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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

nothing left for Forrage to himself and 's Army nothing to feed on but Dust the carnal sensual devilish part of Mankind Now and not till now every Tree brought forth Fruit in its kind when the true Vine began to flourish when the Tree of Life had thus put forth its Leaves and Fruit for the healing of Mankind Till God thus shined in Man's Heart to give the Light of the Knowledg of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ he had not commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness out of that more dismal Darkness then sate upon the Face of the unformed Earth even that wherewith Adam's Sin had invelop'd the whole Creation and made it a more confused Chaos than that rude and indigested Lump out of which it had been reduced For hereby Adam defac'd the Image of God so far lost the the Dominion of the Creature as he retained not so much thereof as the Rule over himself Nay the whole Fabrick of the World was loosned and ready to fall this Keistone of the Arch being crumbled into Dust If Christ had not sustained the Weight of that ruinous Building upon his own Shoulders while it was a repairing by God's making Adam anew and building him upon a new Foundation even the Rock of Ages that precious and elect Corner-Stone at the laying whereof the Morning Stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for Joy Job 38. 6 7. Wast thou by when he laid the chief Corner-Stone thereof when the Morning Stars sang together c. Gen. 2. 4. These are the Generations of Heaven and Earth in the day that Jehovah made the Earth and the Heavens The name of Jehovah is here first given to God which Name the Cabalists observe to imply the Mercy of God as Elohim signifies his Justice P. Fagius in locum who observes also that the word Tholedhoth Generations is no where writ perfectly but here and Ruth 4. 18. because these Generations only to wit of the World and the Messias of whose Family the Book of Ruth treateth are perfect Now was Man twice formed as is implied vers 7. And the Lord God formed Vai-jitzer duplex hic est Jod ad significandum inquit R. S. duplicem hominis formationem hujus futuri seculi post Resurrectionem P. Fagius Here is a double Jod to signifie the two-fold Generation of Adam the first relating to this World the second to the World to come that is his Formation as Man his Reformation as a new Man And these Generations thus perfected are said vers 4. to be made in one day because the whole Creation was perfected by Man's new Creation at the entrance of the seventh day 6. Till all the Host of Heaven and Earth was thus finished by the Formation of the new Creature and Introduction of the second Adam God had not made sufficient Preparation for his resting in his Works as very good and altogether adequate to the bringing about of his own glorious and gracious ends But now this Workmanship of God created in Christ for good Works Eph. 2. 9. being made Christ's personal being exhibited in the Promise as adopted into Man's Family and Christ mystical being born of the immortal Seed of that Word of Promise and by Faith adopted into the Family of God the Pleasure of the Lord thus prospering in the Mediator's Hands and Christ's seeing and reaping the Fruit of the travel of his Soul what could the issue of this be but Satisfaction Acquiescency Rest Man renewed and restored into Communion with God through the Mediation of the Son of God was in the fore-Appointment of it the mutual Pleasure of God the Father and God the Son from all Eternity Prov. 8. 29 30 31. When he appointed the Foundations of the Earth then was I by him I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him in the habitable Parts of the Earth and my Delights were with the Sons of Men. The Son's delight was among the Sons of Men in the habitable parts of the Earth before Man was created or the Foundations of the Earth laid save only in the Decree and Appointment of God And this rejoycing of the Son was the Father's delight And for this Pleasures sake Heaven and Earth and the whole Furniture of both were created Rev. 4. 11. Thou hast created all things and for thy Pleasure they are and were created The whole World say the Jewish Doctors was created for the Messias and the Messias say all Christians was exhibited for the Redemption of Mankind from that state of Sin and Misery into which we fell through the Transgression of the Proto-plast This Redemption was tendred to Adam in the Promise of the Woman's Seed and accepted by Adam through Faith in that Promise and that acceptance ratified by a Covenant of Salt by a Sacrifice salted with Fire the Sacrifice of a whole Burnt-Offering which burning upon the Altar all Night unto the Morning Lev. 6. 