the Slaughter †Ch. 2.25 This laying the Reins on the Neck hath run Many a child to Ruin Children need No more to undo them than their Own Desires No nor Men neither ¶ 2 Absolom He having Killed Amnon his Brother comes and Bows to David his Father and the King Kissed Absolom * 2 Sam. 14.33 After this he aspires the Crown seeks his fathers Life loses his Own †Ch. 18.14 and twenty thousand more * Ver. 7. David was comparatively a good King absolutely a good Christian a good Prophet a good Preacher and yet a bad Father Let the best in the World beware Even a David will Dote and Eli will honour his Sons above God †1 Sam. 2.29 This makes gods of Children and that is the way to make DEVILS of them for God to Destroy or to Spare to their Parents Destruction e g Thy two indulged sons Hophni and Phinehas shall Both Die in One Day * Ver. 34. And the Man of Thine whom I shall not cut off shall be to Consume thine Eyes and of Grieve thy Heart †Ver. 33. That some such gods are Suddenly gone this True Story will Testifie A godly Father being set at a Festival Dinner in comes a Curious Child O saith the Father speaking lightly I fear I shall make a god of this Child But the End of that Dinner was a Bitter Day Mr Jer Burroughs was present for before they rose from the Table that Child was found Drowned in a Pond You have your Items viz Item the Boy that Ran away from the Rod. Item the Boy that was Killed with Correction HERE be Items for you Item Adonijah Item Absolom Item Eli's sons whose end was Destruction for want of Correction And Item the Idolized Child that was Drowned I doubt because Deified Fath. These are Sad things to befall the Godly Min. Sad things for sin befall Such soonest of All for Judgment must Begin at the House of God †1 Pet. 4.17 Such sin against a Threefold light viz the light of Nature the light of Grace and the light of Gods Word Sin against Such Light is a Great aggravation of sin Weigh a sin Single in the Scale then adde this Circumstance viz it was against Knowledge that weighs more than the Sin it Self Knowledge of GOD is a Great Good no lesse than Eternal Life sin against Such Knowledge must needs be a Great Evil. N B If sin against Knowledg be against the Will it is not So great but Wo to them that sin against Knowledg With the Will Let us take heed of Sin against London light A Caution for London Sin at London is Greater than sin in a dark Country and the scourge Sorer upon that account when it comes WO wo wo to them that go into the Land of Darknesse by London Light Fath. Many poor Parents want Time to Instruct Object 13 and Correct their Children Min. And so may Rich too the course they take Men have Many wayes to throw their Time down the Stream I shall Instance two which are Common to men First They Word it away Precious time Prated away Let me say they Prate it away about impertinent things to no Purpose or Profit for Soul or Body Self or Others Church or State They are for Any thing Every thing which is worse then Nothing Tell them of their Work O then We want Time But let not Man be Deceived GOD will not be Mocked And many times Pertinent things and Spiritual things too are discoursed to No Purpose at all Will this discourse do in Dooms Day to the Law to try and to the Testimony of Jesus But I say unto you That every IDLE WORD that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the Day of Judgment * Mat. 12.36 Fath. What is an Idle Word Min. The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idle Idle word opened of a privative and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A work signifies a Word without Work a Work-lesse word a Saying without Service ie which neither profits Speaker nor Hearer At the multitudes of Such Words out of the mouths of Professors I have been amazed times without Number to think how CAN they look OVER or look ON this Text as a Cypher * MAT. XII XXXVI As if they had got a Licence to let their Tongues go as they List There is a time to Every thing †Ecl. 3.1 and for some things that one would think there should be No Time for viz to Kill to Hate * Ver. 3 8. and yet we read of NO Time for Idle Talk And that Christ hath purchased Precious Time with his most Precious Blood for Vain Talkers to spend THUS I leave it with them to Prove or to Answer it in the Day of Judgement ¶ And much Time is thus lost about News as forementioned in the Morning