successive courses are as the daies and week of that one Created week were At the First Creation was this Law given to Adam in respect of his humane Nature and in him given to all the World of Humane Creatures Even adversaries themselves in their Writings against the seventh-day-Sabbath have confessed that the Law given to Adam from the beginning is unalterable and therefore remains still in full force so that all men to the Worlds end are bound to yield obedience thereunto and that the Rest of the seventh-day-Sabbath was entred into from the Foundation of the World Christ himself the Creator rested the seventh day from all his works and that Aelohims resting on that Seventh-day-Sabbath doth necessarily imply Mans Resting on that day as well as Gods resting God's entring into that rest being the ground of Man's rest at the same time which they prove from Heb. 4. 3 4. The created nature of it as the seventh day and the cogent reason of it as the Weekly Sabbath-day not being peculiar to the Israelites but common to the Gentiles the Command is not proper to one of these only excluding the other but doth belong unto both the LORD 's resting on it which gave such occasion to his Blessing and Sanctifying of it has an Universal preceptive respect to Adam and to his whole Posterity it is a common Instruction and a general Command unto all men in all ages to labour in their particular callings functions and employments on those six fore-going days of the Week wherein Jehovah Aelohim made the Heavens and the Earth and to cease and rest from such labour on the seventh-seventh-day because in it He Sabbatized or rested from all his work This Law was made and it came with Authority in the beginning of the Created World and it shall continue and last to the end of the World Adam the Father of Nations and of Generations was put under the obligation of it and so are all his Off-spring from first to last throughout all Nations in all Generations Every Man has a teaching light and law of Nature which he doth carry about with and in him and is born and bred together with him There are still some reliques and remainders as dark Letters in an old Monument of those Holy Just Good and spiritual Laws of the Ten Words still to preserve and keep alive the memory of Man's first created Honour and Dignity His Rectitude and Uprightness as also for some other ends Though those seeds are corrupted now Natural right reason will teach men that seeing all men in all Nations do measure their time by Weeks and their Weeks by seven days they should besides what part they separate of their time as due unto God every day set apart one whole day of every week unto their Maker who has allowed them so liberal a portion of time wherein to provide for themselves and for their families there being no other proportion of time that can so well provide both for the worship and service of God every day as Evening and Morning of every day and every week as the whole Seventh which is the last day and also for the necessities of all Families as that which remaineth of the several six fore-going days of the Week and that is so well fitted to all functions and Callings and Employments There is that in every man who has the due exercise of his right reason that will directly answer unto this especially when compared with these created beings and more especially yet when having the advantage of Scripture-revelation The light and law of Nature when cleared up will tell men that all mens labour and motion being in order to Rest and Rest being the perfection and end of Labour into which labour and work and motion do pass that therefore the seventh which is the last day in every week is the most fit and proper whole day for a weekly religious rest unto the Creator for his Worship service and honour The natural reasonableness of this Command for observing the seventh-day-Sabbath doth suggest That Man and Beast should have his Resting-day every week The Ass that poor beast so much used to burdens and drudgery on other days must rest and the Stranger be refreshed on the weekly seventh-day-Sabbath That word in the Original which doth set our conventions for Worship to those who do understand it and who will make a diligent observation and due improvement of it would inform them that they may with their own eyes discern something of this in the motion of those Heavenly lights which would instruct men that set times of their Creator's appointing for solemn Assembling and for his instituted Service are directed to and pointed at by those Great Luminaries which the All-wise Aelohim hath set up in the Heavens As for many other good purposes so also particularly for this Great and Holy end This naturalness of the Weekly-seventh-day-Sabbath should make all the judgments and wills of grown reasonable Creatures to bend and to bow before it and should for ever stop the mouth of all gain-sayers never more to speak or write or print a word against that which is so Legible in its own created Existence Pure Primitive nature in Scripture is put sometimes for the essence of a being or for the Essential Properties of it Thus the Goddy-nature is His Essence His unchangeable Being a lively resemblance unto which communicable properties in Him such as His Wisdom Goodness Truth Holiness and such like are impartable to rational creatures especially to new creatures For otherwise as for His very Essentiality This is incommunicable to any meer Creature Hence as to Creatures Nature is put for the person or thing it self Indeed or In-truth really so For the essence and being of a Creature for that which is Concreated born with a Creature Connatural with it For that which is proper Genuine and Innate For the Natural Law particularly Aelohim will not change what He did create to be pure and good naturally essentially so It is the Seventh-days proper nature to be the Weekly-Sabbath This Seventh-day and the Weekly-Sabbath were Concreated It was so made and ordained according to pure Primitive Creation When the first pure created state of what Aelohim made was defaced by sin much of his doing in the World is to bring back to that Original purity and goodness Therefore the work of Redemption is set out by Creation and for the same reason it is called a renewed Creation So is his work of Preservation of and of Providence over his creatures So will his work of Regeneration and of Conversion still be Thus also his constituting of his Church Thus also his work of Instauration and of Renovation of the Heavens and of the Earth This work of first Creation by the creating Messiah is the rule and Standard the pattern and exemplar to which all must be brought It is as to the final cause
may be seen in the next Scripture cited in the Margin which is a part of this same Prophesie For observe here the Jews shall then be restored when this will be performed Their Foes will be terrified upon the report of the Jews repair home which is not fully verified The Nations will do homage to the Jews upon their Conversion whereas hitherto they have been dispersed among and subdued by the Nations are objects either of scorn or pitty to all Mankind where ever they are a great overthrow will be given to their open Enemies which is yet to come The converted Jews will turn to Jehovah Christ and will constantly and continuedly serve him according to Gospel Institution particularly by observing the Seventh-day Sabbath in his Sabbath which expression is used elsewhere referring to the Seventh-day Sabbath When these things shall come to pass the LORD will make crooked things to be streightness before his people when that Law of his to which the Isles do expect shall be magnified and made honourable as the Giver of it also will be So great and so glorious things being to come so long after Isaiah's Prophesyings Such as whereof all the World could not have foretold these are confirmed and verified by the Testimony of the Father in his Son by his Spirit in his Word As for what is Prophesied of by Ezekiel concerning the new Temple or Church state where especial direction is given for the service of the Sabbath-day this doth confirm and establish the Seventh-day Sabbath to continue under New Testament times For it speaks of such a Day of Sabbath in the same Week as has six working Days going before it which is expresly according to the same Law proclaimed Mount Sinai as one of the ten Words That which is alledged out of Peter was a Prophesie long after Christ's Resurrection and Ascension a little before Peter's death and not long before the destruction of the Temple and of the Jews which had a quite contrary Face and Nature from the glorious Renovation foretold Those new Heavens and new Earth that were prophesied were at that time of Peter's writing the Epistle in the Promise unfulfilled such as were yet expected and look'd out after and the whole Discourse doth manifest that it was not then accomplished That day of the LORD the same LORDLY Day spoken of in the Revelvtion the great providential Day of his LORDLY Appearance was not then come it Peter's time The Heavens were not then passed away with a noise they were not then perished in flames by fire the Elements were not then burnt and loosed or dissolved and melted the Earth and the works that were therein were not then burnt up The Heavens which are now saith he speaking of those that were in his Day and Time and the Earth are by the same Word laid up as a Treasure and are kept unto fire against the day of Judgment and of the Destruction of ungodly men or of corrupt Worshippers These things saith he shall perish They had not then perished The day of the LORD shall come It was not then come but they were to look for and to hasten unto the coming of it We according to his promise expect new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness We look for these things They were as yet but in the Promise They were under the Expectation of Believers They looked for them but they did not then see and enjoy them actually in their real Coming for they were not as yet come Thus also that Prophety by John in the Revelation when he had a Visional sight of a new Heaven and a new Earth upon the passing away of the first Heaven and the first Earth and when he saw the Holy City and the New Jerusalem and when a great Voice out of Heaven had told him that God would wipe off all tears from the eyes of his Covenant-people and that Death should be no more neither mourning nor crying nor any more trouble for the former things should pass away He that sat upon the Throne said Behold I make all things new Write for these things are true and faithful Is it not evident here that this Prophetie was many years after the Day of Christ's Resurrection And must not the Fulfilling be after the Prophetie Is there not enough in this very place to confute the Objector's Arguing Is the first Heaven and the first Earth yet passed away When ever was this fulfilled Is the new Heaven and the new Earth yet come Is the Holy City the New Jerusalem as yet come down from God out of Heaven Are there not tears found in the eyes of the LORD'S people to be wiped away Is there not death still Are these former things yet passed away Is not the LORD He who then foretold that he would make all things new John saw in a Vision and heard in a voice they would be so made but they were not actually so excellent on earth in John's Day and Time For there will be this new face of things in the Churches of Christ on earth This New Holy City Jerusalem is not said to go up to God into Heaven but it doth come down from God out of Heaven God will renew his Covenant with his people and he will Tabernacle with them God will put away Humane Ordinances Inventions Impositions and Traditions to set up his own Institutions all the Laws and Orders of his New House in their Purity and Power The Nations shall receive Light from this New Church so shiningly enlightned so clearly taught of him Church-Discipline shall be revived set up and exercised Distempers Diseases and Ulcers of Spirit of Soul and Body shall be healed and cured and removed by the Medicinal leaves of the Tree of Life All which do belong to a Church-State here on earth If other passages in this Book of the Revelation be collated it will appear that many things foretold to go before this are not yet fulfilled For there must be another manner of Conversion of the Tribes yet of all the Tribes which do include the Ten of Israel as well as the Two of Judah and Benjamin The twelve thousands of the several Tribes The New Church was to be erected after that the See of the Beast was overthrown The Returning Jews are called the Kings of the East There will be a laying dry the Waters of Euphrates as those of the Red Sea were of Old for Jehova's Redeemed ones to pass thorow The Turkish oppressing Tyrant will yet further destroy many of the Jews which grand Enemy shall at length be quite destroyed utterly ruined and his Power shall be broken to pieces The very place of this Conflicting Battel is particularly mentioned where his Overthrow shall be And there will yet be a glorious Christian Church of returning believing Jews erected
former dispensation which some way or other had not some Figures and shadows annexed to it There was blood of a Bull sprinkled on the Altar Christ and the Book of the Covenant it self and what shall we therefore lay aside Christ and his Book The particular commands of the ten words had some Types and Figures annexed to them Doctrines Duties Graces and Priviledges relating to the first and second words were set out by the Ark the Altars the Burnt offerings the Incense the Fire on the Altar and such like as any spiritual discerner may discover by comparing the Epistle to the Hebrews with the pattern in the Mount The third word or command in several duties of it had annexed Ceremonials as particularly about an Oath about a Vow Thus also about the sixth word or command as in a case of Murther about the seventh command as in a case of Jealousie about the eight word or command as in a case of Restitution and generally when a Soul did sin in omitting of some duty or in committing of a Trespass when it was ignorantly or in some other cases there were peculiar offerings that were appointed So that if this carnal reasoning did hold it would lay aside all and every of the other ten words This Epistle to the Colossians doth establish the Law of the ten words in the several particulars of it and the first word by forbidding the worshipping of Angels the second by condemning of Will-worship The third by taxing of Balsphemy especially when against the Holy Name of God The fourth word by shewing the accomplishment of the Ceremonials annexed to Sabbaths if it were admitted that the Seventh-day Sabbath were here included The fifth word by pressing to a discharge of Relation-duties The sixth by declaring against Anger Wrath and Malice The seventh by threatning of Fornicators and unclean Persons with the Wrath of God The eight by for bidding of wrong and commending of Justness and Equality in dealing The ninth by prohibiting of lying and evil speaking The tenth by charging of inordinate lusting to be Idolatry Which is also a breach of the first command Thus is the Decalogue confirmed in this Epistle The next premise is that the LORD Jesus Christ was Administrator under the Old as well as New Testament dispensation of Grace I take it to be one great occasion of many misapprehensions not only in the common sort of professing Christians but even in many who have gotten a name for Learning and for Godliness that they eye Christ as Christ and Redeemer only under the