9. And figuring the Oblation of Christ's Body and Adam's Oblation of his Body as a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable to God through Christ must needs come up with Acceptance before God and send forth a sweet Savour of Rest unto God at the dawning of the seventh Day The Talmudists say that God created Fire on the seventh day I suppose they mean that Fire that came down from Heaven on Adam's Sacrifice in token of God's Approbation So that God having perfected his Work on the seventh Day even all the Work that he had made Gen. 2. 2. Or all the Work that he created to make vers 3. Rested on the Seventh Day and sanctified it The Hebrews distinguish betwixt creating forming and making thus To create is the Production of any thing out of nothing to from is the bestowing of Form and Shape upon any thing created to make is to perfect finish and to adapt to its proper use that that is created and formed They are all three used to this sense in one Verse Isa 43. 7. I have created him for my Glory I have formed him yea I have made him that is every way fitted him for the attaining that end for which I created and formed him P. Fagius in Targ. Onkelos Now Adam being created to bring forth good Works in Christ Jesus was not God's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Workmanship fitted for the Production of the end of his Creation while he was either in a state of Innocence or of the Lapse which alone is sufficient to prove that Adam fell and was restored by Faith in the promised Seed the day of his Creation for otherwise God could not have rested that is have taken Delight and Complacency in all the Work he created to make as very that is perfectly good and compleated for the effecting the end of Creation to wit the glorifying of God by good Works done in Christ And therefore that seventh Day 's rest on Sunday where God saw all very good as good as Heart

the whole third Chapters unto chap. 4. which from ver 3. And in process of time they brought Offerings unto the Lord shews how the Patriarchs sanctified that Day that God had sanctified It is most manifest from this plain Chronological account of the sacred History that Man fell was restored and thrust out of Paradise the sixth day Cherubims being plac'd with flaming Swords to guard the Tree of Life leaving Adam no hope of life by the first Covenant whither then could he look for Life Eternal but to the promised Seed in Faith of whose Blood and acknowledgment of his own Sin he offered by God's appointment those Beasts in Sacrifice of whose skin 's God made him and Eve Coats that they appearing before God in that which was a Type of the Robes of Righteousness and pleading the Blood of the Covenant might be found and accepted in Christ in whom alone God is well-pleased and smelleth a sweet savour of Rest Upon which account he rested the seventh day and Adam with him in Christ To Adam ' s celebrating the praises of his Redeemer on this Sabbath Day the Chaldee Paraphrase or Targum of Jonathan who was fellow-disciple to Hillel with good old Simeon fourty years before our Saviour's incarnation saith P. Fagius on Gen. 1. seems to have respect for thus that renders the title of Psalm 92. An Hymn which the first man Adam said for the Sabbath-Day as Ainsworth observes Dicunt Rabboth quod Adamus hunc psalmum protulit quando creatus erat vesper Sabbati postea peccavit erat maledictus in hora duodecima diei sexti crat expulsas ab Edene Deus benedictus venit ad judicium mortis Sabbatum super vevit Et Adam Eucharistias quia erat liberatus a judicio mortis profert Darash R. Arama Vicars decupla carticum Adami dicitur ab Hebraeis quod talia dicere potuit Adamus cum res adeo primum conditas aspexit Grot. The Rabbins say that Adam made this Psalm on the Eve of the Sabbath at twelve of the Clock of the Day wherein he was created and afterwards sinned and was accursed and driven out of Eden The blessed God came to pass the Sentence of Death upon him the Sabbath came upon him And Adam because he was set free from the Sentence of Death brought forth thanksgiving Offerings That is saith Grotius because Adam may be supposed to have said such like words when he beheld the things that God created in the beginning SECT II. But all this together may perhaps seem too great a weight to hang upon the single Pin of this one Argument drawn from the Chronology of the History I will therefore more distinctly shew the truth of each particular 1. That Adam fell on the sixth day seems evident from that Greek Proverb grounded upon the almost universal Consent of the Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam was formed and deformed the same day quoted by Hamond L' Estrange p. 8. Which universal Consent took its rise from Psal 49. 