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B02273	An additional word to The body of divinity, or Confession of faith; being the substance of Christianity. Added on special occasion, tending further to confirm some truths therein. With a further discourse about the doctrine of election, universal, and special grace, &c. All which were touched in the said Confession of faith, but in this more plainy and fully (though briefly) discoursed and designed for the good of all. Whereunto is annexed a seasonable word of advice, being an essay for peace and union among all the sons and daughters of peace. / Written by Thomas Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.; Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691. Body of divinity.	1676 (1676)	Wing C5267AB; ESTC R174082	85,720	108

between Me and Them that They might know that I am the Lord that Sanctifieth Them That by the Sanctity of a Day they might remember that God had Sanctified them for Himself that they might be holy and that could not be given to them for a special Remembrance of so great a Salvation and a signe of peculiar Sanctification that had been a known practicial Duty before Nor can it be so a Remembrance and Signe to any others now Object The Fourth Command is stated on God 's Resting the seventh-Seventh-Day from the Works of Creation and His Resting the seventh-Seventh-Day and Hallowing It Exod. 20. 11. Answ The Lord gives this as a Reason to ingage them to keep It not him to give It For the Command was fully given before And then vers 11. gives this as a Reason for them to observe it that as He Rested the seventh-Seventh-Day from His VVork of Creation having finished It so would He by His Example oblige them to Rest the seventh-Seventh-Day Commanded from their VVorks 2dly It 's said That God Rested the seventh-Seventh-Day after he had finished His Works of Creation and blessed and hallowed It But it is not said That he Blessed and Hallowed that Seventh-Day then Commanded Nor do I suppose that we may any further understand it than the Purpose of God to Sanctifie that Day when the time was come that He purposed to Command It. Object We have still the same cause to Keep It as they for Deliverance out of Spiritual Aegypt and Bondage of Sin by Jesus Christ and as a signe of our Sanctification Answ 1. It stands not with the Gospel Nor is it God's Order to Institute the same Old-Covenant-Signes of Old-Covenant-Grace and Sanctification to be Signes of New-Covenant-Grace and Sanctification This is quite besides God's Method and Order and savours not of the Gospel And so 2dly The Will of God should be our Rule in all Things And if God in the Gospel hath at all given us the Sabbath as a signe of our Gospel Redemption and Sanctification then are we so to receive It else not But if God hath given Jesus Christ as the signe and example of our Sanctification and the Copy after which we must write and walk 1 Cor. 15. 48 49. 2 Cor. 4. 11. 1 Joh. 2. 6. and 3. 3. and 4. 7. and the Holy-Spirit in the word of the Gospel to accomplish the work of Sanctification in us 1 Thes 5. 23. 2 Cor. 3. 16. it's good for us to cleave close to This. 3dly Their Deliverance out of Aegypt was out-ward and temporary and might be forgotten in the Generations to come that had not seen It and therefore needed some out-ward signe of Remembrance and all came short of accomplishing the end designed thereby Judg. 2. 7. 10 11. They were the Natural Seed sanctified and set a-part for a time under an out-ward Covenant and a Worldly Sanctuary and out-ward signes of Sanctification and Salvation from out-ward Servitude to remember them that they were God's Saved holy People but the Church of God in the New-Covenant are the Spiritual Seed and are or should be Spiritual Sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints Their Redemption is Spiritual and shall be Eternal And they need not look back or take up the signes of the Jew's Redemption and Sanctification but cleave to the Word and Spirit of the Gospel 4thly The whole Law by the new-Covenant is abolished as a Ministration from Mount Sinai to that Church and Believers are to Receive their Law from the Hand of Christ and no otherwise He being their Lord and Law-Giver Act. 3. 22. 2 Cor. 3. 7. 11. Rom. 7. 4. 5thly Neither Christ nor His Apostles hath commanded the Observation of that Day in the New-Testament and therefore we judge that we are not bound by any Law of Christ our Lord to the Observation thereof And therefore to suppose that Day to be observed we do herein render Christ to be less Faithful in His House than Moses was in his Contrary to Hebrews Heb 3. 2. 5 6. That a matter of so great Importance as this should be wholly left in silence if the Lord's Will had been it should be observed seems very unlikly and incredible And the Apostle Paul who was the Apostle of the Gentiles in Faith and Verity Rom. 11. 13. 1 Tim. 2. 7. tells us that he had not ceased to make known all the Counsel of God Act. 27 with vers 20. VVe may safely conclude that if this of the Sabbath had been any part of the Counsel of God to us Believing Gentiles under the Gospel we should have heard of it from our Apostle And as for that other Objection from Matt. 24. 20. where Christ saith Pray that your Flight be not on the Sabbath-Day it 's easily Answered 1. That it 's no Command for the Sabbath take it in the strictest sense that may be supposed 2. It 's evident that Christ intends it relative to the Jews who he knew would be zealous of the Sabbath and so their trouble would be the greater It no whit adds Authority to the Sabbath but relates the Difficulty of their Case by reason of the zealous Jews who would be probably as ready to kill such as would flee on that Day as the Enemy And as for the Apostles Preaching on that Day to the Jews it is no marvel nor ground to conclude it Instituted for the gospel-Gospel-day of Divine-Worship whose Work it was to take all Opportunities both among the Jews Gentiles to be winning Souls to Christ any Day or Time of their Assembling 1 Cor. 9. 20 21. But shew any one Example of a Gospel-Church assembling on that Day to worship God in Praying Preaching and breaking Bread or Fellowship in the Lord's-Supper it would be something nearer the Matter though not enough to make it an Ordinance 6thly We have not only the Silence of Christ and His Apostles both as to the Precept and Precedent but we have many words dropt by the Apostle Paul in his Epistles seemingly to the contrary as Rom. 14. 5. One Man esteemeth one Day above another another esteemeth every Day alike that is Esteemeth no Holiness in one Day above another and so leaves it as a matter indifferent Let every one be fully perswaded in his own Mind and not judge or despise one another Some I know will say to this That it intends other Legal-Daies formerly observable But who can Determine this Seeing the Apostle speaketh in the largest sense Esteemeth every Day alike There is no room for the Sabbath to be excepted And it 's not probable that the Gentile-Believers should so soon fall in love with the lesser Holy-Dayes of the Jews and not with the greater So that the Seventh Day is the most likely to be the one Day by some esteemed above the rest So Col. 2. 16. ●et no Man therefore judge you in Meat or in Drink or in respect of an Holy-Day or of the New-Moon or of the Sabbath Dayes or Sabbaths which