Many wise men resemble the Simple who believeth every word †Pro. 14.15 though they know what an uncertain thing Report is both by Experience and Sacred Scripture e g Tidings came to David saying Absolom hath slain ALL the Kings sons and there is not ONE of them left * 2 Sa. 13.30 Report makes an uncertain Sound When they were All alive but One who did not deserve to Live nor to be Counted One of the Kings sons viz Amnon who had forced his Sister Tamar Thus persons Prate away their Time Second Precious time Piped away They Pipe it away with that Pidle and Tabacco that Bauble Of which because I doubt it 's your Vanity Hear me a little ¶ By way of Concession I grant Tabacco is a Creature of GOD and hath its Vertue for the Use of Man as every Herb Weed and Toad hath It 's good for Cold Moist Bodies and such Diseases if moderately Used Against the Good Lawfull Convenient use of it I say Nothing ¶ By way of Conviction of the Vanity Inconveniency and ill Consequence of the Common Abuse or Immoderate Use of it A wofull waster ¶ 1 It 's Prodigiously Expensive both of Time and Coin Some observe A man may walk a Mile while he Puffs away a Pipe of Tabacco How many do they that Dote drink away in a Day No wonder such want Time for better work Time to lay up Eternal Treasure Tabacco hath not been of use in England 100 Years in which Term It came by Sir Francis Drake 1585. it hath Stole away more Time and Cost more Coin than all England is worth Doubtlesse by God's judicial permission the Devil had a hand in its importation Sharper is that Saying of a King K James viz Tabacco is a lively image of Hell An if I was to invite the Devil to Dinner I professe for one Dish he should have a Pipe of Tabacco ¶ 2 It is a very Vain Vitious Foolish Custome A very Toy It makes Men turn Toys And with their Mouth Pidle and Bauble
English Reader The most Necessary of all which to know are These c et caetera and the rest or and so forth Sc scilicet to wit Viz Videlicet to wit or that is to say i e id est that is e g exempli gratiâ as for example q d quasi dicat as if he should say And the same q d serves for as if She should say as if You should say as if They should say as if I or We should say It is easily understood in Reading N B Nota Bene Mark this well O T Old Testament N T New Testament Q Question A Answer Ob Objection Sol Solution D Doctrine R Reason U Use For you to Learn these Lessons Three As easie is as A B C. Which you may Learn with little Leasure Then Read with Knowledge Profit Pleasure As for Hebrew Greek and Latine Words which I lay in your Way they will be no Stumbling-block except you will Make them so For you have it in English which you may Read on without Stumble or Stop And I desire you may So Read as to Reap much Good Fruit by the Labour of Your Loving Friend J W. London May 26. 1681. The General Contents of the First Dialogue A Salutation and Preambulation to the Education of Children Parents equally concern'd in Education Education reduced to two General Heads viz. Instruction and Correction First Instruction The word opened 1 Gen. Head Instruction by Doctrine and Example 1 By Doctrine The word Doctrine opened What D to instruct Children in Twenty Documents for Instruction by D. The Scripture to be Searched for more Any thing in the Bible Vseful even the words of wicked men Devils Proper Names 2 Instruction by Example Word opened Example by Works and Words Circumstances of Education Seven Direction if Children Will or Will not hear The Parent Corrected for Carnal Language The Second General Head viz. Correction 2 Gen. Head Correction twofold viz. with Word and Rod. 1 Correction with Word Six Directions for Word Correction 2 Correction with the Rod Scriptural Account of Rod fourfold The Parallel of Rod and Staff Seven Directions for Rod Correction Fourteen Ob against Rod Correction Answ Two ways great wasters of Time and many more wicked ways Witnessed against Advice of a Civil Secular Concern delivered in 12. Documents The danger of Riches discoursed Counsel concerning Childrens Children PRAYER for a Blessing on Education Prayer For and With Children 1 Prayer For them in Private Ten great effects of Prayer consider'd to encourage to Prayer Time and Times in a day for Private Prayers 2 Prayer With Children in Family Ten directions for Family Duty Objections against Family Duty Answ Parents to take their Children