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A79493	The evening star appearing to the saints, directing them to celebrate their holy rest, even the Sabbath-day (not from morning to morning nor from midnight to midnight but) from even to even, according to the word of God ... There is an epistle to the Parliament in the conclusion ... Unto which is annexed, A new Christian creed ... / By Samuel Chidley, Cler.	Chidley, Samuel.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3839B; ESTC R173826	39,041	163

THE EVENING-STAR Appearing to the SAINTS Directing them to celebrate their Holy Rest even the Sabbath-day not from Morning to Morning nor from Midnight to Midnight but from Even to Even according to the Word of God First written in a Letter at the earnest Request of a Friend for his satisfaction concerning the beginning of the Sabbath Day And here published for the generall good of all that profess Christianity and in order to the rectifying of some things in the late Act concerning the observation of the Lords Day There is an Epistle to the Parliament in the Conclusion tending also to the taking away of the Popish Prelaticall and Antichristian Presbyterian-Penalties contained in sevrall Acts and Ordinances of Parliament which have been and still are put in execution against the best sort of religious Protestants Unto which is also anexed A new Christian Creed built upon the old foundation of the holy Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the cheef Corner Stone By SAMUEL CHIDLEY Cler. London Printed by John Clowes 1650. The Preface and Epistle Dedicatory To the Saints on earth Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed Beloved AS Jehovah hath chosen you to be his holy special and peculiar People above all the people that are upon the face of the Earth * Deut. 7.6 14.2 Exod. 19.5 Isa 56. Rom. 10.12 so he hath given unto you signs Sacraments amongst which the Sabbath is a sign between him and you to testifie That he is Jehovah which sanctifieth you * Exod. 31.13 17. Therefore ye are commanded to Remember the sabbath-Sabbath-day to keep it holy * Ex. 20.8 From the Creation of the world God did appoint one day of seven to be a Sabbath not onely because he had rested on the seventh day from all his Workes which he had created and made * Deut. 31.17 Gen. 2.2 But that both man beast might have rest and resreshment also * Deut. 5.14 which thing remaineth substantially unto this day as sure as God is merciful who hath not left it to the wills of men but hath established this Liberty upon the grounds of certainty In old time God did institute the seventh day for a * Ex. 20. ●0 See ●r Ans●orth's ●ransla●ion Sabbath but there was not that desirable perfection in it for acception as was upon the first day of the wick the morrow after the Jews Sabbath which was higher and more honourable because of the Wave-sheaf * Lev. 23.10.11 1● and first fruits ** ver● 15 21 then presented before the LORD those lively Types of Jesus Christ who is the first fruits of them that sleep * 1 Co● 15.20.23 who rose from the dead on the morrow after the Sabbath As therefore the Jews were to observe it as a Sabboth and a holy convocation by solemn Proclamaion it was to be unto them And they were to do no servile work therein * Lev. 23.21 So must the Christians now in the dayes of Christ our Lord * Psa 110.31 who honoured this day by his presence in the midst of his Disciples after his Resurection upon the first day of the Week * Joh. 20 19. and eight days after that * er 26. even upon the second first day * Lev. 23.15.16 he came again gave them more fuller manifestations and confirmations of his Resurrection breathing on them that they might receive the Holy-Ghost and after his Ascension into Heaven sent down the Holy-Ghost upon his Disciples on the fiftieth day which was the morrow after the Jews Sabbath * Acts 2.1 And on the Lords day also he ravished with his spirit that Disciple John whom he so dearly loved before his death And then and there in the Isle of Pathmos he im parted that great Revelation which is called The Revelation of Jesus Christ which he had received from the bosome of the Father * Rev. 1.1 10. This first day of the week is the day of Christs power * Psalm● 110.2 on which day the disciples met together to break bread and to practise the other Ordinances of God for the setting forth of Jesus Christ who holdeth his Ministers in his right hand and walketh in the midst of his Churches * Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 Rev. 1.12 13 20. 2.1 7.16 This is the day of our holy solemnity to be kept in Sion the City of the Saints solemnities upon which day our Lord Christ was made perfect * Luke 13.32 Heb. 5.9 an High Priest for ever not after the Law of a carna● commandement but after the power of an endless life * 7.16 then the stone which the Builders refused became the head of the Corner ● Ps 118. Then the right hand of Jehovah was exalted and did valiantly Then Christ said I shall not dye but live and declare the works of Jehovah * Ps 118.18.19 For although for a little while as precious seed he lay in the heart of the earth yet through the quickning Spirit of God which came upon him as the dew of Heaven he arose and sang and Jehovah was then his strength and song and also became his Salvation * v. 14. This day is a joyful good day This Sabbath is a delight holy of Jehovah honourable * Isa 58.13 Ps 118.22 it is the day of his marvelous doings This is the day which Jehovah hath made * ver 24. our God hath entred into Covenant with us this day * Isa 54 9 10. to give us the sure mercies of David * Acts 13.34 This is the wedding-day of Jesus Christ with his beloved spouse * Isa 54.5 it is his Coronation-day the day of his espousals and the day of the gladnes of his heart * Cant. 2.11 O come then and let us be glad and rejoyce in it with him and let the voyce of joy and rejoycing be heard in the Tabernacles of the righteous Is not this the great Market day of our souls wherein there is Proclamation made Ho every one that thirsteth come unto the waters of life And he saith moreover Hearken diligently unto me and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight it self in fatness incline your ear come unto me hear and your souls shall live And I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure Mercies of David * Isa 55.1 3. And the spirit and the Bride say come and he that heareth saith come and let him that is a thirst come And whosoever will let him take of the Well of the water of life freely * Rev. 22.17 O how sweet are the Christal streams of the Christian Brooks which proceed from the Throne of God and of the Lamb And how pleasant and pretious is the Tree of Life on either side the River of Righteousness the meat where of is good for food and the leaves thereof for Medicine Blessed are

