as its being the only day of the whole Week for the weekly Sabbath day to prevent any the least doubt or question about the matter For which end also there is this Emphatic-Article prefixed before the Sixth day in order of time which doth in that place Demonstrate that as the work of that Sixth day was somewhat more remarkable and that Aelohim has perfected all the Works which he propounded and purposed to Create in the foregoing Six daies of this one week of the Created World shewing a thing known and Signally illustrious and commendable So also that that day only was the Sixth day in the Weekly revolution and no other day and that the Weekly Sabbath must be reckoned in order of Created time the immediately next succeeding after that Sixth which was the seventh day the last day in the week Thus also in another place before the Promulgation of this Law of Mount Sinai these Emphatic Articles are Remarkable where it is once before the Sixth day to fix that to a certainty Which is the Immediate preceding day once before the Sabbath day and four times before the Seventh day that there might be not the least Colour or pretence for any mistake in that forementioned place in the History of the Creation There is a Particle which is not only a Note of the accusative Case but it doth also signifie the very self-same-substance of a thing Which together with this Notificative doth point out the seventh day Sabbath to be the most Glorious Renowned day of the hebdomadal revolution or weekly return of dayes not only Grammatically in the signification of these Prefixes but also Physically in the nature of the thing it self as the Seventh day the last day in the week That Particle is significant of a Person or thing which cometh from a word that doth denote a coming with speed It denoteth this Created day passive upon which the Creator Acted signifying the substance of the seventh day made being a note of an Article and also of Demonstration This Seventh-day besides its being thus notedly expressed is also set out by a Primitive Noun signifying him or it and also by an Affix contracted of another word which doth obtain the Nature and significancy of a Pronoun For Affixes are Demonstrative Pronouns signifying in him or in it The proper significancy of a Pronoun is to set out a certain and a Finite substance it signifyes somewhat more certain and more First than a Noun or a proper Name As if thou say this is my Father he is my Brother pointing but both the one and the other with the Finger to some by-stander it is better known than if thou shouldst say John is my Father Thomas is my Brother because there may be and are more Johns and more Thomas ' s. I Thou and he do more set out an Individuality than the Name of Caesar for neither when I say I canst thou understand another or communicate it with another Whereas when I say Caesar my understanding also may transmit it to another as from Augustus Caesar to Tiberius Caesar Hence the Hebrews call the Pronoun by a word which doth signifie Cognames because they are another kind of Cogname of the Principal name or Nown Nouns do properly signifie things and Cognames are Accessions to Names from some vertue or vice or event or such like in the things In the present Case the seventh-day-Seventh-day-Sabbath is an Hereditary Cogname received all down along in Scripture from the first Week of the Created World and is Inherent in its own excellency of Created Nature As a Noun doth Enuntiate what a Person or a thing is all the Affixes are Demonstrative To question the Emphaticalness of this Notificative besides that it is contrary to the Judgment of the exactest of Hebrew Lexicographers and Grammarians is also chiefly opposite to the true genuine Proper Signification and usage of the Letter in the Scriptures whoever doth assert that it doth not at all limit specifie or determine doth speak too hastily and unadvisedly It is Emphatically discretive that by which one thing is differenced and distinguished from another even where some other Hebrew Letters Consonants do exclude this Emphatick Note yet there the excluding Letter doth receive the point of the Excluded For Twelve times it is prefixed before those Letters which doth manifestly shew that this Letter will have some signifying place in the word It being a prefix of use and of some notable meaning where it is and will some way or other maintain its title and have a Compensation It s Primary signification is to hold forth what is joyned to it and to make its significate the more known A late learned Writer should therefore a little look over what he hath Written about this and somewhat further Consider and not conclude that the discerning inquirer in this age of growing Light will be so imposed upon by any mans bare say of Magisterial dictate without any probation at all to assert that this prefix to Sabbath in the Fourth word is Redundant and doth tend nothing to the Determination of a Certain day but only denotes one of seven Which doth now lead me to another cogent Reason for the Demonstrativeness and Notificativeness of this Prefix because the Law of the Seventh-day-Sabbath in the Ten words being much in the same words and expressions with the forementioned place in the History of the Creation has not only a special Note of Remembrance set before it remember thou or rather to remember and it doth set out one Main great End of Mans being Created even to remember the Seventh-day-Sabbath Man is bound for ever for it is infinitive indefinit to keep this in mind for himself and to mention and to speak of it to others It is the Duty of Created Man to look well to this that the Seventh-day-Sabbath be not forgotten by him but duly remembred in

