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-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
was not made with the Nation or people of the Jews by Moses Jer. 7.22 23 24. Josh 8. ult 2 Cor. 3.14.15 2. There was a new covenant in which not Moses but Christ is the Mediator which is a better covenant having not the law written in tables of stone but in the heart Heb. 8.10 which had better promises vers 6. and Christ said to be a Priest of good things to come which was only made with believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in whom the law is kept only and indeed in shadow of which God after covenanting with him in the Mosaical covenant he gave Aarons Priesthood from Exod. 25. to the end Note As a Nation cannot subsist without rule and government in any order nor be without food and raiment nor continue or remaine if God curse them and bless them not so it is necessary for these that a National Covenant be made with God by us for the binding our selves to God to keep his commandments Statutes and Judgements and is as necessary for us as ever it was for the Jews by which God becomes engagedly the God of a Nation and they again his people and not nationally as before for by the new covenant God is not the God of a nation but of believers onely in a nation joyned to Christ in the way of the Gospel Object The New covenant implyes God hath made the first Old and that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish Heb. 8.13 Resp As Christ and Moses destroyed not one another nor the Gospel destroyes not the law so nor doth one covenant destroy another nor is the first covenant old but to those only that are in the second in which the first is as it were swallowed up or received into But to those that are onely under the first To them the first is so as if there were not a second and those under the second are so under that as if the first were not Note Men are to be first under the first or Sinai and thence come to Sion Heb. 12.18 22. and so Moses is a Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ Gal. 4.24 Rom. 9.4 Heb. 9.15 12.18 24. Illust As in the beginning of the goverment of the Jews Commonweal there was a rule set up for Judgement among the people called judicial laws to govern them by in which was the Kingly goverment of God and the law called the Royal and there was likewise the Levitical Law which appertained to the service of the tabernal in which Christs Priesthood was set out in things appertaining to God for the people which distinct estates are in a kind reserved among us this day in the Church and State As in Moses and Aaron so now should it be Moses and Christ But the Romans conquering Judea according to the prophecie Gen. 49.10 they put down their rule and government that they could put no man to death Judgement was now altered into the customs of the heathens and there ever since it hath continued and no nation in the world ever since taking God or God taking them to be his people as of old though lately we in a wrong way seemed to do it for at the renewing of the covenant the law and the statutes and judgements were only read and the people ingaging themselves to keep them a never did any Gospel-Church do any such thing nor shall ever do it nor were they the Church-paterns Antichrists mark is set down to be 2 Thes 2.8 one that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 without law that is he exerciseth not the law of God 〈…〉 up the covenant of the law but brings all the world and 〈…〉 to one estate which if he had not done or if we do not do we shall finde the one is as necessary among men in the world as the other in the Church And hence Antichrists workings are called the mystery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of lawlesness by whom the laws administrations are destroyed Object If we have this covenant we must have circumcision Resp The Apostle clears it Gal. 3.17 The covenant that was confirmed in circumcision before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty yeers after cannot disannul Now this covenant I speak of is distinguished from that by Moses thus Deut. 5.3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers but with us in Horeb even us who are all of us alive this day John 7.22 Moses gave you you circumcision not because it is of Moses but of the fathers Quest If this covenant be not sufficient to make men capable of baptism and whether men were not circumcised by this Resp Men were not circumcised by this but that other covenant spoke of Deut. 5.3 and was long before this 2. Baptism belongs to the second not first covenant in which God becomes our God not by doing but believing not by works but grace not in Moses but Christ Object The Apostles required not this in their time Resp 2 Pet. 3.13 They looked for a New Earth that is a restoration of that administration of the law to be but not untill the fall of Antichrists rule and government being of the fourth Monarchy 2. The law was for the worlds government that that they did concerned the Church and the new covenant onely and not the world 2 Chron. 15.12 13 14 15 Nehem. 8.1 2 3 4. Note Both covenants are necessary when they may be had and without the covenants is no promise Eph. 2.12 the heathens were Aliens from the civil estate of Israel Beza and strangers from the covenant of promise speaking of them both And thus it is with us this day Of Judges Note The Lord hath promised he will restore Judges as at the first Isa 1.26 and in them judgement and it was the great wrath of God that they were taken away out of the middest of the people Amos 2.3 and would it not be a mercy if this people might have them that never had them as at the first The first were of Gods institution and best those of other forms since of men and far worse O let our Judges be as at the first Moses the first of Judges by Jethro's advice Exod. 18.16 dissolved Monarchy in rule laying it down for his own and the peoples ease God consenting thereunto gave the people laws to be governed and Judges to govern them by who are described to the people Exod. 18.22 that they chuse not amiss who in the beginning of the government and after were chosen of the people Deut. 1.13 16.18 for which service men may be easily fitted in that the law was daily read in the Synagogues which was expounded by the Prophets and wise men sent of God to them which cannot be done in our law it was the Sabbath-work and service of God to teach it daily in publike and private and shall this law be thus laid aside neglected and not studied for the bramble-rule of the world and was subverted 1
