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A53813	The tryal of the truth or rather, the law is the truth : Psalm CXIX, CXLII, wherein are presented to the upright in heart, certain theoretical queries ... which queries particularly and especially tend to make way for the finding out whether it be our duty to keep holy the seventh day Sabbath ... / propounded by a lover of the truth, I.O., of age 57 years, who desireth that truth be preferred in all things above error, and virtue above vice ...	Ockford, James.	1656 (1656)	Wing O8A; ESTC R41804	18,146	20

And how can the Law be abolished by Christ seeing he came to establish it Luke 16.17 and not to destroy it Mat. 5.17 And if the Law be abolished by Christ why doe his Apostles require Christians to keep it Rom. 3.9 Ephes 6.1.2 James 1.22.25 chap. 2. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. chap. 4. 7. 11. Did they ever command Christians to keep an abolished Law If the Law be abolished by Christ how can it rightly be said that the preaching of faith doth establish it Rom. 3.31 If the Law Exod. 20 be abolished by Christ how then can Christians or any else transgress it seeing sin is not imputed where there is no law Rom. 5.13 Tell me directly you who say the Law is abolished whether you or any else may worship false Gods doe servile or common work on the seventh day Sabbath where necessitie is not disobey Parents kill lie steal c. and not transgresse the written law of God Exod. 20. Q. 12. Whether a spiritual or regenerate man I mean wisdoms sonne though a Gentile by nature is not as truly bound to doe or perform that which is commanded in the spiritual Law Exod. 20. as the natural or unregenerate man is bound to doe or perform the natural Law contained in himself If nay then Q. 13. Why is Wisdoms son required to keep the Law Prov. 3.1 7.1.2.3 1 Cor. 7. Q. 14. If wisdomes sonne is as truly bound to perform that which is commanded in the spiritual Law as the natural man is bound to keep the Law remaining in himself then Q. 15. How can wisdoms sonne without sin neglect or refuse to keep holy the seventh day Sabbath commanded in the Law seeing sin is the transgression of the Law wherein the Sabbath is commanded James 2.10 11. 1 John 3.4 Q. 16. Whether there be any thing or things commanded in Gods Law Exod. 20. which is not meet or fit to be performed by Christians If yea then Q. 17. What thing or things are they let them be manifested and if there be not any unmeet or unfit thing or things commanded in Gods Law Exod. 20. then Q. 18. Why should not Christians as truly and as duly keep the Lords seventh day Sabbath commanded in the fourth Precept of the first Table of Gods Law Ezod 20. as they are to keep the fourth Precept of the second Table of the same Law Q. 19. Whether beleeving Gentiles are not as truly bound in love to abstain from whatsoever God hath forbidden in the Moral Law as they are bound in love to doe whatsoever God hath commanded in the same Law If nay then Q. 20. What is there forbidden in the Moral Law that beleeving Gentiles may doe and not sinne seeing sinne is the transgression of the Law 1 John 3.4 James 2.10.11 And Q. 21. If Christian Gentiles are as truly bound in love to abstain from whatsoever God hath forbidden in the Moral Law as they are bound in love to doe whatsoever God hath commanded in the same Law Q. 22. Why then do we Christian Gentiles as conscionably abstain from doing of servile or common work on the Lords seventh day Sabbath the day abusively called Saturday as they do or ought to honour their Father and Mother commanded in the fifth precept of the same Law Q. 23. Whether the seventh and last day of the week the day called Saturday bee not the day which God blessed and sanctified before or above any one of the six daies of the week to bee the day or time for the performance of his publick worship on it to the end of the world If yea Q. 24. Why then doe Gods chosen people separate the seventh and last day of the weeke for the performance of Gods publick worship on it before or above any one of the other six daies of the week and honour our Creator on it and sanctifie it unto the Lord our God as he commandeth us in the Royal Law seeing God hath made unto us singular promises of heavenly and spiritual blessings upon our keeping of it Isaiah 56.2.3.4.6.7 Luke 11.28 a Honoured Reader if thou intendest to answer to these Queries be pleased to produce if thou canst that God at any time did make any