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A91419	A treatise of the Sabbath. Wherein is contained the time of the first institution of it. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained. Whereunto is annexed A treatise of holy time: and therein the great question about the beginning and ending of the Lords Day is largely discussed: and in both sundry cases of conscience are handled, and many texts of scripture are opened, the practice of the churches in New England are inquired into / by William Pynchon, late of New England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4314; Thomason E816_5; Thomason E816_6; ESTC R210987	130,807	159

only the finishing of the visible Creation but of the mysticall and spirituall Creation also which must be finished I mean some of that kind by the Seed of the woman before the Host of Heaven can be said to be finished for the Host of the third heavens must be finished as well as the Host of the visible heavens before the end of the sixth day The like mystical interpretation I shall give of the word Rested Blessed c. when I come at them In brief I apprehend that there are ten severall words in the said three verses that must be expounded in a mystical sense as well as in a literal 1 The word Heavens 2 The word Earth 3 The word Finished 4 The word Host 5 The word Made 6 The word Rested 7 The word Blessed 8 The word Sanctified 9 The word Sabbath 10 The word Seventh But my work in this Chapter is only to prove that Adam and Reason 1. Drawn from Gen. 2. 1. If all the Host of Heaven and Earth were finished before the seventh day ●hen it must needs follow that Adam and Eve were Re-created before the seventh day Eve were Re-created before the seventh day that is to say in the latter part of the sixth day and this I will endeavour to prove by a necessary consequence drawn from the first verse which runs thus And the heavens and the earth were finished and all the Host of them Hence I reason thus If all the several sorts and kinds of creatures which appertained to the Host of Heaven and Earth were finished before the seventh day then Adam and Eve were Re-created before the seventh day for Gods Host was not finished untill some of that sort of creatures were finished which did appertain to the Host of the Church Militant here upon earth and to the Host of the Church Triumphant in heaven But all the severall sorts and kinds of creatures which appertained to the Host of heaven and earth were finished before the seventh day as the text doth plainly speak Therfore Adam and Eve were Re-created before the seventh day and did appertain to the Host of the Church Militant here on earth and to the Host of the Church Triumphant in heaven before the seventh day or else God did not finish all the Host of heaven and earth before the seventh day which is to deny and contradict the words of the Holy Ghost It is out of question therfore that the souls of Adam Eve were Re-created and made perfect by the Redemption of the Promised Seed before the seventh day for that sort of creature doth appertain to the heavenly Host as well as the Angels and to Gods spiritual Host and Church here upon earth and in that respect the godly converts are called by the Figure Continent for the for the thing contained The new Heavens and the new Earth in which dwelleth Righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3. 13. And it i● further evident that such redeemed persons are a true part of Gods Host here upon earth because the Scripture calls the Church of Israel when it was redeemed out of Egypt the Lords Host Exod. 12. 41. Exod. 38. 8. Num. 1. 3. And wicked Antiochus is said to tread down Gods Host or Army underfoot when he persecuted the Church Dan. 8. 14. yea all and every part of Gods Militant Church here upon earth is called Gods Host or Army Psal 110. 3. Adam and Eve therefore must not onely fall into the spiritual death of sin in the day of their creation but they must also be Re-created the same day as a principal sort of those creatures which God did create and provide both for his earthly and also for his heavenly Host for the Text saith That the Heavens and the Earth were finished and all the Host of them which must be understood of every several sort of Host not numerically of the whole number but specifically of the severall kinds of each Host for no new thing of a new kind was created after the sixth day Therefore seeing God did finish all the Host of heaven and earth before the seventh day he must needs Re-create Adam and Eve before the seventh day that so they might be a part of his Militant Church Host or Army here upon earth to maintain an utter enmity against Sathan and his seed Gen. 3. 