that the son of thy handmaid and stranger be refreshed Numb 28.25 Jer. 17.21 Carry no burden Levit. 23.3 It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all their dwellings Exod. 16.29 Let no man go out of his place on the Sabbath Vers 26. Ye shall finde no manna thereon Deut. 31.16 The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual continue untill Christ came and carnal ceremonies were put to an end Rom. 4.11 3. God in Horeb makes a covenant with all the people Deut. 5.2 3. and in Exod. 31.16 The children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath to observe the Sabbath throughout all their congregations for a perpetual covenant it is a signe between me and the children of Israel for ever Exod. 34.27 Objected This seems to hold out three covenants and the Scripture holds out but two Answ That Abraham had is the same with ours and hence is Abraham called the father of the faithful onely the administrations thereof differs now from what it had then 1. This covenant of the Law continuing the signe thereof must also continue Ezek. 20.20 My Sabbath as distinct from the Lords day 2. The Scriptures call after Christs resurrection the seventh-dayes-Sabbath Sabbath as well as the first if rightly translated 3. The Apostles met with the Jews and taught them that day usually 4. No Scripture shews the abolishing thereof 5. It is necessary those under that covenant should have a day and time to serve God in as those under the new 6. The Sabbath of the new must not be to those under the old covenant nor the Sabbath of the old to those under the new Mat. 9.17 Men put not new wine into old bottles nor peece an old garment with a new peece of cloth 7. In the estate of the Church all things are become new but then it is only with such as are of the Church with others not of the Church they are so under the old covenant as if there had never been any new Mark saith the Apostle what the law saith it saith to them that are under the law Rom. 3.13 so that those under the Law are commanded to work six dayes and rest the seventh only 8. Thus not an iota or tittle of the law perisheth the morality of the seventh-day-Sabbath is continued and yet no Judaizing in the thing for this was no part of the ceremonial law the ground of the seventh day being from the creation but of the ceremonies from the redemption of Christ 9. Thus Christ destroyes not the law but establisheth it Jesus Christ not taking unbelievers from being under the law in which estate they were and subjection thereunto 10. God will judge them by the law that are under the law Now the law requires them that are under it to keep the seventh day Sabbath Rom. 2.12 and those that are risen with Christ and marryed to him are under the Gospel and Gospel-day this truth shines forth clearly Rom. 7.1 2 3 4. where untill the woman is married to Christ shee is under her first husband Moses 11. The one hath a rest with God and beast and creatures by Moses the other hath a rest with God and Christ and angels souls of just men made perfect on mount Sion Heb. 12. Note Moses and Christ are two and do not destroy each other Christ onely perfects Moses the covenants are two the Sabbaths two the states two one of the world the other of the Church one under the law the other under the Gospel which estates are not to be confounded or made one Hence Col. 2.16 Let no man judge you in respect of the Sabbath dayes 1. Keeping the seventh day Sabbath while unbelievers 2. Being received by the Church and now observe the first and work on the seventh whereas before he wrought on the first and sanctified the seventh justly brings men to be judged and questioned for so doing among men not knowing the truth and the will of God therein A strange confusion in the world for some time there was if we may believe Socrates who saith the Church of Rome observed onely the first day Sabbath and all other Churches the seventh See into what division the loss of truth had brought the then world into and ever since in this darkness arose out of the bottomless-pit Rev. 9.3 hath the world been shut up 3. He that is under the law-day Sabbath is to be punished according to its law if he observe it not and he that is under the Gospel-Sabbath is to be proceeded against according to the way of the Gospel by those several powers set up of God in them Object God requires but one day of seven this is two Resp One day is but observed for those observe the first are not bound to observe the seventh and those bound to observe the seventh are not bound to observe the first Object Some would then be buying selling merchandizing on both dayes and no day observed which would be very gross confusion Resp This confusion in the Apostles dayes if you call it so and the Apostle never tearmed it such at all but saith Let no man judge you much more let no man condemne you in respect of Sabbath dayes Col. 2. 