promise of spiritualblessing either to Iew or Gentile on the doing of any thing which God in the first place required not of them For if there be no such thing to be shewen even this thing it self is of great validitie to mamfest that God commandeth his people the Gentiles to keep holy tho seventh day Sabbath And Q. 25. If the seventh and last day of the week be not the day which God blessed and sanctified before or above any one of the fix daies of the week to be the day or time of his publick worship what day is it which God hath blessed and sanctified to that end and how are these Scriptures to be understood Gen. 2.2.3 Exod. 16.26 20.8.9.10.11 31.17 Isaiah 56.2.3.4.5 66.23 Matth. 24.20 And Q. 26. Why did Jesus Christ in the time of his life and his Apostles after his death keep the seventh day Sabbath and constantly worship God on it Luke 4.16.31 Mark 6.2 Acts 13.14.15.16.37.42.43.44 16.13.14 And Q. 27. Why did they command Christians to follow them John 12.26 1 John 2.6 Matth. 10.38 2 Cor. 11.1 Phsl. 3.17 Hebr. 6.12 And Q. 28. If the seventh day Sabbath ought not to be kept by Christians why did the first Christian Churches almost through the whole world for more than the space of two hundred and fifty years after Ghrists death constantly keep the seventh day Sabbath for the worshipping God on it and receiving the holy Mysteries or Sacraments instituted by Christ as Socrates doth manifest they did in his 5. book and 21. chapter after the Greek in his 22. did they do evil therein Q. 29. Whether there be not in these our daies a Sabbath day to be kept holy unto the Lord our God If yea then Q. 30. What day is it if it be not the seventh day Sabbath and who made it Sa abbath Q. 31. And if the seventh and last day of the week the day called Saturday be the Sabbath day as the Word of God doth manifest it is Exod. 16.26 20.10 Deut. 5.14 and as all Declarations and Proclamations given forth by he Parliaments of England doe declare why then should not Christians forbeare to doe common or worldly work on it and ser it apart holy to the performance of holy and publick worship according to the will of God Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 Levit. 23.3 And Q. 32. Whether it be not presumptuous boldness in any man to say the seventh and last day of the week the day called Satturday is not the Sabbath day seeing so to say is to contradict the express Word of God in the fourth Precept of the Moral Law as also on the other hand whether it be not superstition in men to honour the first daie of the week with the title

him to wrath and incurs his curse Psalm 119.21 Jer. 11.3 except that there bee larger Mercies for erring men then we read of Mat. 7.21 19.17 Q. 45. Whether faith in Christ gives any man acceptance with God to his justification and salvation who neglects a holy walking before God If yea then let it be proved And Q. 46. If faith in Christ doth not give any man acceptance with God to his justification and salvation who neglects a holy walking before God then I would know whether it be possible for any man to walk holily before God who knowingly and wel-pleasingly neglects to walk obediently to that which is commanded of God in the fourth Precept of the Decalogue or Moral law seeing the transgression of that Law is sinne in the smallest word letter or point as it is written by Moses in the Hebrew Text witness these Scriptures Exod. 34.27.28 Deut. 4.13 28.14 27.26 Matth. 5.18 Luke 16.17 James 2.10.11 And Q. 47. If it be not sin to transgress the Law by neglecting or refusing to doe that which is therein commanded how then are the last cited Scriptures to be understood and how is sin to be known Q. 48. Whether every man is not as truly bound to love the Lord his God with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his mind as he is bound to love his Neighbour as himself If yea Q. 49. Then tell me can a Christian man love his Neighbour as himself if he refuse to perform any duty of love commanded in the second Table of the Moral Law If yea prove it And Q. 50. If a man cannot love his neighbour as himselfe who refuseth to perform any duty of love commanded in the second Table of the Moral Law then how can a man love God as he ought who refuseth to performe the duty of love commanded in the first Table of the Moral Law seeing Jesus Christ doth more strongly binde and enjoine every Christian man in love to performe the duties of the first Table of the Moral Law to God then he doth bind