endles To this we may adde that worldly wollowing of the cōmon worldlings in all sensual pleasures eating till gluttony and drinking till drunkenness Others in their apparell braving it and out-braving it not only according to but much exceeding their meanes though still short of their ambitious minds Others there be which persecute their luxurious and beastly pleasures in which they manifest the emptiness of their hearts Thus in short the common prophaneness of the rude multitude doth plainly shew that there is no peace established in the heart seeing that notwithstanding their religious exercises they lye drowned in sensuality in which secretly their hearts seeke and for a while finde peace And here let us note by the way that the emptiness of mans heart in the want of God is the spur to all prophaneness and ungodliness whatsoever whether more gross or more close The second Symptome or signe of the hearts emptiness is a more close sensuall life and this is to be applyed to the civill honest man and to the most part of the verball professors of Religion for it is true that some men partly for feare and partly for shame do take the bit of reason into their mouthes and with the reynes of discretion they bridle and refrain the grosser part of sensuality so that the world can not tax them of whordoms drunkenness blasphemies c. notwithstanding those which have eyes enlightened by the light of grace may plainly see and perceive that these men live in a very sensuall life But it is more closely and covertly then the prophane man doth for some are wise to do evill saith the Prophet and such are all close sensuall livers who by crafty wyles work their wickedness These close sensuall livers declare the love of their hearts to the sensuall objects by secret self-seeking in all matters of moment and high consequence for if we mark them they do cunningly steale praise and commendations to themselves and underneath communicate with increase of riches sumptuous buildings curious dyet in all which the peace of their heart standeth not in God and but that these things are maintained to the contentment of their sensuall appetites their hearts would break with grief and sorrow through the emptines thereof And though these wise men carrie their sensuall life so close that they are not so commonly perceived as the gross sensualls are yet doth it so farre appeare to the godly wise as to bewray the emptiness of their hearts in God and in Christ and often times God doth discover these Hypocrites that they shall drink either to drunkenness or to fulness and some times their close-carried luxury breaketh out to a publique decl●ring wherein the contentment and peace of their hearts did stand when they seemed to the world to be at rest in God This close sensuall life is a manifest signe of the hearts emptiness The third signe is a vain glorious b●asting in religious performances such as are publique prayer and Thanksgiving reasoning and disputing of Religion framing of a sorrowfull countenance pittifull formes of speech abrupt eiaculations smiting of the breast rowling of the eyes upward towards Heaven with a passionate moving of the hand to which is annexed many a sigh and groane Rom. 8.26 which are not those inutterable ones proceeding from the spirit But those Pharisaicall ones proceeding from vaine glory Thus the body being artificially framed and all the members and motions thereof fitly composed to a seeming-holy declaring of a very zealous condition Now the corruptions of the time are blamed the Antichristian Government of the Church is condemned the condition of the prophane is highly adjudged and in all this himself secretly justified Now though such things as I have named do in the nature thereof arise and proceed from true zeale yet do they carry the party into his private Chamber or closet or other secret place where the soule doth inwardly mourn for the corruptions of it self and others Jer. 13.17 as witnesseth the Prophet in a phrase worth the noting Our Saviour Christ doth in express words forbid the sad countenance and the disfiguring of the face and doth appoint secrecy as the upper place of all religious performance Mat. 6.16 For well knew our Saviour Christ that that heart which was full in God needed not the eccho of vain glory to supply its want But the truth is that all such frothy and windy foolishness is a plain declaring of the hearts emptiness For then do Hogsheads sound lowdest when they have least within them The fourth and last signe is an excessive exercise of religious performance together with the mutation of such exercises And this St. Paul did perceive to be the very God of some men in his time and therefore telleth Tymothy that he might instruct others that bodily exercise profiteth little and as some reade nothing and doth oppose thereunto godliness 1 Tim. 4.8 as being another thing then bodily exercise saith that it is profitable c. But such is the mystery of iniquity at this day that many men know no other godlines but bodily exercises and can hardly admit of any distinction between them These bodily exercises the exces thereof is manifest to be manifold in all sects and sorts such as is their often fasting often seeming to pray I say seeming for many pray and pray not because prayer is nothing else but the conference of the soule with God as well saith St. Augustine To this we may adde the bareing of the knees the putting on a shirt of hair whipping scourging much preaching to the wasting of the spirits and consuming of the body and this is called a constant performance of duties These exercises are mutable and variable according to mens knowledge and the streame and straine of that Ministery under which they live so that all sorts have their severall services yet all bodily and for the most part only bodily And it must needs be so for men having no rest nor peace in God do labour to establish a peace to themselves in the multiplicity of bodily exercises hence it is that if they omit their service they have no peace all that day and if they perform their devotions then they have peace whereby it is plain that their peace is only in bodily working And it cometh to passe that so many gawdies must be run over so many prayers and repetitions must be used so many Chapters must be read so many Psalmes sung c. or otherwise the heart is unquiet Now these men hearing of any new way of worship which cometh in the cloak of Scripture-learning and hath a shew of truth founded from the letter of the bible which worship seemeth more devout and zealous then that in which they are established as it will easily so appear to a zealous and devout bodily worker especially if the teacher of that new way can but frame a sad and demure countenance and with a grace lift his hand