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A62539 The seventh-day Sabbath sought out and celebrated, or, The saints last design upon the man of sin with their advance of Gods first institution to its primitive perfection ... : with the Christians glorious conquest over that mark of the beast, and recovery of the long-slighted seventh day to its antient glory, wherein Mr. Aspinwal may receive full answer to his late piece against the Sabbath / by Tho. Tillam ... Tillam, Thomas. 1657 (1657) Wing T1166; ESTC R4598 92,585 216

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into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the Lord. O the clear communion saints enjoyed that blessed sabbath on which the spirit descended 4. 4. Can. 5 1. 1 Iohn 1.3 4 5. Thou art invited to a compleat communion Eat O friends drink abundantly O beloved The saints have fulnesse of joy in their fellowship with God 5. Thy communion must be constant Never leave loving thy loving Lord for he hath said he will never leave thee nor forsake thee Heb. 13. Rev. 14. the virgins that are redeemed from the earth follow Christ constantly and shall the love of this world interrupt thy communion with thy God Psal 42.12.14 That famous Psalm for the sabbath sets forth the constancy of saints communion with their God day and night and let this be the measure of thy souls devotion the holy Sabbath And if thus thou obtain a choice close clear compleat constant communion with thy God I am sure thy communion will be very comfortable so that having thus sanctified Jehovahs Sabbath he will send thee home with a sanctified soul and renewed strength wherewith every Sabbath thy vessel shall be replenished till at last thou shalt enjoy immediate communion with thy God in rest eternal The sixth Head The Rule THis royal Law was unto Israel a severe School-master Gal. 4. 3. Rom. 7. and strict husband requiring exact and punctual obedience and denouncing dreadfull curses upon the least transgression But Christ having drawn out that terrible sting Rev. 11.1 2. and turned it from a fiery Serpent to a friendly Scepter thereby measuring the Temple the Altar and them that worship therein Psal 23. it is now the joy and solace of a sanctified soul Thy rod thy staffe shall comfort me As a staffe o● Beauty it directs the new creature to obedience Zech. 11.14 As a staff of Bands it only engageth as a rule of Righteousness shewing our defects that we may see our need of a Saviour The thunders of Sinai the blackness darkness and terrible trumpet Heb. 12. are now by Christ so sweetned that all it can speak or say to Saints is If ye fulfill the Royal Law according to the Scripture Ja. 1 8. ye shall do well But what if we should fail of fulfilling it through humane frailty Why if any man Sin we have an advocate with the father Well may we say here is an easie yoak 1 Jo. 2.1 a light burden indeed and yet too hard and heavy for Ranters Quakers Notionists Antinomians c. who though contrary to each other will not admit of the royal Law no not as a rule of righteousness but pervert the Scripture which saies the Law was not made for a righteous man and Pharisee like concluding themselves righteous 1 Tim. 1.9 Luke 16.15 they utterly reject the pretious Law of God as not made for them to which I answer 1. T is true the Law is not made to bind over the righteous man to its curse and malediction but to be sure the law was made for Christs disciples and whosoever speaks not according to the Law though he boast of his light within Isa 8.16.20 yet he has no light in him nay more especially this very Law of the Sabbath Mar. 2.27 was made for Christs Disciples and surely they were righteous men 2. In the very same Scripture from whence this objection is made It is manifest That the Law is good and to be used by Saints if they use it lawfully Now the Objectors will not use it at all but though it be proclaimed a good law a holy just spiritual Law yet they will have none of it but will join with Antichrist in breaking bands asunder Psal 2. and casting away Christs cords from them after he has told them that whosoever breaks and teacheth to break the least of these lively Oracles given unto us shall be least in the Kingdom I shall leave these Libertines to their lusts and shew the orderly Saints how this good Law may be lawfully used and how it is not made for a righteous man It is not made for a righteous man in Christ as a ministration of condemnation 2 Cor. 3. Rom. 8.1 For there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit It is not a covenant binding us to obedience without any ability given to obey for we are now delivered from the Law that being dead wherein we were held as a covenant that we should serve in newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the Letter Rom. 7.6 he does not undervalue the letter of the Law no not the least point or title but rejects the oldness of the Letter as a covenant The Law is not a foundation for our faith Gal. 3.12 it is neither under us nor over us we are not under the Law but under grace Ro. 6.14 neither are we above the Law except we belong to that Lawless one As we must nor reject the least point of the Law 2 Thes 2. unless we would be least in the Kingdome of God Ro. 8.3 1 Cor. 3.11 12. neither must we rest upon the greatest duty of the Law no nor of the Gospel since all rests short of Christ are but Egyptian Reeds The Law is not made for the righteous man to give him life or righteousness But Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to all them that believe He saies not that Christ is the end of the Law but that Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness for the Law can neither give us life nor righteousnes but Christ is made unto us of God Wisdom and Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Gal. 3 1● 1 Cor. 1● 30 in none of these respects is the law made for a righteous man and yet we know the Law is good and may and must be used lawfully Then it is utterly unlawful to destroy one Letter of the Law under a pretence of worshipping God in spirit he that worships God in spirit must worship him also in truth by the Law of truth it is a strong delusion for Papists to say they know God is a spirit whilles they make his image it is absurd to say we keep our hearts in the Spirit if we transgresse the letter and commit corporal Fornication it is no lesse ridiculous to assert we keep the Sabbath in the spirit whiles we live in the weekly pollution of the Letter The lawful use of the Law is 1. To make known sin to the most righteous soul for saith that excellent Apostle I had not known sin but by the law if there be no Law there can be no sin if there be no sin there is no Saviour for such a Soul Rom. 7.7 4.15 Mat. 9.13 The lawful use of the Law is to direct a righteous soul to be a rule not a School-master