New Testament and God as Creator only under the Old Whereas Christ says of himself that he was anointed from the beginning before the Earth was as yet made and the Father speaks of this his Son under the Old Testament that he had anointed him Aelohim anointed him by pouring out of the Oyl of his Spirit upon him with an effusion of a fulness of Gifts and of Graces and of Joys mentioning it expresly as a matter of Fact done Mashiach or Christ or Anointed is one of the Mediators names often used in the Old Testament This is attributed to his substance The Father had ordained him to his Mediatoral Office of Priest King and Prophet even then It was Christ who was tempted by the unbelieving Israelites of old It was by Christ that all things were created Christ was the same under all Dispensations of Grace The Fathers purpose and election concerning his people was in Christ The whole Word is the Word of Christ Believers were reproached for Christ in Moses's time It was the Spirit of Christ who was in the Prophets and the Jews and Samaritans acknowledged the Messias before they knew who was the very person and this Christ acted as Mediator under the Old as well as under the New Testament Though his being born of a Virgin and so taking the Humane Nature to his Godhead were a great part of the New Testament Dispensation when in the days of his flesh here on earth he familiarly conversed with men For he had a way of appearing as Man to several Believers upon several occasions under the Old Testament as a forerunning discovery of this latter It was the Messiah or Christ who made himself known by open manifestation visibly audibly to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Moses and to several of the Prophets and to some others It was he who proclaimed the Law of the ten Words at Mount Sinai and who afterwards upon the same Mount gave the typical pattern for that Dispensation privately to Moses It was he who was with the Israelitish Church in the Wilderness he was the Mediator between God and Man even then he was the Reconciler even in those Ages This and more to this purpose I have already proved from the Scripture in this Book and therefore if the Reader would be further informed and inlightned in it I refer him to the Pages cited in the Margin This is he to whom all observe all It was the received and delivered Doctrine of them all the Prophets do give Witness that through the Name of the LORD Jesus Christ whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins A great full word this But a remark and observand a special one upon it It is acknowledged by this learned Man that it was the Son who from the Foundation of the World immediately in his own person transacted the Affairs of God with Men yet he opposeth the Seventh day Sabbath whereas it was a Law of Christ's giving to Mankind from the beginning Come we now unto the proofs of the several particulars forementioned whereof this is one that this New Heaven and this New Earth spoken of in prophetical Scripture this Renovation by a New Creation is not finished and completed but that it is yet to come in the large fufilling and accomplishing of it There will be New Heavens and a New Earth This we believe because the Scriptures have foretold it and we rejoyce in Hope of their Appearing For they are not as yet come These glorious Creatures are antedated by such Objectors by many hundreds of years For although there were some beginnings of a New Creation in the Days of Christ's Flesh here on Earth and after Christ's Ascension in the Apostle's time in Regenerations and Conversions as there were also in the Old For even there we may read of the creating of a clean Heart and of the renewing of a right constant Spirit Christ's name was filiated even under that Dispensation and there were Sons and Daughters new createdly born unto him even then and Believers were instated in the Messiah then As for that place in the second Epistle to the Corinthians If any man be in Christ he is a new creature Old things pass away beheld all things become new It doth speak a wonderful change in the New Creature The old carnal State the
old corrupt Principles the old crooked Rules the old selfish ends the old bad Frames the old uutoward Actings the erroneous mistakes the formality in Worship the old unscriptural Traditions the old Sins the old man's Conversion and such like These do pass away and all things contrary to these are become new A whole new man The Apostle speaks of what is peculiar to the New Creature in Christ as such For as for the old ceremonious Rites and their passing away even those that were not new Creatures but were carnal Professors of Christianity yet had these things passing away and they were put under a new Administation the new dispensation of Grace had Ordinances now in a more spiritual heavenly way and manner The passing away of old things here is of old things so far as they stand in opposition to the new Creature and unto that new life in and to Christ which now the converted person should live That as Christ so loved his people as to dye and rise again for them so should those in Christ thus evidence their Love to Christ by living no longer to themselves but unto him crucifying the old man mortifying the sins and lusts of that old man and vivifying or quickning the new man which was true in the Types and Figures before Christ was come born of the Virgin Mary and which is still true now after that Christ is come and ascended up into Glory But all this doth make nothing as to the passing away of the Law of the ten Words in all of them or in any one the least of them This is a distinct fort of Laws from the Typical Figuring Shadowy Institutions The Law of the ten Words as it always has been so is it now and still will be the Rule of the new Creature in Christ Jesus For what in one place is called the new Creatures Rule in another speaking to the same case is the keeping of the Commandments of God In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor Uncircumcision but a new Creature And as many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and Mercy and on the Israel of God The Israel of old had no saving benefit barely by the outward sign of Circumcision whereas God's Israel then who had the sign and the thing signified too they had the Mercy and Peace who were new Creatures united to the Messiah by Faith working by Love who had their hearts circumcised to love Jehovah their God who had sin subdued and lust mortified And the uncircumcision under the new Dispensation was not of any good avail without the new Birth without conjunction to and communion with it and if the Regenerate the new Born the new Created would evidence and approve themselves to be such and to be in Christ they must obey him and keep his Commandments But what is all this to any change of the weekly Sabbath from the Seventh to the First Day of the Week To pass from one sort of Laws into another sort of Laws from the Law of figuring Types to the Law of the ten Words and to infer the passing away of any one of the Laws of the ten Words from the passing of Types into the Antitypes and of signifying Figures into their signified things is a transition from one kind to another a way of sophistical arguing of fallacious disputing captiously to over-reach the ignorant too credudulous vulgar and to defraud them of their right to the Truth As for that part of the Objection which doth speak of new Heavens and of new Earth pretended to be completed and finished on the Day of Christ's Resurrection from whence to conclude the passing away of the Seventh-day Sabbath to make room for a First-Day-weekly Sabbath it is so scriptureless so natureless so reasonless an inference that it should have been more preconsidered by this Arguer whether it do conclude and prove any thing but this that the Adversaries would fain have something or other that might carry a little colour and some shew with it if they know what For let it be pondered upon search and examination that all those places of Scripture which do speak of the new Heavens and the new Earth do relate to a further time for their full accomplishment than precisely to the Day of Christ's Resurrection That Prophesie in Isaiah hath an eye to the more large and spreading conversions of the two and ten Tribes in the latter days yet to come How was this then fulfilled on Christ's Resurrection-Day who of them was then converted what eminent new Creatorship was there then brought forth which might put any such signal remark upon the First Day of the Week as from thence to become the new weekly Sabbath When the most of the Disciples themselves did scarce believe him to be raised till after that Day was over And two Disciples with whom he had walked some Miles that Day had little belief of his Resurrection and little knowledge of him till he disappeared from them How few in comparison were brought in unto Christ and made new Creatures in all Christ's life time at his Death and Resurrection and forty Days after that till after his Ascension and after the pourings out of the Holy Spirit That forementioned Prophesie doth foretel that Nations shall be brought under the Jews Dominions when those new Heavens and new Earth shall appear This was not at the time of Christ's Resurrection-day nor ever since and they were then and have been since for sixteen hundred years or more so far Ruling over the Nations that they have been a scattered despised broken people without so much as any Political Kingly Government amongst themselves It foretels that those of Judah and of Israel should be gathered out of all Quarters East West North and South This also is behind yet unfulfilled That Euphrates would be dry Was this on Christ's Resurrection Day Or has it been since Is not this also yet to come upon their return to their own Land in the latter Days Will not their grand Enemy the Turk be then overthrown who has so long wrongfully possessed their Inheritance which when it is will be so great a work for the inhabited Earth to take notice of where the ear-report shall come or the eye-witnessing be that it will obscure the memory of former Acts. Another Prophesie by Isaiah doth fortel that at that time of the new Heavens and the new Earth the ten Tribes of Israel as well as the other two of Judah and of Benjamin shall according as to an express promise return home to their own Country and Land For Sharon was in Gilead which belonged to Manasseh The Valley of Achor was a parcel of the Tract of Jericho in the Tribe of Judah There will then be a new face of things in their glorious and blessed Renovation when there will be divers things accomplished which are not as yet fulfilled As
of this holy Law of the ten Words particularly to be breakers of that Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath so that these Laws were well known to the Church and people of God by a long continued handing of them down by Posterity from Age to Age though practical Anomy or lawlessness had too much crept in and corrupted them of that Generation who neglected and broke them especially whilst bond-slaves in Egypt Afterwards when this Law was proclaimed and commanded at Mount Horeb where was a great mixture a miscellaneous multitude of Israelites and Gentiles who were present at that Mount and the stranger is expresly named in the very Letter of the Fourth Word or Command so that he also was under the obligation to yield obedience unto the Law of the Seventh day Sabbath The mind of man having by sin covered over with thick darkness ignorance errour and long diâ—use evil inclinations to Vice having much depraved and blinded the Understanding The LORD in words of his own mouth proclaimed this Law that it might be a manifest Testimony to mankind that natural Notions and Novelties of the Law concerning the difference between Good and Evil Duty and Sin were divinely ingrafted into the Nature of Mankind and were consentaneous unto this Eternal Rule of Holiness and of Righteousness which is in Aelohim He instaurs and restores the intire knowledge of his Will in his Law by this solemn promulgation that those old Letters of it which were much worn and defaced in the decayed Monuments of corrupt hearts might be more deeply ingraven and more plainly read again that what men had observed he by his own speaking Voice and writing Finger might rightly explain thus interposing his own Royal Authority to beget an inward testimony in their own consciences for the justness and equity of his holy righteous Law that all Mankind might be convinced of their sin and misery and might thereby be awakened to make out after a remedy otherwise they would be left altogether without excuse Upon the second of the Trumpets at Mount Sinai all Mankind was bound to make diligent inquiry after that which the LORD who is the King of Nations there spake so that they are all under his Law and are all bound thereunto being all concerned to take notice of the promulgation thereof by Royal Proclamation though more especially given forth at that place of Sinai It is not unworthy of serious consideration what a tonourous loud voice that was which not only all the Israelites did hear who yet were about six hundred thousand men a multitude that took up a great space of ground when Aelohim spake all the Words of the Decalogue This voice was also accompanied with a sound of Trumpets so exceeding loud as that the Lord could make all Mankind then alive to hear it such a sound shall go forth in the last day Besides all this what tempests were there at that solemnity what smoke what fire yea what thunderings and what an Earth-quake Such as might shake all the Inhabitants of the Earth at once and make them take notice of it For not only did Mount Sinai or Horeb quake greatly but that expression of Mount Sinai also doth shew that other parts of the Earth were shaken too The Earth was then shaken as the Earth shall be shaken at Christ's coming in the later days when all Nations shall be shaken or moved or made to tremble all and every one of them so shaken as the Heavens then will all of them at once All the Earth is bid to rejoyce at Jehovah's reigning which is described by his solemn giving of the Law which the Church is to rejoyce at and this is applyed unto Christ all the inhabited World was then enlightned all the Earth saw and trembled he then and their declared himself to be LORD of the whole Earth in giving forth this Kingly Law Thus this glorious Law-giver himself descended from Heaven with a shout his Charriot being twice ten thousand thousands of Angels the LORD being with them at Sinai in the Sanctuary and when he ascended to on high he led captive a Captivity he had taken Gifts unto Adam observe so is the Original word or in Adam which Paul doth explain to be men all Adam's posterity particularly from that time and also the rebellious to dwell with that God This Law universally concerneth all for in Christ all are one and whoever they were of the Heathen Nations that came into the Church of God in that day and were obedient unto all the Laws of Jehovah they had a part with Israel in all the holy things of God the Strangers themselves were under a Promise of having an allotted Inheritance in the Holy Land together with the Tribes of Israel There were the same privileges to the Obedient to the Stranger as to the Home-born The same judgments executed upon Transgressors of the Law of the Ten Words were he the one or the other All Nations under Heaven heard report of Israel and of the LORD 's appearing for them and giving them his holy Law Let the Reader further observe how it was afterwards when Solomon built the Temple at his dedicating of it he put the Stranger into his Prayer as well as the Israelite And this wise just Judge especially whilst his heart was right with the LORD judged according to this Law of the ten Words and the judicials annexed thereunto Solomon had his Dominion from Sea to Sea and from the River unto the ends of the Land they that dwelt in dry places kneeled before him and his Enemies licked the dust The Kings of Tharshish and of the Isles rendred an oblation the Kings of Sheba and Seba offered a present and all Kings bowed down to him all Nations served him he reigned over all Kingdoms who were someways under his subjection being herein a Type of Christ so that Solomon was a kind of Universal Monarch upon Earth ruling and governing by Jehovah's Laws Consider what the Office and Work of the Prophets was after Solomon's time even to preach Commentaries and Sermons upon this Law of the ten Words directing transgressors unto the Messiah to procure pardon and reconciliation And these Prophets especially some of them had not only the Israel of God put into their Embasse and Commission but also the Gentile Nations and Kingdoms and People let Jeremiah be one eminent instance of this when the LORD did set over the Nations and other the Kingdom according unto that Word which he brought or sent to them from Jehovah and according as they yielded obedience or not unto this Law of Jehovah so they were either built and planted or plucked up and broken down spoiled and destroyed All those Nations unto whom Jehovah sent Jeremiah with a word of Prophety were many not Jerusalem and Judah the Kings thereof the Princes thereof but also Pharaoh King of Egypt and his Servants and his Princes and