widdow every such man and woman convict of such offence 1. Shall be committed to common goale three moneths 2. Shall give security to be of the good bahaviour for one whole yeer Note 1. If the man be a young man or widdower then he was to marry the maid or unmarryed woman or widdow by the law of God and not to be prisoned bound c. 2. If he be a marryed man then the case is adultery as in the womans before that was marryed to another man and the judgement death 3. If you had put them to death by Gods law ye would not have said it should be death after such a day Gods law not taking beginning then nor establishment from us or at least until then we were not under Gods law nor was it declared to the nation in the name of Gods law but mans as an Act of Parliament onely Statute Levit. 19.20 Whoever lyeth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid or apprentice betrothed to an husband and not at all redeemed nor freedom given her Judgement 1. She shall be scourged 2. They shall not be put to death because she was not free This nor many other cases are not excepted in the late Act. Statute Levit. 20.11 12. The man that lieth with his fathers wife or daughter-law Judgement They are to be put to death their blood shall be upon them In this law only adulterers dye the man because he humbled his neighbours wife whether betrothed onely or marryed the woman because she broke the covenant of her God In which is much justice In this law ravishments of such as are unmarryed and neither of them betrothed are freed from death either by marriage or corporal or penal punishments which is of exceeding mercy Who shall do more in one or less in the other and be innocent before God O where is law or justice or mercy or righteousness but in this law of the Lord how then shall we yet justifie and set up our own and condemne and suppress the law of the Lord This command is broken by intemperance or insobriety in meat drink and apparel the evil whereof especially that of drunkenness abounds in this Nation and is very great before the Lord. Command Wo to him that giveth his neighbour drink that puttest thy bottle to him and makest him drunken that thou mayest look on their nakedness Habac. 2.15 16. deprived of his place in Church and world as a master an owner c. Esth 1.8 In Ahasuerus great feast the drinking was according to the law none did compel for the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according to every mans pleasure It is emphatical God distinguisheth his law from the statutes of Kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so Ezra 8.36 Yet this is to be observed though it serves for a law with us being sanctified and become part of the word of God in which it excells other kings laws though it come short of Gods By this word the other commands of the King are set forth Isa 5.11 Wo to them rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink that continue until night that wine inflame them and the harp and pipe and viol are in their feasts c. Vers 22. Wo to them are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink Isa 56.12 Come ye say they we will fetch wine and will fill our selves with strong drink Mat. 24.49 He was the evil servant eat and drank with the drunken Judgement Quer. Whether the violence of Lebanon a holy violence Hab. 2.17 be not of Habakkuks drunkenness that his estate be taken from him and bestowed on those are to inherit to preven the evil on his family the land and City Thus in Abigail 1 Sam. 2 5.18.19 Gal. 5. Shall not inherit the kingdome of God 1 Cor. 11.21 the Church-drunkards had the plague among them Hos 4.11 Wine and drunkenness take away the heart Deut 29.19 20. Isa 28.3 The crown of pride the drunkards of Ephraim shall be troden under foot have no imployment nor honor among men but be as that vessel in whom is no delight Vers 4. Their beauty and glory which consists in riches and greatness shall be as a fading flower and hasty fruit before summer Joel 1.5 God would have one generation tell another that the plagues of palmer canker locust were for drunkenness Vers 7. The priest and prophet err through wine and strong drink they err in vision and stumble in judgement and are out of the way Vers 8. All tables are full of vomit and filthiness so that there is no place clean 1 Sam. 25.36.37 Prov. 23.20 21 29 30. Hab. 2.16 Thou art filled with shame for glory drink thou also and let thy foreskin be uncovered The word in the original signifieth the taking away of one out of his place The cup of the Lords right hand shall be turned to thee and shameful spewing shall be one thy glory Vers 17. The violence of Lebanon shall cover thee and the spoile of heasts which made them afraid because of mens blood and for the violence of the land and the City and all that dwell therein Gen. 9.23 Jer. 13.13 This drunkenness brought forth that in which King Priests Prophets inhabitants fathers and sons became drunk spiritually and dash one against another Deut. 21.18 The son on his fathers exhortation would not leave his drunkenness was stoned as in vers 20. by all the men of his City Command the Eighth Exod. 20.15 Thou shalt not steal Statute Levit. 27.28 29. PSalm 76.12 Vow and pay to the Lord all ye that are round about him Deut. 12.17 Thou shalt not eat thy vows thou vowest to God Numb 30. The case of vows is handled when lawful when not in a man vers 2. a maid vers 3. 5. a wife vers 6 7 8. a widdow vers 9. to the end Judgement Jephthah Judges 11.31 36 39. 1. Not to pay is sacriledge or theft from God 2. The punishment exemplary in Ananias and Sapphira Acts 5. vers 1. to the 10. Appl. To Parliament people c. to remember the vows of God on your souls they are not paid God requires them Statute Exod. 21.16 He that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hand c. Deut. 24.7 If he be found making merchandise of an Israelite or stealing of him or selling of him Judgement He shall surely be put to death Prov. 28.24 Statute Levit. 19.11 Ye shall not steal nor deal falsly one with another Exod. 22.1 If he steal an oxe and kill or sell it He shall restore five oxen If he steal a sheep and kill or sell it He shall restore four sheep Vers 4. If the theef be found in his hand certainly and alive whether it be oxe ass or sheep He shall restore double Statute Vers 7. If a man shall deliver money or scuff to keep and it