ministry of God And these Ten words were written with the Finger of God upon two Tables of Stone †Ex. 31.18 and put into an Ark of Shittim-wood * Deu. 10.3 5. very Durable and counted incorruptible There was nothing in the Arksave the two Tables †2 Chro. 5.10 for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy Name * Ps 138.2 God will magnifie the Law and make it Honourable If the Ark set forward the enemy must Flee before it †Nu. 10.35 If the Ark go through Jordan the waters must make way * Jos 3.15 16 If the Ark be set up by Dagon then Dagon must Down †1 Sa. 5.2 3 If Dagon will try the other fall he shall lose his Head and Hands and have nothing left but his Stump * Ver. 4. which can neither Invent nor Act as head and hands do If the law of God be in the Heart the reproach of men is not to be feared for the Worm shall eat them like Wool †Isa 51.7 The Ark containing the two Tables was a Sacred Symbole of Gods presence God will be with his Law and with the Lovers of it God will keep them as the Apple of his Eye who keep his Law as the apple of Their eye as he hath commanded * Ps 17.8 Pro. 7.2 The ark a triple Type And the Ark was a type of Christ who is the End of the law 1 It was made for him to Keep 2 He was made to keep That 3 He keepeth it for Our use Ark-like N B As Jesus obeyed the law for our justification Perfectly in love to GOD and to the Law A sweet Simile and to Us so we are to obey the law in our conversation Sincerely in love to GOD and to the Law and to the Lord Jesus Was the onely wise God twice 40 dayes and 40 nights engraving Ten Words upon Two Tables of Stone and will vain man make them Void it is easier for Heaven and Earth to passe than One Tittle of the Law to fail †Lu. 16.17 Twelfth and Last Note 12. A deep Decalogue The ten commandments are a Vast Continent The M L is the fountain of all laws viz Moral Ceremonial Judicial and Evangelical They all belong to it it is the Root they are the Branches they are contained in it and may be reduced to it on these two commandments i e the ten hang all the Law and the Prophets * Mat. 22.40 Here if we consider man in his three-fold State viz of Innocency of Sin and of Grace we may see the M L containeth mans duty in every State ¶ First in Innocency Adam being capable of receiving it Ten in One. Break one break all God gave him the ten commandments in One commandment this is clearly implyed in Adam's breaking them All by breaking that One. As the Sanction of the law is Disjunctive viz Do or die and the Injunction of the law Copulative viz Do this and that and all so is the law it self Copulative i e so linked together that in breaking one he brake all This M L then contained Adam's duty in innocency e g in the first commandment thou shalt have no other gods before me that Negative implyeth this Positive thou shalt have me for thy God i e by thy obedience to my M L for no other was in use yet all other Laws were Conditionally contained in it ¶ Second Consider man in his Fallen State and there other laws fall in as usefull they being conditionally and providentially prepared thereunto 1 The judicial law cometh and killeth him Adam's Death Adam's Soul died i e he was as disable to recover his Fall by a C W or any other way as a Dead man is to live And death of Body followed and death of Soul and Body passed upon all men †Ro. 5.12 2 Man being fallen the law of faith falleth in for his Recovery for this implicit Positive precept is still in force viz thou shalt have me for thy God This must of Necessity imply thou shalt beleeve on my SON q d For having Lost me thou hast No other way left to Find me to be thy God Thus the law for Faith appears to be implyed in the first Commandment as I fore-told you 3 Man being fallen Ceremonial Sacrifices fall in as usefull from Adam's Fall to Christs Death at which time they ceased And since Christs death Moral Judicial and Evangelical laws are contained in the M L for mans use in a Fallen State ¶ Third Consider man in a State of Grace and the same laws are contained in the M L for his use viz Moral Judicial Evangelical laws The first commandment containeth many Evangelical laws this implicit Positive precept thou shalt have me for thy God implyeth thou shalt Beleeve in me and in my Son for faith in Christ is a Christians daily duty And Repentance Love Humility Hope Fear are implyed in this first precept thou shalt have me for thy God It is q d If I be thy God thou shalt Repent of thy Sins against me thou shalt Love me thou shalt walk Humbly with thy God and Hope in thy God and Fear thy God e g Beleeve in the Lord your God * 2 Chro. 20.20 Repent and turn from your Idols †Ezek. 14.6 thou shalt Love the Lord thy God * Deu. 6.5 Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord †Ja. 4.10 Let Israel Hope in the Lord * Ps 130.7 thou shalt Fear thy God †Lev. 25.17 these and the like are Branches of the first commandment The second commandment containeth Laws against Idolatry Will-worship of mans invention worshipping of Images Pictures the Sun Moon or Stars * Deu. 4.19 and laws for the True worship of God The third commandment containeth Laws for Prayer Praise giving of Thanks for godly Discourse in Private and Publick which includeth Preaching And laws against Swearing Cursing Blaspheming and Murmuring against God and speaking of God vainly idlely formally unprofitably proudly The fourth commandment containeth Laws for the Sanctification of the Sabbath day and Laws against the Prophaning of it This commandment is called Custos primae tabulae and this first Table containeth all mans duty to God The fift commandment containeth Laws for honouring of Parents and Ministers and Magistrats godly Governours and pious Princes called in Scripture Fathers †Isa 49.23 and Laws against dishonouring them and for Correction for disobedient children The sixt commandment containeth Laws against all kinds of Murder unjust Battels Quarrels Blows with hand or heart to hurt in any part The seventh commandment containeth Laws against Adultery of every degree Fornication Incest Sodomy Buggery all uncleannesse wantonnesse wearing of apparel contrary to the Sex whether Male or Female * Deut. 22.5 The eight commandment containeth Laws against all kinds of Thefts Robberies Rapines Sacriledge antiscriptural Usury †Ex. 22.25
to fall into the belly of Hell ¶ 2) Mr L consuted Mr L who keeps Never a day Sabbath but slights the Sabbath as Ceremonial is to consider 1 The Sabbath was not given first to the Jews or seed of Abram as Ceremonies were Sabbath was made for Man but it was given to Adam as a Publick person for him and his posterity to be obeyed whether man stood or fell and this in Innocency before Ceremonies were in use And though Adam was not subject to wearinesse before sin yet a Sabbath was suitable for him as a Sacred cessation from his calling So God gave Adam a Sabbath and Blessed it i e to make it a blessing to him that kept it and Sanctified it †Gen. 2.3 i e he set it apart for holy use 2 The Sabbath was Certainly observed from Adam to the Law on Sinai though not much expressed in Genesis which is but a very short Epitomy of 2000 years Acts in which time many excellent acts were done which are omitted and not recorded Abrahams observation of the Sabbath day is without dispute because he is so commended for keeping Gods commandments * Ch. 26.5 And that the Sabbath was known to Israel before Sinai you may See †Exo. 16.23 the breach of which command is counted as the breach of all * Ver. 28. 3 This command for a Sabbath is one of the Ten delivered on Sinai before Ceremonies Josephus's Sabbatical river that runs six dayes and rests one will rise up in judgement with Mr L and Mr A. and wrote on two tables of Stone and put into the Ark as no Ceremony ever was Mr L playes the Papist who takes away one and leaves but nine 4 Christs precept for Prayer to prevent flight on the Sabbath which flight was to be 40 years after Ceremonies ceased proves the Sabbath no Ceremony Pray that your flight be not in the Winter q d that will wrong your Bodies neither on the Sabbath †Mat. 24.20 q d that will wrong your Souls Mr A and Mr L are brethren both under a 7-fold deceit to undeceive them let us put them together again to consider viz God in wisdom did so order the change of the Day that though it occasioned two Sabbaths to come together yet there was not Two in a week nor a week without One to signifie there must be nor more nor lesse than One Sabbath in One Week Fath. What say you of Mr S and of the change of the Sabbath Day Min. As for Mr S who denies the change of the Day The chang of the Sabbath I say Though the Change of the Sabbath be not founded out with a Trumpet on Sinai as the Command of the Sabbath was yet have we so much in Scripture as may Satisfie concerning it They that say Give me a plain precept for a practice or I will not regard it may mean Honestly but they speak Ignorantly For if from a Text we can draw a direct sound Inference to prove a practice that being the Sense of Scripture is to be regarded as Scripture it self The sense of Scripture we are to seek as Silver and if this be not to be regarded its vain to use any Scriptural Reason or Argument in discourse as Paul used to do * Act. 17.2 Ch. 18.4 19. Ch. 24.25 or to Study and expound the Scripture by preaching Then put a Boy into a pulpit to read a Chapter for what other Sermon can an able Minister make if nothing but the very words of Scripture must be delivered But let us see some Scriptural proof for this practice ¶ 1 The stone the builders refused O T proof i e for a foundation for Faith and Practice is become the head †Ps 118.22 of the work of Redemption he hath laid the foundation and finished it by his Resurrection This is the day the Lord hath made i e the day of the week on which Jesus rose we will rejoyce and be glad in it * Ver. 24. i e to foresee it by Faith if we live not to see it by Sight Yet prayes pathetically and speedily for it Save now I beseech the O Lord †Ver. 25. God is the Lord which hath shewed us light * Ver. 27. i e to foresse this Day ¶ 2 Thus saith the Lord my salvation is near to come †Isa 56.1 i e Actually it was come before Virtually Blessed is the man that doth This and the son of man that layeth Hold on it that keepth the Sabbath * Ver. 2. i e a Sabbath in remembrance of Christ's Actual redemption ¶ 3 When these 7 dayes are expired i e Eight is a Sabbatical and Vital Number by the death and Resurrectiof Jesus it i e the Sabbath shall be upon the Eight day and so forward the first day added to seven is the eight day and I will accept you saith the Lord God †Ezek. 43.27 ¶ 1 After Jesus's resurrection he said to his Disciples All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth * Mat. 28.18 which implies power to change the Sabbath And Christ gave them Commission to teach the Nations to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them †Ver. 19 20. i e nor more nor lesse N B If Jesus did not ordain the first day Sabbath the Disciples by their practice have taught England and other Nations to observe a New Sabbath of their Own invention ¶ 2 The Disciples assembled on the first day and shut the doors for fear of the Jews i e because it was in opposition to their seventh day Sabbath and Christ came and Sealed their New Sabbath with his sweet presence * Joh. 20.19 20. ¶ 2 Jesus was seen of the Apostles 40 dayes speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God †Act. 1.3 of which the Sabbath is One and none of the least ¶ 4 The Disciples came together to break bread upon the first day of the week * Chap. 20.7 in remembrance of Jesus for whose sake they observed that day ¶ 5 The congregation and Collection of the Churches of Galatia and Corinth upon the first day of the week was by the Apostles order †1 Cor. 16.1 2. to these at Corinth by writing and saith he the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord * Ch. 14.37 ¶ 6 John being in Patmos said I was in the spirit on the Lords day †Rev. 1.10 A desert Island in the Aegean Sea He does not give the day this name but the day on which he was in the spirit he Signifies by its name so well know to the Churches to whom he wrote i e the Lords day so called upon the same account as the Supper is called the Lords Supper viz because Jesus who is Lord of all did institute both to be kept in remembrance of him ¶ 7. The first day is