Nature the King of Kings and Lord of Lords sitting on the glorious Throne of his exalted Majesty at the right hand of his Father negotiating all the weighty affairs of such more especially whom the Father hath given unto him There he continually presenteth himself and the All-sufficiency and full satisfactoriness of his sacrifice and oblation and the purchases of his passion and the merits of his death There he appears in a Court both of Justice and Mercy as an Advocate before the face of God making intercession for thee that all procured benefits may be made effectual for thee In that highest world there mayst thou see thousand times thousands ministring before the LORD and ten thousand times ten thousands of glorious Angels standing before Him these with the Spirits of just men perfectly sanctified worshipping before the throne of God and of the Lamb where his Servants serve him and see his face O my Soul be thou in the Spirit with those doing their work and enjoying their priviledg by improving a mystical Membership Lo there the new four-squared City Christ's Father's house which he is gone before to prepare that He and His good Disciples may be together there Enter in there and take possession of thy mansion Behold above this lower Firmament are the Treasures of Rain and of Dew of Snow and of Hail of all the upper waters when thou hast been there where thou hopest to be for ever come down a while and let thine Eye glance it self upon the visible objects of this middle world seest thou the yonder azure expanse O what a goodly Canopy hath the LORD spread over thy head observest thou what glittering spangles the starry studs are what shining balls the Sun and Moon are how glorious is their beauty how golden are their beams how operative their influences All that vast space of Heavens which my eye can compass the Sun the Moon and the stars these are thine a Part of thy Portion how useful a Creature is that light by which other visibles are discovered and discerned Here mayst thou see the cloudy bottles and the flying Fowls Here is the Air in which thou dost breath step one stair lower now and walk the earth a while If thou well observest it in its seasons in its springing verdure how lovely doth it appear in it 's garnished ornaments and green attire green a colour both pleasing and strengthening to the Eye whereas if it shewed its beauty only in white it would dazle thy fight into a blindness O what admirable variety is there here The grass I tread on how many are its kinds of how great benefit is this The herbs were made for my use and they have often served at my Table and have been both for food and for medicine how often have the flowers perfumed the Air for me and brought me in their sweetness in their way of natural perception taking some kind of delight that their maker has put any thing into them that might be pleasurable to me How many are the sorts of Fruit-bearing-trees and how often have their fruits dropt themselves to me and yielded themselves to my gathering and several of them have travelled scores hundreds and some of them thousands of miles to visit me and to let me know from Christ that much of the end of their being was to find out my hand and to fill my mouth How many springs have been flowing and Rivers running and wells filling to afford me water How often have I eaten of the kidneys of wheat of the finest of the flower How often have the well-fed both of the flock and of the herd parted with their lives to make meats and feasts for me What shall I say how many thousands of hands have wrought hard for me who never saw my face nor knew my name The Ploughman the sower the reaper the in-gatherer the thresher the winnower the seller the miller the kneader the baker the carder the spinner the weaver the dyer the clothier the taylor with multitudes of more and all these under my LORD Jesus Christ my Servants employed by him for a supplying good to me Shall I now dig deep and get into the bowels of this earth O what a hidden Kingdom of subterraneous minerals is here Here are the roots of those Trees which have afforded their beams of Timber for my habitation Here are the quarries of stone which have yielded materials to raise up walls for me to dwell safely within Here the Colliers dig hard to send in winter fewel to me Here the Searchers after the mines do find out the Tin and the Lead the Iron and the Steel the Brass and the Copper the Silver and the Gold which so often have brought me in some of their necessary Supplies If I go down to the Sea the great and wide Sea in a Ship there I may see the works of Jehovah and his wonders in the Deeps in the great waters which are under the earth How large and how deep a Subject is there here to swim and to fail in There are things creeping innumerable both small and great there the Whales the Sea-dragons do play in the troublesom Deep at the bottom whereof is the mire of Depth where is no standing And now my Soul thy meditations have led thee to the lowest world to Hell beneath a place out of which the Creator will fetch the glory of his Justice a place full of terrible confused darkness a place of torment Here I see the two-leafed-doors unfolding and opening of themselves before my thoughts through which passage when the damned are entred these doors do close themselves over such and they are left to sink and to fall down into the gulphy empty space a dark dreadful deep where are no walls to hang by nor any stay to rest on where the black passengers bound hand and foot are thrown down being amazingly surprized with overwhelming horrour full of fears they sink lower and lower till the bottomless pit of Hell do open its mouth upon them gaping wide to swallow them down into a foul and hideous prison a doleful place where are yelling Complaints and howling noises woful out-cries and frightful shrieks Thus have I taken a short view of the manifold marvellous works of Jehovah Aelohim as made in admirable wisdom How ample and large how clear and splendid how illustrious and magnificent is his name in all the earth who hath given his glorious Majesty above the Heavens who or what am I that he hath given me such an excellent formation as to behold and admire to acknowledg and confess his incomparable perfections in his gracious words and in his glorious works That he made me a tongued Trumpeter to proclaim and to commend his power and skill in so wonderful a Creation and that he has not taken me hence before I left behind me some written printed Testimony of his Royal Excellencies I was now passing into a Sabbath-enjoyment as
should withdraw our selves from such It has been great encouragement and sweet satisfaction unto me for divers years that I have Christ and his Word his Will and his Law for me in this Holy Contest His ten Words or Commandments how perfect and complete how standing and unchangeable a Rule of life are they in all and every of the matters of Duty to be performed and of Sin to be avoided It was Jehovah Christ himself who by his Spirit from his Father wrote upon the two Tables the Words of the Covenant the ten Words or Precepts This Scripture more especially I undervalue not any of the rest though this have its signal remark cannot be broken This is a perfect Law These words Jehovah spake and he added no more Christ would not have us so much as think that he came to destroy to dissolve the Law he came not to dissolve but to fulfill He confirms it by an high Asseveration that till Heaven and Earth do pass one Jod or Chirek one either Consonant or Vowel or any thing else originally belonging thereunto shall in no wise pass from the Law till all be fulfilled Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least Commandments and such do the most of men compt the weekly Sabbath though misjudgingly and will teach men so he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven but whosoever shall do and teach men the same shall be called Great in the Kingdom of Heaven This Law is established This Law or Testimony is sure or faithful or firm or constant it endures for ever it is standing-abiding continuing firm yet and perpetually This is the Rule of the New Creature by this must we walk This is to be bound up and sealed among Christs Disciples To the Law and to the Testimony must we refer all our Controversies in Religion for Determination and Resolution If any speak not according to this Word it is because No morning-light is as yet in them Here is the full comprehensive of what is our Duty to do Where or for what no Law is there is no Transgression or neither a Transgression Sin is not imputed where is no Law for Sin is a Transgression of the Law Then a Soul is guilty when it sinneth against any of the Commandments of Jehova in what ought not to be done and shall do against any of them This Law of the Ten words was put into the Ark and this alone and nothing else but this put there in which it was so closed as that it was not to be taken out or changed having a Crown of gold by Jehovah's own appointment put round about it This particular Law of the weekly-seventh day-Sabbath has a special mark of remembrance fixt unto it at the very entrance into it This must not be forgotten to be kept Holy and the Works of our particular Functions are expresly prohibited to be done on it This Seventh-day must be sanctified as the weekly Sabbath of Jehovah our God because all and every of those weighty Reasons which Jehovah Aelohim the Law-maker the Law-giver himself hath assigned and rendred and no Reasons can be so demonstrative and convincing as those which he doth give who is only wise from whence to inforce and perswade Obedience to his Command in observing of a Weekly-Sabbath-day Holy to him do properly belong and are applicable to the Seventh which is the last day in every Week in Order of time in the weekly returns of it As the weekly Sabbath-day and to no other day of the Week as such neither to the first second third fourth fifth or sixth day Six daies in the week we are to labour and the Seventh day in the same week is the Sabbath The Seventh-day the seventh-day has its peculiar Note of Honour put upon it There can be but one Seventh day in one Week in the weekly Order and Succession of the Seven days though each of the other foregoing six days in the week are one of seven or one of the seven daily parts of weekly time Every one of the other days of the week have another name as one the second the third the fourth the fifth the sixth Only the last day of the week is called the Seventh day and the Sabbath day Weeks will be to the worlds end concluded within the compass of Seven days One of Aelohims Reasons is because he rested upon the seventh day upon that and that only which is the last day in the week and upon no other day in the week as a weekly Sabbath-day This History of the Creation doth go this day over three times on or in the Seventh-day the Seventh-day the Seventh-day Aelohim rested and again a second time He rested Afterwards in Moses time a little before Christ's Proclaiming of the Law of the Ten words at Mount Sinai the Seventh-day and the rest or Sabbath on it are several times mentioned the Seventh-day the Seventh-day the Seventh-day and a fourth time the seventh-Seventh-day The Rest of the Holy Sabbath or a Resting of Holy Rest for Sabbath signifies a Rest a Sabbath the Sabbath the Sabbath the People rested on it At the Promulgation of this Law this same Reason is resumed again For in six days Jehovah made the Heavens and the Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the Seventh-day and therefore His people ought to rest on the same day as the Holy-Sabbath-day The Scriptures do carry this further along after the Promulgation of it Six days shall men work but on the Seventh-day the Seventh-day a Sabbath a Sabbath of rest a Sabbath-day the Sabbath the Sabbath Jehovab rested on this day and refreshed himself Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh-day thou shalt rest thou shalt rest Six days shall work be done but on the Seventh-day there shall be to you an Holy-day a Sabbath of rest to Jehovah the seventh-day is the Sabbath of rest the Sabbath the seventh day is the Sabbath to Jehovah Thus also in the After-Prophets in Jeremiah's days Bear no burden on the Sabbath-day the Sabbath-day the Sabbath-day the Sabbath-day sanctifie the Sabbath-day to do no Work therein The Sabbath-day the Sabbath-day Thus in Nehemiah's time that zealous Reformer would not suffer Ware or any Victuals to be brought to be sold on the Sabbath-day on the Sabbath-day on the Holy-day the Sabbath-day the Sabbath the Sabbath-day the Sabbath the Sabbath the Sabbath No burden shall be brought in on the Sabbath-day the Sabbath the Sabbath-day The New Testament also doth take special notice of this The Seventh-day has the name of Sabbath or of Rest given it there above threeâ—â—ore times They rested Christs followers were silent from the Works of their particular Functions the seventh-day The Seventh-day God did rest the seventh-day from all his Works None of all this is said of any other day of the week Particularly not of the first and therein the LORD Jesus
