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The new earth, or, The true Magna Charta of the past ages, and of the ages or world to come: called The Jews commonweal. Written by an unworthy witness of the truth of the great God, John Brayne.
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Brayne, John.
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dayes rest Vers 5. In this againe of an other rest which is a dayes rest as the seventh day was is clear from vers 7. and the 8. Verse 9. This other day is called Sabbatismos a sabbatisme which is proper onely to the Church or people of God Vers 10. This Sabbath-rest men must strive to enter into in the other all men are compelled in this none but believers in the Kingdome of God injoy into which men are bid to strive to enter Object Here they are said to enter into this sabbatisme which is proper to the state of heaven to be entred into Resp Believers in Christ are said to enter into or be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the law to Christ or one in law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Christ 1 Cor. 9.21 Object Mark 2.28 Luke 6.5 Christ is said to be Lord of the Sabbath and in what was he so but in putting an end to it Resp That Scripture saith not so and is contrary to many express Scriptures where Christ saith A tittle of the law shall not perish and the Scripture is falsly rendered the word is The Lord is Son of man and of the Sabbath because made of woman and made under the law Gal. 4.4 Command the Fifth Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother c. Statute LEvit 19.3 Ye shall fear every man his father and mother Vers 32. Ye shall rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man Mark 7.10 Gen. 22.6 Isaac submitteth to his father to dye Luke 2.51 and thus Jesus Christ the Rechabites obedience Jer. 35. and Gods blessing them Judgements Gen. 9.25 26. Noah curseth Cham with bondage and blesseth Japhet Deut. 27.16 Cursed be he setteth lightly by his father or mother Levit. 20.9 Every one that curseth his father or mother shall surely be put to death his blood shall be upon him Exod. 21.17 Exod. 21.15 He that smiteth his father or mother shall surely be put to death Numb 12.14 If her father had spit in her face should she not have been ashamed seven dayes which was a thing of contempt as in Deut. 25.9 and it may be either for disobeying or contemning of him Mark 7.10 The Gospel confirms it Who curseth father or mother let him dye the death Prov. 30.17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out Statute Deut. 4.9 Forget not the things thine eyes have seen c. but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons Vers 10. Especially the day thou stoodest before the Lord in Horeb Vers 13. and he declared to you his covenant which he commanded you to performe even the ten commandments Deut. 6.7 Thou shalt teach them diligently thy children and shalt talk of them when thon sittest in thy house when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest up Judgement Deut. 21.18 If a man have a stubborn and a rebellious son that will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and that when they have chastened him he will not hearken unto them Vers 19. Then shall his father and mother lay hold of him and bring him out to the Elders of his City and the gate of his place Vers 20. They shall say to the Elders of his City This our son is stubborn and rebellious and will not hear our voice he is a drunkard and a glutton Verse 21. All the men of his City shall stone him with stones that he dye so shalt thou put away evil from amongst you Appl. Why is so much rebellion against parents is not because the law of God is silent this being executed all England would hear and fear 2. Is there another way besides this to put away evil from among us appointed of God Note God saith So shalt thou put away evil and no other way 3. Or is not the Law of God just the judgement true and righteous that it is not set up amongst us or will it ever be well with us or ours until it be set up Statute Parents marriage of their children It was to be confined to such as were in convenant Deut. 7.6 Exod. 34.16 Thou shalt not take of their daughters to thy sons and their daughters go a whoring after their Gods and make thy sons go a whoring after their Gods Deut. 7.3 Thou shalt not make marriages with those nations God will destroy thy daughter shalt thou not give his son nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son The reason whereof is rendred vers 4. Appl. As men under the law were not to match with those nations were not under the law so men under grace were not at liberty to match with any but such as were in Christ 1 Cor. 7.39 2. Were we under the law this would condemne all marriage with idolaters more strongly then the work of the law in us hath done Numb 25.6 1 Kings 21.25 1 Kings 11. from 1. to verse 9. 3. See here the authority God hath given to men under the law over their childrens marriage they are said to give and take Esau took a daughter of Canaan Jacob obeyed his mother and married Labans daughter Exod. 21.9 If a man betroth his maid-servant to his son he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters Note Betrothing was the fathers work in which he gave his daughter or took the daughter of some other to his son to wife 2. The Magistrate or Elders are not to approve of marriage made with any out of covenant It is to be considered that God under this word Father doth comprehend the Magistrate and obedience and honour hence due to him 1. Because all authority and rule was first in the father Gen. 38.24 2. It came from him to the one Judge Moses 3. To Judges in every City who had laws from God to judge the people by in which administration only 1 Sam. 12.12 the Lord God was said to be their King And now againe when this law is the rule of judgement to the nation then is the Lord Christ said to raigne which shall be a thousand yeers God having committed all judgement and authority to the Son Mat. 28.18 Rev. 20.6 and who would not strive to set up Christs rule Note As Judges were of God before Kings so if Kings be put down ye must return to Judges again God setting up but these two wayes of rule and God himself ruling in that of Judges and therefore best nor doth God rule by Judges as distinct from Kings unless they be set up as in the beginning to rule by the laws of God 4. The government came from Judges to Kings in which the people were said in their asking for a King to have committed great wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Sam. 12.17 yea and God himself said herein they had rejected him and not Samuel that he should not raigne over them I beseech you what the