12. Hinc Colligunt Hebraei in Berescit Rabba gloriam primi hominis cum eo non per noctisse Cartw. Mell. Broughton most confidently affirms that Adam did not continue in his Integrity one hour and affirms that all Jews are of that opinion from the Authority of Maimonides and from that Proverb of modern Jews above-said He also saith that all the Greek Fathers are of the same opinion Vna nocte integritate non permanebat Adam saith Vicars for which he quotes the Arabick and Persic Pentateuch The Septuagint indeed renders the above-quoted Text Psa 49 12 thus Man being in honour understandeth not As if it were the same with vers 23. The Syr. Arab and Simmachus follow the Septuagint but this reading contradicts all Hebrew Copies and the best Hebrew Doctors David Kimhi Aben Ezra c. and antient Fathers as Jerom c. who render it thus Adam or Man being in honour did not lodg there a Night or Adam did not lodg one Night in Honour non pernoctavit did not stay one Night in that Estate for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jalin the Hebrew Word here used signifies properly to lodg or stay for a Night Gen. 31. 54. Laban and Jacob tarried all Night in the Mount and early in the Morning departed Gen. 32. 21. Jacob himself lodged with the Company that Night I might add that the Targum interprets Gen. 2. 15. And the Lord took the Man and placed him in the Garden of Eden by a Syriack Word Sharah which in Hiphil signifies to place in a lodging for a Night thus is this word used in the Syriack New Testament Acts 20. 15. And the next day we came to Samos and lodged at Trogillium and the next day c. Luke 9. 12. When the day begun to wear away the Disciples said Send the Multitude away that they may lodg in the Villages Luke 2. 7. There was no place for them in the Inn in the Room they had taken up to lodg in for that Night Shindler Pentaglot So early began our Saviour to have the Chastisment of our Sin laid upon him in a way parallel to Adam's Fall he with his blessed Mother being thrust out of the Inn the Hour he was born as Adam was thrust out of Paradise the day he was created Thus our Saviour gives his Suffrage to John 8. 44. where he stiles the Devil a Murderer from the beginning for this term in the beginning denotes the six days of the Creation and precisely terminates where God finished that Work as is apparent from Gen. 1. 1. In the Beginning God made Heaven and Earth that is in the space of six days wherein the whole Species of things in Heaven and Earth had their beginning Or as our Saviour explains it Mark 13. 19. In those days shall be Afflictions such as was not from the beginning of the Creation which God created the whole frame whereof speaking of the same thing he calls the World and the space wherein it was made the beginning of the World Mat. 24. 21. or as it is rendred John 9. 33. since the World began was it not heard that c. that is since God finished the Work of Creation Thus the beginning circumscribed the whole Work of Creation Heb. 1. 10. Thou Lord in the beginning founded the Earth c. And though sometimes it may seem to denote the Duration before when it is spoken of God Prov. 8. 22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his Works of old yet it no where extends its Signification beyound the six days Work when it is applied to the Creature It was therefore within the compass of the six days that this Murderer slew our first Parents 2. That Adam was restored through the Promise of the Woman's Seed the same day whereon he fell is apparent from our Saviour his being stiled Rev. 13. 8. the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World for this is of the very same

Latitude with the beginning Heb. 1. 10. and Heb. 4. 3. Though the Works were finished from the Foundation of the World that is in the sixth day distinguished from the seventh day vers 4. For he spake of the seventh day on this wise and God rested the seventh day from all his Works so that the time specified by from the Foundation of the World vers 3. concludes with the sixth day before the seventh whereon God rested Now Christ cannot be said to be slain then actually for so he was not slain till the fulness of Time till the Hour appointed of the Father nor in the divine Decree for so he was slain before the Foundation of the World but only in respect of the Promise then made to Adam In which Promise he was exhibited as God-man as Man in regard of the Serpent's brusing his Heel as God in regard of his breaking the Serpent's Head This leads me into a Flowry Field of Meditation wherein I must crave leave to expatiate and refresh my self after my tedious Walk through dark and controverted Texts in the pursuit of Truth I shall therefore offer here these things to Consideration 1. When things are once put into a divine Promise they are then in Scripture Language said to be for tho they attain not to actual Existence till long after yet the Promise gives them a real being or metaphysical Essence as rosa in Hieme Hence God saith to Abraham Gen. 17. 