2. By this means the Apostles gathered the Jews and Judaizing Gentiles teaching in the Synagogues on the seventh and after in the Churches on the first 3. By this as the Jews held a preparation to their Sabbath so now is the seventh dayes Sabbath a preparation to the first 4. There is no sin where is no law Moses gave no command to those under the law to observe the first day Christ gave no command to those under grace to observe the seventh day Sabbath 5. Anrichrist could never have made the Church and the world one but by destroying those ordinances that separated them and making them one in Church-ordinances it was easie to perswade the world to be one with the Church but not the Church with the world Quest is If the law-estate can be restored and not the seventh dayes Sabbath 2. Whether men untill they are Evangelically called thence are not of and under that estate in respect of their visible estate and condition in the world Gal. 4.1 Object The Apostles gathered many from Paganisme and never were under the law at all Resp The legal external administration was in a manner abolished 2. Those were gathered were under it spiritually and inwardly before they were gathered 4. If God effectually called them to be under the second the first was waxen old to them then only and not before Object Who shall be Ministers of this administration seeing Aarons priesthood dyeth Resp Aaron was not the Minister of this this was ministred in the Synagogues Aaron ministred in the temple onely 2. The Scribes or Lawyers which were not Levites or Priests they read the law in Synagogues and are said to sit in Moses not Aarons chaire Mat. 23.2 3. In the
Synagogue it was common to read or teach Luk. 4.16 17. Acts 13.15 The ruler of the Synagogue I take to be none else but one designed in especial to take care of the well-ordering of all things to be done therein In the word is no priesthood after this administration but a scribe a writer of the law that knew how to read it well Hence the people are called a Kingdome of Priests every one being to be a law-priest for expounding the judicial law Exod. 19.6 Object What confusion would this bring forth in families Resp Is there more amongst us then was among Jews and Gentiles at the first erecting of Churches 2. Did not Christ foretell as much when he said there should in one house be three against two and two against three Luk. 12.52 3. Doth not the Apostle say the servant then to the heathen was the Lords freeman 1 Cor. 7. See how God plagued Pharaoh for keeping his people from serving him Object Rev. 18.4 God calls his people out of Babel or Rome the false Church onely Resp This is the first step from her to separate the world and Church 2. We are not to come out of Babels Church-practice onely but her state-practices also not in duties of the Gospel only but the law also A people in civil society cannot be without the law as in the Church-society they cannot be without the Gospel and be with and under God therein The first-day-Sabbath is of the covenant of grace the seventh of works Moses is taught the seventh Christ the first natural men observe one believers the other yet both sanctified and Sabbaths and to be kept holy Object This would be exceeding loss to the Nation Resp Never man did lose by serving God but gaine 2. The godly man must sell all If he will be a Christian and deny himself and be dead to all Note The heathens set apart some time to serve their Gods of wood and stone in though they had no warrant to do the same shall not those are the people of God much more have some day to serve him in and what day but that God in the laws instituted from which before the Son hath made them free they are not discharged from what service the law requires nor what penalty the law imposeth on them for disobedience apply Mat. 5.19 Hear what the law saith to those under the law James 2.10 Whosoever keepeth the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all Rom. 3.19 that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God Gal. 3.10 Cursed be every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them Appl. This seems to me that men under the law are strictly bound to the observation of the seventh-day-seventh-day-Sabbath of which number all unbelievers are who are bound to serve God for the creature-comforts and mercies though they know not Christ but are in the state of the world Appl. The lords-day-Lords-day-Sabbath is only to be observed in the Church by men made free by Christ from the law curse and condemnation thereof Heb. 4.9 There remaineth a Sabbatisme to the people of God called another day vers 8. from the 7. Note verse 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is of great concernment to be inquired into that whiles we strive to build up what we should not we pull down what we ought not I hope you would not for a world make a law to make void the law of God The Sabbath gave way to circumcision though it were not of Moses that is Moses law John 7.22 23. that the law of Moses concerning circumcision might not be broken It is very remarkable that in all the conflicts the Scribes and Pharisees had with Christ about the Sabbath he never spake of the abolishing of it nor condemned the right observance of it though the Jews were more oft offended at Christ for this then any thing he curing more on that day then any because looked on by the Lord as the work of the day and they the more troubled at it because done thereon which they judged to be a profanation thereof Note As the law was given by the found of Trumpet so the