hand of the King of the Caldees that bitter and hasty Nation who slew their Young men with the Sword had NO compassion on Young Man or Maiden Old man or him that Stooped for age * Ch. 36.16 Because they mocked the messengers which God in Mercy had sent among them Death came in at their Windows for their Wicked Children Bares tare them in Pieces The Mother was dashed in Pieces upon her Children †Ho. 10.14 The strength of Populous NO was Infinite Yet she was carried away into Captivity her Young Children were dashed in Pieces at the top of all the streets * Na. 3.8 9 10. Tell them also of Judgments threatned viz I will Kill you with the Sword your Wives shall be Widdows and your Children fatherless †Exo. 22.24 I will send wild beasts among you which shall Rob you of your Children * Lev. 26.22 Papists are coming to Rob our houses of Children and Parents both Their Children shall be dashed to pieces before their Eyes †Isa 13.16 I will bereave them of Children * Jer. 15.7 The Fathers shall eat the Sons and the Sons shall eat the Fathers †Ezek. 5.10 And I saith Christ will Kill her Children with Death * Rev. 2.23 Nineteenth Doc 19. Of Eternal Judgment Teach them to know the Eternal Judgment Tell them Jesus Christ the Judge shall come from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire With a Shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel with the Trump of GOD to found and raise the Dead That the Godly shall rise in Glory and all Christians Quick and Dead be made like Christ That the Wicked shall rise Roaring amazed one at another their Faces Flames †Isa 13.8 That all Men Women Children from Adam to the end of the World must Stand before GOD. * Rev. 20.12 And give account of their Works Words Thoughts all which God will bring into Judgment And whet his glittering Sword which is now made Bright and Wrapt up for the Slaughter †Ezek. 21.15 and fill it with the Blood of the Wicked And heap Mischiefs upon them And spend his Arrows upon them * Deu. 32.23 And make them drunk with Blood †Ver. 42. And shoot his great Hail which he hath reserved for the Battel of that Great Day of GOD Almighty * Job 38.23 When the Sun and Moon and Stars shall be Drakened †Joel 3.15 And the Heavens pass away with a Great Noise and the Elements melt with Fervent Heat the Earth and the Works therein burnt up * 2 Pet. 3.10 With a fire kindled in Gods Anger which shall burn to the Lowest Hell †Deu. 32.22 When God shall Roar like a Lion and Rend the Caul of their Heart * Ho. 13.8 And they Groan with the Groanings of a Deadly Wounded Man †Ezek. 30.24 Alas Who shall live when GOD doth This * Nu. 24.23 Tell some of this Day OH take You no care for Me every Tub must Stand on its own Bottom But how if it have no Bottom to stand on OH HO we will do well enough What will ye do in the day of Visitation †Isa 10.3 It 's a Scaring question If we cannot obtain mercy by Entreaty nor victory by Fight we will Flee for it To whom will ye Flee for Help A fearful question These are the men that must cry Mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne Who will close this Day with Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed Then shall the King say unto them on his Right Hand Come ye Blessed of My Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for You from the Foundation of the World * Mat. 25.34 Then shall he say also unto them on the Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels †Ver. 41. And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal * Ver. 46. Last Doc. 20. Of Eterninity Teach them to think upon Eternity Tell them that after this Final Sentence is Passed viz Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed the Godly must dwell in Heaven and the Wicked must dwell in Hell for Ever and Ever The Eternity of GOD hath neither Beginning nor End The Eternity of Man hath a Beginning but NO End This EVER is as near its End at its Beginning as EVER it will be When the Wicked have been Howling in Hell as many Thousand Years as the Number of the Stars of Heaven and the Drops and Sands of the Sea they are then NO nearer to the End of their Torment than when it First Began Thus much for Instruction by Doctrine ¶ But Sir you are not to Terminate in These Twenty Lessons For I lay them not down to Limit you but to Lead you into the Scriptures to Search for Twenty times so many More Every word of God in the Blessed Bible hath something in it for the Use of Man The words of Wicked Men and DEVILS which God hath pleased to Record for our Profit To discover the Pride Wickedness Madness Folly Enmity of the Wicked and the Devil their Father against GOD their Creatour a few of which I leave you to consider at leasure 1 Words of the Wicked Gen. 4.9 Ch. 11.4 Exo. 1.10 Ch. 5.2 Ch. 14.25 Ch. 15.9 Job 21.14 Ch. 22.17 Psal 14.1 Ps 83.4 Ps 94. 7. Ps 137.7 Isai 10.13 14. Dan. 3.15 Ch. 6.5 20. Mat. 12.24 Ch. 27.40 42 43 63 64. Job 10.20 Act. 28.4 6. 2 Words of the Devil Gen. 3.1 4 5. Job 1.7 9 10 11. Ch. 2.4 5. Mat. 4.3 6 9. Ch. 8.29 Mar. 1.24 Luk. 8.28 Act. 19. 15. And the Proper Names of Persons which many think not worth the nameing are Profitable more wayes than one 1 To shew that God fulfilled his Promise of such a Numerous Seed so incredible to Reason when Abram and Sarai were both Dead q d See what a number of their names I have recorded in the Chronicles and other places to testifie the Truth of my Promise 2 The Signification of the Proper Names of Persons and Places of both take a few Instances ¶ 1 Persons Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth Red Bloody of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be red Male and Female created he them and called their Name Adam †Gen. 5.2 To tell Proud man what a Material and Mettal man is made of Noah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rest of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To take rest He called his name Noah saying this Same shall Comfort us * Gen. 5.29 Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness it Signifies what a Stay such shall be to a Tossed Church Abram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A High Father Abraham A Father of a multitude i e A Publick President by his FAITH for Jew and Gentile to follow for Justification Believers are
Double destruction Body and Soul both at once An evil Counseller As evil as the Devil will speak Death in at the Ear as the DEVIL at first did Evil Counsel is enough to bring the KING of a Nation to Confusion and Destruction I have read of a king A Kings Confession who confessed at his Execution that such Evil Instruments brought him to the Block Evil discourse Infects How oft is Death Blown into Souls by an Infectious Breath Seventh Docu 7. Restraint Take heed of allowing them too much Liberty to wander abroad upon Pleasure Dinah must go Gadding to see the daughters of the Land and she comes home Deslowed †Gen. 34.1 And much more mischief follows Simeon and Levi in their cursed anger Kill their Confederates whom they had Coozened into a Covenant * Ver. 25. And it was a wonder that Damsels walk did not end in the Destruction of Jacob and his House as he feared †Ver. 30. I may say to you as Paul bid the Colossians say to Archippus viz Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfill it * Col. 4.17 Every parent is an Archippus who hath received a Ministry of the Lord in Charge for children Archippus is a Greek word which signifies A governour of horses Children are Wild Colts †Job 11.12 who when grown Head-strong will not regard the crying of the driver * Job 39.7 ¶ Sir you should seriously consider what a Roaring Lyon the Devil is †1 Pet. 5.8 and how diligently he deviseth to Devour your children And that it 's not your Own conversion that will prove their preservation from Temporal or Eternal destruction but Their godly education God hath sworn that Noah Daniel and Job shall deliver neither Son nor Daughter by their Own righteousnesse * Ezek. 14.20 It 's not parents imputative righteousnesse for Justification nor inherent righteousnesse for Sanctification that will Save their children But it 's their righteousnesse in Conversation viz Godly Education by which they must become their Saviours It 's not the Conversion of a Father nor of an Emperour that can secure a poor child from Satan the Devourer And therefore a Child was he who cryed out for joy at the Emperours conversion O! the Emperour is a Christian q d Emperour Now we shall have Halcion dayes a Heaven upon Earth To whom a wiser person thus replyed But the DEVIL is not a Christian yet And so long as he is not Converted nor Confined to the bottomlesse pit Christians must look for No lesse mischief then he can do Them and Theirs too He will go to the End of his Bounds to a Hairs Breadth 〈◊〉 And here let me adde this Caution Caution 〈◊〉 â—hen your children are under Convictions enquire into Satans Temptations For if once the children be come to the Birth it will be on the Devils part a day of Rebuke and Blasphemy †2 Kin. 19.3 Rebuke to Conviction Convertion Faith Hope Prayer q d It 's too Soon thou art too Young or too Good to need such a Change Or it s too Late thou art too Old and too Wicked to be saved Blasphemy by such suggestions from SATAN against GOD CHRIST the Spirit of grace that the foul may think Unpardonable The Sum of all which is 1 to make a soul