Christ is the great Exemplary Pattern for his Disciples to imitate and to follow he rested on that Seventh-day and therefore his people must also rest on the same seventh-day Thus he himself doth argue He was the First-seventh-day-Sabbath-Observer and under all the several Administrations of Grace He called upon his People to do the same In the days of his flesh here on earth after he was born of the Virgin Mary he through the Weeks of his life yielded Obedience unto this Command by keeping the Seventh-day as the weekly Sabbath-day and no other day in the weekly return as such And this was and is a part of that perfect Righteousness which every sound believer doth apply to himself as his Plea of Justification in the sight of God for his Sin of Sabbath-breaking and every such believer is to conform in Sanctification to Christ in all the Acts of Christs Obedience to this Law of the ten words He as his Custom was went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up for to read He taught the people such as would give him the hearing on the Sabbath-days And whither shall we go to get our selves cloathed with Sabbath Righteousness but unto him putting on this Lord Jesus and making this Jehovah to be our Righteousness How can there be such an apt proper distinct suitable Sabbath-Righteousness from Christ applyed to the Soul but by those who make out after that weekly seventh-day-Sabbath-Righteousness which was in its perfection in Christ Those that observe any other day of the week as the weekly Sabbath cannot so directly go to Christ for such a days Righteousness not particularly for the First-days Righteousness as to a Sabbath which First day Christ all his life through never observed as the weekly Sabbath He has left us an example a Pattern a Copy such as Writing Masters do leave to their Scholars that we should follow his steps He that saith he abideth in Christ ought himself also to walk even as he walked Because as he is so are we in this World if we keep to his Rule and Example for the Scripture speaks of things as they ought to be taking it for granted that they be so and they are so so far forth as Believers do act regularly like themselves as doth become them According to this Pattern we have Paul practising after Christs Ascension into Heaven on every Sabbath-day it was his Custom and Usage his constant Practice the same Expression that sets out Christs continued weekly observing of the Seventh-day-Sabbath that it was usual to him is affirmed also of that eminent Servant of his That it was also usual to this Paul O that the same might be truly testified of more in our Day of Leaders and of their People that Christ might hold such forth before others and say Here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus The Holy Seed of Christ and of his Church are such as keep these Commands of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ O the happy Progresses O the blessed goings on with a strait foot of such as do his Commandments A Second Reason of his affixing to this Holy Law of the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath who is Wisdom essential Wisedoms All Wisdoms in one is this For that Aelohim blessed the Seventh which is the last day in the week that and that only and no other day of the week as the weekly-Sabbath-day Thus it was from the beginning and thus it is and will be to hidden ages of hidden ages The blessing is its peculiar Portion and what is Man that he will take away this Heritage of Blessing from the Seventh-day to endeavour to settle it on any other day on the first day particularly where the LORD himself never so gave and secured it The Seventh-day the Seventh-day Aelohim blessed the Seventh-day he hath blessed it he doth bless it and he will bless it and it shall be blessed O blessed day which Jehovah himself hath blessed so blessed This blessing was afterwards renewed revived solemnly openly declared at Mount Sinai and affix'd to the seventh-seventh-day Six days thou shalt labour but the seventh-seventh-day is the Sabbath In it thou shalt not do any work For six days Jehovah made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh-day Wherefore Jehovah blessed that day that Sabbath the blessing is gone forth for this Seventh-day-Sabbath irreversibly from the Mouth of Jehovah Mashiach himself It has his Applaud and approve for its due estimation and deserved renown its noble majestickness and Royal imperialness How many are the Prerogatives and Priviledges which he hath Conferred upon it Christ is the Seventh-daies-benedictor and benefactor This is the day which he hath Dedicated to the Instituted worship and service of Jehovah Aelohim A day greatly to be desired and delighted in by his Children Friends and Servants as a day of holy rest and of Heavenly joy A day of sweet converse between him and his Saints A day that calleth upon them for a singingshouting-triumphing-rejoycing-frame and therefore there is a peculiar Psalm fitted for this purpose to this end Thus is the Crown of special Benediction put upon the head of the Seventh-day and no other foregoing day of the Week is to share with it in this princely honour Isaiah that evangelical Prophecier and Preacher has from Jehovah Pronounced those Blessed even to admiration O the happy Progresses O the happy goings on of such that do keep this Sabbath and not prophane it They shall enjoy many a covenant-favour O how choice Spiritual blessings are there that do visit the Hearts of Holy observers of this Seventh-day-Sabbath under the New-Testament Administration O what a Blessed day did Christ make it to be unto some whose sick bodies he healed whose sinful Souls he pardoned whose sadned Spirits he comforted unto whom his Gracious words were converting and Restoring teaching and enlightning quickning and strengthning whom he met in Sabbath ordinances and gave them the Blessing of this separated day and how many a Soul had cause to bless the LORD for ever who so prospered Pauls labours on the Seventh-day-Sabbath for blessing for good to them Christ taught daily in the Temple and Paul was often in the Synagogues on the foregoing daies of the Week and much good was done thereby but the whole Scripture doth take peculiar notice of this That the Seventh-day as the Weekly Sabbath-day carried away the Sabbath-blessings which no other day in the week did though the LORD do bless his People every day yet not with Sabbath-blessings but only on the seventh-day Aelohim gave a Special Blessing an appropriated Blessing to this day above all the other daies So true and good is that saying of Christ still That this Sabbath was made for Adam for Man for a blessing to him every way for his cheifest and choicest good It was Christs counsel to
his Dsiciples that when troublous times would be some years after his Ascending into the highest Heavens they would be much in Prayer that upon the Enemies Invading their Land their flight might not be on the Sabbath lest they should be hindered from or disturbed in the Blessings of that seventh-day which alone has the Name of the Weekly Sabbath Thus is the whole Scripture profitable for the clearing and confirming of these two Reasons of Christs Assigning as I am now also further to manifest that it is so for his third Reason which is this because Aelohim sanctified the seventh which is the last day in every week that and that only and no other day of the week as the Weekly Sabbath-day Thus at the First Creation and Institution the seventh day the seventh-day the seventh-day Aelohim sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which he Created for to make or to do He hath sanctified this same seventh-day he doth and he will sanctifie it setting it apart as the only weekly Sabbath-day for Spiritual services and for other holy ends he segregated it from all prophane common employments and usages and dedicated it to his own peculiar worship It was not to be reckoned nor counted amongst vulgar daies but was to be had and held as solemn and sacred holy and honourable desirable and delightful He hath put a difference between this seventh day and other daies by way of Excellency in a dignifying manner by appropriating and â—evering of it in the special holiness thereof from ordinary foregoing week-daies that are but of a common rank that it may be singularly filled up as becometh the sanctity or holiness of it By this derived or relative sanctity it is the peculiar appropriate day of Jehovah â—lohim He has separated Ordinances for his separated People on this separated day O how holy is Jehovahs seventh-day-sabbath on which he would have his Worshippers to be so Holy All here in this History of the Creation is actual and real Anticipations here have no such place as those pretend who would have this sanctification of the seventh day as a Weekly Sabbath to be only in Aelohims Decree and destination as if it took not place actually till the proclaiming of the Law at Mount-Sinai which was above two thousand years after for this Scripture as others also collated with it do evidently shew that it was thus set apart from the beginning of the World from Adams time and so downwards This History doth treat of Existences of Beings in their Created nature As Aelohim rested on that day Actually and it was made for Adam and for his posterity for that purpose and end that he and they might sanctifie it and that it might be a blessed day to him and to them The Creator and maker of daies did put apart the seventh-day from all and from every of other daies for peculiar uses and Ends. The Proof is convincing enough to the Ingenious and unprejudiced that the sanctification of the seventh-day-Sabbath was before the promulgation of it at Sinai Moses speaks of it as of a thing known using the same reasons and grounds of equity and much in the same words which Aelohim himself used in the proclaiming and referring to the first institution of labouring on the six fore going daies and Sabbatizing on the seventh where the seventh day is mentioned four times and Sabbath Sabbatism Rest Rested about six times declaring that in times past of old Jehovah had given the Sabbath for this end that in it there should be a ceasing from ordinary Labour and accordingly the People rested on the seventh-day-Sabbath at Mount-Sinai the promulgator of this Law himself delivers his mind to be still the same in much plainness of speech six daies thou shalt labour but the seventh day is the Sabbath in it thou shalt not do any work for six daies Jehovah made the Heavens and the Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore Jehovah hallowed the Sabbath day he sacrated it consecrated it sanctified it restored it to its holy use he spiritually distinguished it from the other foregoing six daies of the week Setting it apart for his more solemn worship and instituted service And thus you may carry this sanctification of it through the rest of the Scriptures that do treat on this subject for the People of God all along were Sabbath-keepers and Aelohim-worshippers They remembred this as that word of memoir and of remark bringing in this Law upon their hearts as of special observance The sanctification of the sabbath doth set out sometimes the whole worship of God for where this is duly observed it doth promote all other religion and it is put Prophetically by Isaiah for the spiritual worship under the New Testament dispensation it was instituted to the end that solemn service might be performed to the LORD therein therefore did his People hold publick conventions on the seventh day-Sabbath when they assembled to read to Interpret and to hear the word of Jehovah Aelohim And these were stated ordinances on every such day Then they put up their publick requests and made Prayers to the LORD they then pleasantly sang songs to him they had spiritual conferences holy Arguings heavenly meditations merciful actings It being a day of spiritual delight of heavenly joy and of high praising Then they offered up instituted sacrifices unto him to the honour of his name Which sacrifices now under this administration are spiritual glorious heavenly accepttable to God by Jesus Christ Thus and in such like holy services is it to be sanctified by us The seventh-day-Sabbath is therefore said to be holy unto the LORD's People as it is holy in its Institution and holy unto Aelohim And now is it not great and good reason that these reasons of Aelohims own giving should have a convincing-cogency and winning perswasiveness upon our hearts to yield obedience unto this holy Law of his which is every way so designed and fitted for our own Good I pass on to some other spiritual proofs of this After long and serious search into the whole scripture about this matter I find that all the Scriptures through where the holy Spirit doth speak of a weekly Sabbath day there the name and thing of a weekly Sabbath is given only to the seventh which is the last day of the week in the weekly revolutions and returns and successive courses of it and to no other day of the week as a weekly-Sabbath-day That there is no Command given for the Observation of any other day in the week as the weekly-Sabbath-day but only of the seventh day That there is no promise made to the observing of any other day in the week as the weekly Sabbath-day but only of the seventh day and that there is no threatning either Denounced against or executed upon any that have not observed any other day in
Fruit of Christs Mediating for them with his Father He their Saviour and their God and the God of their Past-Present-and After-Salvarions who would make of their Posterity a Glorious new Christian Church in the latter daies As for Redemption-work it doth confirm the Law of the Ten words in the Type And the antitype must answer to the Type The Israel of God were to do the Weekly-Seventh-day-Sabbath and to keep it Holy to Jehovah their Saviour and Redeemer and so are believers under the New-Testament-Dispensation the Saviour himself this Redeemer having so observed it all his life through in the daies of his Flesh here on Earth when Born of the Virgin Mary The Ark which was one of the principal of all the Holy things of God and for which the Tabernacle mainly was set up which did Sanctifie the place where it did Rest this Ark had nothing in it but the two Tables of the Covenant And this Ark was a Type of Christ who had this Law in his Heart And did in his own Person Confirm it to every Letter and part of it by his Doctrine and Practice when more Familiarly Conversant here amongst men It was Christ as Mediator who appeared as man unto Abraham Moses Zechariah and others under that former Administration These works of Redemption were in the Types then and as for the Actual Perfecting and Accomplishing of these in the Person of the Mediator himself when he took to his Godhead the seed of Abraham and was made of the seed of David according to the Flesh and was made of a Woman these works may be said to take their beginning as to this of perfecting and accomplishing them in the antitype upon Christs First thus manifesting of himself in the Flesh And they were further carried on by him in his Life so declared by his Father and attested by his Spirit His Life was a Continued fulfilling of Redeeming-types And as for his Death upon the Cross there just before his giving up the Spirit and commending it into the hands of his Father he himself said it is Finished or accomplished or perfected namely for so much and for fo far he having but a little before on the same day of his Death in his Prayer to his Father declared that he had finished the work which the Father gave him to do This work of Reconciliation and Redemption Thus accomplishing it and perfecting the Types by steps and degrees Some Remainders whereof are further Fulfilled at his 〈◊〉 Resurrection Which also it self was a great work Yet was not this all For these works of Reconciliation and of Redemption had yet a further filling up and a more through perfecting when Forty daies from his rising again he ascended up into Heaven Where he appeared as the great High-Priest of his Peoples Holy profession as the Antitype with Blood and with Incense in that Holy of Holies having his satisfaction and intercession Further in his Glorious Person Actually accepted by his Father which was Typified of Old by the High-Priests entering into the Holy of Holies once