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A47791	God's Sabbath before, under the law and under the Gospel briefly vindicated from novell and heterodox assertions / by Hamon L'Estrange ...	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1188; ESTC R14890	92,840	157

they had the benefit of them as some have not set down content to believe that the prophesie of Enoch mentioned by S. Jude was written and that what Josephus relateth of the Pillars errected by the posterity of Seth is true but they conceive also that Adam and all the succeeding Patriarchs compiled the histories of their own times But how Moses attained his knowledge I leave to the disquisition of them who affect curiosities yet this give me leave to note as received amongst the best Divines That the holy Ghost was not so much an intelligencer as a directer and guide to Moses in the framing the history of Genesis For the omniscient Wisdome foreseeing that it would not be alwayes safe to make Tradition the perpetuall depositary of so rare choice a jewel as the story of his Primitive Church which might either through carelesnesse loose part of what was betrusted to her or under colour of sole possessing the Truth vend counterfeit and sophisticate stuff thought it necessary for the good of his Church that a set and certain story of the first times should be compiled to which purpose he selected Moses as his Amanuensis and Register aiding him extraordinarily with his holy Spirit by whose assistance he was enabled to distinguish truth from fables which had by surreption intruded exactly to describe many minute circumstances of time place persons names c. which memory was not able to comprehend and to digest it into that perfect order wherein we now see it So that one way or other either by tradition or letters or both the precise seventh day could not at that time have been lost or forgot and consequently that no cause for the Sabbath to begin at the fall of Manna And was there any other what To be a preamble and preparation to the subsequent Sabbath this would be proved A preparation to the after strictnesse of the Sabbath it was that I confesse not to the Sabbath it self this I deny an introduction it might be to the solemnity of the Sabbath which began after not so to the Sabbath it self which was long before For though it was but in its minority but magni nominis umbra a very shadow of the after celebrity yet a Sabbath it was and the seventh day Sabbath too and this not my singular assertion but the consent of the most profound Doctours as well ancient as modern So the Fathers Origen a What was afterward commanded in the Law concerning the Sabbath the same Job both observed himself and taught his children to do the like Cyprian b This septenary number gained Authority from the creation of the world because the first works of God were made in six dayes and the seventh was dedicated to rest as sacred it being honoured with the solemnity of a command and entitled to the sanctifying Spirit Basil c The Sabbath which was the seventh day from the first creation is a type of our perfect Rest in the remission of our sinnes Nazianzen d The Creation began on the Lords day as is evident because the seventh from it is made the Sabbath bringing rest from labours Athanasius e As long as the first age or Creation was inforce so long the Sabbath was observed Epiphanius f mentioneth a twofold Sabbath under the old Law the Naturall or Weekly which was defined from the Creation the Legall or Ceremoniall which was enjoyned by the law of Moses At the heels of the Fathers follow the Schoolmen who busying themselves about nicer subtilties have left us little of their opinions concerning the Sabbath Alexander Halensis a the irrefragable Doctour though he thinketh the Sabbath was not observed by virtue of any precept before the Law yet he granteth that it was inspired as a thing meet and fit to be observed All these before Ambrose Catharine b he then not the first that understood Moses according to the letter nor yet the last no not of his own Partie Genebrard c The Sabbath was sanctified in Paradise which was also observed all the time till the Law promulgated as the Hebrews and Lyranus upon Gen. 7. deliver And in another place he telleth us out of Rabbi Abraham that Job did observe it Cornelius à lapide d It is manifest that the Sabbath was instituted and established not first by Moses Exod. 20. but long before to wit from the beginning of the world Salianus also in his Ecclesiasticall Annals doth at large refute the Prolepsis as absurd As for Protestant writers whether they be Lutheranes Calvinists or our own English we dare vie it with the Anticiparians and give them oddes two for one at least and bate the preciser sort too Luther e himself shall lead the van The Sabbath was destined from the beginning of the world to religious worship Baldwin f The Sabbath was observed from the Creation Calvin in Exod. apud a Prideaux Gualter b Doubtlesse the Fathers before the Law diligently observed the Sabbath P. Martyr c That people rest from labour one day in the week did not onely appertain to Moses Law but had beginning from Gen. 2. Zanchy d I doubt not mine own I relate without prejudice to others opinions I doubt not I say but the Sonne of God in humane shape was all this seventh day busied in most holy colloquies with Adam but he fully revealed himself to him and Eve shewed him how and in what order he created all things wisht him to meditate upon these works and in them to praise and acknowledge the True God his Creatour taught him that after his example every seventh day all labour set aside he should spend in this exercise of Pietie c. What could modesty her self more modestly assever he doth not imperiously obtrude for truth what he saith he onely telleth you his own conceit and it hath ever been permitted for men in such cases as this both to think what they will and speak what they think as the Historian saith Can any therefore but wonder that the bare delivery of a private opinion so soberly without incrochment upon others liberties should gain the Authour no better esteem then to be reckoned amongst lying Legendaries and fabulous Rabbines What Zanchy was his works speak him a learned and good man in that repute he lived in that he died I never heard him defamed for a Palephatus or Tale-coyner till now and I hope never shall again a Ursin The Sabbath was commanded from the beginning of the world by God unto all men b Bullinger The Sabbath was observed from the beginning of the world by a law naturall and divine c Beza The Precept of the Sabbath was established in the very Creation of the world even before mans fall and elsewhere he saith that Job did sanctifie at least every seventh day A saucy fellow to controul Justin Martyr his better and therefore is taught manners by my Authour

