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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56366	I. The time when the first Sabbath was ordained ... II. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained ... Part II, III. A treatise of holy time concerning the true limits of the Lords day ... / by William Pynchon.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time, or, The true limits of the Lords day.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4313; ESTC R27470	236,938	328

verses must be expounded with relation to the story of Adams Fall Re-creation and Reconciliation by the Promised-Seed And therefore it follows by necessary consequence that Adams Re-creation by the Seed of the woman must be considered as the finishing act of the six dayes creation before the seventh day was ordained to be a Sabbath And by this Rule of Exposition many words also in the said three verses must be so expounded as having a holy equivocation in them namely as having a mysticall sense as well as a literall As for example under this word Made and Created must be understood the mystical and spiritual Creation as well as the literal and visible Creation And under the word Finished must be understood not 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 Eve were Re-created before the seventh day that is to say in the D●awn from Gen. 2. 1. If all the Host of Heaven and Earth were finished before the seventh day then it must needs follow that Adam and Eve were Re-created before the seventh day 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 dwelieth Righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3. 13. And it is 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 taken from the word Had finished as it is joyned to the 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 what else can that finishing act be but Adams Recreation by the Promised Seed 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 to 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

that Tree in the first place and then the Devill knew well enough by the name of that Tree that if Adam and Eve had but first eaten of that fruit he had been confirmed in his happy condition for ever and that he could not have been circumvented by any temptation whatsoever afterwards This subtil and guileful head-plot of the Devil lay not onely in the hiddennesse and unseen danger of his temptation but also in the speedinesse of the execution of it for if it had not been speedily put in execution the then unseen danger had been prevented by Adams wisdome in eating of the Tree of life in the first place But the Devil was so speedy in the transaction of this temptation that he gave Adam no opportunity of time to go first to the Tree of l●fe and this may further be demonstrated from the antecedent Preposition in Gen. 3. 1. Now or Then or And this word of connexion doth conjoyn and knit together sundry actions 1 This word Now hath relation to the womans creation and mariage with Adam because among all the other creatures he found not a meet helper for Adam 2. It hath relation to the time of their entrance into Paradise 3 To the time of the Devils fall 4 To the time of the Devils entrance into the Serpent 5 To the time of their first eating All these things fell out together even in the neck one of another and all of them as I conceive in the same order as I have ranked them 1 God brought the woman to the man that he might name with a name defining her nature and that he might mary them her together as one flesh and this time of Adams mariage with Eve was iust before his entrance into Paradise but some unadvised Expositors do confound this order for they place the time of Adams mariage not before but after he came into Paradise First Because it is said that Adam in the singular number was put therein Gen. 2. 8 15. Secondly Because the womans creation and mariage is not recorded till after mention of Adams seating in Paradise verse 22 23. But a sensible reason may be given to both these first Under the name of Adam in the singular number the woman is included because God had made them but one flesh by mariage immediately before their entrance into Paradise and in that respect the Seventy translate Yee for Thou in Gen. 2. 17. because they understood both of them to be comprehended under the term Thou And therefore those Mariage-Books saith Mr. Broughton have an over-sight that say The woman was formed in Paradise for the Commandement Thou shalt not eat thereof in vers 17. went not before the creation of the woman nor before her mariage to Adam but after she had the Commandement as well as Adam in the same term Thou as being but one flesh by mariage See Bro. in principal Positions Pag. 10. and the matter is out of controversie for the woman doth testifie that the Commadement was given to them both joyntly for thus saith she to the Serpent God hath said ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye dye Gen. 3. 3. in this sentence she doth three times over affirm that Gods prohibition was given to them both joyntly The story of the time of Adams mariage lyes thus First God in the sixth day created all sorts of Beasts of the Earth and all sorts of the Fowls of the air Secondly Then he created Adam after his own Image as the glory of all his creation And thirdly then he brought all the said creatures before him that he might put suitable names upon them as their Lord and that they might wait upon him as their Lord Gen. 2. 19 20. But fourthly Because among them all God did not find out a meet helper for Adams society thereupon God as a most expert Surgeon did cast Adam into a deep sleep and took out one of his Ribs and of that Rib as a most mighty Creator he made a woman and this was the last sort of visible creatures that God made Fifthly Then God brought her unto Adam to see what Adam would call her and he being exquisite in understanding said This now is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man And sixthly At this instant God gave her in mariage to Adam to be as one flesh and to be a meet helper to him And therefore secondly the onely reason why the womans creation and mariage is not recorded till after the mention of Adams seating in Paradise is because by the figure Hysteron Proteron he would shew the close joyning of the Devils temptation and of their Fall to their mariage 2 This word of connexion And or Now hath relation to the time of Adam and Eves entrance into Paradise it was Now namely as soon as God had joyned them together as one flesh by mariage which was done without the borders of Paradise he did without delay carry them both into Paradise as to the place of pleasure that he had in a special manner prepared for their delight and comfort during the time of their innocency There he put the man that he had formed Gen. 2. 8. And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden Gen. 2. 15. and after his fall thence God sent him forth to till the ground whence he was taken Gen. 3. 23. From these Scriptures it is evident that as soon as God had given the woman in mariage to Adam he presently brought them both into Paradise and commanded all sorts of creatures to attend on them into Paradise as on their Sovereign Lord Gen. 1. 26 28. Gen. 2. 19. and this is also evident because the Serpent was there ready among the other Beasts of the field to do service to them Gen. 3. 1. And because God had made man to be the glory of his whole creation he did command not onely his earthly creatures but his heavenly Angels also to att●nd upon them into Paradise as it may be gathered because God doth still command his Angels to attend upon such as he hath The time of the fall of the Angels now called the Devil was when they were commanded to attend upon Adam Eve in Para●ise dignified to be heirs of salvation Heb. 1. 14. Psal 91. 3 This word of connexion Now hath reference to the time of the Devils Fall For the heavenly Angels that rejoyced at the hanging of the Globe of the Earth upon nothing Job 38. 7. were now commanded to attend upon Adam and Eve into Paradise is well as the Beasts of the field But many legions of these heavenly Angels disobeyed that cha●ge for they saw that mans body was but an earthly substance and that themselves were heavenly See H. Bro. in Ecc his Chief Mark. spirits thereupon they not knowing the glory of mans Election in Christ