15. and so from the first sixth day and forwards God will have a Militant Church to continue here upon earth to fight the warfare of Christ against Sathan and his seed to the end of the world Reason 2. It is further evident that Adam was Re-created by the Promised Seed in the day of his creation by another Inference Reason 2. If God had made something in the former part of the sixth day that needed a new act of finishing before the seventh day then wh●t else can that finishing act be but Adams Recreation by the Promised Seed taken from the word Had finished as it is joyned to the word Had made vers 2. From the frame of these words as they are laid down in the Pretertense it is evident that before the seventh day namely in the latter part of the sixth day God had finished some of that work which he had made but mutably perfect in the former part of the sixth day Hence I reason thus God had made some of his works so mutably perfect in the former part of the sixth day that there needed a new act of finishing or perfecting the same before the seventh day and what else can that finishing act be but Adams Re-creation by the Promised Seed and the putting of all the re rest of the Creation at the very instant of Adams fall under the Dominion and Lordship of the Promised Seed And this must needs be so because God had made appointed or fore ordained Christ to be the right Heir of all his Creation and uphold all things by the word of his powerfull providence Heb. 1. 2 3. and in that respect Adam must fall and be Re-created on the day of his creation that so the right Heir Christ Jesus might come into actual possession of all the Creation by means whereof the Heavens and the Earth and all their Host was finished before the seventh day and in this respect Christ is eminently stiled Jehovah Sabbaoth that is to say The Lord of all Hosts Ps 24. 10. because they were made for his service that he as their proper Lord might rule them and govern them all for it is said See also ch 4 ch 6 at Sixthly That by him all things consist Col. 1. 17. and in this respect also he is called The Lord of all the whole world and of all things therein Jos 3. 11. Act. 10. 36. Phi. 2. 11. Ps 24. 1. Neh. 9. 6. To him also doth appertain the Dominion of the Heavens and of the heaven of heavens the earth and all that is in them Deut. 10. 14 15. And because all Government is his therefore it

not made with Man in innocency but after his Fall therefore the Sabbath was not ordained to be a sign of this everlasting Covenant till after Adam fell and therefore Adam fell and before the seventh day Reas 2. Because God ordained sundry other things to be sanctified types and signs of mans resting on Christ by faith as Synonima to the rest of the seventh day as any that have their understandings wel exercised in the Scriptures may easily discern 1 Consider this that God sanctified the outward rest of all the Festival Sabbaths as the type of our resting on the Seed of the Woman by faith for the breaking of the Devils head-plot and this is evident by Moses description of them in Levit. 23. there he reckons up eight several Festival Sabbaths in order but hee puts the seventh day first because it is the chiefest of them all for it is the ground and foundation of all the rest and it is to be specially noted that Moses doth call the seventh day a Festival Sabbath ver 2. as well as all the rest and yet it was no Feasting Sabbath in respect of Belly-cheer as the rest were except in a Spiritual sense and in that sense the Holy Rest of them all did typifie the same spiritual resting on the seed of the Woman and the same spiritual feasting on the propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ for Mans redemption which was typified by their feasting on their Peace-offerings on their Festival Sabbaths and so the day of Attonement though it were a day of strict fasting yet it was a day of Spiritual feasting and resting on the promised Seed as the seventh day was 2 The sanctified rest of the seventh day did typifie the same things that Josuahs rest did for in six years War he conquered the Canaanites and in the seventh year the Land rested The Apostle doth make this rest and the rest of the seventh day to bee both alike Heb. 4. for he doth first make them to typifie our Spiritual rest on Christ by faith and secondly to typifie our eternal rest in Heaven at last Heb. 4. 3. 9 10. Heb. 4. 3 9 10 3 The Sabbatical years of rest in Lev. 25. and the Sabbatical Jubile of rest which is also called a great Sabbath in Levit. 25. 4. did alike typifie our resting on Christ by faith for our full deliverance from the servitude of Satan just answerable to the typical rest of the seventh day and in that respect Moses doth Exod. 23. 10 11 12. compare the typical rest of them all together in Exod. 23. 10 11 12. None can be ignorant of the manifold great troubles that did often fall out upon Gods people in the Land of Canaan soon after the rest which it had in Joshuahs seventh year but yet notwithstanding so sweet was that rest which Joshua obtained for them after six years War that God was pleased to make that year of rest to begin the Chronologie of all their Sabbatical years of rest from thence till all ended in the Death and Sacrifice of Christ who is the true rest of all beleeving sinners and by allusion to this typical rest our Saviour doth invite all poor and heavie laden sinners to come unto him and they shall find rest to their souls Matth. 11. 29. Es 11. 10. Eze. 34. 15 25 27 28 Jer. Mat. 11. 29 33. 15 16. Jer. 30. 10. And our Saviour in Luke 4. 19. doth expound the true nature of Luk. 4. 