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A60480	The doctrine of the Church of England, concerning the Lord's Day, or Sunday-Sabbath as it is laid down in the liturgy, catechism, and book of homilies, vindicated from the vulgar errours of modern writers, and settled upon the only proper and sure basis of God's precept to Adam, and patriarchal practice, where an essay is laid down to prove, that the patriarchal Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3. celebrated by the patriarchs before the Mosaick Law, and re-inforc'd in the fourth precept of the Decalogue, was the same day of the VVeek, viz. Sunday, which Christians celebrate in memory of the perfecting of the creation of the world by the redemption of mankind.	Smith, John, Rector of St. Mary's in Colchester.	1683 (1683)	Wing S4110; ESTC R3081	78,815	242

a little before the promulgation of that on Mount Sinai viz. at the first gathering of Manna or as laying an obligation upon you to observe that also so as you must keep two Sabbaths in a week for the prevention of either of which mistakes now that I am come to the mentioning of the fourth Precept I will let you know that though indeed as you are Men you are obliged to keep in memory the Rest of the Creation yet as you are Jews a Nation separated to God from all Nations God hath dispensed with you as to the precise day and expects that you should keep that day which he hath peculiarly appointed you to celebrate in commemoration of his giving you rest from Egyptian Bondage which was so severe and afflicting that in regard thereof it had been better for you that you had not been created or died as soon as you were born Note from hence that the fourth Precept when applied to the Jews ought to be interpreted as commanding one day of seven But as it stands in the Decalogue and appertains to all Nations and Ages it commands the celebration of the precise Seventh day whereon God rested So directly contrary to Moses his Exposition of this Law does the common cry of modern Expositers go who make it command A seventh day to all and The seventh day to the Jews Observe how unaccountable these Expositors make the Christian Practise of keeping Sunday if that be not the seventh day of the fourth Precept but only one of the seven seeing that Precept enjoyns the seventh on which God rested and that upon this reason because God rested thereon And how justifiable the Jewish practise was of keeping Saturday though that was not the seventh day whereon God rested for they had for their so doing a plain Divine Precept of their Ceremonial and peculiar Law dispencing in respect of the day with the Law of the Sabbath which was given to Adam and his whole Posterity from the beginning Let it be noted in the next place that all the other nine Precepts repeated here by Moses are the very same verbatim with those that were writ on the two Tables as they were spoken on the Mount but the fourth Precept as it is repeated here is not the same fourth Precept that was spoken by God's Mouth and writ by God's Finger but vastly different from that both in its form and reason and both peculiar to the Jews but neither of them applicable to other Nations Not the former for as the Jews were a part of the Patriarchal Church seeing God had for that time of their Separation from other Nations assigned them another day than that of the fourth Precept as it stands in the Decalogue it was very requisit that a Memento should be presixt before that Command to sanctifie the Patriarchal-Sabbath which was to take place again when the Partition-Wall should be broken down that they might then after so long an intermission call to mind or remembrance God's primitive Seventh-day to sanctifie it And therefore the fourth Precept in the Decalogue begins with Remember But there is no Remember prefixt before this Precept as it is here repeated by Moses and adapted to the Jewish state because as such they were to sanctify Saturday and to observe the Precept as enjoining to them the Sanctification of that Day as their peculiar Sabbath only till the time of Reformation and then they were to forget it thus Judaiz'd as well as the rest of their Ceremonial Laws At which time of Restauration this their new Saturday-Sabbath would be grown old and must come no more in remembrance Isa 65. 