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A93852	The royal law contended for, or, Some brief grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandments are yet in full force, and shall so remain till heaven and earth pass away. Also the seventh day Sabbath, proved from the beginning, from the law, from the prophets, from Christ, from his apostles, to be a duty yet incumbent upon saints and sinners. / By a lover of peace with truth Edward Stennet.	Stennett, Edward, d. 1690?	1658 (1658)	Wing S5402B; ESTC R184622	38,860	48

imaginations concerning the cause of Gods instituting the Sabbath seeing God so plainly declareth it himself namely that He blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he rested from all his works which God created and made Chap. 2.3 2. The reason that the Lord gives when he commanded the observation of the seventh day is as before because that in six dayes the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it Exod. 20.11 and it is as a motive to provoke man to follow the Lords example from the beginning both in work and rest Six dayes saith the Lord thou shalt labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of works And if thou wouldst know a reason why thou shouldst do so it is because I the Lord thy God did so And truly to me its clear that one main reason why the Lord took so much time as six dayes to create all things in and rested the seventh day was to shew man an example and what he ought to do Doubtless God could have made all things in a moment but six dayes he works and rests the seventh day that man might do the same and thereby not only hold forth the creating power of God and the method that he was pleased to take in the creation but also his great mercy in instructing and commanding man to work six dayes and rest the seventh that he might be refreshed 3. It plainly appears that this institution was in force and to be observed from the beginning though no mention is made of the Patriarks observing of it no more then of their sacrificings and doing many other things which is judged they did notwithstanding we hear nothing of them But consider God rested the seventh day and sanctified it now to prophane that which God sanctifies doubtless is a sin and had they done servile work upon the Sabbath they had prophaned it Nehem. 13.16 17. and what the Lord said to Peter in another case may be rightly said in this viz. What God hath sanctified that call not thou common or unclean Act. 10.15 and the Lord when he gives forth this command saith Remember the Sabbath to note the importance of it and the antiquity of it it being no new thing but from the beginning and that the Lord urges in verse 11. as the cause why it was to be observed Israel observed the Sabbath before the giving of the Law on mount Sinai as appears Exod. 16.23 25 26. But mark what Nehemiah saith to this Chap. 9.13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and speakest with them from Heaven and gavest them right judgements and true Laws good Statutes and Commandments and madest known also unto them thy holy Sabbath vers 14. Mark this commandment is singled out from all the rest and is said to be made known to them which shews it was in being before though its probable they might lose the observation of it by reason of their hard bondage in Egypt but however its plain that they had need of the knowledge of the Sabbath and God makes it known unto them and Christ leads us plainly to the first institution of it The Sabbath saith he was made for man and not man for the Sabbath He points to the making of it and for whom it was made not for the Jews only as Jews but for man before any distinction was of Jew Gentile and in that it was made for that man which was the publique person or representative of whole mankind it was made for all men Adam standing as a publique person before his fall 4. Our Lord Jesus doth shew the true end of Gods giving the Sabbath and also how it ought to be kept and shews the Pharisees their mistake in the observation of it they being so rigid that they would not suffer good works and works of mercy to be done though there were necessity for the doing of them as will appear if we consider these Scriptures following The Pharisees ask Christ If it were lawful to heal on the Sabbath day that they might accuse him Matth. 12.10 and his answer is this What man is there among you that shall have one sheep and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out vers 11. How much then is a man better then a sheep wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath dayes vers 12. Mark 34. Again the Pharisees told Christ that his disciples did that which was not lawful because they pull the ears of Corn upon the Sabbath day Mark 2.24 But mind the answer of Christ Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungry and had need how he entred into the house of God and did eat the Shew-bread which is not lawful for any to eat but the Priests ver 25.26 Matth. 