Secure and Presume on salvation Without conversion or 2 to drive a soul to Despair of salvation With conversion Eight Docu 8. Examination Take an Acount of your childrens Practices Purposes Pretences Even a Child is known by his Doings whether his work be pure and whether it be right * Pto. 20.11 The neglect of this Duty had like to lost David's Life Absalom intends Rebellion and he pretends Religion I pray thee let me go and pay my Vow which I Vowed to the Lord in Hebron †2 Sam. 15.7 And the King said Go in peace * Ver. 9. Poor David Ah pitifull reply David should have Sifted the businesse about q d How now what Vow a Vow to the Lord and defer to pay it for 40 Years †Ver. 7. what fiery Fit is this you are fallen into how comes it to passe you are Now so conscionable who have been So long carelesse Had David been Considerate Absaloms design had been Frusâ—â—â—â—â— But David makes No more to do Go in peace q d Absalom is in a Very good mind I hope he will Now be a Comfort to me A way goes Absalom to make War with his father This turns David's Tune his Harp into mourning * Job 30.31 Behold my Son which came forth of my bowels seeks my Life †2 Sam. 16 11. And besides Absalom's Death and David's Dolorous Grief this causes a Slaughter of Twenty Thousand men That Phrase hath Too much foundation In nomine Domini incipit omne malum Ninth Docu 9. Partiality Take heed of fond Partiality It 's of evil Consequence It sets that Root which bears Gall * Deu. 29.18 And sets children together by the Ears And makes them Murder one another e g Isaac loved Esau but Rebekah loved Jacob †Gen. 29.28 Isaac called Esau HIS son * Ch. 27.1 and Rebekah spake to Jacob HER son †Ver. 6. Esau was Isaacs boy Jacob was Rebekahs boy What is the fruit of this parental partiality even Esau's Partiality and Enmity to his Father Mother and Brother Esau hated Jacob q d He hath All my mothers heart she hath None for Me and I will have as little for Her The dayes of mourning for my father are at hand then will I Slay my brother Jacob * Ver. 41. q d Not while my loving Father lives to grieve him but when he is Dead and my mother under Dolour I will Double it by my brothers Murder She thinks Birth-right and Blessing and All too little for him but he shall not Long enjoy it nor She him At Esau's threat Jacob flees for his Life yet takes not Warning but loves Joseph more than All his children †Gen. 37.3 For which Love his brethren Hate him conspire to Slay him and Sell him into Egypt to his fathers Sorrow And Gods Providence in this will not justifie Jacobs inordinate Affection nor his sons evil Action N B. Children can quarrell Too soon of their own Heads though parents set them not together by the Ears e g. Two Brothers walked abroad in a Star-light night Said A A Sad Story Would I had a Pasture as large as this Element Said B. Would I had as many Oxen as there be Stars Said A Mr Jer Burroughs and Camerarius Where would you feed them all Said B In your Pasture A What whether I will or no B Yes whether you will or no. A What in Spight of me B Yes in Spight of you And thus from Words to Blows till they Sheathed their Swords in each others
signifies Nothing to be Protestants and Professors Such contracts of believers and unbelievers being as contrary to God as Darkness to Light I conclude are of the Devil He hath sometime No such infallible way to Ruin a Christian as this Then he tempts some one of his Servants to love such a one And sends him with his Suit A bargain from the bottomless pit dressed up with his Tongue tipt with Goodly Talk Deceitfully addicted to Sermons To praise the best Preachers To complain of Sin In all points to feign a Conformity to Christianity If it will not do great Love and Trouble is professed And it will be his Death or he shall Drown himself if his desire be denyed But if granted she shall have what Liberty she will Ask such a Shechem Never so much Dowry he will give it let him but have the Damsel to wife †Gen. 34.12 And when the Devils will is Done and they be once One they are soon Two Then she is Frowned upon and Frumpt and Fisted and excluded at the door She would not hear God's warning Word and shew shall feel Gods scourging rod. It shall be a Serpent a Scorpion a Plague Better be bound Hand and Foot to a Dead body and burried Alive than thus married Christians are Strangely stupified when carelesse of Gods Word in such a Weighty concern And they shall be Strangely punished to be awakened and humbled and Happy they if ever saved Yea Happy are they if they may have the happinesse to go through a Hell upon earth to Heaven Fath. How if my child make a Promise to such a Person Before I know it Min. Then you must break it After you know it and the Lord shall forgive it * Nu. 30.3 4 5. ¶ To all which of Education I adde these two Exhortations For childrens Children for Time to come 1 If you Live to it and have Time and Opportunity for it Teach your childrens Children †Deu. 4.9 Let them be brought upon your Knees to that End Not to take their parents work out of their hands but to help them on in this Great good work Education While you live think not your Time too much for GOD were it to our-last the age of Methuselah But 2 Live or Die Lay a very solemn Injunction upon your children to teach Their children And to lay the like Injunction on their children to teach Their children Thus leave an Inheritance to your childrens Children †Pro. 13.22 Make your practice profitable to Posterity to convey conversion from Generation to Generation that Religion may run in a Blood and flourish in your Families throughout All generations so long as the Sun and Moon endures These Scriptures do not stand for Cyphers which I will only relate and leave with you to Ponder at leasure Hear me I will declare that which Wise men have told from their Fathers and have not hid it * Job 15.18 I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our Fathers have told us We will not hide them from their Children shewing the generation to Come the praises of the Lord. For he established a Testimony in Jacob and appointed a Law in Israel which he commanded our Fathers that they should make them known to their Children That the generation to Come might know them even the Children which should be born who should arise and declare them to Their children †Psal 78.2 to 7. Hear ye Children the instruction of a Father c. For I was my Fathers son he taught Me also c * Pro. 4.1 3 4. The father to the children SHALL make known thy Truth †Isa 38.19 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy Grand-mother Lois and thy Mother Eunice and I am perswaded that in thee also * 2 Tim. 1.5 The Elder to the Elect Lady and her Children whom I love in the truth for the truths sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever I rejoyced greatly that I found of thy Children walking in Truth as we have received a Commandment from the Father †2 Job 1 2 4. Those things which are revealed belong unto Vs and to our Children for Ever * Deu. 29.29 Fath. Now Sir I suppose we are at an end Min. NO no the great work is yet behind Fath. A great Work behind STILL what is That I wonder Min. It 's PRAYER Parent Prayer for a Blessing PRAYER for a Blessing upon Instruction by Doctrin and Example and upon Correction by Word and Rod that Education may end in Salvation N B Let Prayer and Endeavour be linked together He that Prayes and not Endeavours mocks God He that Endeavours and not Prayes mocks himself Prayer is to be performed with much Frequency Fervency and Solemnity You are to be very Serious when by instruction and correction you speak to a Child how much more Serious and Solemn when by prayer you speak to God Thus pray FOR them and WITH them First Pray For children FOR them Lift up prayer as for children that stick in the Birth when there is not strength to bring forth †2 Kin. 19.3 4. Lift up thy hands for the life of thy young children * Lam. 2.19 Pray For them as if they were at point of Death Pray For them as if they were at brink of Hell Pray For them as if they were possessed with the DEVIL e g. Master I Beseech thee look upon my Son for he is my Onely child And lo a spirit taketh him and he suddenly cryeth out †Luk. 9.38 39. And oft-times it hath cast him into the Fire and into the Waters to destroy him * Mar. 9.22 The poor mans prayer improved Improve this thus LORD have mercy on my child an evil spirit is in him and he cries out Rudely and Wickedly And it oft casteth him into the Fire of Fury of Envie of Lust And into the Waters of Sinfull Pleasures of Drunkennesse the water of danger of Drowning and Damning And I brought him to thy Disciples and they could not cure him †Mat. 15.16 So you q d I have brought him to the Sermon and to such a Disciple to Document him reprove convince convert and recover him and Still he lies at the Point of death LORD come down ere my child die * Job 4.49 Help from Heaven is the Point parents must Come to and Prevail for or their children go down to Hell ¶ And to encourage you Ten Con. Consider how Prevalent prayer hath Been and what great things it hath Done e g. ¶ 1 Prayer hath made the Sun and Moon to Stand still †Jos 10.12 ¶ 2 It hath made the Sun go Backward * 2 K. 20.10 ¶ 3 hath fetched Fire from Heaven †1 Kin. 18.36 37 38. ¶ 4 hath fetched Water from Heaven *
