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A30730	Sabbatikh ʻhmepa ʻhmepa ʻimepa, Septima dies, dies desiderabilis, sabbatum Jehovae the seventh-day-sabbath the desirable day, the closing completing day of that first created week, which was, is, and will be, the just measure of all succeeding weeks in their successive courses, both for working in the six foregoing days, and for rest in the seventh, which is the last day, by an unchangeable law of well-established order, both in the revealed word and in created nature. The second part / by Francis Bampfield.	Bampfield, Francis, 1615 or 16-1683.	1677 (1677)	Wing B628; ESTC R13923	284,270	156

themselves till their hearts and lives in a way of growing conformity both in knowledge and in obedience be more and better reconciled to this Law of the ten Words Pure Primitive Created Natural Word self-self-love is eminent in an Universal Obedience unto all the Holy Righteous Just Laws of Jehrvah Aelohim They are good Laws good to the observer of them The LORD doth use this Argument whereby to prevail with true right self-lovers keep all my Commandments for thy good Thy the benefit and the advantage will be thy own Thy Obedience thereby will be profitable to thy self Every one of the ten Words being directed to men in the Second Person doth stir up their natural regular self-self-love Thou shalt or Thou shalt not It is thy own great concern For there is a lawful regular self-love as there is a sinful carnal self-love This also doth take in somewhat of another Instance of this Objector about taking greatest care to save our Souls above our Bodies For the Chain and the order Lines of Love is held forth in the Decalogue The Honour and the Glory of Jehovah Aelohim being commanded and commended in the first Table and then the Salvation and good of our selves and next to this the Salvation and good of others As has been already opened Further to tame and mortifie all our fleshly Lusts in order to our Salvation Is not this also precepted in the Decalogue Where any Duty is there commanded do not also the means pointed thereunto pass under precept Thus where any sin is forbidden are not there also the causes and occasions of such a sin forbidden And are not there also the means instituted for the avoyding such a sin injoyned Are not Lusts and Corruptions the whole old man of them the original indwelling sin which is the root and the corrupt Fountain whence all other sins and corruptions do spring and flow are not these forbidden in the Law of the ten Words Doth not Paul evidently argue this in the seventh Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans If we do not through the spirit mortifie the deeds of the body Is not this one way of self-murder forbidden in the sixth Word or Law And where a sin is forbidden is not the contrary Duty there commanded Are we not by virtue of this and of other of these Laws to forbear those acts of Gluttony Drunkenness Adultery and such like as they tend to our own damnation Where the express charges for mortification are given to us do they not evidently refer to the particular Laws of the ten Words Mortifie your members which are upon the Earth Fornication Uncleanness against the seventh Word Passion against the sixth Word Evil Concupiseence against the seventh Word in its limited restrained sense against the whole of this Law in a large sense Covetousness against the tenth VVord Which is Idolatry against the first Word We must put off all these Anger Wrath Malice against the sixth Word Blasphemy against the third Word when belched out against Jehovah against the ninth VVord when spoken evilly against our Neighbour Filthy communication out of our Mouths against the seventh VVord Lie not one to another against the ninth VVord Husbands be not bitter against your VVives Fathers give not ill words to your Children Servants do not wrong against the fifth VVord Do not not the Law and the Prophets under the old Administration call for the ploughing up of the sallow Ground for Circumcising themselves to Jehovah for taking away the Foreskin of their Hearts with other such like expressions And do these set out the mortification of the lusts VVhat was much of the Typical whole Burnt-offering but the mortifying and killing of sin So that as this is a Duty under the New so also it is a Duty under the Old And if so it must be by virtue of one or other of the ten VVords for on these do all the Law and the Prophets the whole Old Testament hang as to matters of commands or Prohibitions though it take in other matters too To deny all bodily Pleasure Profit Honour Liberty and Life for the securing of our Salvation regular self-love as it is a Law of Nature doth dictate and is a great part of that which the LORD Jesus Christ in that cutting of the ten VVords into two Comprehensives of them doth call the second Commandment For Love to the Honour of Jehovah Aelohim is the first and chief Commandment and must be mainly put forth in this case though it were to the parting with our any thing our all Are there not eminent Examples of this under the Old Testament which have an honourable Record in the New Did not Noah go far in this of self denyal when he opposed all that corrupt age VVhen he condemned the whole VVorld of sinful mankind as he could reach them and was not this to the saving not only of his house but of his soul VVas not