every year upon the Atonement day or day of Expiation of which the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews gives an account of its being perfected and fulfilled in Christ To this Ascension of His into the Highest Heavens and his sitting there at the Right Hand of his Father where he appears for his People and intercedes on their behalf in a way suted to his Glorious Majesty in so raised an Exaltation to this doth belong his putting down of the Levitical Priesthood which was a shadow and Type and Figure of the Heavenly Priesthood of Christ and must now upon Christs Ascending and session give way and place to the Truth to the true antitype the High Priest being got into Heaven For whilst Christ was upon Earth the Levitical Priesthood continued at least as to some parts of their Office When the Reader puts all this together and sees how the Redemption-work was for so many years together before Christs Resurrection perfecting and accomplishing and finds Christ Travelling upon the day of his Rising with Two Disciples to Emmaus which was from Jerusalem about Sixty Furlongs which in Common Computation is about seven Miles and a half at least seven Miles too long a Journey for the weekly Sabbath day especially when it was a going off from a greater assembling at Jerusalem the Publick appointed place of worship and this about a private business to a little Village an Example not to be followed upon a pretended new Instituted weekly-Sabbath-day And withal the Reader observes that some part of Redeeming-work was actually compleated by Christ in a way of fulfilling of a Redeeming-Type which work was not done by him before either in his Birth or Life in his Death or Resurrection it will be time for him ponderingly to think on his waies and to turn his feet unto Jehovahs Testimonies to make hast and not to slacken to entertain his Commandments particularly this of the weekly-Seventh-day-Sabbath To set this right precept before him and no longer to put away this Institution of Aelohim from him Which is so full and plain and clear through the whole Scripture and no further to wander on misled by mens darkning-conjectures who would still keep up a day of their own setting up up the First day of the week which as to this of a weekly Sabbath-day is a Creationless and Scriptureless Restingless Blessingless and Sanctifyingless Nameless Thingless Commandless Promiseless and Threatless-day none of those being for it but all for the Seventh day The adversary being driven out of this hold seeks refuge for his First day Sabbath in some other Scriptures cited in the Margin which yet will not allow him Countenance and Warrant For say they the good Apostles met on the First day the day of Christs Resurrection which they then observed as the weekly-Sabbath-day in memory of his Resurrection and of his compleating the works of Redemption on that day Christ taught the two Disciples on that day of his Rising on the same day he appeared to the Disciples and instructed them and did eat with them thus assembled and Blessed them The next First day of the week he chose to appear to them again And those Apostles Christ did Commission as his principal Church Ministers to teach the Churches all his Doctrine and to deliver them all his Commands and orders and so to settle and guide the first Churches Which Apostles did actually separate and appoint the First day of the week for Holy Worship especially in Church-assemblies They themselves frequently meeting upon that day for that end and enjoyning the Churches of their Plantation so to do who obeyed them in this The First day is mentioned as the day of the Disciples assembling to break Bread which though they did it oft on other daies yet no day else was peculiarly appointed for
this place together at least as to the full possession of that Rest If it should be pleaded by the Objectors from one of the Verses compared with other Scriptures that sound Believers do actually injoy some beginning of it here this we are perswaded of and experienced Believers are supposed in Scripture to have already somewhat of it as well as to hope for more of it here and to believe and expect their full everlasting possession of it in the heavenly Glory at the last when they have here finished that Work which the LORD sent them into the World to do and this is their every days happiness more or less as they more or less act as Believers O how often may the Spirit of a Believer be in the Heavenly Rest in one Day He may get thither into this Rest in one Holy Thought and how many of such thoughts may his thoughts be who thus doth act Faith Hope and Love aright upon this Object A sound Believer should check himself under his divertisements from this Felicity Return O my Soul to thy-my-Rests My Rests are thy Rests thy Rests are my Rests Be friendly to me and to thy self Sit down and silently Rest in Jehovah Aelohim There is an abundant entrance subministred to thee to me so to do This Epistle in one passage of this cited place do prove that Jesus or Joshuah For Joshuah or Jehoshuang in the Syriack Language and also by the Greeks denoteth a Saviour had not then given them that Rest spoken of in that Psalm referred to because then the Psalmist would not afterward have spoken of another Day and therefore that Rest which Joshuah or Jesus or Jesus by Joshuah set them in was not this Rest it self but a Type of this heavenly rest to believers for many entred into Canaan who never entred into Heaven Joshua had not given them that rest which is here spoken of So that this cannot be understood of the rest of the first day of the week as the weekly sabbath-Sabbath-day seeing the Objectors do affirm though groundlesly and but pretendedly that the Captain Jesus of whom Joshuah was someways a Type gave his Disciples this first day rest Heaven is in other Scriptures set out by the Name of God's Rest This was Typified by the Ark and by the Temple and by Canaan and is plain enough spoken of in this passage to the Hebrews God's rest is in the highest Heavens there is the dwelling place of his Rest There doth Christ sit in Glory at the right hand of his Father in full perfect happy Rest where sound Believers also shall rest in and with Him For a little after this passage we are told Christ's Rest is in the Heavens in the highest Heavens the Holy of Holies So elsewhere in the same Epistle We saith he have a great High Priest who is gone thorow into the Heavens Jesus the Son of God and therefore let us hold fast our Christian profession For Christ is not entred into the Sanctuary that is made with hands which is an Antitype of the true that is of the Heavenly Sanctuary which was Figured by the other but into Heaven it self now to appear before the face of God for us with full satisfaction made to the Justice of his Father by the Sacrifice of himself offered up to his Father and with prevailing Intercession for those whom the Father gave unto him So that as his rest is divers times mentioned in this Epistle so also is Heaven often expresly mentioned besides other words that do set it out and there is likewise the phrase of thus entring in several times spoken of All these in the same Epistle which was of old under the former ministration typified by the High Priests entring into the Holiest once every year For the High Priest also was in this a Type of Christ who is called the Apostle and the High Priest of their Profession who are partakers of the Heavenly calling So that all these expressions thus put together which we do meet withal in the same Epistle do best reconcile this sense to the whole of the Epistle besides and to other Scriptures which do treat of the same Subject-matter that the entring in the Ingress into this rest is the entring into the Heavenly rest above Some beginnings of which Heavenly rest Believers do enter into here in that holy Heavenly Fellowship which they have with Jehohah Aelohim in Father Son and Holy Spirit and with the living Members of Christ's mystical Body Jesus the fore-runner being already entred into the innermost of the veil for them the Believers hope has a way of entring in there after him We have Ordinances now dispensed with more clearness Spirituality and Heavenliness then Believers under the former Administration had though they also enjoyed the same for sum and for substance yet under Types Shadows and Figures And therefore they are called Heavenly things which the pattern of Old did more darkly resemble These are not forced sences and interpretations of my own but such as are Natural and Familiar Plain and Obvious and in the express Language and literal words of the same Epistle Before I quite dismiss this about the rest I am to write somewhat about the significancy of the word Sabbatism The Greek Noun is derived from a Verb which doth signific I Sabbatize or I rest The seventy two Greek Interpreters do use the Verb in one Scripture where it doth set out the rest of the Land every seventh year they use it also in another place where it is applyed to the Seventh-day-Sabbath that being the weekly Sabbatizing-day or resting-day The Greek Noun in the proper significancy of the Word is an actual or active resting or Cessation from work or labour or from motion about such work and labour as is rested from a Requietion or Requiescence from this This being used in the Greek of the New Testament but once the means to come to a right apprehension of the true signification and the proper meaning of it in this place will be to examine what the Original of this Greek Word is in that Language from whence it is borrowed in the Old Testament Hebrew and what that word in the Hebrew Original doth contain and express in it How that word is used in the Scriptures from whence this Greek Noun hath its Origination as also what there is in the Context of this place in this part of the Epistle to the Hebrews about this matter enquired after What there is in that Psalm referred to here in this Epistle that may bring some light to this matter And what there is in the Word of Christ about this Phrase of Sabbath-keeping or keeping a Sabbath as the Objector doth render it It is not here unworthy of our noting That the Greek Tongue in a multitude of Words has its Origination from the Hebrew Language Its Alphabet and Letters hath its
Jesus the Son of God in the fourteenth Verse Neither is the parallel between the Works of the Father and the Works of the Son as if they were such different Works of a different Nature and of different Time which was not the matter under debate in the third and fourth Chapters of this Epistle as men have divided them the which what was mentioned before doth also discover For what things soever the Father doth these also doth the Son likewise Nor is the parallel between one Day of the Week and another Day of the Week and the first Day of the Week in the weehly Revolution For the to day mentioned in the Psalm and the seventh Verse doth not point out the particular first Day of the Week as distinct from the others Days of the same Week As if the Exhortation did peculiarly properly and openly belong unto that but it takes in the whole of our Day and Time wherein the sound of Christ's Voice comes unto us speaking by his Spirit in his Word from his Father every Day of the Week as appears from the thirteenth Verse of the third Chapter So that those expressions in the seventh and eighth Verses of the fourth Chapter which do speak of a certain day and of another day do set out a large providential Day a long time after the Israelites entring into Canaan the Land of Rest The Rest spoken of in the Psalm could not refer to this or the weekly Sabbath from the Worlds Creation for these were before whereas the Psalmist doth speak of a Rest that was future and yet to come as to those who were then alive As likewise it was to the Author of this Epistle and to the Believers in his Day and Time It was remaining even then A Rest a Sabbatism which was not then by him and those to whom he wrote fully entred into possessed and injoyed Though Believers so far as they had their Citizenship their Burgeship in Heaven and in the Spirit did converse with the glorious Inhabitants of the New City of that Heavenly Jerusalem did pass into somewhat of it and had some views and foretasts some beginnings and first fruits of it So that the parallel here is between Rest and Rest For as Jehovab Aelobim the Creator having finished his Works of the six foregoing Days in the first Week of the Created World did Rest on the Seventh-day Sabbath and look as the Israclites did Rest in the Land of Canaan after their labour and travel when they had peaceable quiet possession of that Land So shall believers also when they have done their Generation-work and have finished the Work of their Day and Time in doing and in suffering the whole Will of our LORD have and injoyed a Rest a Sabbatism which will be fully compleated in that better Heavenly Country And so also is the parallel between entring or not entring into the typical Rest in the Land of Canaan and entring or not entring into that Rest which was typified thereby which was not a First-Day Rest as is pretended but the Heavenly Eternal Rest This parallel is held forth in the eleventh eighteenth and nineteenth Verses of the third Chapter and in the first third sixth tenth and eleventh Verses of the fourth Chapter And the parallel further holds between Believers and Unbelievers in the passage towards or entrance or not entrance into the Land of Canaan the Land of Canaan the Land of Typical Rest according as they were perswadable and obedient or not And Believers or Unbelievers since the time of that Psalm which I therefore mention because it is the Foundation of the Discourse in this place to the Hebrews and particularly at the time when the Author of this Epistle did write wherein all Ages since and those after us are also concerned For even these also according as they are found perswadable and obedient or not so shall they either enter into or come short of this typified promised Rest As it was in the Prophet David's time the offer of Grace as to the Promised Rest was made to the Israelites for this same Gospel was published unto them under that Ministration of Grace as unto us now under the present Dispensation of Grace in the second and third Verses of the fourth Chapter The Doctrine of Salvation by Faith in the Messiah being the Doctrine in David's time and in Moses Days and long enough before him and those of them who were believing obedient and perswadable in the sixth and seventh and eleventh Verses of that Psalm So that there was in part a fulfilling of this in David's time both as to the threatning part upon the unbelieving impenitent and disobedint dying away such and as to the promising part as to the believing repenting and obeying ones who died in the Faith And therefore it cannot be understood of the First Day of the Week in opposition to the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath as is pretended there being nothing at all of any such observation of the First Day in David's time And the same Gospel was published unto those in the time of the Author of this Epistle in the second Verse of the fourth Chapter even as unto the Israelites before and it had a further fulfilling than in that Authors time in the third Verse of the fourth Chapter and it still has and will have as the Exhortations do prevail in the first sixth seventh twelfth thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth Verses of the third Chapter and the first third eleventh fourteenth and sixteenth Verses of the fourth Chapter The Works that Believers are said to Rest from in the tenth Verse of the fourth Chapter are according to Scripture-phrase and meaning elsewhere their labours Believers shall Rest from their labours from the labours of their particular Functions and Callings wherein they were exercised in their life time here and as for their labour in the LORD whilst they were here in which time they did abound in the Work of their LORD as also for their labour of Love in all their suffering as well as doing for Christ Believers will have satisfaction and complacency sweetness and delight in such works as these are though above in the heavenly Rest they will be wholly for ever free from sufferings as also from all corrupt mixtures and defectivenesses which were their sorrow grief and trouble here which they much laboured under where the Tempter shall no more assault them There is a Rest promised to Believers evidently and expresly in the first third and eleventh Verses of this fourth Chapter not now to mention other Verses in this passage of this Epistle which the Objector doth causlesly and groundlesly controvert And Rest is a cessation from such Labour and Work as into which that Labour and Rest doth pass which Rest in the better heavenly Country is so far from being unsuitable to the purpose of the Author of this Epistle that it is the main drift and scope of his arguing in the