all the Ten to signifie that Faith and a New Heart are necessary Antedecents for both Negative and Positive obedience to follow for a man must Be good before he can Do good Eight Note 8. Negatives include Positives Every Negative command includes a Positive command i e when God forbiddeth evil Expressely he biddeth good Implicitly e g Thou shalt have no other gods before me †Exo. 20.3 there is the evil of idolatry forbid Expressely thou shalt have Me for thy God there is the good of choosing God commanded Implicitly Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain * Ver. 7. this is the evil forbid thou shalt talk Vertuously and Graciously of thy God this is the good commanded Thou shalt not Kill commit Adultery Steal c †Ver. 13 14 15. these are evils expressely Forbid thou shalt Prevent murder adultery theft in Others by good counsel if thou canst this is good implicitly Commanded Positives include Negatives And Positive commands include Negative commands e g Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy * Ver. 8. there is good expressely Commanded remember it not to Prophane it with thy Own works words thoughts there is evil implicitly Forbid Honour thy father and thy mother †Ver. 12. is good Commanded dishonour them not is the evil Forbid Ninth Note 9. A negative includes negatives A Negative command includes Many negative commands The sin forbid is forbid in Act Word and Thought and the Occasion of it and whatsoever hath a Tendency to it And these Inclusive commands are Expressed as they are Branched out in the Bible e g Thou shalt have no other gods before me q d No National god imaginable no Personal or private god of wood to worship in thy House no god of Gold in thy Heart thy Self Wife Child House Land Friend Goods Gold shall not be thy gods as they will Be if loved more than Me. And see with what Caution the Occasion of idolatry is forbid in these Texts * Deu. 12.30 Thou shalt not Kill not with Hand Ch. 13.1 3. Mouth murder nor with Tongue to be a Mouth-murderer as some call a Slanderer and so we may call an evil Counceller Not with Heart to be a Heart-murderer he that hates his brother is a murderer †1 Joh. 3.15 Kill not by evil Counsel or bad Example neither Do nor Say any thing that may Tend to or Occasion thy neighbours death in Body or Soul Thou shalt not kill thy Self Not with violent Hands nor with Words spoken against thy own life nor by Carelesnesse of deaths and dangers nor by ill Diet not by Drunkennesse nor by Gluttony Plures periere Gula quam Gladio more die by the Board than by the Sword Thou shalt not commit adultery Not in Act nor in Heart whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his Heart * Mat. 5.28 Christ calleth a Thought an Act to signifie that Smal sin in Mans sight is Great sin in GOD's sight Thou shalt not occasion it by unclean Cogitations and Contemplations nor by adulterous Discourses with Delilahs Remove thy way F AR from her and come not nigh the door of her house †Pro. 5.8 Simile As he that carrieth Gun powder about him had need keep far from Fire so he that carrieth Corruption had need keep far from Temptation As when children meet a Horse Simile Cart or Cow they will if timerous run Ten times farther out of the way than need so let men learn to flee from Sin Keep thee Far from a false matter * Exo. 23.7 Avoid it passe not by it turn from it and passe away †Pro. 4.15 The law is Spiritual * Ro. 7.14 it forbids the Least evil motion and First carnal conception it commands our Spirits and Hearts to be holy it condemneth for the most Secret sin in the Soul It is called the Royal law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Kingly law †Jam. 2.8 it is the law of the King of Kings No earthly Kings law can condemn a man for a secret thought against the King Dissimile but this Divine Law of the King of Heaven can and doth it condemneth a man for the most Secret thought against the Law-giver Tenth Note 10. A positive includes positives A Positive command includes Many positive commands e g Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy q d Remember it to Prepare for it to begin it Early to spend it in holy duties in holy discourses in holy meditations to be in the Spirit to cause all under you to keep it holy Honour thy Father and thy Mother Honour them in Deed in Word in Thought in their Presence in their Absence in their Old Age when tempted by the Devil and by the disobedient to dishonour them when they Please thee when they Displease thee Rebuke and Correct thee N B A Negative command inclusively commands All lawfull means to avoid the evil forbid and a Positive command inclusively commands All lawfull means to perform the good commanded On these things I have but Harped and Touched for One of these Ten Words is a great Text and to shew what is contained in a Commandment would make a long Sermon for thy commandment is Exceeding Broad †Psal 119.96 ¶ This tenth Note having some respect to the Sabbath A lesson for the Lords day leads me to leave this Lesson with you viz Fail not to learn your children to Reverence the Sabbath day FAR be it from you to follow our English Heathens Hatefull Heathens who let their children Loose to serve Satan on the Sabbath day Tell them of the Sore judgments God hath sent upon Sabbath-breakers for which Search the Scriptures and See the Practice of Piety Practice of Piety preferred one of the Best Books but one that ever was written and is like to rise up in judgment against many N B God delivered no other commandment as he delivered this for the Sabbath e g. 1 It hath a Memento presixt viz Remember 2 It is amplified with Arguments more than all the rest except the Second 3 It is delivered Positively keep it holy and Negatively thou shalt not do any work and so is no other commandment delivered FAIL not in this for the Fear of God this Glorious and Fearfull name THE LORD THY GOD * Deu. 28.58 Eleventh Note 11. Heaven and Earth made in Six dayes The GREAT GOD that was but Six dayes in making Heaven and Earth was twice Forty dayes and Forty nights in writing and delivering these Ten Words †Ex. 24.18 to remain a Law and Rule for mans life And Moses was as long waiting Ch. 34.28 prostrate on his Face fasting to receive them * Deu. 9.9 10 11 18. he did neither eat bread nor drink water but did uncessantly attend this Heavenly
for his Author I leave it with you to look That Jesus was virtually slain as soon as Adam sinned Ideny not no doubt he undertook for man before man was †Pro. 8.23 Rev. 3.14 but that Jesus's death which was 4000 years after mans fall must needs be on that day and hour of the week on which man fell I reject as ridiculous If such had said Jesus Rose on the week day and hour that Adam Fell it had carried a fairer colour If men must search as far as the foundation of the world for a foundation to falsifie the day of Christs death it is pity they are not better busied But if Adam's fall on the Sixth day be a proof for Christs death on the Sixth day let us lay aside the day of Christs death a little and begin with Adams fall ¶ 1 Adam was a glorious piece of Gods creation Adam's Fall his Soul and Body was an Epitomy of Heaven and Earth and an house for God to inhabit To say Adam fell on the Sixth day is to liken God his Maker to a foolish Builder who lets the house fall under his hand before he can finish it ¶ 2 It seems by Sacred Scripture that neither Adam nor Angels fell on the Sixth day for in the conclusion of the Creation at the Close of the Sixth day God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the Sixth day * Gen. 1.31 There is the Close up of the whole Creation complete ¶ 3 As it seems by Scripture Adam fell not on the Sixth day so it seems by Scripture he fell on the Seventh day and that is my perswasion And I will produce no other proof for it than the same Scripture your Author brings to prove Adam fell on the Sixth day viz that Hebrew Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam in honour did not abide a night †Ps 49.12 It seems he fell that first night which was on the first Sabbath day natural which began at Even ¶ Note Satans old enmity against the Sabbath Satans enmity at the Sabbath 1 He mystically murdered Adam and all his posterity on the first Sabbath that ever was 2 The first Bodily murder we know of in the world Satan acted by the hand of his servant Cain on the Sabbath day and for a Sabbath dayes service as I suppose by this Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the end of dayes * Gen. 4.3 the Seventh day was the end of dayes for there never was more than 7 dayes 3 Satan sets his Servants a work many wayes to break the Sabbath And this enmity is not onely against Gods Sabbath but also against mans Soul In indignation against both this great governour drives on as if he would drive all before him into Hell fire At his command they curse swear whore pot pipe prate sport work play walk at pleasure all which paths lead to the Lake of fire The Sabbath is spent as if it was the Devils day and not Gods day It is the Devils great Trading day for Hell and the wickeds great Treasuring day for Wrath for sin on Other dayes does not fill the Vials of Gods wrath so fast as it doth on This day Adde to all Satans provoking his servants to persecute Saints on Sabbath dayes for the Service of God disturbing them in their meetings haling them to Prisions for using the liberty Christ hath given them 4 Satan is very busie with Saints on Sabbath dayes He tempts them to work and buy and sell when the Sabbath is begun in the Evening To lay in Bed in the morning To trifle away time when they are Up. To talk of controversies Saints both sleep and wake to Satan and impertineneies to absent from Sermons to Sleep to him at Sermons to Wake to him at Sermons by wandring thoughts a thousands wayes Here you may see by what spirit they are acted that are opposite to the Sabbath day Mr A and Mr L did not tell you they came with a message from the Devil yesterday to disturb you in your duty But let us proceed to the day of Christs death ¶ Here let me premise a few Cautions Cautions premised 1 Do not reflect on any thing that seems improbable for it may be True though at first it seem false Nor any thing that seems impertinent q d to what purpose is this prove the Point for it may be to some purpose though it presently appear not 2 This being an intricate point for its clearing some Scriptures must be opened and some reconciled which cannot be done with few words in which I must crosse my Self for I affect to contract things in few words 3 It being new and contrary to the commmon Creed you will Object your All against it your Objections you must hear orderly answered or it will be in vain to offer them 4 Be very punctual in observing the day of the month I shall have occasion to speak of with its beginning and ending else I speak into the Air. If I digresse or go forward or back ward from any Day or Thing before I have done with it care not to carry it in your head for I shall bring you to it again In a word before I proceed resolve to hear all or none at all Fath. I will hear what you have to say Min. To introduce the day of Christs death Of the day of Christs Death I must begin with its lively Type viz The Lords Passe-over This from its first institution was on the 14 day of the first month Abib or Nisan according to that Sacred account from the time of Israel's deliverance out of Egypt †Ex. 12.2 The Paschal lamb was to be taken up on the 10 day * Ver. 3. and kept till the 14 day †Ver. 6. probably that the sight of it might occasion Soul preparation And it was to be killed in the Evening * Ver. 6. Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 between the two Evenings i e say some Sun-set and Dark night Short work though they eat it in hast I do not think they prepared it in Post-hast Fath. What 2 Evens else had they Min. The division of the day by hours was not used when the Passeover was commanded the word hour except in Daniel is not in the O T. But they divided the day into 3 parts called Morning Noon Even †Ps 55.17 from 6 to 10 was Morning from 10 to 2 was Noon from 2 to 6 at night was Even The beginning and end of this last part were the two Evens between which the Lamb was killed and it was eat at night * Ex. 12.8 Our Lord Jesus who came to fulfill the Law kept this Passeover according to Law he commanded his Disciples to kill and prepare it upon the 14 day and he eat it with them at Night when the 15 day began †Mat. 26.17