12.3 4. Or have ye not read in the Law that the Priests in the Temple prophane the Sabbath dayes and are blameless vers 5. It was not unlawful to pluck the ears of Corn when they went through their neighbours field for that they might do by the Law of God Deut. 23.25 and that the Pharisees knew very well but they thought it was unlawful because they did it upon the Sabbath day but mark the answer of Christ how he cleared the disciples it was unlawful for David to eat the Shew-bread but he was an hungry and had need and therefore to be excused for if the disciples had puld the ears of Corn when they had no need upon the Sabbath day it had been doing of needlesse work and so had been unlawful but the Text saith they were an hungry therefore they might do it it being a work of mercy as Davids was and the same may be said of the Priests prophaning the Sabbath who notwithstanding are said to be blamelesse their preparing the sacrifices was alowed which work in it self would have been counted a servile work but that it was for such a merciful end viz the sins of the people therefore saith Christ had ye known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice you would not have condemned the guiltless vers 7. Cleerly proving that the Sabbath was to be observed but not so as to break another command to neglect mercy which the Pharisees would do Mat. 23 23. and that his disciples in having mercy to their bodies were no Sabbath-breakers Further observe what Christ saith Mark 2.27 The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath the Pharisees made themselves slaves and bond-men by making the Sabbath a yoak whereas it should have been a delight Isay 58.13 by superstitious outside performances as though man had been made for the Sabbath but Christ tells them it was made for man that is for

THE ROYAL LAW CONTENDED FOR OR Some Brief Grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandements are yet in full force and shall so remain till Heaven and Earth pass away ALSO The Seventh Day Sabbath proved from the Beginning from the Law from the Prophets from Christ from his Apostles to be a duty yet incumbent upon Saints and Sinners By a Lover of Peace with Truth Edward Stennet They that forsake the Law praise the wicked but such as keep the Law contend with them Prov. 28.4 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man Eccles 12.13 The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath therefore the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath Mark 2.27 28. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy Commandments Psal 119.6 LONDON Printed in the Year 1658. TO ALL That truly fear the LORD and tremble at his Word IT was not in the least my purpose to expose the ensuing discours to publique view but to communicate it onely to some private Christian friends as a reason of the hope that is in me in relation to the Law of the Lord. I being in a good measure sensible of my own weakness and unfitnes● for such a work but the Lord was pleased to bless these my weak endeavours with the successes of conviction to some and refreshment to others of his dear servants who were my encouragers after solemne waiting upon our Heavenly Father unto this which I can truly say I was dead unto although I was and am perswaded that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the truth therein contained but my weakness in the management of it was the great obstruction But I am willing to press after a likeness to Jesus Christ who made himself of no reputation and to learn of him who was meek and lowly in heart I am not so conceited to present this Treatise as a thing that 's rare or new either to the Saints or World for if they will look about them they may see this truth in a better dress and lustre but it may be the tender Lambs and Sucking-Babes of Jesus Christ may better understand my stammering tongue then those that speak more distinctly and that 's one main encouragement to me I do profess in the presence of him who tryes the heart and reines Light hath broak forth since I wrote these papers about the Law in general and the Sabbath in particular it being five or six months since they were written yet notwithstanding I am now encouraged by the Lord I trust and by his people to speak this on the house top which was spoken to me in secret because so many of the Lords people are so deluded that they have rejected the Law of God and live in a weekly profanation of his Holy Sabbath thinking that Christ abolisht the whole Law at his death though Christ utterly denys it and would have none to harbour such a thought Mat. 5.17 although many of the men of this opinion may be good yet it makes their error not one Jote the better For this flows from their carnality and not their spirituality for the carnal mind is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8.7 But because truth springs up out of the earth and righteousness looks down from Heaven and the ancient honourable institution of Jehovah now begins to shine with such clearness that it cannot be razed out of the tables and therefore all is cast away together which is such an invention as would not have been thought on by many I am certain if Sabbath Light had been concealed The two ancient institutions of the Lord in Paradise were Mariage and the Sabbath both which are called and esteemed honorable Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honorable in all and in Isay 58.13 the Sabbath is called the Holy of the Lord honorable and Christ leads us to the beginning of them both when the question was whether men might put away their wives for every fault the answer is that Moses did but suffer it to be so because of the hardness of their hearts but from the beginning it was not so Mat. 19.34 35.36 37. and when the Pharisees were so ignorant that they thought works of mercy were not to be done upon the Sabbath day Christ leads them to the first institution