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B09144	An explanation of the solemn advice, recommended by the Council in Connecticut Colony, to the inhabitants of that jurisdiction, respecting the reformation of those evils, which have been the procuring cause of the late judgments upon New-England. By Mr. James Fitch ...	Fitch, James, 1622-1702.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.; Fitch, James, 1622-1702. Brief discourse proving that the first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath.; Connecticut. Council.	1683 (1683)	Wing F1063; ESTC W24614	58,047	146

Consequence from Scripture is either a necessary Consequence and being according to Scripture is of as full force as any plain Scripture as John Rogers granted in his Answer to the first Question or else it is a Consequence seemingly deduced from Scripture but is really a perverting of and contrary to the Scripture as some unlearned and unstable who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction 2 Pet. 3.16 and then it is far off from being of the same force with the Scripture But we have given Iohn Rogers necessary deductions from plain Scriptures in the Old and New Testament to prove that the first day of the week is the Lords day and our Christian Sabbath and it is in vain for Iohn R. to deny this until the Arguments be confuted Qu 7. Iohn Rogers his seventh Question Whether or no there be a possibility to take out the day commanded out of the fourth Commandment and put in one of the six working dayes in the room thereof and not alter one jott or one tittle of the former Law if there be a possibility of such a thing or ever such a thing was I desire a Copy of it may be sent me to the Prison as soon as may be Ans My Answer to this seventh Question is that I have already proved in my Reply to his Answer to the tenth Question that this change of the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first day of the week is no destructive but a perfecting change and so far from destroying the Law in a jott or tittle of it that it is a fulfilling of the Law as really and fully as the performances of Prophecies are the fulfilling of Prophecies and it is too late for John Rogers now to question whither that be possible to be done which is already certainly performed and done as we have proved already and as for some fragments of Objections and Cavils which I. R. hath gathered out of some late Authors and yet if all these be put together he is unable to defend his seventh day Sabbath And it is as possible for I. R. to hinder the charge of the Moon as he can hinder the change of the seventh day Sabbath seeing it is founded upon the works of Creation which is given to change but who can hinder the stability immutability of the first day of the Week the Lords day which is grounded upon the unchangeable work of our Redeemer according to an immutable and everlasting Covenant And if it be not possible for I. R. yet to see the reason of this but admire at his legal light and despise Gospel visions Behold ye despisers wonder and perish for I work a work in your dayes a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Act. 13.41 and yet those who have the Revelations of the Spirit of Wisdom in the Gospel shall say this is the Lords doings it is marvellous in our eyes this is the day which the Lord hath made Save now I beseech thee O Lord blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Psal 118.23 24 25 26. And if he that despised the Law of Moses and particularly did prophane the seventh day Sabbath was so severely punished as Iohn R. did note of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath despised the Gospel Commandment and particularly the Lords day the Christian Sabbath the Ordinance and Institution of Christ which he hath by his Blood purchased Heb. 10.28 29. And thus I have done likewise with Iohn R. his Questions at present and if I. R. or any for him shall undertake to make a Reply to that which hath been said I expect they should answer my Arguments interminis according as they are in the frame and method of them I do not intend for the future to trouble my self with an Answer to such Lax Discourses as have nothing of the frame of an Argument with them And thus at present I have done speaking to Man but this I may say Oh Lord I have not desired the woful day that which came out of my ●ips was right before thee be not thou a terror to me thou art my hope in the day of evil Jerem. 17.16 17. And if in any thing I have said for matter or manner or in any respect whatsoever I have erred let it not be confirmed but confuted and let me be convinced but if that which hath been said be according to thy Holy Word revealed by the Apost●es of the Lord Jesus let those who do or shall oppose be converted and repent of this their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of their heart may be forgiven them or else let them be confounded and cut off Act. 8.22 Gal. 5.12 And whereas the Plague is come into a neighbouring Plantation and some Families already shut up the Lord have mercy upon them and humble us deeply for our great unfruitfulness and especially for our prophanation of the Lords D●y what is the cau●e of this so fierce wrath to let loose a Spirit of Error an● Delusion thus to rage that those who received not the love of the truth may be delivered up to believe a lye and damned that have pleasure in unrighteousnes● 2 Thess 10.11 12 And whilst some rise up that they might cast down the Christian Sabbath under a pretence of advancing the seventh day Sabbath Oh Lord let not the evil one prevail with the prophaneness of others to cause them to neglect holy time and holy things Do good O Lord to those that are good and to them that are upright in their hearts As for such as turn aside to their crooked wayes the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace shall be upon Israel Psal 125.4 5. Decemb. 12. 1682. JAMES FITCH Senior FINIS