18 19 that spiritual rest that was typified by the Sabbatical rest of the Jubile 1 By calling it the acceptable year of the Lord and 2 By telling us in vers 18 that God had annoynted him to preach the Gospel to the poor to heal the Broken-hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives and recovering of Sight to the Blind and that he should set at liberty them that are bruised this opens the sweet rest and refreshing of Soul that every poor humbled sinner doth finde by the seed of the Woman in breaking the Devils Head-plot for their deliverance help and healing And this famous deliverance by the seed of the Woman was accomplished by his propitiatory sacrifice in a Sabbatical year of Jubilee namely in the twenty eighth Jubilee as may be seen in Broug●tons Consent 4 The redemption of Israel out of Aegypt by the Typical sign of the Bloud of the Paschal Lamb is laid down as the main reason why God did sanctifie the rest of the seventh day in Deut Deut. 5. 14 15 5. 14 15. and that shews that not the Visible but the Spiritual Creation was the true ground and reason why God blessed and sanctified the first seventh day Hence it follows from the Premises that the Holy Rest of the seventh day was a typical sign of our resting on Christ by faith for our redemption from Satans Head-plot Object Why doth God in Exod. 20. 11 command man to rest on the Exod. 20. 11 Sabbath Day from all bis Works because he rested on the seventh day from Creating the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein visible and invisible Col. 1. 16. seeing in Deut. 5. 15. he gives another differing reason as the only ground of commanding man to rest on the Sabbath Day Deut. 5. 15 because Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Aegypt by a strong hand namely by killing all their first born but delivering the first born of Israel by the bloud of the Lamb sprinkled on their door posts as a sign of their redemption c. Answ I answer that the true ground and reason of Gods rest and of his commanding man to rest in both places is alike there is no difference at all if the true sense of both places bee rightly understood for God rested not from the works of Creaation Our Redempt●on from Satans Head-plot was th● last finishing act of th● whole Creation therefore it must needs be the only true reason of Gods rest and of his commanding man to rest on the first seventh day untill he had made the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein as Christ doth testifie Exod. 20. 11. now if all things in Heaven and Earth were made in six days then were the Souls of Adam and Eve Re-created in the said six days as a true part of that sort of Creature which appertains to the spiritual Heavens and to the spiritual Earth and to the Church triumphant in Heaven hereafter and therefore seeing God made all things both in Heaven and Earth in six days he rested not on the seventh day till he had perfected Mans Creation by a Recreation procured by the redemption of the promised Seed which doubtlesse was the finishing work of Gods Creation on the sixth day so then our redemption from Satans Head-plot was the last finishing act of the whole Creation and therefore it was the only true reason of Gods rest on the first Sabbath Day and of his command why man should keep a holy rest

all into his possession 2 Hence follows That Adam must fall and be Re-created on the day of his Creation This is proved by an induction of some pariiculars 1 THe Angels were made to serve the Mediator even at he was ordained to be the seed of the woman Psal 91. 11 12. Heb. 1. 6. and therefore they did sing for joy not onely at the birth of Christ when he was born of the Virgin Mary Luke 2. 14. But doubtl●sse they did as much rejoyce to hear that joyfull news to fallen Adam and Eve that he should be the seed of the woman to break the Devills Head-plot and ever since that day they desire to pry into that joyfull and glorious mystery 1 Tim. 3. 16. 1 Pet. 1. 12. 2 The woman was in a special manner made for the Honour of the Mediator as well as for Admas Society and Posterity for without the womans seed Christ could not have been promised to be the seed of the woman that was fallen and that her seed should break the Devils Head plot Gen. 3. 15. 3 The Sabbath was made for the Honor of the Mediator for he was Lord of the Sabbath even as he was the Son of Man Mar. 2. 28 4 The distinction of the natural day into Morning and Evening was so contrived by Gods providence for the Honour of the Mediator for the glad tydings of his Propitiatory Sacrifice was constantly remembred and typified by the Morning and Evening Sacrifices for that division of the day into morning and evening is a differing division from day night as I have shewed at large in my book of Holy Time and therefore according to the usual time of the Evening Sacrifice Christ performed his Propitiatory Sacrifice of Attonement about the midst of the first Evening for the first natural Evening begins at Mid-day at the first declining of the Sun and continues till Sun-set where the night begins and in the midst of this evening namely about three a clock in the afternoon Christ made his soul an Evening Sacrifice of mans Redemption 5 The several sorts of Beasts and Fowls were made for the Honour of the Mediator and though some of them were by Gods Providence to be of a ravenous kind namely as soon as Adam fell yet they could not destory fallen man from the face of the earth neither could they wholly destory their fellow-creatures that were of a tame kind because the Lord God had ordained a Mediator to be the right Heir of them all and to rule them all by restraining their corrupt desires and guiding them as soon as Adam fell so that the hungry Lions could not devour Daniel without his license and as for the rest of the creatures which were ordained to be of a more quiet and harmless kind God called them clean Beasts and some of them he ordained for the use of Sacrifices as the fittest to typifie the innocency of Christs humane nature and the perfection of his Sacrifice 6 All sorts of creatures were made for the Honor of the Mediator and therefore as soon as Adam fell God put all things in subjection under his feet And there was nothing that was not made subject un●o him Heb. 2. 