or injoine any Christian man to performe the dutie of the second Table of the Moral Law unto his neighbour Mat. 32.21.37.38.39 And further I say if the case standeth thus tell me whether it is not a farre greater and worse sin in men knowingly and wel-pleasingly to leave undone that which God expresly commandeth in the fourth Precept of the first Table Exod. 20. then it is knowingly and wel-pleasingly to doe that which is forbidden in the second Table of the same Law And Q. 51. Whether God in the fourth precept of the Law Exod. 20.8.9.10.11 doth not as truly and as absolutely require us to rest on the seventh day after his example from doing any work thereon as hee doth require us to worke six daies after his example If nay Q. 52. Whether Gods meaning in that which he commandeth in point of the seventh daies Sabbath be contrary unto his words And Q. 53. If Gods meaning in the point of the seventh daies Sabbath bee contrary to his words tell mee then what his meaning is otherwise or contrary to that which hee commandeth in point of the seventh day Sabbath Exod. 20 And Q. 54. If Gods meaning in point of the Sabbath be contrary to his words why then should wee not as truly and as duly keep holy the seventh day Sabbath commanded in the fourth Precept of the Moral Law and not doe any work thereon after Gods example as wee are for to worke six dayes successively from the first daies worke of the VVorlds creation after his example Surely it appeares to mee and to other devoute Christians we are And that from Genesis 2.2.3 Exod. 20.10.11 compared with Ephes 5.1 And how can it be disproved by any word of God I doe not see nor in the least conceive because God hath joined the dutie of our rest or cessation from worldly work to the seventh day for the words of the fourth Precept of the Decalogue runne thus Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day six daies shal s thou labour and doe all thou hast to doe now note but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not doe any work thou nor thy sonne nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy mayd-servant c. Lo here I find that God hath for ever joined the dutie of rest unto the seventh day the day called Saturday and therefore as long as the day remaineth the dutie of rest on the seventh day remaineth also and not onely on this reason but also because Iesus Christ in Mat. 19.6 saith VVhatsoever God hath joined together let no man put asunder which rule given by our Saviour bindeth not onely in matter of VVedlock but in all matters whatsoever where one dutie is joined to another for the rule is general and therefore it followeth that if we keep not an holy rest and Sabbath on the seventh day we doe not onely violate the Law of God Exod. 20. but also the Law of Christ Mat. 19.6 and therefore surely a great transgression which ought to be lookt to in time for if a man sin against man the Iudge shall judge him but if a man sinne against God who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2.25 Verily I doe not conceive nor in the least beleeve that men can neglect to doe that which God commandeth without sinning And therefore as the case standeth it behoveth every man to prove and examine his own waies and doings by the word of God that they may know whether the first day of the week be to be kept or set apart by Gods command or by mens will and appointment contrary to the will of God And to this end I demand Q. 55. VVhether the Church or old Fathers after the death of the Apostles did change or translate the seventh daies rest unto the first day of the week to be set apart for publick worship If yea then from whom had they authority so to doe If from God where doe we read of it If from man who was it and who gave him authoritie so to doe And if of themselves how could that be in the way of righteousnesse seeing Gods Church is ever forbidden to diminish from his word Deut. 4 2. 12.33 Eccles 3.14 Prov. 30 6. Gal. 3.15 And Q. 56. If the Church or the old Fathers did not change or translate the seventh daies Sabbath to the first day of the week why doe a Institut lib. 2. chap. 8.533 Calvin b Bu●●ing in his godly Serm. pag. 140. Bullinger c Declar. Bapt. pag. 96. Frith d Answer to Dr. Moore chap 25. Tindall e In his Comment on Exod. 20. pag. 369. Dr. VVillet f In Cathech pag. 989. Vrsinus g Passat on pag. 19. in an ancient Cop. Bunni h In his Treatise on the Sabb. in Answer to Mr. Byfield Mr. Brerewood say they changed it from the