into their Closets and Pray with them there Parents to teach Children to Pray Objections against that Answer'd Parents to procure the Prayers of Praying Persons for their Children Ten Corollaries to quicken Parents to their Whole Duty contained in this Conference THE PARENTS PRIMER AND THE MOTHERS LOOKING-GLASSE In a Dialogue between A MINISTER and a FATHER Minister GOd Save you Sir with your good Wife Whither are you walking this way this morning Father To See Mr. C. What News Sir Min. News I said in my heart what I should have When will this Common Question be out of use Since the Popes Plot appeared the Protestants have spent more Time in Talking of it than All the Papists in England are worth And you living so near us are like our London Christians and they Too like the Athenians who spent their time in Nothing else but to Tell or to Hear some New Thing And if there be no New we talk over the Old without End And every Day is alike If this was the way to do our work viz Self-Examination Humiliation and Reformation for the Sins that provoke God to suffer this Bloody Beast thus to Push at us I would not Oppose it But it 's the way to Hinder Every good work in Heart and Life And to render us Ridiculous to the DEVIL and the POPE to see what a Talking Trade we drive and how we spend our Dayes while Death lies at our Doors Fath. I confess we spend Too much Time that way Min. Confession without Reformation Preambulation is to Poor Purpose Are these two little Lads which follow you Your Children Fath. Yes they are both mine Min. Can you tell me any Good News of Them Fath. They are Pretty good Boys when they Please Min. They had need be made Better to which end I pray what Good Discourse have you had with them by the way for you are now come a Mile from Home Fath. OH HO I have told them the name of yonder Church Steeple And of That I point at with my Cane And of yonder High Brick House with abundance of Chimneys Min. And is this the Best Discourse you have had Fath. The Best yes truly What Discourse should a man have with Children Min. What Discourse Godly Discourse Fath. What with Children Min. Yes with Children to Choose Fath. What Reason is there for That Min. There is Great Reason for it which I shall not Now Render but one thing I shall Render which is Greater than Reason Fath. What is that I pray Min. God's Solemn Command And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine Heart Deu. 6.6 7. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine House and when thou walkest by the Way and when thou liest Down and when thou risest Vp Fath. I believe Few Fathers or Mothers do so Min. In that you believe Truth but it 's Sad Truth to believe yet Too True I may well say For of othis I have made Much Observation for Many Years in Many Countries in Professing Families without number After all which Observation I may say with Solomon There is an evil which I have seen under the Sun Ecl. 6.1 and it is Common among men Such men have Many a Day been to me an Amazing Consideration viz That ever Persons professing Faith in gods Word of Truth which testifieth the Misery of ALL Mankind that their Children are in a Sad Condition is one part of their Profession who have been Sensible of their Own Misery and Instruments to bring Poor Children into a Miserable World in a Miserable Condition and yet so Careless to bring them Out of this Condition And so little concerned for a Safe passage Out of this World over Hell to the desired Haven Ezek. 19.14 this is a Lamentation and Shall be for a Lamentation Fath. But some Count that this Command was given to the Jews only Min. Read and Compare these two Texts * Deut. 4.10 Ch. 6.7 and you will see it is the Moral Law or Ten Commandments that Parents are Commanded to teach their Children To say This Law belongs to the Jews only is plainly to say We Gentiles are Lawlesse And may