was the Israelites called therefore the Region of the Fathers of the Israelites and the Land of the Hebrews The place which Abraham was to receive for an Inheritance The Inheritance of the Jews If there were need to to heap together many Scriptures about this how often is it set out by the Land of Promise or the promised Land or the Promises Or the Land which Aelohim sware to give to Abraham to Isaae to Jacob which Aelohim gave to his people for a possession and such like And this Canaan was also called The Inheritance of Aelohim This is called the place of Rest Jerusalem was more especially the Rest there More expresly yet it is said concerning the Typical Land that Canaan and the Rest there was a Type of this promised Rest in this place to the Hebrews brought out of the ninty fifth Psalm that this Land should enjoy her Sabbaths and that this Land should Rest and enjoy her Sabbaths Whereas it did not so Rest in their Sabbaths your Sabbaths they were theirs when the sinning Israelites dwelt upon it So also they are called her Sabbaths or Rests The Sabbaths of that Land when it was every seven years to have rested from Tillage and such Labour and Work And again your Sabbaths Your Ye shall Rest your Sabbaths speaking of the Typical Expiation-day-Sabbath it was their Rest Thus of Jerusalem of the Inhabitants thereof the Jews who had dwelt there It is said of them under their Babylonish Captivity that The Adversaries did mock at her Sabbaths Her the like is elsewhere I saith Jehovah will make to cease her Sabbath Her So that the Scriptures do affirm that the Rest or Sabbath was that Land's own Rest and it was the Israelites own Rest given of Jehovah And it is called Jehova's Rest too This is my Rest whatever this Objector doth suggest to the contrary And as for the beginnings of this Rest here Believers have and enjoyed it as theirs Thus the Psalmist bespeaks his soul My soul return unto Thy. My Rest It was his soul's and so his own Rest And thus in the New Testament comers to Christ do find Rest to their Souls It is their Souls Rest A Rest given to them of Christ Who is gone before to His Father's House to prepare Mansions for His thorow Disciples there in their Resting-Place which He has taken Actual Possession of in their Name that He and they may be together in Holy Happy Rest In the mean while He has given and left His Peace with them that their hearts might Rest in Him and when their time is come they shall Rest from their Labours with Him in Glory And now let the Reader with me make out after this remaining Sabbatism that this Promised Rest may be ours that we may not so much as seem to come short of it Then and there will be a Sabbatizing a ceasing as from much other Labour and Work so from these Strifes and Disputations The perfectly sanctified Spirit of Just men will come fully home to its Rest sitting down in Glory enjoying Christ and Rest in Him O the Blessedness of such O happy we and O happy our Progresses our goings on with a streight foot towards this if we be such believing obeying perswadable ones as shall enter into this Rest If the Reader be one who hath met with this Objector's arguing against the Seventh Day Sabbath it may be he would willingly have somewhat returned in Answer yet further unto some Grounds on which that learned Adversary doth lay the pretended change of the Weekly-Sabbath-Day from the Seventh to the First day I shall therefore transcribe what is written about this God saith he had of old determined the Renovation of All by a new Creation a new Law of that Creation a new Covenant and a new Sabbatical Rest unto His own Glory by Jesus Christ The Renovation of all things by Jesus Christ is prophesied of and foretold as a new Creation of All even of the Heavens and of the Earth and all things contained in them Isai 65. 17 18. and 66. 22. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Hence the State of things to be introduced thereby was under the Old Testament called the World to come Heb. 2. 5. In the Prophety of the New Temple or Church-state in those Days there is Especial Direction given for the Service of the Sabbath-Day Ezek. 46. 4. This Renovation of all things is said accordingly to be accomplished in Christ 2 Cor. 5. 17 18. Old things are passed away Behold all things are become New The Old Law Old Covenant Old Worship Old Sabbath all that was peculiar unto the Covenant of Works as such in the first Institution of it and its renewed Declaration on Mount Sinai all are gone and antiquated The Moral Law materially the same is now the Rule of our Obedience not merely and absolutely unto God as the Creator the First Cause and Last End of All But as unto God in Christ bringing of us into a New Relation unto Himself There is now a New Covenant part of the New Creation Jerem. 31. 32. Heb. 8. 9. No man can assert the same day of Rest precisely the Seventh-Day to abide as of old but he must likewise assert the same Law the same Covenant the same Rest of God the same way of Entring into it which yet as all acknowledge are changed On this we lay the Observation of the LORD's Day under the New Testament or a new Work of Creation Isai 65. 17. 66. 22 23. 2 Pet 3. 13. Rev. 21. 1. Rom. 8. 19 20. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Gal. 6. 15. Or a Work of new Creation is undertaken and compleated This new Creation is accompanied with a new Law and a new Covenant or the Law of Faith and the Covenant of Grace Rom. 3. 27. 8. 2 3. 4. Jer. 31. 32 33 34. Heb. 8. 8-13 Vnto this Law and Covenant a day of Holy Rest unto the LORD doth belong which cannot be the same day with the former no more than it is the same Law or the same Covenant which were Originally given unto us Heb. 4. 9. Rev. 1. 10. This Day was limited and determined to the first day of the Week by our LORD Jesus Christ Thus this Objector In my reply to this after two premises I am to shew that this new Heaven and this new Earth spoken of in Prophetical Scripture This Renovation by a new Creation is not so finished and compleated but that it is yet to come in the largest fulfilling and accomplishing of it That there was a Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament Administration that the new Worship was Typically signified in the figuring pattern of old That the Law of Faith was a Law under the Old Testament dispensation That the old Law of the ten words is still the same It was the rule of obedience to them under the Old Testament as unto God in Christ and is still
carnal compliance either with old Judaizers or with superstitious Pagans who had added divers of their own Ethnick corrupt mixtures of Idolatrous Worship which they gave to Sun Moon and Stars By the course and motion whereof Days Times Moons and Years were measured Gentile Philosophers having parcelled out the power of the only true God into the particular vertues of Elements and Creatures As the Lights in the Heavens Fire Water and Earth ascribing some portion of Deity to every one of these and so assigning a part of the Worship of God unto them too appointing times and seasons for their superstitious service These practices are blame worthy This were to go back either to the Old Testament dispensation or to return to their former Heathenish Rites which is three times rebuked and reproved What Again Again Backward But what is all this to the standing Law of the Seventh day Sabbath kept in an Holy Spiritual manner in obedience to Jehovah's command according to his Word Institution This is a matter of a distinct Nature from the other being a Law of another kind So that to lay aside all instituted natural seasons of Worship such as daily Evening and Morning Worship and weekly Sabbath Worship as some would infer from this place is in the issue to open a back-door for the main of Religion to be turned out at and to enforce it as others do from hence and from one Scripture more which they also wrest to the like wrong ill purpose as if it mattered not what day of the Week were kept or whether any day or no day at all So both were done to the LORD and we were now under no such particular Law This were to open a Gap to all superstition and prophaneness or to urge it as if we were now under no obligation of one special day in a Week but must keep every day of the week as Sabbath as some others Which is quite contrary to the whole Scripture and to the Word and Nature of a Sabbath-day Which is a cessation from the ordinary labour a resting from the common work of our particular Functions which to do on every day of the Week were a sin expresly against the Letter of the Law of the fourth word which doth command us to work six days To spend the day in the Instituted work of Jehovah Aelohim This under a pretence of being always in a Sabbath is to mislead them to be never in a Sabbath Or as other some to plead from hence that they may keep both first day and Seventh-day too as Sabbaths every week this also is directly against the precept For we must work the six foregoing days of the Week and rest on the Seventh We do declare against all and every of these mistakes and miscarriages both in principle and in practice in whomsoever they are found Paul is supposed by these Objectors to speak against the observing of that which comes under the expression of weak and poor Rudiments Elements or first beginnings Whereas the ten Words are not such These are a Kingly Law Obedience to these is the Liberty of Children whereas subjection to the other in comparison of this was sometimes the Bondage of Servants The ten Words are a Kingly Law of Liberty If it be objected that the Typical Figuring shadowy part annexed of old to the Seventh-day Sabbath to be then observed such as the two He-Lambs and such like was a part of these weak and poor Rudiments We acknowledge that these have received their perfection and accomplishment in Christ now come born of a Virgin So that in this part which was Typically superadded we are not now so to observe the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath by such Types and Figures but after that glorious spiritual Heavenly manner as becometh those who are under this New Testament dispensation and thus to keep it is no bondage to a renewed Heart The more excelling in Knowledge in Grace and in Experience that any is the more free will they be to this when once they are led aright into it Let that therefore which Paul saith in the twelfth verse be considered here Be ye as I am for I have been as ye are As if he had said I was once superstitious whilst a Pharisee fond of un-Scriptural Traditionary seasons days and observances or an observer of Scriptural times and institutions in an un-Scriptural un-Spiritual manner as ye but now I bring all to a Word-Rule and so should you If the Reader do diligently observe it in his going over of this Epistle he may find the Law of the ten words established as a rule of Life in the whole of it and by enumeration and induction in several particular commands of it though withal he set out the different manner of dispensing of Grace under the Old and New Testament This improved and applyed might also be an answer to that part of the Objection which is formed from wresting that other place to the Colossians The great drift scope and design of the Apostle in this second Chapter is to set up and establish Jesus Christ as Head LORD Law-giver and the great Exemplar Contrary unto which amongst others were these great opposers the maintainers and defenders of corrupt Philosophy whereby some did endeavour to make a prey of Souls through affectation of humane Wisdom and vain deception according to the Tradition of Men according to the Elements of the World and not according to Christ Another sort of Adversaries were the Advocates for humane Inventions the pleaders for the institutions and impositions of Men besides and against the Scriptures of Truth in the matters of Faith and of manners of Doctrine Worship Discipline Government and Conversation they were Will-worshippers Some others there were who were hot contenders for the keeping up of such Ceremonies as were once Shadows and Types of a Christ who was then to come to be born in the flesh of a Virgin These Typical Institutions were perfected in Christ when he thus came These shadows now passed into the body and substance of them Believers were now complete in their Head Christ in the tenth Verse and had the true grace of what was under Types and Shadows before in the eleventh and twelfth verses That Chirograph by Rites which before they had as it were written exhibited signed sealed and delivered was now blotted out or cancelled Which before was their act and deed in the fourteenth and fifteenth Verses As for what they object that two He-Lambs of the first year perfect were an annexed part of the worship on the Seventh day Sabbath and two tenth parts of fine flower for a Meat-offering mingled with Oyl and the Drink offering thereof the Burnt-offering of the Sabbath in his Sabbath As if therefore the Sabbath too were to be laid aside with these If there were any force in this arguing then we should lay aside all Religion and Worship For what was there under that