Abraham eminent in this when he left his own Country and his Fathers House and at a call from the LORD went out not knowing whither he went to sojourn in a strange Country where he was in great danger And when at a word from the LORD he was ready to offer up his Isaac his only begotton beloved Son of whom it was said In Isaac shall the seed be called to thee Did not Moses excel here in when by Faith being grown big he refused to be called the Son of Pharaoh's Daughter was not this a denying all bodily honour when he by Faith chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to have the Temporary Injoyment or Delight of sin VVas not this to deny all bodily pleasure when he by Faith esteemed the reproach of or for Christ observe there was a Christ then and Moses rejoyced in his being persecuted for Christ's sake because great was his reward in Heaven which is an answer to another Instance of this Objector greater riches than the Treasures in Egypt VVas not this to deny all profit when he by Faith forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the King for he was constant as seeing him who is invisible VVas not this to deny all bodily liberty and life And were not these for the securing of his Salvation Is it not expresly spoken of him that Moses had respect unto the Recompence of Reward Did not he believe that there was an Heaven where the glorified Saints will be perfectly blessed in the Knowledge Love and Fruition of God VVhich doth also return a confutation to another Instance of the Objector VVas not Moses under some VVord-Law for all this Must not this Faith have some Word from Jehovah to bottom upon O how honourable are these things of this glorious Law This puts me on towards the closing of my great undertaking which is to shew That The Old Law of the ten Words is still the same both to Jew and Gentile It was the

good is it to be here But I must come down to this Mount and do further work yet for my LORD and Master I am now to evidence from the Scriptures of Truth that there was a Covenant of Grace under the Old Testament Administration This Doctrine of Grace is that which must lay the foundation for an after assertion of mine about a Law of faith under the Old Testament For Grace and Faith are companions Rich Grace abounding Mercy free Love from the Father in and through his Son Christ revealed to and in his people doth by his Spirit in his Word Inwork the Grace of Faith in them and calls forth acts of Faith from them that Christ may be made to them Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption that no flesh might glory in his Presence but that those who glory mighty glory in the LORD and saving justifying Faith doth bottom upon the Power and Truth of God manifesting his unchangeable free Grace to Believers giving them this Grace of Faith whereby they apply Christ and his Righteousness unto themselves for their justification in the fight of God making them to acknowledge that they are justified accepted and saved not of Works neither of themselves but by Grace through and for Christ In Order to the Augmentation of this Holy Science I would propound these Questions to further Disquisition Q. Whether where ever in the Old Testament he that appeared as a Man or as an Angel and withal is called Jehovah be not always Christ manifesting himself under that Dispensation of Grace Q. Whether if all the Hebrew Words which in the Old Testament do set out Grace Mercy Sweet Savour Acceptance free Favour Covenanting Atonement Reconciliation Propitiation Pardon and such like withal Synonyms and Phrases relating thercunto If all these were put together it would not bring great Light to this Doctrine of a Covenant of Grace Q. Whether there be clear Scripture-Evidences that ever there were any Covenant made between God and Man of Salvation by Works only without Free Grace in a Mediator on God's part and without Faith in a Messiah on Man's part So that Man's Justification and Eternal Life was solely and merely upon this one only condition of mans perfect perpetual absolute personal obedience to the whole Law of God to all and every of his Commands Before I pass more thorowly into the Proof of a Covenant of Grace under the old Dispensation it may be of some use to open that expression of a New or a Renewed Covenant in the Prophesie of Jeremiah and in the Epistle to the Hebrews The Hebrew word for New is several times rendred Renewed by the English Translators themselves as the Reader may see in the Scriptures cited in the Margin the Hebrew often signifying not New for the Kind but another of the same thing for Kind The same word which is in Jeremiah A Covenant Renewed as New Days and New Mercies are Renewed Days and Renewed Mercies Thus a new Commandment of Love is a Renewed Commandment of the good old duty of Love Thus also in the Greek Language in that forementioned Instance it was an old Command renewed and revived So it is also in the Verb. Hence the Renewing of our Mind and the Renewnig of the Holy Spirit That it has this sense in the eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews will yet more clearly appear when I shall discover that all and every of the particulars expressed in that Covenant are such as have been as were in their nature real Existence and actual Being under the Old Testament dispensation In this as in other great Undertakings in this Treatise my Calls