Job for trial chiefly and when affliction cometh for probation and trial principally it will appear upon examination that the person afflicted is found walking in his uprightness before God Iob 1.8 12. and in the night of affliction there shall be nothing found against this afflicted Saint but that which is consistent with uprightness Psal 17.3 but who is able to make this desence for New-England as to the generality of them and as for those who are called the upright what their innocency is and what their guilt is this will appear in that which is in the place of it spoken concerning the divers manners and sorts of guilt 2. Neither did New England in the ti●e of the Wars suffer as witnesses for righteousness sake although so far as the Antichristian Malice of some might be stirring up and working in and with the rage of the Heathen and might by the provocations of New England against the Lord take occasion to persecute that of Christ and the Christian Religion which yet remained in the Churches of Christ in the Wilderness in this respect Meat came out of the E●●er to the godly of the Land and they might say as that holy Martyr Bradford said It is not the condemnation of Bradford simply intended by the Adversary but Christ and Truth and Bradford is nothing but an instrument in which Christ and Truth is condemned and persecuted by the Adversary and in this respect the Lord saith and hath and will do for his People as sometimes he said by the Prophet Zech. 1.15 I am very sore displeased with the Heathen for I was a little displeased and they helped forward their affliction But yet our sins must be confessed to be the Traitors which gave the opportunity into the hands of our Enemies against us and the Lord said of us as sometimes of that People Isai 42.24 Who gave Jacob to the spoil and Israel to the Robbers did not the Lord be against whom we have sinned In the next place Affirmatively concerning the causes of the Judgements upon New-England that New-England is found guilty of those very sins mentioned in the writing of our Rulers and that these are the causes of those judgements will be made most manifest if we consider the divers manners and wayes by which a People are involved in guilt 1. Some are guilty by actual Commission and that is 1. Either openly after the manner of the Prophane sort whose Countenance doth witness against them and they declare their sin as Sodom they hide it not wo unto their Soul Isai 3.9 2. Or secretly and sometimes God doth inflict publick Judgements upon a People for secret sins and that is 1. When they are such sins as are not in the nature and kind of themsecret but as they are by the transgressor bound up and hiden by some deceiving Excuses and fallacious pretences Hos 13.12 and the ignorance these pretend is wilful and they are condemned by the Lord for willing ignorance 2 Pet. 3.5 2. Or such secret sins as go before the open sins and the others do follow them and together do provoke the Lord 2 King 17.9 and cannot be hid 1 Tim. 5.25 both these openly or secretly are guilty of provocations by actual Commission 2. Some are guilty by way of approbation by consenting Psal 50.18 or countenancing and thus Jehosaphat's love unto and helping of ungodly Ahab did provoke the Lord to wrath against him 2 Chron. 19.2 3. Some are guilty by way of toleration and thus Solomon did provoke the Lord to wrath by his tolerating of the Idolatry of his Wives 1 King 11.4 4. Some are guilty by their omission and neglect of means 1. To prevent the provocations and thus some able Expositors have thought that in this sense it was that Israel became guilty and were blamed by the Lord himself for taking the accursed thing even that which was taken by Achan Josh 7.11 2. Or a neglect of means to reform the provocations committed and thus Ely's neglect of a through reforming and removing the abominations of his Sons did provoke the Lord to wrath against him and his house 1 Sam. 2.22 23. Many in New-England are guilty of provoking sins by actual Commission and these kindle the fire and are Fire brands in the hand of Gods wrath and some by approbation do blow up the fire and are as the bellows to make the fire of Gods wrath burn and some by toleration do in their practise say Let the fire burn will do nothing to quench it and at last some come who with their luke warmness and cold practices are but as a dish of water dropping upon a great and vehement flame but doth nothing effectually to extinguish the fire of wrath kindled and flaming by reason of provoking sins the Lord guid every one of us by his Spirit to consider and in a self-examining manner to see and say What have I done to provoke the Lord Jer. 8.5 6. But as to fact the provocations of New-England are proved by many witnesses 1. The witness of the Ministry especially upon most solemn occasions in the most publick assembly have as watchmen warned us of the Lords controversie against New-England and of the evil coming upon them Ezek. 33.7 and this warning was given not only since the Wars but before that evil day come 2. Witness that great Hand writing of our Rule● published by their order in the Congregations of this Colony in a day of Fasting Prayer in that calamitous year 1675. and many Writings and Orders since that calling for a renewed Confession of those crying abominations specified in that Writing and explained in our former Discourse 3. Witness the sighing of those whom the Lord hath marked in our Ierusalem because they do afflict and vex their righteous Souls for the provocations they see or hear of Ezek 9.4 4. Witness the self condemnation the generality of Professors have received within themselves and do frequently at this day express it one to another saying we and our posterity are an undone people if more be not done for Reformation then yet is done yea who can say and prove it that there hath been any considerable reformation wrought in any one matter of weight after all that the Lord hath spoken and done against us But to conclude this Discourse let us state one Question more Qu. What are the Reasons why the work of Reformation doth not proceed but is hindred after these solemn Advertisements by our godly Rulers and after all the awful warnings from the Lords uplifted hand Ans Because some do not see what ought to be reformed some who see but have no heart to this work some who have a heart but little strength some who have strength but do not agree to carry on together every one his part or they spend their labour upon a people who are under the power of Judicial impenitency 1. Some do not see what ought to be reformed and those are either 1.