the Jews Carnal nor Spiritual could endure their Ceremonies should be suddenly forsaken Thou seest brother how many Thousands of Jews there are that believe and they are All zealous of the Law †Act. 21.20 i e the C L so the Christians counselled Paul to countenance them and he did so * Ver. 23 26. Not to uphold Ceremonies but to get an interest in their affections that by degrees as they could bare it he might bring them Off and had he not done so they had cast him off Thus to the Jews he became a Jew to gain the Jews †1 Cor. 9.20 Fath. But if Pentecost was not on the first day why did God countenance it by giving the Disciples the holy Ghost on that day Min. Because I would not onely Silence but also Satisfie you I have been willing to give you all the advantage I can by stating things fairly for you and will do so still Suppose then the Disciples met contrary to the mind of God and knew it yet for fear or favour of the magisterial Jews they conform to keep the Pentecost if God will be gracious what then I will not again curse the ground for mans sake for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth * Gen. 8.21 Let my Lord I pray thee go among us for it is a Stiff-necked people †Ex. 34.9 Strange Arguments Gods Word is mans rule but Gods Will is Gods rule and if God will be gracious to man when man walks contrary to his Will will man say Lord what doest thou mean to have mercy on me Will man call God to his Bar and bring him into judgement for his mercy Mercy or judgment if it be the will of God it is just Yea if God should command man contrary to his own command e g If God will forbid man to murder upon pain of Death and then command a man to kll his own Son * Gen. 22.2 who will say unto him What doest thou †Job 9.12 God did not make man to consult what promises God should make to man nor when he should fulfill them God gave the Disciples a promise of the Spirit and he took this time Pentecost to fulfill it ¶ 2 I would form a foundation for a Question for your consideration viz The 50 dayes bounded Harvest the first day was at Beginning of harvest begin to number the 7 weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the Sickle to the Corn * Deu. 16.9 The fiftieth day was at End of harvest Harvest was in the land of Canaan a Type of Heaven The 50 dayes contained 7 Sabbaths a number noting Perfection These dayes were all linked to the Passeover and all Typical of eternal life Jesus began to observe this time with the Passeover before his death It being so Quere I Quere whether this Pentecost was not to be kept that God might give the Disciples a little Heaven on Earth to signifie what an eternal Sabbath they should have in Heaven Typified by these preceeding Sabbaths which at this day Pentecost were consummated If you can Answer this Question in the Affirmative then your Question Why did God countenance the Pentecost is resolved Fath. I may take it into consideration another time But Suppose the Jews did not translate the Passeover Sabbath it fell on the 7 day Sabbath then they kept the 15 day and Jesus rose the 16 and Wave-day this proves Pentecost on the first day and Christs death on the 6 day too Min. Now I can follow you no farther I dare not Say the word suppose in this case nor dare I think such a wicked thought But though I dare not Follow you I dare Meet and withstand you to the Face If you say the Jews kept the right day you say Jesus kept the wrong day If you say the Jews did not Translate the Passeover to the day after the right day you say Jesus did Anticipate it the day before the right day viz Jesus died on the 14 day and killed the Passeover on the 13 day contrary to the Law In so saying you make Jesus a Transgressor Thus by justifying the Jews and condemning Jesus you hope to Hit it Monstrum Horrendum this proof comes from the bottomlesse Pit and there being no other way in the world to prove your opinion rather than fail you will make Jesus the Saviour and actual Sinner at which attempt what is that heart that will not tremble Should you Suppose You and I are now in the East-Indies or London stands on the Main Ocean or there is no difference between Heaven and Hell I would as soon consent Fath. But we may Reason and Question Christ was Lord of the Sabbath and had power to change the Sabbath might not he change the Passeover and be no transgressor Min. Though Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath he was made under the Law †Gal. 4.4 and Subject to it Though he was the Sabbaths Lord the Law was his Lord and had him at command on which account it was honourable * Isa 42.21 And though Jesus changed the Sabbath it was not while he was under the Law but at his Resurrection when he had fulfilled it Jesus stood in mans stead he was a debtor to the whole Law the payment of which debt the Law required ot the last mite Christs person is taken into custody imprisoned in the grave till the debt be discharged and justice satisfied at his resurrection being acquitted he was taken from prison and from judgment †Isa 53.8 alluding to a debtour who hath satisfied the creditour Then Jesus changed the Sabbath Fath. It seems Jesus justified his Disciples in an unlawfull deed on the Sabbath day for they eat Other mens Corn * Mat. 12.1 Min. Not in the Least the Law allowed that deed e g When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbours then thou mayst pluck the ears with thine hand †Deut. 23.25 As for Davids eating the Shew-bread and the Priests prosaning the Sabbath by killing their Sacrifices * Mat. 12.3 4 5. these according to the Letter of the Law were unlawful but not according to the Sense of the law which provided liberty for works of Charity and Necessity And Jesus in pleading these practices to excuse his Disciples doth q d You count David and the Priests blamelesse in these necessitous acts and yet condemn my Disciples in the same Case Fath. But Jesus refused to go up to the feast of Tabernacles †Job 7.8 which Law he was under as well as this of the Passeover and if he could dispense with That why not with This Min. Jesus refused to go up by way of vain Ostentation as his unbelieving brethren would needs have him go for say they Shew thy self to the World * Ver. 4. that Jesus resused saying Go ye up to this feast †Ver. 8. q d by way of Ostentation if you
them God can see as well in the Dark as in the Light When Dores and Windowes are shut and Curtains drawn Close at Midnight as well as at Noon Day on the House Top. Tell them God heareth what they say if they speak Never so Softly And knows what they Think if they think Never so Secretly And Tell them whatever they Think Speak and Act on Earth God writes in Heaven What is Good God looks upon with Love What is Evil God beholds with Hatred Thou art of Purer Eyes than to behold Evil †Hab. 2.13 God beholds NO Evil with an Eye of Approbation but ALL Evil with an eye of Observation in order to Damnation if speedy Repentance prevent it not How Dar'st thou Sin in Secret God doth See And Witnesse Jury Judge alone will Be. Fourteenth Doc 14. The uncertainty of Life Teach them to know the Brevity and Uncertainty of Life for Age and Youth Old and Insant Tell them in Golgotha are Sculls and in the Church Yard are Graves of All Sizes Solomon tells of a time to be Born and a time to Die but he tells us of no time to Live * Ecl. 3.2 Tell them Death is Most Certain and may be as Sudden as Certain One may be Alive Young Strong Well Sick Dead Damned and all in a Day or in an Hour 1 God the Donour and Preserver of Mans Life may Suddenly end it 2 The Devil the Envier of Mans Life may Suddenly end it as he did Job's Children †Job 1.10 3 The Wicked Satans Workmen may Suddenly end it he riseth up and No man is sure of his Life * Job 24.22 4 A mans own Relations may Suddenly end it as Cain who killed his Own Onely brother Abel †Gen. 4.8 5 A mans own Hand may Suddenly end his own Life Ahithophels councel to Others was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God * 2 Sa 16.23 but he could not councel Himself to keep from the Gallows It 's dangerous provoking GOD to displeasure God can make a man his Own Enemy his Worst Enemy his own Executioner here and his own Tormentor in Hell Fire for ever N B. Seeing Life is SO Uncertain and Short Preparation for Death is a Solemn Concern When men had Longer lives and Stronger limbs than Now men have they seemed to be more concerned with Death than Now men are The First purchase we read of in the Bible was a Burying Place not a Building Place viz Abraham for Sarah * Gen. 23.4 Lo I die in the Grave which I have Digged for me there thou shalt bury me said Jacob to Joseph †Ch. 50.5 Kings and Councellors built Desolate places for Themselves * Job 3.14 Joseph laid Jesus in his Own Tomb †Mat. 27.60 Few in our dayes dig their Graves before they are dead though the World it self be dying Fifteenth Doc 15. Teach them to know the Difference between Temporal Life and Eternal Life The Excellency of One above the Other e g. 1 Temporal Life is full of Corporal Labour * Eccl. 1.8 Eternal Life hath none of this There Remains a Rest †Heb. 4.9 it Ever Remains and Never Removes 2 Temporal Life is full of Mental Misery viz. Care Trouble Vexation Sorrow of Mind Man is Born to trouble * Job 5.7 He is of Few dayes and Full of trouble †Ch. 14.1 His dayes are Few and Evil * Gen. 47.9 Eternal Life is Full of Joy without Sorrow 3 Temporal Life is attended with the Misery of Penury Hunger Thirst Hunger without Bread Bread without Hunger are both Miseries Bread with Hunger is a Double Mercy which Many have and Few prize Eternal Life is free from both these Miseries of Hunger and Thirst They shall hunger NO more neither Thirst any more c †Rev. 7.16 4 Temporal Life is attended with many Diseases Eternal Life hath None All Diseases end at Death A Saints Funeral is the Funeral of All his Afflictions 5 Temporal Life is sometimes such that a man is Weary of it and wishes for Death Eternal Life will Never weary one to All Eternity 6 Temporal Life is but Temporal if it be the life of Methuselah it must Certainly end it may Suddenly end but Eternal Life is Eternal Not any thing in Heaven or Hell shall ever end it Sixteenth Doc 16. Of Heaven Teach them to know how Desireable Heaven is Tell them of its Titles viz The Kingdom of GOD The Kingdom of Heaven The Heaven of Heavens The Third Heaven A house Eternal in the Heavens That will never Decay or want Repair that the Inhabitant will never be Weary of or turned Out of Abrahams Rosom i e Sweet imbraces Eternal Glory Salvation with Eternal Glory An Eternal weight of Glory which will never weary to bear it but bare up above all weariness for ever A Crown of Life A Crown of Glory A City of pure Gold it's Streets pure Gold its Gates Pearl * Rev. 21.21 A City that hath NO need