of it and tels them it was made for man Mark 2.24 27. Both these institutions were made for the good and benefite of man in his Paradise estate which is sufficient proofe for their duration Paul saith that the man was not created for the woman but the woman for the man 1 Cor. 11.9 and our blessed Lord of the Sabbath saith that the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath Then Christians be noble spirited and search the Scriptures with all readiness of mind and with hearts longing after truth get as remote from earth and earthly things as you can and into the secret chamber of your beloved and when you are the most transported from earth to heaven in near and close communion with him then try and judge by his word and spirit weighing Scripture with Scripture in an equal ballance and be as cautious in taking up objections against this truth as you are of being in the practise of it T' is sad to see and that which wounds my spirit much that persons professing godliness should be so inconsiderate as to catch at any thing that comes next to hand to strike at that which a differing Saint affirms is truth without considering the weight of what is offered or whither their own objections lead them I have seen more gall and wormwood at the bottom of those objections that have been made against the Sabbath then ever I saw in any objections against any other command and even some Christians are so weak that all passes for currant that flows from a man that 's good and able but where are those virgin spirits that are redeemed from the earth and from among men that lay persons interests customes by whilest they judge between truth and error where ever they are they are men which will follow the Lamb when others are left behind They will not be affrighted at the seventh day Sabbath because nicknamed called the Jews Sabbath no more then they are at the God of the Jews they will not refuse to keep the Sabbath because a man was stoned any more then they will refuse Jehovah to be their God because those that worship strange Gods were to be put to death and if they be told they go back to the Law they can answer blessed are they that do his Commandements that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gate into the City when the breakers of the Law are left without Rev. 22.14 15. Do you therefore that fear the Lord

and think upon his name lye down at his feet and cry earnestly for his spirit to lead you into all truth that you may not kick against the pricks in this chastising day wherein the Lord is teaching his people out of his Law and fitting them for the Kingdom of glory which is at the door Now the Lord is discovering every part and piece of Babylon that the Saints may know the better how to reward her but because the Saints begin to own the Lord as King and Law-giver the Dragon is wroth and knows that this will destroy his Kingdom and so would endeavour to perswade persons that the Law of God is abolished well knowing that if he could perswade them to abelief of this they will soon say there is nothing to be done till Christ come in person I would not make too large a gate to so small a City but shall hasten to a conclusion with a word to the little remnant that keep the Sabbath according to the Commandement Precious Brethren you are under great and precious promises for your encoutagement though your opposers are great and numerous I think often of what is said of Asher Deut. 33.24 25. Let Asher be blest with children let him be acceptable to his brethren and let him dip his foot in oyl his shooes shall be Iron and Brass and as is his dayes so shall his strength be Asher seems to hold forth the remnant that the Lord will use in the latter dayes to tread down the wicked withal and Ashers bread shall be fat yea he shall yield Royal dainties Gen. 49.20 and if you my Brethren fulfil the Royall Law according to the Scripture ye shall doe well though your Brethren frown upon you at present yet you shall be acceptable unto them and what if your work be difficult if your strength be sutable you need not complain you may tread upon Scorpions if your shooes be Iron and Brass your feet will be like Hinds feet if they be dipt in oyl which will cause you to run without wearinesse and walk without fainting So he prayes Who is only through grace a servant of CHRIST though unworthy to be so called EDWARD STENNET Some Brief Grounds serving to prove that the Ten Commandements are yet in ful force and shall so remain till Heaven and Earth passe away FIrst The matter of the Ten Commandements was written in the Heart of Adam before his fall as doth appear Gen. 1.27 God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created he him Eccles 7.29 God hath made man upright but he sought out many inventions And the Apostle plainly asserts that the Gentiles which had not the Law in the letter of it did by nature the things contained in the Law which sheweth the work of the Law written in their hearts Rom. 2.14 15. Now if the Gentiles had the work of the Law written in their bearts in their sinful state doubtless they had it in more perfection in their state of innocency as considered in Adam for the letter of the Law was added because of transgression Gal. 2.19 Now if there were transgression before the letter of the Law was added that implies there was a Law before and in that the letter of the Law is said to be added it implies that the matter of it was in being before but much worn