them God can see as well in the Dark as in the Light When Dores and Windowes are shut and Curtains drawn Close at Midnight as well as at Noon Day on the House Top. Tell them God heareth what they say if they speak Never so Softly And knows what they Think if they think Never so Secretly And Tell them whatever they Think Speak and Act on Earth God writes in Heaven What is Good God looks upon with Love What is Evil God beholds with Hatred Thou art of Purer Eyes than to behold Evil †Hab. 2.13 God beholds NO Evil with an Eye of Approbation but ALL Evil with an eye of Observation in order to Damnation if speedy Repentance prevent it not How Dar'st thou Sin in Secret God doth See And Witnesse Jury Judge alone will Be. Fourteenth Doc 14. The uncertainty of Life Teach them to know the Brevity and Uncertainty of Life for Age and Youth Old and Insant Tell them in Golgotha are Sculls and in the Church Yard are Graves of All Sizes Solomon tells of a time to be Born and a time to Die but he tells us of no time to Live * Ecl. 3.2 Tell them Death is Most Certain and may be as Sudden as Certain One may be Alive Young Strong Well Sick Dead Damned and all in a Day or in an Hour 1 God the Donour and Preserver of Mans Life may Suddenly end it 2 The Devil the Envier of Mans Life may Suddenly end it as he did Job's Children †Job 1.10 3 The Wicked Satans Workmen may Suddenly end it he riseth up and No man is sure of his Life * Job 24.22 4 A mans own Relations may Suddenly end it as Cain who killed his Own Onely brother Abel †Gen. 4.8 5 A mans own Hand may Suddenly end his own Life Ahithophels councel to Others was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God * 2 Sa 16.23 but he could not councel Himself to keep from the Gallows It 's dangerous provoking GOD to displeasure God can make a man his Own Enemy his Worst Enemy his own Executioner here and his own Tormentor in Hell Fire for ever N B. Seeing Life is SO Uncertain and Short Preparation for Death is a Solemn Concern When men had Longer lives and Stronger limbs than Now men have they seemed to be more concerned with Death than Now men are The First purchase we read of in the Bible was a Burying Place not a Building Place viz Abraham for Sarah * Gen. 23.4 Lo I die in the Grave which I have Digged for me there thou shalt bury me said Jacob to Joseph †Ch. 50.5 Kings and Councellors built Desolate places for Themselves * Job 3.14 Joseph laid Jesus in his Own Tomb †Mat. 27.60 Few in our dayes dig their Graves before they are dead though the World it self be dying Fifteenth Doc 15. Teach them to know the Difference between Temporal Life and Eternal Life The Excellency of One above the Other e g. 1 Temporal Life is full of Corporal Labour * Eccl. 1.8 Eternal Life hath none of this There Remains a Rest †Heb. 4.9 it Ever Remains and Never Removes 2 Temporal Life is full of Mental Misery viz. Care Trouble Vexation Sorrow of Mind Man is Born to trouble * Job 5.7 He is of Few dayes and Full of trouble †Ch. 14.1 His dayes are Few and Evil * Gen. 47.9 Eternal Life is Full of Joy without Sorrow 3 Temporal Life is attended with the Misery of Penury Hunger Thirst Hunger without Bread Bread without Hunger are both Miseries Bread with Hunger is a Double Mercy which Many have and Few prize Eternal Life is free from both these Miseries of Hunger and Thirst They shall hunger NO more neither Thirst any more c †Rev. 7.16 4 Temporal Life is attended with many Diseases Eternal Life hath None All Diseases end at Death A Saints Funeral is the Funeral of All his Afflictions 5 Temporal Life is sometimes such that a man is Weary of it and wishes for Death Eternal Life will Never weary one to All Eternity 6 Temporal Life is but Temporal if it be the life of Methuselah it must Certainly end it may Suddenly end but Eternal Life is Eternal Not any thing in Heaven or Hell shall ever end it Sixteenth Doc 16. Of Heaven Teach them to know how Desireable Heaven is Tell them of its Titles viz The Kingdom of GOD The Kingdom of Heaven The Heaven of Heavens The Third Heaven A house Eternal in the Heavens That will never Decay or want Repair that the Inhabitant will never be Weary of or turned Out of Abrahams Rosom i e Sweet imbraces Eternal Glory Salvation with Eternal Glory An Eternal weight of Glory which will never weary to bear it but bare up above all weariness for ever A Crown of Life A Crown of Glory A City of pure Gold it's Streets pure Gold its Gates Pearl * Rev. 21.21 A City that hath NO need of Sun Moon or Candle †Ver. 23. For there shall be NO Night there * Ch. 22.5 Seventeenth Doc. 17. Of Hell Teach them to know how Dreadfull Hell is Tell them of it's Titles viz Destruction A Furnace Outer Darkness Damnation Everlasting Punishment Vnquenchable Fire A Place of Torment Wrath to Come A Prison Everlasting Chains Everlasting Burnings The Vengeance of Eternal Fire The Second Death A Lake of