17. And then the Covering of the Ark where the two Tables of the everlasting Law was laid up being taken away the Jews might reade the fourth Precept as it was uttered from the Lord's Mouth vvith a Memento before it to put them in remembrance of that seventh day whereon God rested I would thank that Man who will give me any better or indeed any other Reason than this why a Memento should begin this Precept and none of the rest seeing we ought as well remember to observe them as this or why Moses should prefix Remember before the fourth Precept as it stands in the Decalogue and not as he repeats it here Or why he should assign God's resting as the ground of the fourth Precept there and the Israelites resting from Egyptian Bondage as the reason of it here Or lastly how Moses can be acquitted from self-contradiction from adding to and taking from the words of the Law when in the twentieth of Exodus he saith God spake thus Remember c. for in six days the Lord made c. wherefore the Lord blessed c. And yet in this 5th of Deut. he not only leaves out the Remember and the Reason of the fourth Precept in the Decalogue but assigns another reason and yet after all tells them These words the Lord spake unto all your Assembly in the Mount and he added no more and he wrote them in two Tables of Stone How can Moses his Fidelity in this case be vindicated but by this Salvo That the other nine do indifferently appertain to Jew and Gentile and therefore they are repeated intirely as they came from God's Mouth But the fourth Precept for that time did not appertain to the Jews either as to the Day commanded to be sanctified or the reason for its Sanctification but only in regard of its equity in respect of the proportion of time but to all Mankind save the Jews at all times and would appertain to the Jews when Christ had made of that twain Jew and Gentile one and therefore Moses to secure that entirely against that time sets it down in the Decalogue word by word as God spake it But when he applies that Precept to the peculiar state of the Jews at that present to whom God had before the promulgation of the Law on the holy Mount appointed another Day for their weekly Sabbath than that whereon God had rested it had been ridiculous to have mentioned God's finishing his Work of Creation in six Days and his resting on the seventh as the reason why the Jews should rest on that Day whereon God wrought and therefore he omits that and assigns another reason most proper and cogent and repeats no more of the Precept but what was common to them and other Nations And thus it 's true what Moses saith These words the Lord spake in the Mount unto your whole Assembly and he added no more that is that you are at present concern'd in And as to the words expressing the reason God spake them in the Preface to the whole Decalogue as the reason of your being obliged above other Nations to keep all and every one of those Laws and my applying them to the Law of the Sabbath is a faithful exposition of both the Laws concerning the Sabbath to wit the Ceremonial which concerns you alone and the

Moral so far as it concerns you that is in the equity of it He spake indeed more words but not unto your whole Assembly in its present Constitution but as you shall be at the rending of the Vail he would have you hear that which I omit to repeat for that time to come seeing the pressing of you upon that reason to keep that Sabbath-Day God hath commanded you to observe would be a strong Argument against your keeping it SECT III. I could name other differences the Sacred Scripture makes betwixt the Patriarchal and Jewish Sabbath but these already mentioned are sufficient to convince rational Men that the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath was not the Patriarchal Sabbath commanded in the fourth Precept I come now to shew that the Patriarchs celebrated Sunday for their weekly Sabbath Arg. 1. And here first I urge the Premises If Saturday was not the Patriarchal Sabbath either Sunday must be it or it will follow that there have been three several Sabbaths one of the Patriarchs before the Law another of the Jews under the Law and a third of Christians under the Gospel A consequence which a Mahometan may perhaps not disgust but I am sure it will sound harsh in a Christians Ear. Arg. 2. There can no other justifiable account be given of Christians celebrating Sunday but this That the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath was Ceremonial and Temporary and therefore to give place to that day that was sanctified from the beginning by God's Example and Precept gave place I say to that at the expiration of the Mosaical Law without any new Precept 1. For if Saturday-Sabbath had been the day on which God rested and commanded Adam to rest on and keep holy it could not have been unsanctified but by a Precept as manifest and of as great Authority as that was whereby it was instituted which I am confident can never be made to appear in the translation of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday And that which is alledged for this comes far short For what Argumentative force can there be in Christ's rising his appearing after his Resurrection and celebrating religious Assemblies with his Apostles ordinarily