this rule established among men the cause of much theft would be taken away from among men which mens hard heartedness occasions and after with as much severity put them to death oft-times for a smal matter as though God were not able to restore our loss or we could not be without it 2. Many late and unusual offences as clipping and coyning of money and embasing of it which is made treason by our law would not be so rife among us the occasion thereof being removed from men in great part 3. Burning of houses and such like effects of unnatural envy would be removed when oppression and ignorance of the law of God were removed from the shoulders of the poor 4. God would restraine men as now he doth of much evil to admiration that home non sit housini lup us so then he would do much more the fear of God though his law and the justice thereof be not so extreme as mans in this case yet the after-judgement on the soul and curse of them and their families falls far greater on men then theirs can do Command the Ninth Exod. 20.16 Thou shalt not bear false witness THis negative bindes in the affirmative Thou shalt bear witness to the truth c. Statute Deut. 17.6 The Idolater was not to dye at the testimony of one but of two or three witnesses Deut. 19.15 One witness shall not rise against a man for any iniquity or sin Levit. 19.11 Ye shall not lye one unto another Levit. 19.16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people nor shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour Ezek. 22.9 Prov. 21.18 He that heareth speaketh constantly Exod. 23.1 Thou shalt not raise a false report put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness as those witnessed against Naboth 1 Kings Vers 2. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil nor shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgement Vers 3. Nor shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause The witnesses at the time of execution were to stand at the right hand of him that was condemned and to lay their hands on his head and cast the first stone Numb 35.30 Prov. 24.28.29 Judgement Deut. 27.24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly Deut. 19.16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testifie against him that that is wrong Vers 17. Then both the men between whom the controversie is shall stand before the Lord as a special case referred to the chief Judges the Priests and Judges that shall be in those dayes Vers 18. The Judges shall make diligent inquiry and behold if the witness be a false witness and hath testifyed falsly against his brother Vers 19. Then shall ye do to him as he had thought to have done unto his brother So and no way else shalt thou put away evil from among you life for life eye tooth stripe for stripe c. Note If Judges and Justices were as they ought at all times sitting in all the chief places of the Nation 1. Witnesses would not be so chargeable for their journey and attendance to men as now they are 2. Men might discharge their consciences who by the law-covenant were bound to witness freely one for other as oft as occasion served 3. Subpaena's were utterly out of use and the charge thereof taken away from men 1. If according to the law of God that were exactly done on the false witness which was intended against the party that was prosecuted men in the Nation would hear indeed and fear to do any such wickedness 2. If evil be so to be put away then by not doing so though to man it seems to be a matter of never so much severity the evil there-remaines in the land still 1. In what was done or intended to be done by them past 2. The evil practice thereof will never be done away by any other means from among us but by this On Deut. 2.24 The curse denounced against the false and so the curses added to the breach of every command note the difference between Gods law and mans 1. Mans law onely extended to punish sin when proved by witnesses against a man by which men as in case of adultery fear to commit it publikely but will do it privately and man he thinks cannot not curse him for it or if he do he cares not 2. Now God curseth such by his law so that though they may escape the publike punishment they cannot the secret judgement or curse for it 3. So that this now will prevaile with men when the other will not in which the law of God doth far excell the most just and righteous ordinances of man 4. These curses are added to Gods laws not mens for fear before and a punishment after his laws are broken and not mens so that the hand of God in the revealing and cutting off and cursing of evil doers will appear under his rule far otherwayes then under mens 5. Effect whereof is excellently set down Deut. 29.18 God speaks of one not regarding the curse and calls him the root of bitterness that bears gall and wormwood who when he hears the words of this curse he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the imagination of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst Vers 20. The Lord will not spare him the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against him and all the curses in this book shall lye upon him and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven vers 21. and the Lord will separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that are writen in this book of the law Command the Tenth Exod. 20.17 Thou shalt not covet 1. S Search all the Statute-books of all the Nations in the world they have no such law in them nor take no notice of any such sin Rom. 7.7 2. Nor have they any punishment for it 3. Under this law it is condemned as well as any Hence the Apostle saith The law is spiritual Appl. O ye princes see here are not Gods laws more perfect then yours you have no such law 2. Is not your law the work of the law of God in your hearts onely would there ever have been a law of yours had not God given a work of his in you 3. Hence see a necessity of taking his and leaving yours 4. Do not say the law is not sufficient to judge by 1. Were not the Jews as great as we and they had no other 2. They fell into as many varieties of evil and sin as any Object If thou sayest No we fall into more Resp The reason of that is we have not the law of God to prevent it set up among us as they had the law of man can never have that place among a people as the law