congregations of the Synagogues were to be called by trumpet and not by bells Numb 10.7 Exod. 19.16 which minded them of giving of the law and the covenant then made the believers by rising of the Sun that is the time and call of them for their worship Sabbath dayes journey some understand one some to be two miles which was no less to be observed under the Gospel then under the Law-day-Sabbath Joshua 3.4 Acts 1.12 The Scriptures rightly expounded will clear this Antichristian darkness O take the vaile from our eyes and hearts Mark 16.1 The Sabbath being end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vers 2. Early in the morn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the first of Sabbaths it being the first of the Lords-day-Sabbath or the first of the two Sabbaths the Lords day being the first the seventh day the last of the week according to the Scripture The first shall be last and last first And for the ceremonial Sabbath they are no more called Sabbaths but the seventh and first day are called Sabbaths alway in the word The Scriptures speaking of the Lords-day-Sabbath misinterpreted for the first day of the week and calls the seventh day a Sabbath also are these Mat. 28.1 Mark 16.2 Luk. 20.1 Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 That the Scriptures are misinterpreted when read the first day of the week is clear for when God speaks of the first day of the week Mark 16.9 he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the singular no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the plural and thus the Pharisees Luk. 18.12 fasted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. After Christ the Law-day-Sabbath was observed by the Jews men under the Law among whom the Apostles taught and never in one word reproved them Acts 18 2. Paul as his manner was went into the Synagogue to the Jews and three Sabbath dayes reasoned out of the Scriptures with them Note his manner was and thus in many other Scriptures 2. The Lords-day-Sabbath was observed among believers Act. 20.7 On the first or one of the Sabbaths when the Disciples came together to bread bread Paul preached to them c. and that 1 Cor. 16.2 On every first of Sabbaths a command to the Church of Corinth every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him 3. Having shewed you that both the first and the seventh day that under the covenant of the law and that under the covenant of grace Moses Sabbath day and Christs conjunctly are called Sabbaths and so of divine authority alike onely one is a command to men under the law the other to men under grace now I shall shew you how they are distinctly called Sabbaths Heb. 4.4 He speaks of the seventh
that blasphemed God his house shall be destroyed and himself cut in pieces Zech. 5.4 The flying roul entred into the house of him that sweareth falsly by my name and it shall remaine in the midst of his house and it shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof Jezabel swore by her gods and is eaten by dogs and her familly cut off 1 Kin. 19. 2 Kin. 9. III. On a person Levit. 24.15 Whoever curseth his God and he blasphemeth the name of God shall surely dye as well the stranger as he that is born in the land all the Congregation shall stone him Levit. 24.11 The son of an Israelitish woman blasphemed the name of God and cursed and they brought him to Moses and put him in ward until the minde of the Lord were known Verse 14. He is brought out of the Camp and stoned Illustr Davids child dyed because he made the enemy blaspheme 2 Sam. 12. Statute Levit. 19.31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them I am the Lord. Vers 26. Ye shall not use inchantments nor observe times Deut. 18.10 There shall not be found amongst you any that useth divination or any observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with familiar spirits a wizard or a Necromancer all these are an abomination before the Lord. Judgements Exod. 22.18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live Levit. 20.27 A man or woman that hath a familiar spirit or is a wizard shall surely be put to death they shall stone them with stones their blood shall be upon them Vers 6. The soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits and after wizards to go a whoring after them I will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people Note God will cut him off by some judgement this was not to be done by the Magistrate but left to God himself 1 Sam. 28.31 in Saul Statute Levit. 20.22 Ye shall keep all my Statutes and my judgements to do them Verse 23. Ye shall not walk in the manners of the Nations Levit. 18.3 After the doings of the land of Egypt shall ye not do after the doings of the land of Canaan where I bring you shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Verse 4. Ye shall do my judgements and keep mine ordinances Levit. 