Fire The Bottomless Pit OH How do Persons Play with Scripture Thunder The Word Printed is like Fire Painted which they can See and Feel without Fear But could they Stand at the Gates of Hell and Hear the Damned Howl it would make their Hair stand an End and Fill their Hearts with Horrour But what shall we say of an Eternal BEING in that place of Torment The Damnation of Hell is beyond All Definition much harder to Define than the Spanish Inquisition Which a Painter despairing to do Did not picture One man with a Knife in his his Throat a Second with a Sword in his Heart a Third with his Arms Torn Off. But took a Table and Covered it all over with Blood crying out BLOOD BLOOD So may a Minister cry concerning Hell FIRE FIRE for a Definition of Damnation Eighteenth Doc. 18. Of temporal Judgements Teach them to know what Temporal Judgments God hath sent to Men Women and Children for Sin against God Tell them how God drowned the World with Water from Heaven * Gen. 7. And burned Sodom with Fire from Heaven †Ch. 19. And Drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea And clave the Ground asunder to Swallow up Korah and his Company And slew a hundred fourscore and five Thousand in One Night by One Angel * 2 K. 19.35 And slew of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen men in One day †Ch. 13.17 Chap. 36.16 And gave All Israel into the
hand of the King of the Caldees that bitter and hasty Nation who slew their Young men with the Sword had NO compassion on Young Man or Maiden Old man or him that Stooped for age * Ch. 36.16 Because they mocked the messengers which God in Mercy had sent among them Death came in at their Windows for their Wicked Children Bares tare them in Pieces The Mother was dashed in Pieces upon her Children †Ho. 10.14 The strength of Populous NO was Infinite Yet she was carried away into Captivity her Young Children were dashed in Pieces at the top of all the streets * Na. 3.8 9 10. Tell them also of Judgments threatned viz I will Kill you with the Sword your Wives shall be Widdows and your Children fatherless †Exo. 22.24 I will send wild beasts among you which shall Rob you of your Children * Lev. 26.22 Papists are coming to Rob our houses of Children and Parents both Their Children shall be dashed to pieces before their Eyes †Isa 13.16 I will bereave them of Children * Jer. 15.7 The Fathers shall eat the Sons and the Sons shall eat the Fathers †Ezek. 5.10 And I saith Christ will Kill her Children with Death * Rev. 2.23 Nineteenth Doc 19. Of Eternal Judgment Teach them to know the Eternal Judgment Tell them Jesus Christ the Judge shall come from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire With a Shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel with the Trump of GOD to found and raise the Dead That the Godly shall rise in Glory and all Christians Quick and Dead be made like Christ That the Wicked shall rise Roaring amazed one at another their Faces Flames †Isa 13.8 That all Men Women Children from Adam to the end of the World must Stand before GOD. * Rev. 20.12 And give account of their Works Words Thoughts all which God will bring into Judgment And whet his glittering Sword which is now made Bright and Wrapt up for the Slaughter †Ezek. 21.15 and fill it with the Blood of the Wicked And heap Mischiefs upon them And spend his Arrows upon them * Deu. 32.23 And make them drunk with Blood †Ver. 42. And shoot his great Hail which he hath reserved for the Battel of that Great Day of GOD Almighty * Job 38.23 When the Sun and Moon and Stars shall be Drakened †Joel 3.15 And the Heavens pass away with a Great Noise and the Elements melt with Fervent Heat the Earth and the Works therein burnt up * 2 Pet. 3.10 With a fire kindled in Gods Anger which shall burn to the Lowest Hell †Deu. 32.22 When God shall Roar like a Lion and Rend the Caul of their Heart * Ho. 13.8 And they Groan with the Groanings of a Deadly Wounded Man †Ezek. 30.24 Alas Who shall live when GOD doth This * Nu. 24.23 Tell some of this Day OH take You no care for Me every Tub must Stand on its own Bottom But how if it have no Bottom to stand on OH HO we will do well enough What will ye do in the day of Visitation †Isa 10.3 It 's a Scaring question If we cannot obtain mercy by Entreaty nor victory by Fight we will Flee for it To whom will ye Flee for Help A fearful question These are the men that must cry Mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne Who will close this Day with Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed Then shall the King say unto them on his Right Hand Come ye Blessed of My Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for You from the Foundation of the World * Mat. 25.34 Then shall he say also unto them on the Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels †Ver. 41. And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal * Ver. 46. Last Doc. 20. Of Eterninity Teach them to think upon Eternity Tell them that after this Final Sentence is Passed viz Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed the Godly must dwell in Heaven and the Wicked must dwell in Hell for Ever and Ever The Eternity of GOD hath neither Beginning nor End The Eternity of Man hath a Beginning but NO End This EVER is as near its End at its Beginning as EVER it will be When the Wicked have been Howling in Hell as many Thousand Years as the Number of the Stars of Heaven and the Drops and Sands of the Sea they are then NO nearer to the End of their Torment than when it First Began Thus much for Instruction by Doctrine ¶ But Sir you are not to Terminate in These Twenty Lessons For I lay them not down to Limit you but to Lead you into the Scriptures to Search for Twenty times so many More Every word of God in the Blessed Bible hath something in it for the Use of Man The words of Wicked Men and DEVILS which God hath pleased to Record for our Profit To discover the Pride Wickedness Madness Folly Enmity of the Wicked and the Devil their Father against GOD their Creatour a few of which I leave you to consider at leasure 1 Words of the Wicked Gen. 4.9 Ch. 11.4 Exo. 1.10 Ch. 5.2 Ch. 14.25 Ch. 15.9 Job 21.14 Ch. 22.17 Psal 14.1 Ps 83.4 Ps 94. 7. Ps 137.7 Isai 10.13 14. Dan. 3.15 Ch. 6.5 20. Mat. 12.24 Ch. 27.40 42 43 63 64. Job 10.20 Act. 28.4 6. 2 Words of the Devil Gen. 3.1 4 5. Job 1.7 9 10 11. Ch. 2.4 5. Mat. 4.3 6 9. Ch. 8.29 Mar. 1.24 Luk. 8.28 Act. 19. 15. And the Proper Names of Persons which many think not worth the nameing are Profitable more wayes than one 1 To shew that God fulfilled his Promise of such a Numerous Seed so incredible to Reason when Abram and Sarai were both Dead q d See what a number of their names I have recorded in the Chronicles and other places to testifie the Truth of my Promise 2 The Signification of the Proper Names of Persons and Places of both take a few Instances ¶ 1 Persons Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth Red Bloody of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be red Male and Female created he them and called their Name Adam †Gen. 5.2 To tell Proud man what a Material and Mettal man is made of Noah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rest of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To take rest He called his name Noah saying this Same shall Comfort us * Gen. 5.29 Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness it Signifies what a Stay such shall be to a Tossed Church Abram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A High Father Abraham A Father of a multitude i e A Publick President by his FAITH for Jew and Gentile to follow for Justification Believers are
A Self righteous Rock that hath been building twenty or thirty years To pull all Down to Rase it to cast it Away as a Menstruous Cloth and say unto it Get thee Hence * Isa 30.22 this goes against the Hair To deny Sinful Self and Religious Self of So long standing are Mighty Works Once more I must say Begin Betime Your Lads seem to be seven or eight years Old You should have begun five or six years Ago N B. From a Child 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From an Infant thou hast Known the Holy Scriptures †2 Tim. 3.15 N B. Parents Expressions make Impressions upon Childrens Memories e g A Godly Woman being often in Trouble did for her comfort usually use these words The Lord liveth * Psal 18.46 At length she Sat Silent as one Swallowed up in Sorrow A Pretty speech which her child observing Said Mother is God Dead now And this Shamed her out of her Sorrow This Instance shews the Aptness of Children to remember what they hear from their Parents and the Usefulnesse of Children to their Parents if Well Educated Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings hast thou ordained Strength