are more vocal than others from the LORD to commit my soul by well doing unto this Faithful Creator and loving Redeemer Jehovah Christ Considering the much opposition I have met with heretofore about this and other such Enquiries and may yet further be exercised with But he who made all things is also the Head of the Body of his Body the Church that in all he might hold the Chief For so it pleased the Father who in and through and by his Son has in all Ages of the world manifested and dispensed much of the freeness of this Love and of the Riches of his Grace which that it might be made firm unto his people he hath put into a Promise made sure with his Oath That Covenant which Aelobim in Christ made with his people was a Covenant of Grace one and the same both in the Old and New Testament differing only in the manner of dispensing As also is the whole of the Christian Religion one and the same in both for Doctrines and Duties for Graces and Privileges and such like parts of this Religion which doth vary only in the several ways of Administration By a Covenant of Grace I mean the LORD' 's free promising of Life of Wisdome of Righteousness of Sanctification of Redemption of all good things to his people believing in Christ who are thus specally favoured by him The Instances which I shall particularize in will be those after Adam's Fall Such a Gracious Covenant the LORD made with his people who were under the Old Testament-dispensation How much of Grace was there put into that one comprehensive Promise The Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpent's head I shall gather a little out of that full store of this which is to be found and put it together Noah was one that found grace in the eyes of Jehovah a just man perfect in his Generations he walked with Aelohim It is one of Jehovah's Names that he is gracious And it is the special privilege of his people that he has a peculiar favour for them This Grace doth Paul in what he wrote to the Church of Rome oppose unto Works and unto Debt It was the free meroy of God in Christ Noah did not deserve it And it was by faith that Noah pleased God and served him with acceptance With this Noah did Aelohim establish his Covenant that Noah should enter into the Ark he and his Sons and his Wife and his Sons wives with him where they should be saved from the common drawning Noah in faith and in abedience prepares the Ark to the saving of his houshold through the which be condemned the World and was heir of the righteousness which is by faith as is mentioned in the Epistle to the Hebrews Peter calleth him A Preacher of Righteousness That this was typical and had some further spiritual meaning in it the same Peter doth declare by shewing that Baptism under the New Testament was an Anti-type to this an answerable Figure saving of Believers by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ This Doctrine of the Free Covenant of Mercy of Righteousness and of Salvatiou by Faith in Christ did Noah commend to his hearers and it was sealed up towards the Faithful in that wonderful deliverance in the Ark which

Disciple from an Antichristian Synagogue and a Worshipper of the Beast are the keeping of the Commandments of God and the having the Testimony of Jesus Christ Much peace to them that love Jehovah's Law and to them no stumbling block This will be the everlasting Rule of the Holiness and Righteousness of glorified Ones in Heaven If some one will do he shall know of this Doctrine whether it be of God or not O the happy straight goings on of that man who fearing Jehovah who delighting greatly in his Commandments Christ is the Author of Eternal Salvation unto all them that obey him and the Father gives his Spirit unto such How freely and delightfully could I here inlarge in the commendation of this excellent perfect Law How good how holy how just is this Law for the matter intrinsecally externally good and holy and just consonant to the eternal Justice and Holiness and Goodness which is in the LORD himself whose Authority is stamped upon this and as such is given forth from him unto us to be a Rule How can this be abrogated or changed which is so full and comprehensive of that Righteousness and Holiness which is the perfect Image of the pure unchangeable Jehovah Aelohim were we more throughly conformed to it in our natures and actions we should be tied to it and to the Commander of it with an everlasting love love beyond expression How can the obligation of its mandatory power be other than eternal and immutable O how good is it in its kindly effects inlightning converting restoring quickning comforting and many other ways operating upon the heart when the holy Spirit doth put life and power into mens hearts for these productions This way of obedience to the ten Words is the way of lasting of hidden age and of everlastingness that way which alone of all ways will continue and hold out to the utmost duration when all the ways of Anomous of lawless ones shall perish Christ's Disciples should evidence and manifest their love to him by their friendliness to his Law The Doctrines and the Precepts of this Rule the promises and the threatning of it do some way or other lead to Christ and have him for their scope and this under the old as well as new Administration were not the believing Israelites to look unto the covenanted Messiah and to act Faith upon him Were