out by sin and that is one reason why the Lord was pleased to add the letter Let it be considered how it can stand with Scripture or right reason that Jesus Christ should abrogate this Law did Christ blot out this Law out of the hearts of all men by his death Rom. 2.15 then all men have not the Law of Nature to guide them for we cannot be so gross as to imagine that the Law is put into their hearts upon a new account for that were to bring all men under the new Covenant 2. God spake all these Commandments unto the people and they heard his voice Deut. 5.22 23 24. with great Majesty and Glory and he added no more and he wrote them upon two Tables of Stone and delivered them unto Moses all which holds forth their perpetuity they are spoken by God they are wrote by him in Tables of Stone so was never any Ceremony Job desires that his words were graven with a pen of Iron and Lead in a rock of stone for ever Chap. 19.24 3. After the first tables were broke which I suppose did signifie the Israelites breaking of the first Covenant for Moses brake them upon that account Behold the Ark as it stands under the mercy feat they having made a Golden Calf and so had broke the Commandement Moses was then commanded to hew two Tables like unto the first and God wrote the same words again upon them Deut. 10.1 2 3 4. and they only of all the Laws were put into the Ark and when the Ark is set in its proper place between the Cherubims there is nothing in it but the two Tables 1 Kings 8.9 Now the Ark was a Type of Christ and the putting the Law into it did signifie the putting of it into the heart of Christ Psalm 40.6 7 8. Thy Law is in my heart and from thence they are transcribed into the hearts of the seed of Christ according to the new Covenant Jer. 31.33 Where God promises to put his Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts Now what Law is this that must be put in the heart when the Law of sacrifice is abolished Heb. 10.6 7 8 9. compared with that forementioned in the Psalmes that this is the Law that is here spoken of is manifest if we consider first how proper and suitable it is for the heart of a believer Paul calls it the Law of his mind Rom. 7.23 and in 22. he professeth he delights in the Law of God after the inward man and God saith he will put his Law in the heart and write it there 2 Cor. 3.2 3. both which phrases hold it forth to be the same Law that was wrote by God and put into the Ark mans heart is the Tables and God himself is the writer the matter written is the Law and hear what Wisdome saith to this Prov. 7.1 2 3. My son keep my words and lay up my commandements within thee keep my commandements and live and my Law as the apple of thy eye bind them upon thy fingers write them upon the table of thine heart Now what Laws are these but the Table-Laws which were then in being and Wisdoms son is to have them writ upon the fleshly Tables of his heart 4. When God promiseth to exalt his first-born higher then the Kings of the Earth and that his Covenant should stand fast with him Psal 89.28 29. and that his seed should endure for ever and his Throne as the dayes of Heaven yet he saith If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my judgments if they

break my Statutes and keep not my Commandements vers 30 31. Then will I visit their transgression with a rod and their iniquity with stripes vers 32. Neverthelesse my loving kindness will I not utterly take away nor suffer my faithfulnesse to fail Mark it this Covenant was with Christ though with David in the Type in the behalf of all the seed and chastisements must be the portion of the seed if they break the Law of God though his Covenant stand fast now as this Covenant reaches all the seed so doth the Law and the punishment for the breach of it and if so then what Law is it that reaches all the seed if not the Law of the Ten Commandements with those Laws which are comprehended in them 5. These Commandments are eminently distinguished and marked out from all the Ceremonial Laws both to shew their eminency and perpetuity they are said to be the work of God Exod. 32.16 and the Psalmist saith The works of his hands are verity and judgement and these works are called all his Commandments Psal 111.7 and they are Ten Deut. 4.13 Exod. 34.28 And therefore I conceive Wisedoms son is to bind them upon his fingers to shew the number of them there being for each finger one and that both hands might be active in them And Zachary and Elizabeth are said to walk in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord Luke 1.6 They are distinguished from the Cerimonial Ordinances and called all the Commandments to set forth their number as before is said and their eminency and therefore they are so frequently called in the Scripture The Commandments of God distinct from the other Laws which were shadowy in the time of the Law of shadow ● As these places of Scripture besides many others do shew viz. Deut. 5.31 and 6.11 and 7.11 Deut. 8.11 and 11.1 and 30.16 1 Kin. 2.3 and 8.58 2 Chro. 19.10 Neh. 1.7 and 10.29 c. and distinct from the testimony of Jesus in clear Gospel times Rev. 12.17 Where note the dragons war is with the remnant of the Womans seed which keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus and again here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Rev. 14.12 And when the man would know what he should do to be saved Christ told him that he knew the Commandments A cloud of witnesses would come in