of Sun Moon or Candle †Ver. 23. For there shall be NO Night there * Ch. 22.5 Seventeenth Doc. 17. Of Hell Teach them to know how Dreadfull Hell is Tell them of it's Titles viz Destruction A Furnace Outer Darkness Damnation Everlasting Punishment Vnquenchable Fire A Place of Torment Wrath to Come A Prison Everlasting Chains Everlasting Burnings The Vengeance of Eternal Fire The Second Death A Lake of Fire The Bottomless Pit OH How do Persons Play with Scripture Thunder The Word Printed is like Fire Painted which they can See and Feel without Fear But could they Stand at the Gates of Hell and Hear the Damned Howl it would make their Hair stand an End and Fill their Hearts with Horrour But what shall we say of an Eternal BEING in that place of Torment The Damnation of Hell is beyond All Definition much harder to Define than the Spanish Inquisition Which a Painter despairing to do Did not picture One man with a Knife in his his Throat a Second with a Sword in his Heart a Third with his Arms Torn Off. But took a Table and Covered it all over with Blood crying out BLOOD BLOOD So may a Minister cry concerning Hell FIRE FIRE for a Definition of Damnation Eighteenth Doc. 18. Of temporal Judgements Teach them to know what Temporal Judgments God hath sent to Men Women and Children for Sin against God Tell them how God drowned the World with Water from Heaven * Gen. 7. And burned Sodom with Fire from Heaven †Ch. 19. And Drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea And clave the Ground asunder to Swallow up Korah and his Company And slew a hundred fourscore and five Thousand in One Night by One Angel * 2 K. 19.35 And slew of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen men in One day †Ch. 13.17 Chap. 36.16 And gave All Israel into the
beating children doth And I have heard Mr C say it hath done his Hurt and if it were to do Again he would Never do it let Preachers say what they please Min. I shall please to say this for him He that will learn of none but himself is like to have but a Fool for his Master No wonder if he slight a Minister for he will defie the Almighty and charge Infinite Wisdom with Folly viz To appoint to no purpose To command Correction to Cure and Mend children which makes them Worse Shall any teach GOD knowledge †Job 21.22 God is so wise he Cannot be taught by Men. Some are so Unwise they cannot be taught by men And Mr C is so wise he Will not be taught by men He will neglect Correction till a Child is Hardened Then under Provocation fall on in a Passion To which Correction God cleaves his Curse And then Mr C will cast it Quite off for he sees no good it does Because he may not do it in the Devils way he will not do it at all This Pest is so provoking I Passe it as not fit to be spoken to with Patience Fath. I suppose there are as wise men Object 8 who do not so strictly Instruct and Correct their Children as there are that do Min. Tell not me of their Wisdom if the Word of the Only Wise God was never their Rule Or if they have left Off to take heed to the Lord * Ho. 4.10 The Wise men have rejected the Word of the Lord and What Wisdom is in them Heb the wisdom of What Thing †Jer. 8.9 not of the Stork Turtle Crane Swallow they know their appointed Times but such people know not the Judgment of the Lord * Ver. 7. Nor of the Oxe or Asse That knows his Owner This his Masters Crib but Israel doth not Know †Isa 1.3 poor silly Ant the pitifull Pi smire is preferred before Such wise men * Pro. 6.6 Vain man Heb Empty man would be Wise ie counted so though man be born like the Wild Asses Colt †Job 11.12 Man is so much a Beast that he knows not he is a Beast till God hath taught him And he Never learns to be a Man till he learns to know he is a Beast Ignorance is a Great enemie to Knowledge but there is one Greater ie Self-Conceitednesse Seest thou a man Wise in his own Conceit more hope of a Fool than of him * Pro. 26.12 They are the Wisest and Best Men who Best know they are Beasts †Psal 73.22 Pro. 30.2 Object 9. Fath. But we must not take Gods work out of his hand Min. No but we must take Our work into Our hand and not suffer Satan to take it Out of our hand Your words I once heard fall from a Ministers mouth but it was to me a Hateful Morsel When a Parent is expressing his desire to do his duty to his Children then for a Preacher to reply So so we must not take Gods work out of his hand Thus for him who should Provoke a parent to his work to Obstruct him in it O Hateful Sottish Sensuall Satanical Saying Fath. I have heard Mr. C. say Object 10 he beat one of his Boys and he Ran away and Never heard more of him to this Day It shall be an Item for Me. Min. SO Cursed correction There is Correction with an Execration and No Benediction and the parent punished by way of Retaliation His disobedience to GOD in not giving his son due Correction is punished by his sons disobedience to Him not counting Correction worthy of Acceptation The Father ran away from GOD the Son ran away from the Father Never heard of him more He may hear of him too Soon viz that he hath broken into some House or is turned High-way-man and taken to be both Hanged and Damned in One Day And for his fathers neglect to Howl for ever in Hell At which his father if not hardened may Howl in a Hell upon Earth And was his Father to be at his Sons Execution it 's probable he would desire to be Revenged on him for letting him come to Such an End As that Boy did who when he was going up the Ladder required to Kisse his Mother but to be Revenged on her Bit off her Nose saying Mr N. If you had given me Due Correction I had Never come to This. Let not your Lads laugh at it He would have Bit off her Head and Pulled out her Heart had it been in his Power If Parents be without Natural Affection for their Children Children will be without Natural Affection for their Parents Witnesse that Wicked Boys reply to his Wicked Mother who complained at Stake she was exceeding Dry viz Mr N. No Matter Mother you will Burn the Better Fath. One Story and another is enough to Distract a man You tell me of a Boy that was hanged because Not corrected Another tells me of a Man that was hanged because his boy Was corrected viz He beat his Son so that he died and then was Hanged for him It would make a man afraid to beat Children I think Min. That Man or Monster I knew and see Hanged in Cambridge Castle-Yard What then was it Due Correction that killed him God commands Parents to beat children From death not To death Had he used such a Rod as I have directed you to use and used it by the Rule of Gods Good Word he had done his child no Hurt But he with his Club Law regarded No such rule Devilish correction but was Ruled by his Passion and his Parent the DEVIL with whom it 's to be feared he is now in Hell Fire Fath. I suppose it 's the safest way Object 12 to erre on the Right Hand when all is done Min. I wish you knew the Right Hand from the Left in this matter To avoid One Extream you will run into Another Both Extreams are Bad and of two evils you will chuse the Worst I have exhorted you to use the Rod in Love And I exhort you to do All in Love But Fond affection Sinfull indulgence and Unseasonable smiles I dehort you From and charge you before God to beware Of as Vitious and Perilous And lest you Wink at this Warning Hear some of the Sad Effects of such Parental Vices of which a sew Instances ¶ 1 Adonijah His father David had not displeased him at ANY Time Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from his dayes Junius Nunquam Never displeased him in saying Why hast thou done so †1 Kin. 1.6 And what is the fruit of this fond affection even Adonijah's Self-Exaltation to his Own Destruction He exalts himself saying I will be King †ver 5. and that brings him home by the horns of the Altar where he hardly escapes * Ver. 50. Then to bring it about he must have Abishag to wife and that brings him Quite to
beast may Break them †Job 39.14 15. 6 She is without natural affection She is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers * Ver. 16. 7 She is of strange strong Digestion eats Old Iron So such Savage men can Swallow such sayings of God as would Tare the very Heart-strings of a tender Heart in sunder These are 7 Sad Cursed Characters of carelesse parents King Herods cruelty to the children in Bethlehem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the males †Mat. 2.16 Augustus Caesar's saying founded this phrase Better be Herods Swine than his Son for some say his Own was slain in that Storm The cruelty of our Ostrich-like fathers may found this phrase Better be such a mans Swine than his Son who cares no more for this sons Soul than if he was a Swine Crates wish Crates wished himself on the top of the highest Mountain in All the World to cry out against Parents who are carelesse of their childrens Souls The beasts of the field that manifest love to their Young and mourn if they are Lost may rise up in judgment and Condemn these men Sixt. Coroll 6. Prodigious effect of neglect The monstrous prodigious fruit and effect of Parental neglect and Omission of Education viz The universal vanity of Youth and base brutishnesse of Boys Their epidemical disobedience to GOD by Cursing Swearing Lying Stealing prophaning the Sabbath the Day designed by them for Satans Service Their disrespect to Superiours Their disobedience to Parents And to Mr Mrs and Dame of which there is such an universal Out-cry in the Kingdom as of some pestilent Plague and Judgment ALL layes Principally at Parents doors For if they would exercise that Authority over them which God hath Given them and perform their Part according to Gods Precept it would work a great Cure among the contagious Scabs Wounds Bruises Sores which have over spread the Body of Great Britain from the Sole of the Foot to the Head * Isa 1.6 But this neglect of parental duty is like the Setting open of Sluces and Flood-gates to overflow the Land with a flood of Filthinesse and Prophanenesse And to make children Famous for nothing but Wickednesse To be children of Belial †1 Kin. 21.13 Cursed children * 2 Pet. 2.14 children of Perdition †Joh. 17.12 children of the DEVIL * Act. 13.10 and children of Hell as the Scripture calls them †Mat. 23.15 And parents do not only Lay the reins in their necks to let them run Headlong to Hell but also do Lead them on to that Lake by learning them to Sin by their example viz To Swear Lie Curse Scoffe at the godly It 's probable the parents taught the children to Mock which Bares tare for mocking as an Embleme of the Torment of Hell for mockers N B. Wicked parents will teach their children to do good men Hurt rather than to do themselves Good Herodias would teach her Dancing-daughter to ask Herod for John Baptists Head rather than for Half the Kingdom * Mar. 6.23 24. N B. For parents to bring Forth in sin and to bring Up in sin is a