from Heaven and they drank of Christ in their Water from the Rock By the Grace of the LORD Jesus Christ they did believe to be saved the same way as Believers do now Peter put no difference between them and us but only in the manner of dispensing What shall I say more of all the Signs and Seals under that Administration of the free favour of Jehovah Aelohim towards his Covenant people What was all this but a Gospel-Teaching an applying of the Covenant Take but off the Veil from them and they appear much with a face of shining Grace Was not the Virtue and Efficacy of Christ's death under that dispensation of Grace He was the Lamb slâ—in from the Foundation of the World so he is said to be in the Revelation Christ's satisfaction and intercession was available for his Covenant people in Moses's time The Book it self wherein Moses did write all the Words of Jehovah is called The Book of the Covenant This Book on the Altar was sprinkled with blood to be sanctified thereby which blood is also called The blood of the Covenant The people also were sprinkled with the blood of the Covenant in the sprinkling of the twelve Pillars which did represent them that is the twelve Tribes This Covenant or Testament at Horeb as the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews hath observed and declared was not dedicate without blood These were Patterns Anti-types and the Types must answer the one to the other of the heavenly things and they were purified by the blood of those Sacrifices signifying that the LORD Christ by his death should sanctifie his people unto himself by the blood of the New Testament in a clearer manner of dispensing and fuller measure of accomplishing though otherways one and the same Covenant of Grace Moses called upon the people to behold this which Scripture is explained in what is written to the Hebrews this is the Blood of the Covenant or of the Testament which God hath commanded unto you Thus was the Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament confirmed by the Blood of Beasts exactly answering unto the same Covenant of Grace under the New Testament which was confirmed by the Blood of Christ There was free remission of sins acceptation of the person and of the service for in the through Christ then as there is now All the Prophets do give witness unto Christ that through his Name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins This doth further appear in Moses's repeating over in the latter part of his Book the same Covenant which Jehovah Aelohim made with his people at Sinai wherein he doth at large discover how much rich Grace and free Love a God in Christ had manifested towards that people in Covenant with him The Book commonly called Deuteronomy is a second Declaration of the same Covenant of Grace repeated renewed with their Children renewed with Israel the same made before only with some clearer Revelation of Christ and of Blessings by him and of inlarged explained promises It was the same Covenant of Grace which was also solemnly renewed with and by the people of God at their return from the Captivity of Babylon as may be seen in the Records of Ezra and of Nehemiah The same Covenant of Grace also which the LORD makes with his people in Christ now And the same which he will revive and renew with the new formed created people in the latter days Who shall not so break Covenant as those Israelites in the Wilderness of old did but shall be more stedfast and faithful to God who will be so graciously in Covenant with them Those promises in Jeremiah repeated in the Epistle to the Hebrews are if not peculiarly yet at least chiefly made to the house of Israel the ten Tribes as well as Judah have their part in them Ephraim setting out the Israelites of the ten Tribes They shall come from the North and be generally called an innumerable multitude they shall dwell in their Cities in their own Country their City of Jerusalem shall be re-edified their Estate shall be flourishing and happy to perpetual continuance with such other things as were never yet throughly fulfilled Which cannot be meant of their coming out of the Captivity at Babel The promises relating to the New Testament Dispensation And all this shall be in the last days by which words this great Mystery is usually expressed This will yet further be evidently demonstrated in that this Prophetie and Promise was renewed and revived several years after Christs Ascension into Heaven as is clear by the mention of it in that Epistle to the Hebrews and in several places of the Revelation For the contrary to all this was some few years in the same generation or age after Christ's death the Jew 's were unchurched the City and the Temple were destroyed according to Christ's foretelling in what is written in that Book of his Generation All and every of the particulars expressed in the renewed Covenant were before under that Dispensation in Moses's time They are also now made good unto this present Dispensation according to the manner and measure of Administration as the All-wise God saw and sees fit which will be more clearly manifested and more fully accomplished in the last times And with this Prophetie both the Old and New Testament are closed Let all and every of the Particulars pass under a Scripture-Examination Will Christ give his Laws in the mind of his people and write them in their hearts So he did under the Old Testament-dispensation The same thing was fulfilled towards and in a Covenant-people then Thus in Moses's Writings Jehovah Aelohim speaks to his People these words The Ten Words written in the Two Tables of Stone which I commanding thee this day shall be in thy heart These are the fleshly Tables wherein they shall be written Thus the Psalmist in his time in his describing the Just man saith The Law of his God is in his heart it shall not stagger his steps The Prophet Isaiah thus sets out the people of God They are a People in whose heart is this Law It was Solomon's advice in his Proverbs My Son forget not my Law but let thine heart keep my Commandments Write them upon the table of thine heart And again a second time in another place My Son keep my sayings and lay up my Commandment with thee Keep my Commandments and live write them upon the table of thine heart Hath the LORD promised that he will be for or to a God to his people This was performed under the Old Testament I have already shewed that it is expresly put into the Ten Words several times In Moses's time Jehova's people had avouched or had made to say him to be unto them for a God They owned and acknowledged him to be thus in Covenant with them for the confirming of their Faith and for the increase of their Obedience I
the Prophets Should not those who are fellow-members with them of the same body under that one Head the LORD Jesus Christ rejoyce together O how delightful is it to be with them in the Spirit The Church of Believers of old was then more in her Infancy she is now grown up they now have all their Veils of Figures and Types taken off and they see and enjoy Christ face to face They are brought into the light of the Divine Majesty which is in Christ cloathed in our Flesh Christ is now no longer hidden to and from them under shadows these former Coverings are now removed and the clear Light is not kept away They are now able to look into the bottom of Moses's Ministry They now so behold the Glory of the LORD as to be possessed of the heavenly things themselves having a clear view of Christ who is the Image of the invisible God the brightness or resplendence of his Glory and the Engraven Form of his Person There they receive their Reward which God doth graciously give unto his Servants the Prophets and to his Saints and to all that fear his Name Having thus at large manifested it to be according to the Word that there was a Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament-administration and that the privileges of the LORD's Covenant-people even then were the same for kind with Believers now though differently dispensed I shall here further discover that the Seventh-Day-Sabbath it self was some ways a sign of this thus improving this Expression and Meditation to a right useful purpose which some Adversaries do wrongfully pervert to an ill end Thus they object The Seventh Day-Sabbath was a sign of their Sanctification to whom it was given and therefore of a Ceremonial nature and not given to all men These to whom the Sabbath was given to them it was a sign of their present Sanctification but it was no sign of the present Sanctification of all people over the whole World And therefore it was never given to all the people of the whole World but only unto God's people Israel And therefore of no Natural Consideration therefore Ceremonial Thus it is objected This Objection is like to have the more satisfactory Answer if there be a due clear distinguishing of the several things which are contained in it and a proper Application of each Particular unto the present matter in hand that so the understanding Reader and the spiritual Discerner may see that way plain before him which may directly lead him into the Mind and Will of Christ and he may the better learn the Truth as it is in Jesus I purpose therefore to distinguish of Signs of Sanctification of the Law of the Ten Words of Peoples of Ceremonials of Giving this Law of the Ten Words Signs are either natural Signs such as have a force of signifying from the created Nature of that thing which is the Sign Thus the Heavenly Luminaries are Signs of divers things particularly with respect to the Seventh-Day-Sabbath There is the same word in the Original A diligent Observer with the eye of the motions of those Luminaries may see that set Times and fit Seasons for solemn Assembling and for Instituted Worship are directed to and pointed at by these shining Lights to measure out Daily-Evening and Morning and Weekly-Seventh-Day-Sabbath Opportunities for our direction in Working and in Resting or the conserving of the orderly course and state of this World in the required matters of appointed Services due from Man to his Creators and Makers throughout all the Ages all the days of this Earth Which is also put into a Promise And the Covenant of Grace is confirmed by these natural Signs If these be Signs of created Nature of the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath after the six foregoing working Days in the same Week and this Seventh day-Sabbath have foundation in created Nature and both these be by the Ordination and appointment by the All wise Creator then this being so established by an unchangeable Law of pure Primitive Creation the weekly seventh-Seventh-day Sabbath must continue as long as those Luminaries do continue to be such a Sign Which Seventh-day-Sabbath is also a sign of Aelohim's creating the World of Heaven and of Earth and of all things therein in the six foreging Days and of his Resting on the Seventh which is the last Day of the Week This being expresly rendred by himself as the Reason why it is called a Sign Or Signs are instituted which do signifie somewhat by Vertue of some special appointment by the only Supreme Soveraign LORD and Lawgiver Jehovah Christ Thus the Typical Sacrifices and such Ceremonial Figures as were after wards annexed for a time to the weekly Seventh day-Sabbath were Signs and Shadows Types and Figures These were significative of a Christ who was then under that Dispensation to come to be born of a Virgin So they were perfected and accomplished in and by Christ when God was thus manifested in the Flesh when Christ was then born of the Virgin Mary But the weekly Seventh day-Sabbath had its created Being before this and distinct from this and so continued after this did pass into its Antitype This weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath doth stand firm established for ever in the Word and in Nature If the Objector or any other do further affirm that the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath is still a significant Sign by Institution and that this significativeness is a part of it If they mean that it is thus a shadow of that Spiritual Eternal Rest that Sabbatism which doth yet remain for the people of God in the Heavens let them look well to their Scripture-proofs for this but I shall not contend with them about it it rather making for the cause I undertake For the Type must continue till the Antitype come Let these men therefore keep the Seventh-day-Sabbath till they get to Heaven if ever they come there and then and there they will know more clearly and fully If any further Typical significativeness be pretended and urged when I understand what it is it is like to pass under Examination and Consideration with me Observe here that the Typical Signs superadded unto the Law of the ten Words did establish that Law in the natural unchangeable Holiness and Righteousness of it Only by Institution they did put some further thing into it during that former Dispensation of Grace Or they are notifying-testifying-certifying-Signs By these somewhat is made known and witnessed unto them unto whom these are given from the LORD for some particular use and end Thus the weekly Seventh-day-Sabbath is a Sign Consider here the Law of the Seventh-day-Sabbath as proclaimed and given by Jehovah Christ put into a Covenant of Grace as have been proved Thus it was is and will be a Sign For there is no particular Verb of definite time expressed in one of the places in the Original to determine when and how long so as if then and
even in those Climates between seventy and ninety Degrees there is an equivalent space of time measured by hours days weeks months and years by which they overthrow most of the force of their own Argument God commanded no impossibility in Nature in requiring a determinate day in every week to be kept as a weekly Sabbath by man by all mankind though some daringly would infer the quite contrary We must take the Seventh-day as the Creator hath made and continued it to us The Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath is not bottomed upon Ethnick Philosophy which has corrupted the Principles of Astronomy and of Geometry of Theology and of Christianity but upon holy Scriptures and created Nature The Seventh-day Sabbath instituted and commanded in Paradise and renewed and re-inforced at Mount Horeb neither of which places were in the lesser Judaea or Canaan and therefore this Law of the fourth Word was not a local Precept of force no where but in that lesser Judaea and Canaan as some affirm this Seventh day Sabbath is such a kind of day as may be known kept and observed by men where-ever they should inhabit That day in every week which followeth the six foregoing known days of labour is none of ours it is the day of Jehovah he hath plainly pointed it out to us in this Law none need to say the knowledge hereof is hidden from us who shall ascend for us into Heaven and bring the knowledge thereof to us that we may know it and observe it it is clearly demonstrated to us by Aelohim himself we may not make the Sabbath-day the sixth day for then we should shew our selves unthankful in not receiving the LORD 's own bountiful allowance unto us of six days for labour in our particular Functions Neither are we to make it the eight day for then we incroach on the LORD's Right and are not contented with his liberal Grant of six days for our own employments It might be asked of these Objectors whether God have any Covenant People near the North Pole and South Pole if so whether they have not the Scriptures If they have how then can they so mingle Faith with several Scriptures if such a people have not Day and Night in their successive daily Seasons was not the whole Scripture fitted for all Mankind for all Nations for every rational Creature in those Nations to whomsoever the glad tydings of Salvation should come and did not the LORD hereby confirm the lasting establishedness of the Covenant of Grace Is there one Bible for temporate Zones and another Book for Poles and for the inhabitants thereabouts Day and Night were made for the Earth or Land The Heavenly Luminaries have a preaching Voice to all Languages and People night and day To be under the Sun is a phrase which signifieth to be in this inferiour World those that do live in this inhabited Earth are set out by being beholders of the Sun all who have eyes and will use them to that end the Sun is made for light by day and the Sun riseth upon the evil and the good There was a First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh Day in every Week here in England from the beginning ever since it was dry Land and will be so to the Worlds end if it still continue dry Earth and therefore let us make use of such arguments as do