if need were for the confirmation of them But further observe what the Scripture saith to their duration the Psalmist saith All his Commandments are sure they stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightnesse Psalm 111.7 8. Note it all his Commandments which are the works of his hands as aforesaid these all stand fast for ever and ever that is not only in the time of the ministration of the letter which was in a sense for ever but for ever and ever that is under both ministrations that of the letter and that of the spirit in Old Testament times and in the New and search and see if you can find any word that doth speak of any thing that is said to abide or stand fast for ever and ever which comes short of the time aforesaid And when God hides his face from the house of Jacob then is the time that the Testimony is bound up and the Law is sealed among the disciples Esay 8.16 17. Clearly relating to the time that the Jews rejected the Gospel and the disciples are commanded to make use of the Law as well as the Testimony to try the Doctrines of others by vers 20. all which shewes the perpetuity of this Law of God which will further appear if we consider What our Lord saith in Matth. 5.17 18. Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets I came not to destroy but to fulfil But the question will be what Law this is To me it appears to be the Law of the Ten Commandments for these reasons 1. First because this comes in as the motive to provoke his disciples to let their lights shine in the world that men might see their good works and glorifie their Father which is in Heaven vers 16. Therefore it must be such a Law as the doing of it holds forth good works to publique view 2. It is such a Law as Christ professeth he came not to destroy but the Ceremonial Law he did destroy in this very sense so that none are to be in the practise of it he blotted out the hand-writing of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us and took it out of the way nailing it to his crosse Col. 2.14 3. Destroying of the Law is here put in direct opposition to fulfilling of it to destroy is to take out of the way or to blot out as before but to fulfil the Law is to do that which is contained in the Law therefore saith Christ to John when he went to be baptised It becometh us to fulfil all righteousness that is to perform it Matth. 3.15 and the Apostle saith That love is the fulfilling of the Law what Law why this Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal and the like Rom. 13.8.9 Love worketh no evil to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law vers 10. So that to fulfil the Law of the Ten Commandments is not to blot them out or make them void that were to destroy them which Christ came not to do but on the contrary to do the things contained in them which he did exactly in his life and so was offered up a Lamb without spot 4. This is such a Law as must stand in force every jot and title of it till Heaven and Earth pass away Matth. 5 19. but Heaven and Earth are not yet passed away therefore this Law stands firm but because it is said in the Text Till all be fulfilled hence some affirm that all was fulfilled at the death of Christ and this fulfilling of it holds forth the abrogating of it But did Heaven and Earth pass away then or did Christ by his taking upon him all that guilt which was due to us and by his perfect fulfilling of it in his walk take us from our obedience God forbid because Christ fulfilled the righteousness of the Law must not we fulfill it Even as Archippus was to fulfil his ministry Col. 4.17 which would be absurd to think that that was to put it to an end The Apostle saith that for this end Christ dyed Rom. 8.3 4. saying For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sent forth his son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit But what is the fulfilling of the righteousness of the Law First to do the righteous things contained in

the Law and in this sense every true believer doth fulfil the Law though his compleatness be in Christ for love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 so that the commanding power of the Law is such a just measure that every one that loves acts his part towards the fulfilling of it Lastly it further appears to be the Ten Commandments by the use Christ makes of what he had before asserted Whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of these Commendments and shall teach men so shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven vers 19. that is forasmuch as this Law must stand till Heaven and Earth pass and I came not to destroy it therefore beware of breaking of it for whosoever you are that break any any part of it and shall teach men so you shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven To prevent further mistakes he repeateth the Law in many particulars and gives the sence shewing how far their righteousness should exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees vers 20. By all which it plainly appears that this Law which Christ came not to destroy is the Law of the Ten Commandments or the Laws that were comprehended in them 6. The Apostle confirmeth and establisheth this Law after the death of Christ as plainly appears Rom. 3. the drift of which Chap is to set Jews and Gentiles in a like condition by nature all breakers of the Law of God and so become guilty before him vers 19. and that therefore no flesh could be justified