15. I have made thee a Father of many Nations when as yet Isaac through whom he was to be the Father of many Nations was not yet conceived in the Womb nor in human probability ever like to be conceived in Sarah's Womb. From which Instance the Apostle draws this Inference that God calls things that be not as to actual Existence as if they were in real Essence because he that promised was able to perform it and was then engaged to perform it upon the honour of his Veracity Rom. 4. 17. so that it was as impossible that it could miscarry or prove abortive as that God can lye From which Promise we have a thousand times greater Assurance to say the Lamb was then slain then we have to say while the Fruit is only in the Root and not brought forth this is a Pippin this a Pearmain c. For this latter is grounded on a Lie upon the immutability of God's Covenant with Day and Night c. which though we cannot yet God can break yea hath broke as when he made the Sun stand still in the days of Joshua go back at Hezekiah's Prayer and suspended its Light at our Saviour's Passion as the Fire did also its burning property in the Case of the three Children but the former is grounded on the Immutability of God's Promise by Oath and the most sacred Oath even by Himself than whom he hath not a greater to swear by In respect of this Immutability the Hebrew Doctors upon Gen. 15. 18. have this Observation He saith not I will give but I have given and yet Abraham had now begotten no Children because the Word of the holy blessed God is a Deed therefore he so speaketh Ainsworth Thus the Son of God was tendered to fallen Man as the Lamb slain he was in this Promise as manifestly held out to Adam as crucified as making an Atonement for Sinners by the Oblation of his Blood as he was after his actual Crucifixion and Ascention held out to the Galatians Chap. 3. 1. 2. The Son of God in the Virtue of this his future Oblation of himself and Mediation by Merit entred upon the Exercise of his Mediatory Office by Intercession immediately upon Adam's Fall he did not suffer the mortal Wound to fester but applied the healing Balm flowing from his bruised Heel to it while it was green as soon as ever he saw Adam naked and in his Blood he poured clean Water upon him cast his Garment over him and entred into a Covenant with him and said unto him Live No sooner had Man made a League with the Serpent and proclaimed War against God but God was in Christ reconciling the World to himself In the Cool of the day that is in the Evening of that Day whereon he fell Adam heard the Voice of the Lord God that is the Word or Son of God as both Christians and Jews expound that place Gen. 3. 8. See Dr. Owen's Exercit. 10. 2. calling him to Repentance by Arraignment to Faith by the Promise of the Woman's Seed yea to Glory by presenting himself in the Form of an human Body and that glorious Body such as he shewed himself in at the Transfiguration and hath now at the Right-hand of the Father Dr. More Append. to Mystery of Iniquity As when Job had wish't Chap. 9. 34. Let him take his Rod away from me and let not his Fear terrifie me Then would I speak and not fear him Elihu according to Job's wish makes him this Offer Behold I am in God's stead I also am formed out of the Clay Behold my Terror shall not make thee afraid neither shall my Hand be heavy upon thee If thou canst answer me set thy words in order before me stand up c. Job 33. 5 6 7. So the Lord pleaded with Adam by his Son in the Form of God manifest in the Flesh I doubt not but the Son of God in human shape was all this seventh Day busied in most holy Colloquies with Adam but that he fully revealed himself to him and Eve shewed him how and in what order he created all things wish'd him to meditate upon these Works and in them to praise and acknowledg the true God his Creator and taught him that after his Example every seventh Day all Labour set aside he should spend in the Exercise of Piety Zanchy de Creatione Hom. l. 1. Fuller upon these words They heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden Gen. 3. 8. hath this Observation By this Voice I understand certain Words which God spake with himself walking Christ appearing to them in human shape 3. This his mediating to reconcile Man to God argues he had upon the instant of Adam's Fall so far reconciled God to Man by becoming his Surety by giving Bond to make Satisfaction pay Man's Ransome at the day appointed at the fulness of Time as the Father upon Consideration thereof would not take the Forefeiture but delegated the Son to treat with his Rebels and offer them Pardon and a better State than that they were fallen from on the Condition of their accepting the Covenant of Grace For Christ did not take this Honour of the Melchisedochian Priest-hood upon himself but was called of God an High-Priest after this order Heb. 5. 10. and made a Priest by Oath by him that said unto him The Lord sware and will not repent thou art a Priest for ever c. Heb. 7. 21. He was sworn to this Office of Mediation and sent to manage it by