19.27 Thou shalt not round the corners of thy head nor war the corners of thy beard nor make cuttings in thy flesh for the dead nor print any markes on you Deut. 18.9 Ye shall not do after the abominations of the heathen Observation The Lord bindes the people that have his Statutes to make use of his and not any other ordinances laws or manners Statute Numb 15.30 31. The soul that doth ought presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the Lord and that soul shall be cut off from among his people because he hath despised the word of the Lord and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him O ye Princes and Judges of the people if men judge by other judgements then Gods and have Gods judgements by them to judge by judge ye if they do not presumptuously what they do in so doing that they were to dye for it Note The Jews mixed first heathenish customes in sacrifices in the law the Jews believers in the time of the Gospel mixed Jewish rites and the Gospel-adminstrations together the heathens their rites and the Gospel we now Antichristian superstitions and the way of Gods worship in the Gospel whose manners and customs we ought to abstaine from as the Jews from the heathens Rev. 14.9.10 11. 18.4.8 They being a like abomination before the Lord. 1. The excellency of setting up of the commands and statutes and the government of God by making a covenant with God doth appear most eminently in the national preservation of the Jews from the witchcraft of Balaam who cryeth out to Balack and saith There is no divination against Israel nor enchantment against Jacob Numb 23.23 and the reason is the Lord is his God by covenant and he is with him and vers 8. How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed Chap. 24.9 Blessed is he that blesseth thee and cursed is he that curseth thee which shews had not God been his God witchcrafts inchantments and curses had consumed them 2. Balaam farther saith Numb 23.9 The people shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the Nations When a people make a covenant with God they are then a people which before were not O that in England might be fulfilled that of Rom. 10.19 2. They shall dwell alone being a peculiar people to God 3. Not reckoned among the Nations but separated from them in their laws goverment worship of God c. God blessing them when other nations are accursed 3. Then when we covenant rightly into the Lord he sets his name upon us and we called the people of God and not before And to these and not others is the name of God a strong tower the righteous fly unto it and are safe they coming unto the Lord as to their God and refuge God being their refuge and hiding place which he is not to any other nation but these Treason called crimen laesae majestatis against God is contained in these three commands and many traitors there are amongst us 1 Sam. 2.25 Concerning the Treatise of the Sabbath 1. From Adam to Moses the authority was by tradition and the first-born was priest 2. By tradition Christ was discovered in the promise to Adam to many nations 2. The authority was from Scripture in the ten commands and other judicial precepts 1. Under it the traditional authority ceased 2. The priesthood of the first-born ceased and was given Aaron 3. Now sacrifices of other were offered to devils 4. This was only for the seventh-day-Sabbath 5. This Sabbath was a part of and sign to the first covenant 3. Christ comming was the Angel of and Mediator to a better covenant 1. The sign whereof is the first-day-Sabbath 2. As this is of the second covenant so it cannot be mixt with the first but are to be reserved distinct and not confounded for as the two covenants cannot be one so nor can the Sabbaths Appl. Hence then to force obedience of one on all is to destroy the other 2. To force the world to observe the first-day-first-day-Sabbath is to destroy the use of the day and make void the grace of God 3. In destroying any of the Sabbaths is to destroy the covenant and to take away the very signe thereof as at this day it is done by and amongst us Command the Fourth Exod. 20.8 Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy Statute EXod 23.12 Thou shalt rest the seventh day that thy Ox and Ass may rest
Elias he is sent to Bethel 2 Kings 2.2 at Bethel it is without question he taught in that School and among the rest told the Children of the Prophets ver 3. that the Lord would take him away being Elishas Master from his head that day and the same being sent to Jericho in vers 4.5 where the Jews received that tradition of his teaching in their Schools that Elias shall first come Matth. 17.10 11. That passage of 1 Sam. 19.20 24. was an extraordinary case to preserve David in which Saul and his inessengers were changed as before in Esau when he came against Jacob and that of Sauls meeting the Prophets 1 Sam. 10.3 5. which were given him for signes to confirm him by in Gods electing of him 5. These Schools were in all Towns usually as our Grammar-Schools are having onely the reading of the Law and the Prophets used among them who were according to their several capacities taught and distinguished as in our Schools by forms and places one from the other In which nor Cato nor Virgil nor Homer nor Aristotle were not usually read but the commands of God by the knowledge whereof God was honoured and they sanctified 6. In this study and society God would manifest himself when he would not in the obscene readings of Ovid and the lying fables of the other Poets 7. In this teaching men were not devoted hereunto onely but had other callings to employ themselves in to live by and were taught also in these Schools one part of the day as Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel was by his profession a Tent-maker 8. Out of the Word Astrologie and other natural Philosophy may be deduced with Tropes Metaphors and Figures Geographie c. by which men may be better acquainted with the Word then now they are This is the wisdom of a people and not the knowledge of the custom of Heathens which onely tends to make men such and justifies them 9. Lawyers hereby may be made and rightly fitted to judge according to the Lord. 10. Every man is rightly taught to live in their youth according to Gods law as David Psal 11 9.9 98 99. verses 11. Now if they offend they dye more justly being taught the sence and sentence of the law Appl. Ye Universities the wrath of God will break out upon you your dayes are numbred and your time neer come in which you will see that it is not a reformation will serve your turn or save you from the decree 2. Ye princes of the people in Parliament a people are rude without learning O be intreated to convert sufficient maintenance to the maintaining of some freely to teach in all towns 1. To teach the Hebrew reading to some 2. To teach the moral or judicial law to others 3. The prophets to others and their meaning 4. To teach the Greek and in those schools only read the Histories of Jesus Christ written by Matthew Marke c. with the Epistles of the Apostles 1. As for Latine and the long time spent in obtaining thereof the time is coming that the authors and learning laid up in their writings will be of little or no use to the world God will instruct them with better of his own The time is coming knowledge shall cover the earth as water the seas and all those mighty Libraries be but lost matter 2. It is as a bage of the Roman conquest which will cease with that Empire in a maner amongst us the laws and true learning being turned into our own language 3. By this means in the meetings on the seventh day sabbath the gifts and knowledge of every particular person either in his exact reading of the law or understanding of the mystery or prophesie of the prophets comes to be made use of and exercised they being herein a nation of Priests and so would beget much wisdome and emulation for knowledge in every man and comfort in every man by seeing and knowing the gifts and profittings of his children in the law who would come to be spurs and goads to provoke the elder to a more diligent search of the law and knowledge thereof that they may not be under the teaching of children that they shall speak and themselves be dumbe they going beyond the elders in describing the history and in opening the mysteries of the law and prophets In this estate of Moses or mens being under the law was no priesthood at all yet is he preached every seventh day Acts 15.21 when and where the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teaching did what he could to make men from Moses to Jesus Christ in a right and true way Act. 21.21 whence though many are called few are chosen The priesthood in the time of Moses belonged to the temple and was conferred on Aaron and his sons who taught not the law in the Synagogues those that taught there sate in Moses not Aarons chaire or priestly succession Moses being before Aaron Jer. 7.22 23. The which priesthood ceasing and another even that of Christs being now instituted of God and set up in the place thereof in the Church called from Moses consisting of believers which was given to the Apostles and their true successors to administer under the Lord Jesus which call no man was to take on him but according to the Lords institutions who were to attend on that place of ministry whereas Evangelists pastors or teachers as they were called to minister before the Lord under Jesus Christ who were not to be cumbred about any worldly occasions 2 Tim. 2.4 Luk. 9.33 Let us make three tabernacles one for thee one for Moses one for Elias The tabernacle was the place God first had his worship set up in under Moses and Aaron and here signifieth moveableness 1. The service of God under Moses and under the law is meant under tha◠tabernacle for Moses 2. The service of God under Christ and grace is meant by the tabernacle for thee or Christ 3. Which administrations falling in the hiding of the Church are againe to be restored in our dayes by that Elias in that tabernacle is attributed to him How men came from Moses to Christs administration is most excellently set forth Rom. 7.1 6. Moses disciples were taught the letter of the ten commands Christ taught his disciples the commands in the spiritual part of it as Mat. 5. which are called by Christ my commands in which his disciples were to walk with God in a more holy and more acceptable way which commands the world could not receive In the New Testament three Scriptures respect Magistrates supream and subordinate 1. The which are kings and their deputies 1 Tim. 2.2 Rom. 13.1 The powers that be viz. Nero's and his deputies are ordained of God Thus 1 Pet. 2.13 to kings as supreme vers 14. or to governors as to them that are sent by him 2. God ordained no powers but Kings and Judges and the Kings of the Nations from whom the Jews took