away those Idolatrous Names of daies As Sunday c. of which Jebovah has prophesied that He will cut them off Having thus far attended the Weekly-seventh-day-Sabbath in its strait-footed walk in a plain path through the whole Scripture there thwarts the Reader now a straying company that would perswade him to get into another way along with them the way of the first day as the weekly-Sabbath as if this were now the New-Testament-Dispensation And for this they would have him to consider these Scriptures in the Margin as Translated out of the Greek into English Before I return an express direct Answer to the several particular Scriptures themselves I advise the Reader to ask these Transferrers of the Weekly-Sabbath-day from the seventh to the first day of the week when they judg it was that the first day of the week began to be the weekly Sabbath-day Most will say that it began on the particular day of Christ's Resurrection by Christ himself Some few will assert that it was a little after that Resurrection by the Apostles of Christ but all of them will acknowledge that it was before any part of the New-Testament was written It being so then let the Reader improve this last Concession and further demand of these men if one of the Apostles as Peter by name for Supposition had preached up this Doctrine that the Weekly Sabbath-day under the New-Testament-Administration of Grace was translated and changed from the Seventh which is the last day of Week to the first day of the week and that one of the Hearers had asked Peter upon what Scripture do you bottom this Doctrine How are whatsoever words of God were heretofore written Profitable and written for such a Doctrine What Answer do these Men imagine that Peter could have returned The New Testament was not then written and all the Scriptures which they then had were the Writings of the Old Testament Those of Moses and of the Prophets This Hearer searcheth these and can meet with no such thing in the Preceptive or Prophetical or Promissary part of that Word neither could any other refer him to clear-convincing-proofs of this How then could this Man be well satisfied that this was True Doctrine when he could not find it in his Bible but the quite contrary all the Old Testament through another day the Seventh in order of Created Time all along Commanded and commended And if this Hearer should further have asked Peter If I should work upon the seventh-day contrary to the Precept in the Law what Scriptures would bear me out in so doing when I appear before the righteous Judg who has in so many Words forbid this and so often in all the Scriptures that I have which speak of this thing and if I do not observe the first day as the Weekly-Sabbath-day but do work on that day having Aelohim's Command and Example for it what Scriptures have you by which to reprove me After this Arguing what could Peter have replyed to this from Old-Testament-Scripture I leave the Reader further to improve this in his Study and Meditation For the Christianized believers did search the Scriptures whether those things which the Apostles of Christ taught them were so or not even in the Case of Paul himself who was one of the most Eminent and most used of them all I shall now in the supplies of the Spirit of Holiness according to the word of Truth discover the deceitful colours of these Mens wrestings of some Scriptures and then shew the Reader the convincing reprehension of those Colours Which colours how fair soever to outward appearance for a while yet are a false Disguise a Paint that will melt away before the fire of the Word The Fallacies are soon detected and confuted before a discerning and judicious an unprejudiced and Impartial Reader There are some Scriptures in our English Bibles of the New-Testament say these Objectors which do speak of the first day of the week as the day of Christ's Resurrection when he rested from his work of Redemption which is now appointed and determined as the Weekly-Sabbath-day unto the Church in memory of Christ's Resurrection One of the Sabbaths doth frequently occur and is the same with the first day of the week One being often put for First the Numeral for the Cardinal The generality of the Antients both Greek and Latin agree whose Testimony about the sense of aWord is the best Dictionary and Evidence we can expect and this same phrase used of the day of Christ's Resurrection by the Evangelists proveth it Thus they say The Resurrection of Our LORD Jesus Christ from the Dead on the third day according to the Scriptures I thankfully acknowledg together with the many exceeding great and precious priviledges and benefits thereof and through Mercy and Grace I do firmly believe and particularly apply This true Doctrine is one main part of that solid Foundation on which we are to bottom our Hope and O how gladly could I here lay aside this Controversie and be taken up with sweet Delight and with Rapturing joy into an Heavenly Meditation on an arisen Saviour Here could I leave this unkind World and wrangling-generation and get up above that I might rise with Christ to be where he is to behold his Glory O how willingly could I here breath and long desire and pant that this arisen Redeemer whom my Soul loves would be with my Spirit that my spirit might be more with him O that I might more Experimentally sensibly satisfyingly Know and acknowledge that Power that Vertue of his Resurrection That I might more and better Evidence my being planted into it by walking in Newness of life Here could I bid this Fallacious Sophistry of Quarrellers with Christ's weekly seventh-day-seventh-day-Sabbath to stay behind whilst I find my heart with much Complacencie safely lodged in a full Christ and in his sull Word O the Savourie-nourishing-Meditations that this Subject-Matter would afford Here the admiring Soul may pass into a spiritual-Rest by silent-Thinkings secret Adorings Marvelling-loves Exalting-Praises and Filling-enjoyments But the Reader expects an Answer In all the places of the New Testament relating to the matter in hand where the last English Translation doth render it the first day of the week the Words do properly signify one of the Sabbaths except only in one place where it is the first day of the Sabbath The meaning whereof may be afterwards opened All the other places you may find cited in the Margin and the words in the Greek rightly done into English in every one of these are one of the Sabbaths not the first day of the week nor the first of Sabbaths nor the alone Day or only day or Sabbaths Not at all concluding the first day of the week to be now the Weekly Sabbath-day in the room of the seventh which the words do not mean either in their proper Significancie or intended sense as they stand in Syntax or Coherence