by the deeds of the Law the Law being for another purpose to convince of sin vers 20. or to bring sin to the knowledge he proves that Jews and Gentiles circumcised and uncircumcised are justified by and through faith and not by any Law of works vers 27 28 29 30. But lest the Gentiles should think because they could not be justified by the works of the Law that therefore they might look upon the Law as a thing done away or made void he puts this question to the uncircumcised Gentiles Do we then make void the Law through faith God forbid yea we establish the Law He puts this question out of question whether the Law be in force to believing Gentiles or no with a God forbid which shews the greatness of his zeal against such a perswasion it being the same answer which he gives to another gross question whether we should continue in sin that grace might abound and as if that were not enough he adds to it yea we establish the Law 7. This same Apostle doth prove that the Law was in force at the time of his conversion he saith he had not known sin but by the Law he had not known lust except the Law had said Thou shalt not covet Rom. 7.7 He was alive without the Law once but when the Commandment came sin revived and he dyed vers 9. that is not without the letter of it for that he had and did in a great measure conform to it but without powerful convictions for sin by the Law and in this sence when the Commandment came sin revived and he dies that before was alive in his own apprehension For without the Law sin was dead vers 8. and by the Law is the knowledge of sin and sin taking occasion by the Commandment deceived him and by it slew him Wherefore the Law is holy the Commandment is holy just and good vers 11.12 not that the holy and just Law was made death unto him God forbid but sin that it might appear sin by this good Law wrought death in him that by the Commandment sin might appear exceeding sinful vers 13. And if so then this Law did not dye with the body of Christ though we are dead to the Law by the body of Christ that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldnesse of the letter and that we should be married to another even him who is raised from the dead we being dead to that spirit of bondage in whith we were held that we set our obedience to the Law no longer in the room of Christ as our head and husband Christ by his blood having purchased us from that power that the Law had over us by reason of sin So that our service is not to satisfie the Law as a woman serves to please her husband that we are dead to but we are not dead to serve in newness of spirit in obedience to Christ as our husband vers 4 5 6. In this sence the Apostle delights in the Law of God after the inward man vers 22. Though another Law in his members stood in great opposition to it vers 23. Mind this chap. well and it will appear so plain that he that runs may read that the Apostle intends no such thing as to take us from our obedience to the Law nor yet the abrogating of the Law But on the contrary 8. The same Apostle urges the Law in the very letter of it unto the Ephesians Chap. 6.1 2 3. Children saith he obey your Parents for this is right Honour thy father and thy mother which is the first Commandment with promise He proves his exhortation to be right from the Commandment and he takes notice of the order of the Commandments it is the first Commandment of that second Table and it hath a promise annexed to it he speaketh in the present tense he doth not say it was the first Commandment but it is the first with promise that thy dayes may be long on the earth he urges the promise to them for their encouragement and to prevent mistakes he shews the extent of it that it was not only to the Jews that they should live long in the land of Canaan but to the Gentiles also therefore the interpretation is large that thy dayes may be long on the earth 9. James gives a full confirmation to what I am treating of chap. 2.9 He convinces them of sin by this Law in having the faith of Jesus Christ with respect of persons as appears by vers 10.11 For whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all he shews what Law he means and how it is that he that offends in one point is guilty of all because He that saith do not commit adultery saith also do not kill now if thou commit no adultery yet if thou kill thou art become a transgressor of the Law And John saith Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the Law for sin is the transgressionof the Law chap. 3.4 and in the next verse he explains what Law he means and saith it was such transgression that Christ was manifest to take away now if this Law of God was done away by the death of Christ sin could not be a transgression of it so long after neither could any be convinced

