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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	851	5	10.2633	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63259	The Lords day vindicated, or, The first day of the week the Christian Sabbath in answer to Mr. Bampfields plea for the seventh day, in his Enquiry whether Jesus be Jehovah, and gave the moral law? And whether the fourth command be repealed or altered? / by G.T., a well-wisher to truth and concord.	Trosse, George, 1631-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing T2303; ESTC R3378	80,084	154

Jehovah and the Maker of all things as such yet the same Lord Christ is also the Son of Man and made by Jehovah as such And therefore as Christ as God-man he neither created the World nor rested from that Creation Though in the Body of the Question the Efficient of the Creation be only stiled Lord by which may be equally understood the Son of God before and after the Incarnation yet in the Margin he interprets this by the word Christ and therefore we have given a proper a direct and sufficient answer to that part thereof And here it will be worth our observing that in a proper and strict Sense Jehovah the Creator of the World cannot be said to rest because it is impossible that he should either admit of any Weariness or Pain in himself yea or of any the least new motion in himself God being an Infinite Perfect Immutable Act and Life cannot possibly admit of any such thing and all the Changes that he makes either substantially of nothing into Being or Alteration of the Qualities and Conditions of Being c. without himself are and must be without the least Mutation and Alteration within himself And this the very Light of Nature and Metaphysicks will teach us as well as the light of Scripture and Theology as Mal. 3.6 Jam. 1.17 So that though God may properly be said to conclude or end his work of Creation yet cannot he properly be said to rest from it or after it because this in its formal Notion implies Motion Activity and exerting of Power and Ability with a Weariness thereby which the Deity is infinitely free from Which I desire may be heeded because I perceive the Author would fain have every Clause in the Fourth Command to be Moral and of necessary and perpetual Observance and especially this of Gods resting on the Seventh day Now that which is Moral as to Motive and Obligation to the Humane Nature is that which the light of Nature right Reason or to go higher the perfectly irradiated Mind of our first Parents would have of its self discerned and closed with as a Motive and Engagement to Piety or Charity or any Duty Which I think Gods resting on the Seventh day may well be asserted not to be because 1. Reason or the illuminated Mind of Man could never suppose God to take after his work any real Rest or Refreshment in himself which he had not before And Secondly God's working in the maintaining of the Creation in its Being Order and Operation is altogether as great and as much as it was in the Production of it and therefore the School-men say That Preservation is a continual Act of Creation because the same Word and Power is exerted in the one as in the other Yea if we respect the Work it self or the Term of it without God we may well say that the Preservation of the World is a greater work than the Creation of it Though as to the Act it self in God all is the same being the Act of the same infinite Power Wisdom and Godhead because of the contrary Qualities of the Creatures mutually tending to each others Destruction but especially because of the Malice of Devils and the sinful wretched Depravity of Fallen Man which without an infinite Wisdom and Power exerted to the contrary would soon bring all to Ruin at least it would do so by the Humane Nature for which all other things of this World were made and are continued And therefore this Motive to a Seventh-day-Sabbath cannot be in and of it self Moral And this our Saviour clearly shews John 5.17 My Father worketh hitherto and I work Which he gives by way of Reply to those who in the former Context taxed and condemned him for a Breach of the Sabbath Grounding it seems tacitely at least their Accusation from that Passage in the Fourth Command of God's resting on that day as though it had been of a Moral and Perpetual Obligation And therefore our Saviour here tells them It was not so for both he and his Father did work on the Seventh day as well as on any other day of the week from which 't is clear this Clause in the Command is not Moral but Positive As to the Second Part of the Question whether the Seventh-day-Sabbath was Sanctifyed and so Instituted by him and was observed by him who made the World We answer 't was Sanctified and Instituted by the Lord as Jehovah but not as Jesus Christ And then that 't was observed by Jesus Christ Incarnated but not as Jehovah because the Observation of it seems to import some dutiful Obligation upon its Observer which cannot be supposed with respect to the God-head but may be so with respect to the Lord Christ as Mediator in his Human Nature But then this Observance makes no more for the keeping the seventh-day-Seventh-day-Sabbath than for the Observance of Pentecost the Passover the Feast of Tabernacles and other Ceremonial and Judicial Laws under which our Lord Christ was and which he observed in the days of his Flesh the Mosaical and the Ceremonial Administration being in force all the while he lived and expired with his Death and were buried in his Grave as to their Vertue and Obligation And so we assert the seventh-day-Seventh-day-Sabbath did also which I hope we may evince in the progress of this Discourse By what has been said we have a sufficient Reply to his Three Proofs which follow his Querly for it 's Affirmative and how they may be orthodoxly admitted or else as Heterodox rejected And here we may take notice that all the former Particulars which the Author makes use of as Foundations to build his beloved Notion upon do as equally militate and plead for the Observance of all the Ceremonial and Judicial Laws as for the Seventh-day-Sabbath for the Creator of the World enjoyned them as well as this The great Jehovah imposed them as well as this The Law-giver gave those Laws as well as this And our Lord Instituted and Sanctifyed those as well as this as he was God and observed those as well as this as Christ Jesus as God-man 'T is as Prejudice sufficient against all those supposed Achillean Arguments that if they prove what they are pleaded for We must all turn Jews But before I leave this Query I must reflect upon one Paragraph or two under it Page 23. wherein we have him laying down all his former great Postulata's that the Lord Christ made the World rested on the Seventh day observed blessed and sanctifyed it By which Repetition we may see how much he depends upon these for the carrying off his Design But withal we have formerly seen how little yea how not at all they conduce thereto But to these he superadds another grand Postulatum as though 't were a Particular which either he had undeniably demonstrated before or were granted by his Adversaries Which is that the Lord instituted this Seventh-day-Sabbath for and imposed it upon Adam and in