Sure way to bring Down into sorrow both themselves and their children together for Ever and Ever Seventh Coroll 7. Deaths small distance Consider what a Small distance Death may be from or how near to your childrens Heart or your Own By reason of the uncertainty and shortnesse of Life and certainty and sometime suddennesse of Death a Man or Child may be within a Step of death and not have a Thought of death Or else think it as far Off as the East is from the West 1 God may smite with a Secret Sudden Stroke 2 One may die a Natural and Sudden death of which no Reason can be Rendered 3 One may die Casually and Suddenly in Any place in the land of the Living e g. If one be at Sea or on the Thames in a Boat there is but a Board between him and Death Life within and Death without and but a Thin Board between If at Land but a Shoe-Sole between the Bottom of the Foot and the Top of the Grave If in any Street or Lane in London a Tile or Brick may Fall and Kill If in the Field or Countrey in a journey a Thief may murder If in a Wood the same Death or a wild Beast may Devour That which hath Life may take away Life That which is Dead may be a mans Death The fall of Earth or Stone or Timber or a mans fall into Water or off his Horse or House a Hundred ways to fall Out of the world What is your Life it is even a Vapour that appeareth for a Little time and then vanisheth away †Jam. 4.14 What is Man * Psal 8.4 q d A little bit of breathing Clay a little bit of creeping Clay a little bit of living Clay a little bit of dying Clay And yet what a Do will a Proud Painting Jezebel make with a bit of Dirt which the Dogs are about to eat up for an Excrement †2 Kin. 9.30 36. O Earth earth earth hear the word of the Lord * Jer. 22.29 What is that DVST thou art and unto Dust shalt thou return †Gen. 3.19 Brave Madam Silk-worm O thou Clod of clay Mayest be to Morrow for the Worms a Prey Eight Coroll 8. Dolorous Death Your childs condemned State spoken of in the third Corollary peradventure is by this time forgot Suppose by your neglect your child Dies in this condemned condition And in Dying to sting your Conscience hath its eyes Opened to see the mouth of the bottomlesse pit stand Open to swallow it Down into the Dungeon of Hell At which sight it Shrikes out O Father Mother did you Know me to be in this condition and not Tell me of it and labour to get me Out of it did you Know me to be born in Sin to live Cursed unconverted and Condemned and not Acquaint me with it did you professe to beleeve the Necessity of a new Birth a new Heart a new Life and let me Live and Die without it was you Willing I should go to Hell that you would not Tell me of it except in such a Sleighty way as begot disbeliefe of the Truth of it and of the Verity of my misery Cursed be the Day that Ever such a father Begat me and that Ever such a mother Bare me And then dies Roaring as if already in Hell Can you give no guesse at This what This will be to you when it 's your Case none need to Tell you what it is Then you may weep with Rachel who refused to be comforted for her children because they Were not * Jer. 31.15 And with Isaiah who said Look away from me I will weep Bitterly labour Not to comfort me †Isa 22.4 Solon's Sorrow And with Solon to whom said one Why do you weep it will
called Sabbath in several Scriptures e g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning of the Sabbath * Mar. 16.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First of the Sabbaths †Joh. 20.1 Cardinal for the Ordinal i e the New Sabbaths Paul went into the Synagogue on the Jews Sabbath day * Act. 13.14 and preached Jesus and when the Jews were gone out of the Synagogue the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sabbath between †Ver. 42. See his Sermon from Ver 15 to Ver 42. i e between two Jewish Sabbaths which Sabbath was the first day and that was the Reason the Gentiles durst not name it till the Jews were gone out Thus far for Scripture Proof now for some Scripture Paralle ¶ 1 The seventh-day was kept in remembrance of God's Creation Scripture Parallel the first day is kept in remembrance of a New Creation by Christs Redemption As soon as man sinned there was Virtually a dissolution he and the world was at an end with him So as Christ was Virtually slain from the foundation of the world there was Virtually a New creation by prevention of a dissolution of the Old for by him all things consist * Col. 1.17 This new creation was called the world to come †Heb. 2.5 2 Paral. ¶ 2 The seventh day was kept in remembrance of Gods rest from his work of Creation the first day in remembrance of Christ's rest from his work of Redemption that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father * Joh. 5.23 As from the conclusion of the Creation men were to honour the Father with a day in remembrance of That so from the conclusion of Redemption are men to honour the Son with a day in remembrance of That When God had actually finished his work of Creation at end of the Sixth day he instituted a Sabbath the Seventh day so when Jesus had actually finished his work of Redemption at end of the Seventh day he instituted a Sabbath on the First day ¶ 3 The seventh day was kept in remembrance of a Delivery from Slavery †Deu. 5.15 3 Paral. so is the first day to be kept And though all men are not free indeed by Christs redemption so as to obtain Salvation yet is he in a sense the Saviour of all men * 1 Tim. 4.10 and may command all men to keep this day in remembrance of him N B When the seventh day Sabbath was in use it was said the government Shall be upon his shoulder †Isa 9.6 the government is not Now in the hand of God as Creatour but in the hand of Jesus as Redeemer for the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hand * Joh. 3.35 which he will deliver to the Father at last day †1 Cor. 15.24 Judgments of God ¶ The Judgments of God which on the first day have befallen the prophaners of it will One day be a Witnesse for it though at present the plague of Pharoh be so upon the hearts of prophane and professing people that they are not moved at them viz 1 Gods judgments on mens houses and goods by fire e g Teverton Chesterton London though in this last Hell-born bloody Sinners were the Instrumental cause yet the inhabitants Sin was the Meritorious cause 2 On Sabbath-breakers Bodies who by the formidable hand of God have been struck Dead on this day in the very Act. 3 On Sabbath-breakers Souls who have proudly pretended to keep every day such have been and are commonly Cursed and Blasted and with all their Blaze brought to nought To which 1 adde 2 Queries for consideration and one Assertion for full satisfaction ¶ 1 Was not the Fourth command for a Sabbath Day placed among and one of the Ten 1 Q. to signifie it is Originally and Essentially Moral and Perpetual and sometimes put among Ceremonial Sabbaths * Lev. 23.2 3 4 5 6 7. to signifie that in respect of that circumstance of Time it was Typical and subject to change viz with respect to the Day ¶ 2 Did not Adam fall on the Sabbath Day 2 Q. and so break the first Sabbath that ever was made and if so did not that signifie the day was mutable as the fall and breach of the Tables containing the C W with Adam signified the mutation of that Covenant and the making of a New C from the beginning ¶ A first day Sabbath is in a Sense of as great Antiquity Assertion as the first Sabbath ordained for Adam in Innocency Though that was at the end of Gods Works it was at the beginning of mans Life God Ended his week with a Sabbath but man Began his week with a Sabbath It seems he was made at end of the Sixth day to begin his life on the Seventh day which was his First day though he was made a moment before the day began Adam was a Type of Jesus who began his New Life at his Resurrection with a Sabbath the first day of the week And so must we begin our week with a Sabbath a day for God First which is Certainly more acceptable to God than to serve our selves Six dayes first and then put off God blessed for ever with an Od day at last So much for the change of the Sabbath Day Fath. I am satisfied in the change of the Sabbath but I am at a losse to know when the Sabbath begins but I think it s not much matter for that so that a man keeps a day Min. HOW keep a Sabbath and not know when it begins nor ends nor Care to know consequently you will not care to know when Christ rose from the dead for his resurrection gives beginning to the Sabbath Nor will you care to know how long he lay dead What grown like Gallio †Act. 18.17 Simile Sir I am sorry to hear such an ungracious speech fall from your lips Suppose your self taken by cruel Turks a most loving friend to rescue you falls into their hands himselfe in which Skirmish you escape But for your sake he is cruelly used wounded mangled imprisoned in a dismal dungeon So many dayes Then escapes acquaints you with it and desires you for his sake to keep a day in remembrance of his deliverance beginning at the time when it was What would you not care to know when to begin nor End nor how long your friend lay bound truely you deserve to be retaken by the Turks without remedy Fath. I perceive by this you hold Jesus went to Hell but that many Divines deny and so do I for its contrary to Christs words upon the Crosse viz To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise * Lu. 23.43 If Christ went to Heaven how could he go to Hell Min. If he went to Both it s not so great a mystery as the Trinity God is