8. Psal 8. 6. Col. 1. 16. Eph. 1. 22. Yea God made him the head over the spirits of just men made perfect by the Fathers forgivenesse that is to say by the Fathers justification Heb. 12. 23. and that Dominion is called the first or the chief●st Dominion Mic. 4. 8. and this Dominion God gave him in the day of Adams Fall and Re-creation Yea all creatures in general do yeeld obedience unto the Mediator as their proper Lord and Governour Rev. 5. 13. as I have noted more at large in Chap. 3. R. 2. and in Chap. 4. Yea when the Mediator was here upon earth in his humane nature all creatures obeyed him as their Lord for he rebuked the boysterous winds and the raging sea and they obeyed him He commanded the liquid waters to bear him as the dry land and they obeyed him He commanded a hundred fifty three great fishes to come into Peters Net and not to break it and they obeyed him Job 21. He commanded that fish that had swallowed a Stater to come to Peters Angle to pay his tribute and that obeyed him He commanded the Asse-colt whereon never man sate to carry him with all gentlenesse to Jerusalem as if it had been tamed by former riding and it obeyed him He commanded diseases of all sorts to depart from the sick and they obeyed him Yea he commanded the Devils to come out of certain men and women and they obeyed him Yea at the time of Noabs flood He commanded all sorts of creatures as well the wild ravenous kind as the tame kind to come of their own accord into Noabs Ark and to live quietly together and they obeyed him Gen. 7. 89. But the wicked world because they despised the Spirit of Christ in Noab therefore Christ commanded a deluge of water to seize upon their bodies and their souls he sent to the prison of Hell I Pet. 319. 7 God gave the Mediator an absolute Dominion over all Tyrants so that they cannot do as much mischief to his people as they desire For Christ ruleth even in the midst of his enemies Psal 110. 2 5 6 7. Psal 29. 10 11 12. Prov. 8. 15 16. And therefore the Father hath commilled all judgement to his Son because all men should boner the Son as they honor the Father Joh. 5. 22 23. And hath given him Authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of Man Joh. 5. 27. And if he had not been declared to be the Son of Man just upon Adams Fall the Devill would have made a hellish confusion of the Creation at that instant but he was prevented by the right Heir that stood ready to take the Government of all upon him as soon as ever Adam fell From these and the like considerations it is evident that God created the world for the Honor of the Mediator and that he might rule it as the right Heir of it And the Hebrew Doctors have a common saying agreeing with this That the world had not been created but for the Messiab And therefore hence it follows That God could not keep a perfect Rest on the seventh day untill he had put all things in subjection under the feet of Christ as the proper Lord and right Heir of all the Creation and therefore Adam must fall and also be Re-created before the seventh day Conclusion God did perfect the whole Creation on the sixth day by ordering all things according to the Plat-form of his eternal Counsel and Providence 1 By ordering the Devils Fall 2 By ordering Adams Fall 3 By ordaining a Mediator and instating of him into his Priestly Office 4 By creating a humane nature for the Mediator of the seed of Eve 5 By his Office of Mediation he purchased the Spirit of his Father for

where no more can be had may be called a true Church of Christ and may exercise Gods Ordinance after a publick maner Rev. 11 3. Answ Two persons where no more can be had may be called a true Church of Christ and may exercise Gods Ordinances in a true publick manner for the Church of Christ under the persecutions of Antichrist is called by the name of Two Witnesses Rev. 11. 3. though the Church of Christ were many thousands in those times yet it is called by the name of Two Witnesses because by Moses Law two Witnesses were accounted sufficient to confirm any truth Deut. 17. Hence I infer that if no more but two can be had to testifie the truth against An●ichrist they are to be esteemed as a true Church of Christ and therefore they may be called a true Church of Christ as well as two thousand and our Saviour saith That where two or three are gathered together in his name there he will be present in the midst of them Matth. 18. Mat. 18. 19 20 19 20. Simeon and Levy made a Church when they agreed together to Gen. 49. 6 destroy the Sichemites for Jacob saith of them thus My glory be thou not joyned with their Kahal that is to say with their Church Gen. 49. 