they not by all the Types and Figures and Shadows of him to make application of him to themselves and of themselves to him and and to confirm their expectation of his coming Was not this that which made all their prayers and other services acceptable their spiritual relation which they had unto him How could mercy be done unto thousands as the Letter of this Law doth include if we exclude this Messiah or Christ out of his own Laws as if he were not intended there The Administration of this Law was Evangelical in its great design and main intention Can a believer but highly prize Christ and esteem him precious when he doth so look into the glass of this Law as to view and loath the spots on the face of his nature and life the least of which this Law doth discover and will not hide any of his deformities nor cover his wrinckles nor paint his ugliness In this case how great are the benefits by Christ to the Believer who is made of God to the Believer Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption The more that a Beliver doth honour Christ the more will he be carried out in a Spirit of Love to delight in the Commands of Christ When Adam was most holy he was most obedient and when he was most obedient he was most acted by a principle of Love Thus the holy blessed Angels do all in obedience and love to Christ for they also are under this Law and at command Even the LORD Jesus Christ himself kept these Commandments of his Father and did abide in his Love his ready chearful obedience to his Father must have an eye to a commanding Law The Law of the ten Words though it include a perfect holiness in its requirements yet doth it not exclude an Advocating Mediator in its intendments O how will mens faces be covered with shame at the last when they shall be judged by that Law which now they so much contend against When the LORD had given forth the Law of the ten Words it is said Not hath he added He added no more commands of this Nature This was almost forty years after the promulgation of the Decalogue at Mount Sinai He hath not added he doth not add he will not add will still be a true saying relating to this no more commands of this kind and sort for they are but ten Words a perfect Law to which nothing is to be added and from which nothing is to be substracted In this Book of Deuteronomy Moses repeated the ten Words or Commandments and presseth to the observation of this Law confirming the whole of it with promises to the believing and obedient and with threatnings against the unperswadeable and transgressing And Christ himself a little before his death foretold of the continuance of the Seventh-day Sabbath calling it by the name of Sabbath well towards forty years after his death though for the advancement of Sabbath-learning I propound to the Vertuoso and the Ingenuoso of the times to consider Q. Whether that expression Mat. 24. 20. Pray ye that your flight be not in the Sabbath do not relate to all and every of those great periods of time the destruction of Jerusalem the down-fall of Antichrist and the Tribulation of that time which shall make way for the later-day-Glory this Seventh-day Sabbath will last as long as this world lasteth to the utmost end of it Thus Reader have I through Mercy and Grace somewhat traded according to my Talent received for the Honour of my LORD and of his Works Words and Law and for the promoting of Scripture-sciences and Arts. It is with him what entertainment he will give it in thy heart and what blessing he will there put upon it O the Excellency of this Word Knowledge The Wise of heart will receive Commands They will treasure up Knowledge to draw it out in season Wisdom is found in their lips To the mouth of their Vnderstanding shall they be praised The Well-advised will hearken unto Counsel and those that fear the Command shall prosper Whereas the proud will be always wrangling and contending Contemners of the Word will quickly be corrupted The Law the Doctrine the Institution of a wise man is a clear Vein and Fountain of Lifes and a good Understanding will give Grace A Scorner seeks Wisdom and finds it not but Knowledge is easie unto him that understands it It is facile it is obvious it freely presents it self it is soon learnt it is easily gettable quickly attained A Fool has

Confirmer of the Covenant He who ever was is and will be the foundation the ground-work the substance the comprehensive of the whole Covenant of Grace He in whom all the Promises of God as many as there be are Yea and Amen Truth and firmness it self faithful and unchangeable as he himself is This Law it self had much of a Gospel Design in it In the preparation that was made for the giving and receiving of it there were precious Promises made to that people who were then about to be taken into Covenant with Jehovah Aelohim A God in Christ ingaged that if hearkning they would hearken to his Voice and keep his Covenant they should be a peculiar treasure unto him above all peoples He would take them for his own proper Goods The same thing is mentioned in the New Testament Christ purchased to himself a peculiar people So Paul kept close to this Expression and that of Peter is much the same in his first Epistle though expressed by another A people for peculiar possession these are they whom Christ Buys and Redeems to himself for his own special use and service they are singularly dear unto