carnal compliance either with old Judaizers or with superstitious Pagans who had added divers of their own Ethnick corrupt mixtures of Idolatrous Worship which they gave to Sun Moon and Stars By the course and motion whereof Days Times Moons and Years were measured Gentile Philosophers having parcelled out the power of the only true God into the particular vertues of Elements and Creatures As the Lights in the Heavens Fire Water and Earth ascribing some portion of Deity to every one of these and so assigning a part of the Worship of God unto them too appointing times and seasons for their superstitious service These practices are blame worthy This were to go back either to the Old Testament dispensation or to return to their former Heathenish Rites which is three times rebuked and reproved What Again Again Backward But what is all this to the standing Law of the Seventh day Sabbath kept in an Holy Spiritual manner in obedience to Jehovah's command according to his Word Institution This is a matter of a distinct Nature from the other being a Law of another kind So that to lay aside all instituted natural seasons of Worship such as daily Evening and Morning Worship and weekly Sabbath Worship as some would infer from this place is in the issue to open a back-door for the main of Religion to be turned out at and to enforce it as others do from hence and from one Scripture more which they also wrest to the like wrong ill purpose as if it mattered not what day of the Week were kept or whether any day or no day at all So both were done to the LORD and we were now under no such particular Law This were to open a Gap to all superstition and prophaneness or to urge it as if we were now under no obligation of one special day in a Week but must keep every day of the week as Sabbath as some others Which is quite contrary to the whole Scripture and to the Word and Nature of a Sabbath-day Which is a cessation from the ordinary labour a resting from the common work of our particular Functions which to do on every day of the Week were a sin expresly against the Letter of the Law of the fourth word which doth command us to work six days To spend the day in the Instituted work of Jehovah Aelohim This under a pretence of being always in a Sabbath is to mislead them to be never in a Sabbath Or as other some to plead from hence that they may keep both first day and Seventh-day too as Sabbaths every week this also is directly against the precept For we must work the six foregoing days of the Week and rest on the Seventh We do declare against all and every of these mistakes and miscarriages both in principle and in practice in whomsoever they are found Paul is supposed by these Objectors to speak against the observing of that which comes under the expression of weak and poor Rudiments Elements or first beginnings Whereas the ten Words are not such These are a Kingly Law Obedience to these is the Liberty of Children whereas subjection to the other in comparison of this was sometimes the Bondage of Servants The ten Words are a Kingly Law of Liberty If it be objected that the Typical Figuring shadowy part annexed of old to the Seventh-day Sabbath to be then observed such as the two He-Lambs and such like was a part of these weak and poor Rudiments We acknowledge that these have received their perfection and accomplishment in Christ now come born of a Virgin So that in this part which was Typically superadded we are not now so to observe the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath by such Types and Figures but after that glorious spiritual Heavenly manner as becometh those who are under this New Testament dispensation and thus to keep it is no bondage to a renewed Heart The more excelling in Knowledge in Grace and in Experience that any is the more free will they be to this when once they are led aright into it Let that therefore which Paul saith in the twelfth verse be considered here Be ye as I am for I have been as ye are As if he had said I was once superstitious whilst a Pharisee fond of un-Scriptural Traditionary seasons days and observances or an observer of Scriptural times and institutions in an un-Scriptural un-Spiritual manner as ye but now I bring all to a Word-Rule and so should you If the Reader do diligently observe it in his going over of this Epistle he may find the Law of the ten words established as a rule of Life in the whole of it and by enumeration and induction in several particular commands of it though withal he set out the different manner of dispensing of Grace under the Old and New Testament This improved and applyed might also be an answer to that part of the Objection which is formed from wresting that other place to the Colossians The great drift scope and design of the Apostle in this second Chapter is to set up and establish Jesus Christ as Head LORD Law-giver and the great Exemplar Contrary unto which amongst others were these great opposers the maintainers and defenders of corrupt Philosophy whereby some did endeavour to make a prey of Souls through affectation of humane Wisdom and vain deception according to the Tradition of Men according to the Elements of the World and not according to Christ Another sort of Adversaries were the Advocates for humane Inventions the pleaders for the institutions and impositions of Men besides and against the Scriptures of Truth in the matters of Faith and of manners of Doctrine Worship Discipline Government and Conversation they were Will-worshippers Some others there were who were hot contenders for the keeping up of such Ceremonies as were once Shadows and Types of a Christ who was then to come to be born in the flesh of a Virgin These Typical Institutions were perfected in Christ when he thus came These shadows now passed into the body and substance of them Believers were now complete in their Head Christ in the tenth Verse and had the true grace of what was under Types and Shadows before in the eleventh and twelfth verses That Chirograph by Rites which before they had as it were written exhibited signed sealed and delivered was now blotted out or cancelled Which before was their act and deed in the fourteenth and fifteenth Verses As for what they object that two He-Lambs of the first year perfect were an annexed part of the worship on the Seventh day Sabbath and two tenth parts of fine flower for a Meat-offering mingled with Oyl and the Drink offering thereof the Burnt-offering of the Sabbath in his Sabbath As if therefore the Sabbath too were to be laid aside with these If there were any force in this arguing then we should lay aside all Religion and Worship For what was there under that