in vers 24. Verily I say unto you this generation shall not passe till all these things be fulfilled and so I judge what he spake concerning Jerusalem had not only respect to that destruction that came upon it in that generation but also to that great calamity that should be upon it in the last dayes 2. This will more plainly appear if we consider the words of Christ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter nor on the Sabbath day for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no nor ever shall be ver 21. Now with this compare Zach. 14.2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle and the City shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished and at the 2. verse it is said then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle and his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives vers 4. With this compare Dan. 12.1 And at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book and many of them that sleep in the dust shall awake some to everlasting life some to shame contempt ver 2. Now if that destruction of Jerusalem produced such great trouble as never was nor ever should be again how is it that there shall be such great trouble as never was since there was a nation when Michael stands up to deliver his people every one that is written in the book and Jerusalem is taken and the houses rifled and women ravished when the Lord comes forth to fight against those nations and his feet shall stand upon the mount of Olives according to that in Acts 1.11 So shall he come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven and when the seventh Angel poures out his vial Rev. 16.17 18. which time I conceive is one and the same with that in Zach. and Dan. and the Angel is Michael the great Prince which Daniel speaks of whose feet shall stand upon the mount of Olives then is the time of great trouble and such an earth-quake as was not since men were upon the face of the earth so mighty an earth-quake and so great so that to me it appears that these three Scriptures do corespond with the words of Christ pointing out the same time and if so then the Sabbath shall remain till the coming of Christ and so shall stand till Heaven and Earth passe according to that in Matth. 5. and for ever and ever according to that in Psal 111.8 and the destruction of Jerusalem seems to be a Type of that great destruction that shall be at Christs appearance and as Jerusalem was taken when some from all Nations were gathered together as history reports and on the Sabbath day it was destroyed so it appears that the strength of the Saints will be gathered together to Jerusalem because all Nations will gather against it and Jerusalems straights will be upon the Sabbath day as seems to appear by the words of Christ for then saith he shall be great tribulation such as never was then when why when their flight shall be upon the Sabbath day and this great tribulation is when Jerusalem shall be taken the houses rifled and the women ravished as was said before at which time Michael shall stand up and fight against those Nations as when he fought in the day of battle and the slain of the Lord shall be many even from one end of the earth even to the other Jer. 25.31 32 33. and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof Zach. 14.4 and there shall be a very great valley unto which the Saints shall flee vers 5. then shall the Sabbath be swallowed up in the great Sabbath or thousand years that glorious and holy rest which the Saints shall enter into and live and reign with Christ a thousand years vers 9. and 20. Rev. 10.4 7. Another ground is taken from the practise of Christs disciples after his death Luke 23.5 6. And they returned and prepared spices and oyntments and rested the Sabbath day according to the Commandment Some say if we do observe the Sabbath we must do all those sacrifices which the Jews did upon it but at this time the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and the shadows were done away by the body of Christ and yet they kept the Sabbath and not through fear or ignorance but according to the Commandment which is to rest from their labours and so they did for the Text saith they returned and rested there is no sacrifice expressed in the Commandment The stranger and the cattle was to rest the Sabbath Exo. 20.10 so that the Sabbath was commanded and observed before any of those sacrifices were commanded to be offered upon it but because the Jews did such service upon the Sabbath day as they were a typical people it doth not follow that this was any part of the Commandment and therefore we are to rest as those disciples did according to the Commandment and it is remarkable that the Holy Ghost should leave this upon record which would not have been I am perswaded had the Sabbath then been abolisht he doth not only say they returned and rested the Sabbath day but to prevent all mistakes least it should be thought they did it ignorantly or superstitiously or for fear of the Jews he saith they did it groundedly that is according to the commandment Obj. But the disciples were met together upon the first day of the week and Christ appeared to them John 20.9 Answ It is true they were assembled together on the same day at even being the first day of the week and the door shut and the cause is laid down why so they were namely for fear of the Jews and some of the disciples as I said before kept the Sabbath the day before and I think we cannot reasonably imagine but those did that were together on the first day for they did frequently correspond together that 's manifest but what doth their being together on the first day at even and Christs appearing to them prove for the observation of the first day more then his appearing to them eight days after and his appearing to them the third time early in the morning when they were a fishing Joh. 24.4 5. for the observation of these dayes It was necessary that Christ should appear to his disciples on the first day of the week that his word might be fulfilled of his arising the third day and that they might boldly witness the same Obj. But the disciples came