him So is that Prophesie and Promise in Malachi How rich how free is this Grace that Jehovah chose his people for his portion as Moses thankfully confesseth in the words of one of his last Songs They were that part which he had marvellously separated unto himself his Heritage as by Li●● allotted to him whom none other can challenge as their Propriety This People he chose above all Peoples that are upon the faces of the earth Not for their Multitude above all Peoples did Jehovah set his love upon them and chuse them for they were the fewest of all peoples but because Jehovah loved them and because he would keep the Oath which he had sworn unto their Fathers did Jehovah bring them out with a strong hand and redeemed them The Election was of his Grace not of any worthiness in them This Jewel was dear unto him and he promised a further honour that he would put upon them They should be unto him a Kingdom of Priests and an holy Nation Is not this the self-same thing which is mentioned as the Covenant-privilege of God's chosen ones under the New Testament-dispensation of Grace For to this phrase doth Peter keep and so also does John in the Revelation who doth give glory unto the LORD Christ that he hath made his people such now unto God his Father How full are the treasures of this Grace O what an honour did Jehovah put upon that People whom he so brought unto himself How signal a favour was this to his Israel If we look into the Ten words themselves do they not begin with a gracious Covenant I Jehovah Thy God This he made over to his People in a special manner there being no higher no greater Good than himself none so high none so great as he He is all Good in one whatever Good there is it is in and from him They are the Blessed ones who have this Jehovah for their God O the Blessedness of such thus sweetly sung the Psalmist This is the choice part of their happiness who enjoy this privilege by his Gracious Covenant and peculiar favour Under every Dispensation of Grace this is mentioned as the summ of all good for this is all the Salvation and all the desire of Believers To be For or To a God unto that People is the substance of that Covenant of Grace which God hath made with his People in Christ So it has been to this day and so it is revealed that it will be renewed and revived in the purest and best days When he gives himself to any he gives an Inheritance of all things to such As this doth bring in the first great Word or Command so also is it expresly put into the Second into the Third and into the Fourth into every Word of Command of the First Table In the Second Table also we may find it in the Fifth Word And those that will diligently observe and duly apply it in their reading of the Holy Scriptures may discern it to be a rich Portion going along with every one of the Ten Words in particular as well as made over to all of them in general especially with respect to the Fourth Word It is remarkable in Moses's repeating of this Law that in his going over of the Law for the Seventh-Day-Sabbath this Covenant of Grace I am Jehovah Thy God is four times expresly mentioned besides the Type of Spiritual Redemption by Christ which is also about thirty nine years after Christ's first proclaiming of this Law at Mount Sinai superadded and expresly put into this Fourth Word as a forcible Reason to engage Obedience to this holy Precept The Figure of which Salvation by Christ and of his delivering of his people from their Spiritual bondage and misery under Sin and Satan is a choice part of the Covenant of Grace This is that which doth lead in the Ten Words By this manifested Grace doth he invite his people to Faith and Obedience His Israel of Old had Redeeming mercy put into the beginning of this Holy Just and Good Law who were redeemed not only from outward Slavery but also from the Idolatry of Egypt as the Prophet Ezekiel hath declared and from the false Gods there so hath Samuel discovered in his Second Book And they had a Promise of other mercy in the Second Word which Jehovah would do unto those who loving him and keeping his Commandments They should receive Mercies Benefits Loving kindnesses Bounties from him It is further note-worthy that most of the Ten Words even Eight of them as they are in the two Tables are exprest in that manner that they are Precepts and Promises too such is the significancy of that Future-tense in which they run and the other two that is to say the fourth and fifth are put into the same promising as well as commanding way in the same Book of Moses in another place and the particular Duties and Graces required in those ten Words are somewhere or other covenanted by Jehovah Aelohim to be given to his people in other Scriptures as to love him to fear him to delight in him and such like he will inwork in them what he doth require of them O what abundance of riches of Grace is here If you meditate upon what did accompany the ten Words and what was annexed to them what were all the Shadows and Figures and Types but a significant Commentary upon the Covenant of Grace What was the true spiritual meaning of all these superadded Patterns but to set out Christ and all those special benefits which Believers have and do injoy in him of which the followers of Christ under that Dispensation of Grace had a free participation as the Disciples of Christ have now they fed on Christ in their Manna