6. Their Church I grant was a Church of evill doers but yet they were a sufficient number to make a Church though at this time overcome with the temptation of revenge then why might not Re-created Adam and Eve make a Church of Christ much more and so consequently injoy Gods Ordinances as publick Ordinances seeing God did blesse the seventh day with Ordinances and sanctifie it that is to say God did command them to sanctifie it by the use of the said ordinances I conclude therefore that Christ Jesus did command Adam and Eve to exercise those Ordinances wherewith he was pleased to blesse the Sabbath as a Church of Christ and from thenceforth he hath and will continue his Church upon the face of the earth to the worlds end though it may and hath oftentimes been brought to a very small number as it was at the Flood and at the building of Babel and in the dayes of Abraham when God called him to come away from his Country and from his Idolatrous kindred Gen. 12. and in the dayes of Job and in the dayes of Enosh for after Seth had lived a hundred and five yeers which was G●n 4. 2● two hundred thirty five yeers from the Creation of Adam then many of Adams children did not abide in the Truth they did not regard the Sabbath nor the Sabbath Ordinances but they regarded the Daughters of Cain more than the children of God and took them wifes of all that they liked And then grew prophanesse instead of calling upon the name of Lord Gen. 4. 26. Godly Seth for very grief of this prophane generation called his son Enosh that is to say Sorrowful So Tremelius in his Elder Editions doth read the text though Junius hath since altered him to a clean contrary sense and so doth Mr. Broughton read it and all the Hebrew Doctors in general and Mr. Ainsworth comes neer them But if the children of the Church had but continued to regard the holy Sabbath and the Ordinances thereof as they did in The disregarding of the Sabbath and the Ordinances thereof is the high way to all prophaness and Apostacy Adams first dayes before A●el was killed for Religion they could not have faln into so deep an Apostacy as they did in the dayes of Enoch for if men will but reverently attend unto the exercise of those spiritual Ordinances wherewith God did first blesse the seventh day they should doubtlesse be made partakers of the spiritual blessing that Christ Jesus hath annexed thereto for the good Shepherd Christ Jesus hath promised to all his Sheep that will be guided and governned by his Ordinances That he will make them and the places round about his Hill and to be a blessing and that there shall be showers of blessing upon them Ezek. 34. 26. and so the Prophet Isaiah Ezek. 34. 26. testifieth saying Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath and p●luteth it not and that taketh hold of my Covenant as Adam did when he beleeved that the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head them will I bring to my holy Mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer their Burnt-offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine Altar Es 56. 2 6 7. Hence it is manifest that those that regard the Sabbath and the Sabbath Ordinances shall be blessed with spiritual blessings in heavenly things And if God blesse who shall curse for his blessing maketh rich Prov. 10. 22. it makes them rich with temporal blessings that diligently attend upon their Civil imployments and so it also maketh them rich with spiritual blessings that diligently attend upon Gods Sabbath Ordinances Gods blessing did increase the Widows oyl and the five loaves and two fishes and therefore his blessing is called Multiplication Gen. 1. 22. and sometimes it is called A rich reward 2 King 5. 15. and sometimes it is called Gods Liberality Prov. 11. 25. compared with 2 Cor. 9. 5. Yea Gods blessing is so plentifull and so powerfull upon his Sabbath Ordinances that he is said to Command his blessing upon Sion and life for evermore Psal 133. therefore his blessing wherewith he blessed the first seventh day must needs be mighty in operation even to the Re-creation and Conversion of many ten thousand souls Heb. 4 12. Luke 11. 28. and therefore David doth by way of Exclamation cry out O blessed are they that dwell in thy house Psal 84 4. namely they are thus blessed that do as it were dwell there by their frequent and constant resort to his Ordinances for his Ordinances are apt to convey blessings to the diligent soul And therefore Paul told the Romans that when he should come unto them He should come with abundance of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 15. 29. The Apostle made account that the preaching of the Gospel would in rich them with abundance of spiritual blessings and this blessing doth arise from Gods blessing of the first seventh day with Sabbath-Ordinances And therefore as soon as Christ Jesus had given order about his Sabbath-Worship at Mount Sinai and had in special commanded them to observe the seventh day by a holy convocation in or among all their dwellings namely in their Synagogues as I have afore expounded it then he made a gracious promise to his people saying In all places where I shall record my name I will come unto thee and blesse thee Exod. 20. 24. and in this respect Christ Jesus did appoint the Priests in the Sanctuary and Zeliach Tzibbur in the several Synagogues to pronounce a gracious blessing upon the assembly that had attended Gods Ordinances at their departure Numb 6. 24. and to this blessing