is unjust let him be unjust still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still and behold saith the Lord I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be Rev. 22.11 12. 3. And yet the harder the work of Reformers is and they found faithful in it though labouring with a People under a judicial impenitency and it is in vain as to that people but yet their work proveth the more acceptable to God and they shall be the more glorious in the eyes of the Lord Isai 49.4 5. 2 Cor. 12.15 and those Rulers are in the way to see peace and truth in their dayes as Hezekiah Josiah and other godly Rulers had this favour graunted to them although their work was amongst a People judicially declineing and running to ruine yet seeing these Kings Ruled with God and were fa●thful to his Saints the Lord gave them Peace and Truth in their dayes 2 King 20.19 and 22.20 4. And although such godly Rulers by their interceding with God and faithful labouring to reform a revolting people may preserve them from ruine in their time but yet if they be a people whose Rebellion and stiff neck is manifest while yet their godly Rul●rs ar● with them Deut. 31.27 it is not all that th●ir Rulers can do will preserve them at pr●sent ●rom many fearful Judgements as those which were inflicted upon the Israelites in the Wilderness although Moses was with them Psal 106.23 Psal 73.34 38. and when the time is come that the Lord findeth none to make up the Hedge and to stand up in the Gap before the Lord for the Land then will the Lord pour out of his Indignation upon them and consume them with the fire of his wrath and recompence their own way upon their heads saith the Lord God Ezek. 22.30 31. But O that we did hearken unto the Lord that he might not give us up to our Hear● Lusts to walk in our own Counsels the●● would soon subdue our Enemies and turn his hand against our Adversaries but our time should endure for ever and he would feed us with the finest of the Wheat Psal 81.11 12 13 14 15 16. But O that we did fear and flee these spiritual judgements more than any other judgements for Jesus hath said For judgement I am come into this world that they which see not might see and they which see may be made blind if ye were blind ye should have no sin but now ye say wee see therfore your sin remaineth Iohn 9.39 40. And Oh that we could wrestle and agonize by a spirit of prayer that this Gospel-vengeance may not be poured out upon our souls and the souls of our children crying earnestly to the Lord for his zeale his strength the sounding of his bowels O Lord why hast thou made us to err from thy wayes and hardned our heart from thy fear the people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while Isai 63.15 16 17 18. THE COVENANT Which was Solemnly Renewed by the Church in Norwich in Connecticut Colony in New-England March 22. 1675. IN this Calamitous Year 1675 the Year of Jacobs trouble in the Wilderness in which the Lord doth scourge New-England by the Outrage of the Heathen a Year never to be forgotten And we who are in Church state being called by our Pious Rulers with other Congregations in this Colony and in Conseience of our duty moved to seek the Lord by Fasting and Prayer and having considered the Particulars contained in the Writing sent from our Rulers to the several Churches in this Colony and which we ought to keep in Record for succeeding Generations in which they do advertise us of those sins for which the fierce wrath of the Holy one of Israel is poured o●t upon New-England first by Blastings of the Fruits of the Earth but in this year by cutting off the Lives of many by the Sword and laying wast some Plantations and threatning ruine to the whole Although to wonderment we have been hitherto preserved in the midst of the Heathen yea somewhat by means of some Heathen but we feeling in this day of the Lords searching our Jerusalem as with a Candle we cannot clear our selves though through Grace both we and ours have been preserved from those many gross acts of Prophaneness and Drunkenness Uncleanness and such like Scandals specified in that Writing and do desire humbly to be thankful for some progress of Converting Work in some of the rising Generation among us But while we do behold many unconverted Souls in this destroying year and the same sins working in us the causes of them as in others and a great degree of dangerous neglects of that which ought to be for the prevention of Apostasie and that the departings of the Glory of God from a People are by little and little and not total at once We do see cause to judge and cast down our selves at the Footstool of the Lord being covered with shame And seeing true Repentance doth not end only in confession but is restless for Reformation and solemn Covenanting with our God is a means through his Grace in order to Reformation as we find in the tenth of Ezra and other Holy Scriptures and pious Examples We do therefore this Day Solemnly Covenant to Endeavour uprightly by dependance upon the Grace of God in Christ Jesus our only Saviour First That our Children shall be brought up in the Admonition of the Lord as in our Families so in publick that all the Males who are eight or nine years of age shall be presented before the Lord in his Congregation every Lords Day to be Catechised until they be about thirteen years in age Secondly That those who are about thirteen years in age both Males and Females shall frequent the Meeting appointed in private for their instruction and to accustome them timely to the exercise of Church Discipline and these to continue belonging to this Meeting so long as they abide under Family Government of Parents or others or until they are come to the enjoyment of full Communion with the Church Thirdly That those who are grown up so as that they are in that respect left to be at their own dispose shall be required to take hold of the Covenant of their Fathers holding forth qualifications suitable to that solemn duty or at least that they hold forth a consciencious endeavour in the use of means to prepare for the same and if they be negligent they shall be admonished of their sin and if obstinate they shall be cut off from the Congregation of the Lord by that Dreadful Ordinance of Excommunication Fourthly Whereas the indulgence of Parents in bearing with the evil Behaviours of their Children their disobedience unmannerly gestures prodigality and vain and unseemly Fashions or other things not becoming those who are