day God ended his work perhaps those copies which they followed expressed it so or else their aim was to suppresse the seeming discord which they knew not otherwise how to salve A discord indeed I confesse there is yet such an one as disturbeth not the sacred harmony yea rather a discord elegantly gracefull For you must know that in no operation the end is attained whilest the operation is in progression and untill it ceaseth a rest being Perficientis perfectio perfecti c The perfection of the perficient and of the thing perfected Now because rest demonstrateth the motion consummated therefore God is said most properly to have perfected his work on the seventh day whereon he rested so that the finishing and perfecting mentioned in this verse or period is no actuall operation but a mere desisting à motu creationis And indeed Moses giveth the honour of the perfection of the world to both the sixth and the seventh day not without great and weighty cause to the sixth to exclude all thought that God wrought upon the seventh to the seventh to assure us that he did not rest and give over on the sixth For the end of the sixth day gave end to the work of creation and denihilation and the beginning of the seventh gave beginning to Gods rest Therefore it is said that On the seventh day God perfected the work which he had made viz. on the six dayes before whence it is that Junius and Mercer a render it in the preterpluperfect tense Cùm absolvisset Deus When God had now perfected his work meaning that as soon as the seventh day arrived it might be truly said God had now perfected his work b And perfected it was undoubtedly on the sixth day God did not abruptly break off till he had throughly perfected all I confesse the Jews tell us a pretty story c How that God about the end of the sixth day was making Faunes Satyres and such imperfect creatures and that the evening of the Sabbath overtook him so fast that he was fain to leave them but half made up and therefore on the Sabbath dayes these creatures usually hide themselves in their kennels not daring to look out A perfect Jewish fable and by Mercer suspected to be rather derived from Tradition and heare-say then from any Hebrew Authour extant because he could never in all his reading light upon him for the satisfying of the like doubt in others I have troubled my margine with the Authours name as I find him cited by a Wierus That God gave but one positive law to Adam in Paradise is neither in it self likely nor in respect of repugnant Scripture credible for is it not said that God put Adam into the garden to dresse it was not this a command Augustine b holdeth clear it was so if a command then a law for Lex dicitur à ligando A law is called a law because it bindeth c and every command is so farre as it bindeth a law If then it was a law it must be either merely naturall or positive if merely naturall then immutable still in force and we must all tag and rag turn gardiners or plowmen if it was positive then their Prolepsis halteth on that foot Consider the Law it self and you shall see the positive accrue to the naturall by way of superfoetation Man must be alwayes busie alwayes in action there is the naturall his imployment is limited to tilling of the garden there is the positive law But if Adams apostasie and fall was the same day he was formed as many have thought and is still disputable this argument might well have been spared because the command concerning sanctifying the Sabbath might have been given in his corrupt and vitiated estate If we should yield them what they fain would have viz. that Jacob and the Israelites observed no Sabbath during their thraldome yet shall they never be able to inferre from thence that they had no command concerning it For did they alwayes observe whatsoever was commanded them Moses said to Pharaoh in the person of God Let my people go that they may hold a Feast to me in the wildernesse Was not this Feast some solemn time consecrated and commanded of God to be observed no doubt it was for will-worship is to God abominable Did they keep this Feast Certainly no It is resolved by all Divines ancient and modern the Patriarchs before the Law were by God appointed to offer sacrifice Did the Israelites under Pharaoh keep this commandment the Scripture answereth No God strictly injoyned that every male child eight dayes old should be circumcised was this performed by the Israelites in the wildernesse the Scripture answereth No there was not one circumcised all that while and yet they abode there fourtie years Now if they had upon such occasions a dispensation for not observing of other feasts for not sacrificing for not circumcising might they not have one for the weekly Sabbath also To their last argument from Nehemiah I say The Sabbath was at the time of the law given made known to them yet not then first but in a more solemn manner then before We have a saying none more frequent when the Sunne hath dispelled a cloud or mist and sheweth it self in its brightnesse we then say the Sunne shineth and yet no man is so simple but knoweth it shined before even while it was most befogged though not with equall splendour So the Sabbath is said to be made known to the Israelites upon mount Sinai because it was then as it were revived and proclai●●d in more state and pomp then before And if you restrain it strictly to mount Sinai as the letter seemeth to import you must of necessity offer violence to Exodus 16 where at the fall of Manna it is clear the Sabbath was made known before the Law pronounced on mount Sinai And so the Prolepsis faileth in this her last refuge as in the former Having thus disarmed them of those Reasons wherewith they esteemed themselves sufficiently fortified I now apply my self to their Authority the Authority of men many of them singular both for learning and piety But shall we without more adoe yield to bare Authority Doth the end of dispute depend merely upon what they have said May we not examine the matter yet a little further May we not question whether these men spake as they meant whether their arguments jumped together for did they alwayes so No if Hierome be of any credit The Ancients are sometimes enforced to speak not so much what themselves think as what they conceive may most non-plus the Gentiles This was their policy against the Heathen might not they use it also against the Jews with whom they were in continuall conflict If they spake as they thought might not vehemency of dispute transport them to inconsiderate speeches in their heat and through too eager opposition to one errour to incurre