in Heaven and Hell at once †Ps 139.8 And Jesus was in Heaven and Earth at once before his death * Joh. 3.13 and why not in Heaven and Hell at once after his death Take heed of unsound notions of a Saviour if Jesus hath not been in Hell for you I fear you must be there for your Self Fath. Well! let it passe If it be of such concern to know when the Sabbath begins tell me the time for there are divers opinions about it Min. I need not instance every hour of the day The Beginning of the Sabbath but onely the time contended for viz Morning Noon Even Midnight and the measure of the day viz 12 hours and 24 hours ¶ 1 I need not deny that it begins at Noon as the Gipsies count as if that time was contended for in England Not at Noon but though it be not the Plea it is the Practice of some professors who begin to assemble in Gods service after noon as it were by way of Recreation to serve God by the halves Such have lost half the Sabbath long since And it is to be wished they turn not Aminomians and Libertines to lose it all and themselves too at length for they by whom God is but half Served are like to be but half Saved ¶ 2 Some Roman-like plead for Midnight to begin and end the Sabbath Not at Midnight for which they produce two Texts 1 Paul preached on the first day till Midnight †Act. 20.7 which is no ground for this beginning for he preached till midnight because he was to depart next morning with a final Farewell 2 Samson arose at midnight and carried away the gate of Gaza * Judg. 16.3 which say such was a Type of Christs rising at midnight Samson was a Type of Christ in 20 things but that he was a Type of Christs death and resurrection in laying a piece of a night upon pleasure is a very unlikely matter Had he lay 3 nights and dayes in a dungeon there had been some colour for it ¶ 3 For the Morning many will plead Not in the Morning and so I suppose will you but I shall oppose this Time time it how you will and say what you can for it Fath. I will try that what if it begin at Spring of day and end at Dark night Min. Not so for in some Countries the day will be a month long North. for so long at least sometime of the year does day-light last Fath. What if the Sabbath begin at Sun-rise and end at Sun-set Min. Not so for in some Countries the Sabbath would be more than a Month long In Russia Muscovia Tartaria for so long goes the Sun a Circular course round about them in sight except Clouds come between as you would easily understand if I had a Globe in my hand Fath. We have Morning and Even all the year we may begin at morning and end at night Min. Not so it s no meet measure for the length of a Sabbath in June will be twice as long as in December Fath. But if we begin at Six and end at Six the Sabbaths will be all of a length all the year now I hope I have hit on it Min. Not so for a Sabbath must be the Seventh part of Time a natural day of 24 hours It is not enough to make one Sabbath equal with another but also equal with another day Fath. Then it must be from morning to morning from Spring of day to Spring of day or from Sun rise to Sun rise Min. Not so for then the precedent day hath two nights or this precedent night belongs to no day Not to the seventh day for that ends at Even nor to the first day if it begins in the Morning and so is cut off from both dayes like Job's cursed night which he would have disjoyned from the dayes of the year †Job 3.6 But who dares act so contrary to Gods ordinance who dare divide the night from the day and Separate what God hath Joyned Fath. I can say no more for the Morning Min. Then we are come to the fourth and last time under Instance Even the beginning of the Sabbath viz the Even and this I affirm to be the beginning of the Sabbath and from Even to Even is the measure of the Sabbath from the beginning to the end of the world At first where the Sixth day ended the Seventh day successively began so where the Seventh day Sabbath ended i e at Even the first day Sabbath began And thus of Ceremonial Sabbaths from Even to Even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath * Lev. 23.32 Fath. God made the day to beain at Even at first Object 1 but aster That world was drowned and a New world to spring out of the Ark it seems the beginning of the day was altered to morning for saith God Day and night shall not cease †Gen. 8.22 And morning is put before Even in this Psalm * Ps 92.2 the Title of which is A Psalm for the Sabbath day Ergo the Sabbath begins in the morning Min. God that made the world made the day to begin at Even from the beginning to the end of the world If after this God alters the order of his Words that does not alter the order of his Works Aaron was older than Moses †Exo. 7.7 therefore saith God These are that Aaron and Moses * Chap. 26. in the next verse it is these are that Moses and Aaron †Ver. 27. You may as well say Aaron was older than Moses at First but Moses was older than Aaron at Last while they lived gogether as to say The night was before the day at first but now the day is before the night Honour thy Father and thy mother * Ex. 20.12 the father is put first for Adam was first formed then Eve †1 Tim. 2.13 By order of the Creation of Man and first institution of Marriage the man is to be older than the woman else marriages are Monsters Yet God alters his order of words viz Ye shall fear every man his Mother and his father * Lev. 19.3 this is because children are more prone to despise their mothers than their fathers Render to Cesar the things that are Cesars and to God the things that are Gods †Mar. 12.17 by your argument Cesar was before God or to be preferred before him Fath. But some say Object 2 The seventh day was not butted and bounded with Even and Morning as the Six dayes were Ergo it did not begain at Even as they did it s a day without night Min. If a man had 7 pound in his purse Simile and tells you he hath spent just 6 pound does he need to tell you what remains Simile If I had 7 dayes natural allowed me to live in a house and tell you I have spent just 6
the week he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease * Ver. 27. this One Week was an Ordinary week of 7 dayes the Midst of which is the Fourth day or Middle day The time Jesus lay Dead having 3 dayes before it and 3 dayes after it all which of these 3 last Jesus lay dead So you may see though the Week-day of Jesus's death so long since be not known to this Day yet this day was foretold before Christs Birth by the Scriptures of Truth in which God drops words in the Dark to see if men will feel after him †Act. 17.26 27. Thus I have given you the Testimony of Gods two Testaments to prove my Opinion Fath. I confesse this is more than I looked for but if Christ lay so long dead it will occasion some more Questions Min. Bring out them Questions and let nothing remain to broile at bottom Fath. If there was a day between the 2 Sabbaths why did the Jews go to Pilate for an Order to secure the Sepulchre on a high Sabbath * Mat. 27.62 and not stay till next day Min. As necessity hath no Law so necessity hath no Holy-dayes Necessitas non habet Ferias What cannot be done Before nor deferred till After may be done on the Sabbath It could not be done Before their crowns were so full of concern to get Christ crucified there wanted room for that consideration And they had been Up the night before that day Too but having Slept upon it and settled their wicked wits now Sir we remember that that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 And it cannot be omitted till to morrow q d So he may be stole away to night by his deceitfull Disciples * Ver. 64. Fath. If there was a day for work between the Sabbaths why did not them zealous women bring their Spices on that day but stay till after the 7 day Min. Why lay the Popish Lords in the Tower why the Prisoners in Newgate Fath. Because they cannot get out Min. No more could they get in The Jews made the sepulchre Sure sealing the Stone and setting a Watch †Ver. 66. It was made fast for 3 dayes to prove Christ an Impostor Fath. Why did they stay till morning and not come at Even at the 3 dayes end Min. Why do not fearfull folk who are scared at their own Shadows go into Church-yards among graves at midnight Fath. Indeed because they dare not Min. No more durst they go into a Tomb at night to the Dead Frights make folks fearfull it had been a Terrible time with them When they came in the Morning they feared to go in Mary stooped down and looked in * Joh. 20.11 and the Disciple whom Jesus loved came Running to the Sepulchre yet went not He in †V. 2 4 5. Fath. How does your Opinion accord with this expression he rose again the third day * 1 Cor. 15.4 Min. This phrase the third day is most miserably mistaken if thus taken A miserable mistake viz Friday 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 as if the day of Christs Death and the day of his Resurrection were 2 of the 3 dayes for neither is the One or the Other any of that number But the third day must be understood by these Standing Rules viz the Son of man shall be 3 dayes and 3 nights in the heart of the earth †Mat. 12.40 The Son of man must be killed and After 3 dayes rise again * Mar. 8.31 Christ's enemies could remember his words though his friends forget them viz We remember that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 The Angel said to the women He is risen as He said * Chap. 28.5 6. i e when the dayes and nights were ended which he prefixed On the first day said Cleopas to Christ To day is the third day since these things were done †Lu. 24.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is a dark Text and thus to be translated To day the third day is Gone since these things were done * PAS LEX pag 43. Esther fasted 3 dayes night and day †Est 4.16 yet she is said to put on her Royal apparell to approach to the King on the third day * chap. 5.1 completo die tertio Junius i e at end of the third day Thus my Opinion does accord with the Word but how does Gods word and You agree from the beginning of your count viz Friday at Even to the time when Jesus rose is but a Night and a Day and from the beginning to the end i e the next morning is but 2 Nights and a Day how did Jesus fulfill his word Fath. Synechdochically I suppose Jesus was buried a little bit before the Sixth day ended and I count That for a day and that he lay a moment on the first day morning and I count That for a day Min. Yet here is but 3 dayes and 2 nights here is not a Bit of a third night Fath. Then the night preceeding the Sixth day must make it up Min. And can you imagine this to be Christs meaning In all this you do little better than say Jesus the man of Sorrow Jested Joqued and Juggled with his death I wonder in what Darknesse we over-look this word NIGHT If Jesus had said The Son of man shall lay 3 Dayes dead you had some Plea for your Opinion for Day sometime signifies Day without Night and so Part of a day natural but it is 3 dayes and 3 nights And I would know where in all the Bible this phrase day night does once signifie Day without Night or Night without Day except in Heaven or Hell But your First day as you call a Bit is without Night and your Last day as you call a Night is without Day By your Synechdochical rule you may argue that Jesus lay 3 Years or 3 Ages dead for Day figuratively signifies a Year or an Age. A Hellhinge A most miserable mistake This taking Scriptures Figuratively which should be taken Literally is the Hinge on which them poor deceived people called Quakers turn all into confusion and overturn all the Fundamental truths of the Gospel viz The birth life death burial resurrection ascension intercession second coming of Christ the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment yea Heaven and Hell and all Figurative and Within †O! Great Gulf Monstrum Horrendum This is a piece of the Pride of that Humble people who count the Common literal sense of Texts too Low for them Fath. How may we know when a Scripture is to be taken in a Figurative Sense Min. When a Literal sense is absurd or contrary to the Analogie of Faith or good morality of Life e g To eat the flesh of Jesus to drink his blood to cut off a right hand to pluck out a right eye To take such