on Sundays in the Apostles assembling on that day for religious Worship what force I say can there be in all this for the unsanctifying of Saturday and giving its Crown to Sunday comparable to the express Command of God grounded upon his own Example to sanctifie Saturday Nay what are Mens pleading such things as these for the change of the Sabbath upon supposition that Saturday was God's day of rest and commanded by him to be kept but a setting up of their own conceits and miscollected conclusions that because Saturday was instituted in memory of the Creation and Sunday was the day wherein Christ perfected Man's Redemption by his Resurrection c. therefore Saturday must give place to Sunday in direct opposition to God's express precept If Saturday be the day intended in the fourth Precept or Gen. 2. 2. But then I would not have the Saturday-Sabbatarians crow as if I adjudged the victory to them For upon the ground that I have laid the Jewish Saturday-Sabbath being calculated particularly to that Nation and therefore Temporary and Ceremonial must with other Mosaick Ceremonies be abrogated by Christ's Death and give place to the Antient Patriarchal Sabbath on course without any new Precept And here now our Saviour's rising from the dead his frequent appearing to his Disciples on Sundays the practise of the Apostles and primitive Church come in seasonably with their Auxiliary force to support the divine Institution of the Lords-day For though as to the first Consecration thereof their Examples signifie nothing nor are able to stand their ground against the Assaults of God's both Example and Precept yet upon that ground I have laid they are substantial and strenuous Seconds to prove the Restauration of the Ancient Patriarchal Sabbath by the Antiquation of the Judaick What greater influence could our Saviour's rising on Sunday have upon that day to the sanctifying thereof than his suffering on Friday or his Ascension on Thursday could have upon either of those days to sanctifie either of them for the weekly Sabbath 3. But yet Christ chose to rise on Sunday because God had sanctified that day from the beginning And therefore his Resurrection and the Apostles celebrating Church-Assemblies on that day though they are not of Authority sufficient to appoint a new Lord's-Day yet they are safe Guides to point us to that old Patriarchal Lord's-Day whereon the Lord rested and therefore commanded the Patriarchal Church Catholique to sanctifie it in Conformity to and Communion with which Church extending to all Ages and Places save Judea which never was any other but a particular Church God having in all Nations some that feared God and wrought Righteousness and therefore were accepted of him Our Saviour after the rending or the Vail and removal of the Partition-Wall rose upon that Day and upon that Day celebrated Religious Assemblies c. And this was sufficient to revoke the Sabbath to its first beginning to which all things were revoked by Christ saith Tertullian in Monogamia and to intimate that Sunday was the Patriarchal Sabbath It being manifest that the Jewish Sabbath instituted not only four hundred but three thousand years after the institution of the Patriarchal could not make that void any more than the Mosaick Law could vacate the Promise made to Abraham before that Law was given according to the Apostles way of Arguing Gal. 3 17. The Covenant that was before confirmed of God to Abraham the Law which was 430 years after could not disanul that it should make the Promise of none effect And that therefore that Mosaic Law of the Sabbath being made void the Patriarchal must of course take effect without any new Injunction The necessity of which Cousequence will be made more apparent by the next Argument Viz. SECT IV. Arg. 3. That the Patriarchs did celebrate the Sunday-Sabbath before the Institution of Saturday-Sabbath may be proved if not demonstrated from Scripture-Instances It were indeed unreasonable to expect Mathematical Demonstrations in this case seeing Moses his History of the Patriarchal Religion is so exceeding concise as his Narrative thereof for above two thousand years may be in a manner comprised in a Nut-shell Yet if we diligently search I doubt not but we shall find Instances next to Demonstrations in two places viz. Exod. 12. Exod. 16. I will begin with the last because it leads to the change of the Patriarchal Sabbath to the Jewish which seeing we all know to be Saturday by reckoning backward till we come to the day on which that general Church-Assembly mentioned ver 2. was kept we may certainly find on what day of the week it fell Inst 1 The first Instance therefore that I shall give of a Religious weekly Assembly kept on course by the Patriarchs on Sundays is from Exod. 16. 1 c. And they took their Journey