concern our selves there has been always a day from one going in of the Sun to the next going in of the Sun here in this Island ever since it was an Island the created Sun was just in those very places of the firmament at those seasons of the year as to its setting or rising as it is now at the same seasons of the year by unvariable constancy in his ordinary course and our continued certain measure of Days by Divine Ordination in the revealed Word and in created Nature must be by the orderly regular Motion of the Sun Moon and Stars this being one great end of their Creation and these being made before man was Created so that as soon as man had a being he might measure his time this way though it was made known unto him by the LORD on what day of the week he was created and which was the Seventh-day Sabbath when Jehovah made a promise unto Abraham that should be fulfilled some hundreds of years after it is said that in the self-same day the Prophety was fulfilled so that there is a certain Rule of measuring of Time Oh how much is it to be lamented that although the Seventh day Sabbath be so evidently and plainly asserted through the whole Scripture yet multitudes who have and do own the Scriptures will not as yet receive this holy Law of Christ whilst there is any thing that doth but look like somewhat of an Objection against it they take up with every humane conjecture though besides and against the Word many there are who will rather boldly attempt to throw down all weekly Sabbaths than humbly submit and obedientially conform to Jehovah's determinate weekly time of the seventh-Seventh-day though Scripture and Nature have joyntly established it When the LORD threatned and accordingly executed it to drive his Israel in case of such provoking disobedience into strange Nations unto the utmost parts of the Heaven yet there they were under the Law and Obligation of the ten Words In Judaea it self or Canaan the lesser the breadth from East to West was generally fifty Miles to which if the Kingdom of Sihon and Og be added on the other side Jordan parcels of Canaan the larger and possessed by Ruben Gad and half Manasses the bredth reckoned to be eighty Miles which doth make some variation of minutes according to this objection and by the same reason made it impossible for them to keep as to the same minute parts of time with respect to the weekly Sabbath but as for the larger Canaan which the Israelitish and Judaick Kings subdued under their Dominion this had a much larger extent as has been in part shewed already their foot did tread and their coast was from the Wilderness and Lebanon from the River the River Euphrates and unto the hindmost Sea The Wilderness of Paran was the Southern part of Canaan Lebanon was a Mountain at the Northen bound Euphrates the great River was the Eastern border of their Territories the hindmost Sea or after Sea called by the Greek and Chaldee the Western Sea was the main or great Sea toward the going in of the Sun this was to the West their Western bound This was prophetied in Moses's and Jehovah's time and afterwards fulfilled in Solomon's days where the Nations subdued were to fear and to worship where the Sun and Moon went forth and went in in their successive courses the Chaldee doth interpret with the rising of the Sun and in the light of the Moon that is at Morning and at Evening as the twelve Tribes
both these he asserts to be an universal day contrary to Scripture and Nature he saith a little after that Sun setting was in some places on the fourth day before Sun-rising and therefore it may be inferred according to this concession that it was night in some places when it was day in other places in other places it was Sun-rising before it was Sun-setting he who would make it otherwise in respect of the wide earth must take this Authors bare words for it without any proof our weeks and the days thereof here in England are as the first week and the days thereof were at the first creation of this part of the earth unless he can evidence that it was since that brought hither from some other part of the earth and if he could do that yet it would make nothing for the proving of his main general assertion whilst the main of the present inhabited earth doth stand firmly in the same place where it was at the first before it was inhabited There is one part of his objection which doth expect to have somewhat replyed to it wherein he thus argueth and reasoneth our Sunday sabbath saith he is the very same day of the week which was anciently observed by Jews and Gentiles for the solemn day of their solemn weekly worship beginning at the light part or morning of the day before Israels coming out of Aegypt and after that by the Gentiles and since Christs time by Gentil pagans and by Gentil-Christians thus far he the proof whereof he referreth us to some humane Authorities having quite contrary humane histories which do relate a different practice some whereof I am upon this occasion even necessitated to point unto for it is Scriptural Authority and Law and created nature and order which we resort unto for the proof of our position and therefore the Reader is here desired to bear a little herewith seeing I am even driven into it so many several Treatises having been sent and brought unto me which some are under a temptation to misjudge to be unanswerable unless somewhat be said and written to stop the mouths of such gain-sayers The Pagan Sun worshippers kept Sunday as this and other days of the week have their heathenish names still kept up besides the word and contrary to it the Jews kept Saturday for the Heathen charged the Jews that they worshipped Saturn for their God so doth one Historian record because they kept the seventh day which the Pagans had consecrated to Saturn Another called the Rest or quietness or leasure time of the Sabbaths Saturnin chairs or chairs of Saturn and therefore the Christians Sunday Sabbath is not the same day of the week observed by the Jews the Pagans did draw the Ionic or Asiatic Jews into their Civil Courts on the seventh day which the Jews complained of to him that was the Superior Power in Civil Government A learned Lexicographer makes Sunday the first and Saturday the seventh day of the week among Pagans The Warring Pagans both before Christs being born of a Virgin and also since did purposely assault the Jews in fight on the seventh-day The Pagans did scoff at the Jews Sabbath of which we have an account given in Scriptures and humane histories do also speak and write the same when the Christians complyed with the corrupt practice of the Pagans the Pagans charged the Christians that they were worshippers of the Sun because they kept and observed the first day of the week their Sunday The Christians do generally call the first-day of the week the Sunday and their Sabbath-day as this objector doth whereas Saturday has the name of Sabbath in all their Law Books in the English Ancient Records This objector doth confess that their Sunday-sabbath could not be the Jews Saturday-sabbath so that if there were no change of the day of the week from the seventh the last to the first in Moses's time which this Author calleth the seventh day all his building is upon the sand and doth totter and fall Another great Antiquary doth reckon the seven days of the week according to their course and order Sunday the first and so onwards Saturnday the seventh as most Christians now do the most Ancient Germans being Pagans as having appropriated their first day of the week to the particular adoration of the Sun whereof that day doth yet in our English Tongue retain the name of Sunday the next day was Monday appropriated to the Moon as the second great luminary the third day was Tuesday from Tuisco the reputed god among the Ancient German Pagans the Conductor of the Teutonic people at the confusion of Babel This objector doth confess that Adam knew from the standard of Gods working the six foregoing days and resting the seventh what was a day a week and the boundary thereof that in the state of iunocency the seventh day was Sacred and that this seventh day Sabbath was sanctified by God and celebrated by our first parents in Paradise and that never was the week counted to be more or less than seven days with any people Therefore I infer from hence that Adam kept the weekly seventh-seventh-day in order of time from the creation As the weekly sabbath-Sabbath-day in imitation of the Creators Rest and Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years which observation he left upon record for after-ages the holy Spirit calleth the seventh day the Sabbath day after Christs Ascension into Heaven Many of the Authorities from humane Histories which this objector doth quote do militate for the LORDS seventh day against the Sunday Sabbath of this Author An Ancient Historian of our own witnesseth that the Rest on the seventh day was wont always to be celebrated who is there saith another that doth not honor that sacred day returning each Septenary of seven days neither is there any City of the Greeks saith a third or of the Barbarians nor any nation to whom the custom of the seventh day in which we Rest hath not come The first Fathers saith a fourth being taught of God kept the seventh day holy to God a fifth speaking of the seventh day affirmeth it to have been Venerable and Sacred in all ages among all Nations I might add a sixth seventh eighth and many more one calleth the Dominical day the eight from the Creation Another doth give it the name of the first after the Sabbath a third doth describe it by the beginning of days which a fourth doth call the first day of the week a fifth doth style it in a Sermon of his the first day of the week a sixth nameth it the eighth day which is also it self the first a perfect week In the second Century Christians on the first day of the week worshipping towards the East while they prayed fell into a suspicion of worshipping the Sun Another affirms that God rested when he had finished the former creation and therefore the men of that
glorified in Heaven Thy knowledge should be perfecting as theirs perfected O for that blessed day when all the imperfections in a Believers knowledge shall be wholly done away VVhen it shall be more presentially visible in the innate Light both of the Knower and of the things known VVhen the Saints shall see face to face and know even also as they are known FINIS a Revel 17. 14. and 19. 16. Psal 48. 2. Esa 14. 13 14 15. Acts 7. 55 56. Job 26. 6 7 9. and 37. 9 22. Esai 6. 1. and 66. 1 2. b Exod. 20. 4. Deut. 5. 8. Psal 24. 1 2. Job 11. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 5. Gen. 1. 9 10 22. c Job 38. 8 9 10. and 10. 21 22. d Job 26. 7. Luke 16. 26. Psal 40. 2. Job 33. 22 24 30. Psal 16. 10. and 49. 15. Ezek. 32 18-32 e Mat. 16. 18. Job 38. 17. Psal 9. 17. and 107. 18. Job 33. 22 24 28 30. Job 17. 16. Luke 16. 23-28 Prov. 15. 11. Mat. 11. 23. Esai 14. 9-15 f Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 10 11. Hebs 4. 3 4. g Gen. 2. 2. h Mar. 2. 27. The Sabbath was made Exod 20. 11. Hebrew 4. 3 4. John 5. 17. i Exod. 20. 11. k Mar. 2. 27. See Hutterus Hebrew l Gen. 2. 3. Here is Him This It The same or some such like relative to be understood as Prov. 3. 27. Eccl. 2. 11. m Exod. 31. 10. Deut. 5. 12. 15. so to do the Passover Deut. 16. 1. Mat. 26. 18. Heb. 11. 28. To do the feast of Booths Deut. 16. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n John 7. 23 24. 1 Cor. 10. 15. and 7. 25 40. 1 Cor. 15. 3. 14. Acts 17. 2. and 18. 28. John 5. 39. Acts 17. 11. Job 6. 25. o Rom. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Dan. 10. 21. John 17. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 15. Rom. 15. 4. 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Deut. 4. 1 2. Prov. 30. 5 6. Revel 22. 18 19. Deut. 12. 32. Joh. 20. 30 31. Gal. 1. 8 9. 1 Tim. 6. 3 5. Mar. 7. 7 -13 p 2 Tim. 3. 15 17. Mat. 22. 29. Mar. 12. 24 27. Gal. 1. 8 9. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4 5. q Jerem. 23. 28 29 30. r Exod. 34. 28. and 31. 18. Deut. 10. 4. 4. 13. Psal 19. 7 8 9. John 10. 34 35. Jam. 1. 25. Deut. 5. 22. Psal 119. throughout Joh. 15. 7 10 14 15. Mat. 5. 17 18 19. rom 3. 31. Luke 16 17 29 31. Psal 93. 5. and 111. 7. 1 Per. 1. 23 24 25. s Compare Gal 6. 15. 16. with 1 Cor. 7. 19. Phil. 3. 16. Isai 8. 16. 20. Deut. 10. 4 12 13. Prov. 8. 8 9. Prov. 6. 20-23 Jam. 2. 10 11 12. Luke 17. 19. Ezek. 18. 19 21. Jer. 7. 23. 31. Lev. 10. 1. Mar. 28. 20. Rom. 4. 15. 5. 13. 1 John 3. 4. Ezek. 18. 10 11. Lev. 4. 1 2 13 14. Rom. 3. 20. 7. 7. 1 King 8. 9. Deut. 10. 5. Exod. 25. 16 21 22 23 24 25. t Exod. 20 -11 Deut. 5. 12 -15 u Exod. 20 -11 Deut. 5 -15 Gen. 2. 2 3. Ezek. 46. 1. Luke 13. 14. w Gen. 1. 5 8 13 19 9. 3 31. chap. 2. 2 3. Ezek. 46. 1. x Gen. 2. 2 3. Exod. 20. 11. y Gen. 2. 2 3. z Exod. 16. 23 30. a Exod. 20. 1 i. b Exod. 31. 14-18 34. 21. and 23. 12. 35. 2. Lev. 23. 3. Deut. 5. 14. c Jer. 17. 19 -27 Neh. 10. 31. 13. 15-2â—2 d Luke 23. 56. Hebr. 4. 4. e Exod. 20. 8-11 f Gen. 2. 1 2 3. g Luk. 4. 16 31. Mat. 12. 1 2 c. Mar. 2. 23 c. Luk. 6. 1 c. 13. 10 15. John 5. 9 c. Mar. 1. 21. 3. 1 2 c. Luk. 14. 1 c. h Rom. 4. 4 6 24 25. Phil. 3. 9. Rom. 5. 12â— 21. Gal 4 4 5. Rev. 19. 8. Isai 45. 23 24 25. 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. Rom. 13. 14 Gal. 3. 27. Jer. 23. 6. i 1 Pet. 2. 21 22 23. Eph. 5. 1 2. 1 John 3. 3. 4. John 1. 16. 1 John 2. 1-6 4. 17. John 15. 7 10 12 14 15. Mat. 11. 27-30 John 13. 34. 12. 49 50. 17. 8. 1 Cor. 11. 1. Heb. 12. 2. Mat. 5. 16-19 Rom. 3. 19-31 Mal. 4. 2 4 5 6. and Rev. 14. 12. 12. 17. 22. 11 12 13 14 18 19. k Act. 13. 14 c Act. 17. 1 2 3. 16. 13-16 and 18. 4. l Compare Luke 4. 16. with Act 17. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As it was so to Christ so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Gen. 2. 2 3. n Exod. 20. 9 â—0 11. o Psal 92. title compared with the rest of the Psalm p Isai 56. 1-8 reade and consider how many special Blessings are here made over q Acts. 13. Acts. 17. Acts. 18. r Mar. 2. 27. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s Mat. 24. 20. t Genes 2. 2. 3. u Isai 58. 13. w Mar. 2. 27. Heb. 4. 3 4. x Exod. 16. 23. 30. y Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. z Isai 56. 2-8 66. 23. a Lev. 23. 3. 2. King 4. 23. Mar. 1. 21. 6. 2. Luk. 4. 16 17 31. 6. 6. 13. 10. Act. 13. 14 42 44. 17. 2. 18. 4. Act. 13. 15 27. 15. 21. Act. 16. 13 16. Psal 92. title compared with the rest Numb 28. 9 10. 1. Chron. 23. 31. 2 Chron. 2. 4. 8. 13. 31. 3. Nehem. 10. 33. Ezek. 45. 17. 46. 1 4 12. 1 Pet. 2. 5. b Deut. 5. 12. c Exod. 31. 14 15. Neh. 9. 14. Exod. 16. 23. Isai 58. 13. Neh. 8. 9 10 11. 10. 31. Exod. 35. 2. d Gen. 2. 2 3. e Exod. 16. 23-30 f Exod. 20. 10 11. g Deut. 5. 14. h Exod. 31. 15. 35. 2. i Levit. 23. 3. k Mat. 24. 20. l Act. 13 24 27. 15. 21. 16. 13. 17. 2. 18. 4. m Luk. 13. 14. n Heb. 4. 4. o Gen. 2. 2. 3. Exod. 16. 28. 29. 30. p Exod 20. 8 9 10. q Deut 5. 12 13 14. r Exod. 23-12 31. 13 14 15. s Exod. 34. 2â— t Exod. 35. 1 2. u Compare Exod-31 13. 17. with the fore-going part of the Chapter w Levit. 19. 3. 30. 26. 2. x Jerem. 17. 22. y Ezec. 20. 19. 20. 44. 24. 46 1 2 4. z Nehem. 13. 17 19 22. Nehemiah being Lord Deputy would not suffer any to keep shambles or a Fair on the Seventh-day-Sabbath norto do harvest work in harvest-time on that day a Luke 23. 56. b Luke 13. 14. c Act. 13 14 -44 16. 13. 17. 2. 3. 18. 4. d John 20. 30. 31. e 1 Cor. 4. 6. f John 5. 22 27. 3. 35. g John 17. 2. h Mat. 28. 18. i Deut. 18. 15 18 19. Acts 3. 22. 7. 37. compared k Isai 42. 1. compared with Mat. 1â— 18. Phil. 2. 6 7. 8. l Psal 40. 8 9 10. compared with Mar.