to Still her Enemy †Psal 8.2 By this Childs Words it seems Satan was Stilled from his busie buffeting of the Childs Mother ¶ 2 The Time of Day When thou sittest in thy house When thou walkest by the way When thou liest down When thou risest up * Deu. 6.7 Take Any opportunity any Seasonable Time and some Unseasonable Be instant In season Out of season †2 Tim. 4.2 Write Apelles Posie upon your Posts viz Let No Day passe without a Line Draw One Line a day at Least Do Duty Daily Fift The Place Where When Circum 5. expresses ' Time and implies Place q d Where thou sittest viz To Work To Rest To Eat 1 To Work Talk of Gods Work Men can talk of the World at their Work 2 To Rest Talk of Eternal Rest and Eternal Wrath. Men can talk of the World when they are Weary 3 To Eat Talk of the Bread of Life Turn Temporal Mercies into Spiritual Discourses Let Eternity be your Table-Talk This leads me to testifie against the Vain Table-Talk of Prophane and Professing People which profits not Soul Body Man Woman or Child yet as Common as the Day And which if a Stranger be at Table consists much of a Company of such common Silly Complements as I am ashamed to name viz Pray eat Table trash You are very wellcome I am Sorry I am no better provided I doubt I did not cut well Pray pick a bit where you like You do not think your self welcome And Finally I see I have but troubled you to sit down At which Trash I wonder people do not Blush and with Shame sweep it out at Door as Dirt. It 's Sad to consider what Superfluity of Vanity flows from the Mouths of Professors And it s a Marvel men have not Worded away All their Mercies N B. Moses Table talk Moses had a Great Stranger at His Table and with him Aaron and all the Elders of Israel and they came to eat bread before GOD * Exo. 18.12 As in his Presence with Reverence to feed with Fear lest their Table be made a Snare To feed without Fear is Fearful Such are called Clouds without Water Trees without Fruit Twice Dead to whom is reserved the Blacknesse of Darknesse for Ever †Jude 12 13. Jesus table talk See some of Jesus Christs Table-Talk who saith to YOU Learn of ME. Mat. 9.10 11 12 13. Lu. 7.36 40 to 50. Ch. 11.37 to 51. Ch. 14.7 to 25. Ch. 15.4 to 32. Ch. 22.14 to 39. But let us see where we are Where thou walkest by the Way Talk of the Way to Heaven and Hell Walk is frequently full of Empty Vain Talk let your Walk be full of Vertuous Talk Where thou liest Down i e in Bed an Embleme of the Grave In which Bed a man is as Buried Alive above ground all but the Head And that is an Embleme of Christ the Christians Head Embleme who keeps out of the Grave while his Body the Church is buried Death hath No more dominion over Him * Ro. 6.9 Where thou risest Vp i e out of thy Bed in the Morning an Embleme of the Resurrection of the Body out of the Grave by vertue of Christs Resurrection and Life By Reason of the Head being kept out of the Bed while the Body Sleeps the Body Rises in the Morning for if the Head was buried in Bed as the Body is the whole would be Smothered and Dead So by vertue of Christ the Head who is Above ground above Death Alive THE Resurrection and Life shall Saints be Raised out of their Sleep I instance these Emblems to shew you how Lying Down and Rising Up does minister occasion of Talking to your Children Sixt. The Manner How Circum 6. 1 Speak Plainly In all Points Study the most Plain Expression and Explication of Words imaginable What I speak not so Plain to you I leave with you to Explain to them I speak to a Man you to Children Simile That Key which will most easily open the Door though made of Iron or Wood is to be used rather than a Key of Gold that will not open it So such Plain Wooden Words which do open Truths rather than Fine Words which like Paint on a Window that lets not In but keeps Out the Light I have heard a Man a Teacher of Men speak to a Child in such a Pathetical Rhetorical Mystical Strain without Consideration of Condescension to the Childs Understanding that I have Utterly abhorred it And had much rather Such had sat Silent though it was to my Own which I Much Desire should hear the Words by which they may be SAVED ¶ 2 Talk Enticeingly speak Pleasantly Alluringly Affably Kindly Winningly Deliver things in words of Down Speak Roses and Hony into their Hearts Let your lips drop as an hony comb e g. Come my Sweet Child Thou must not do SO That is SIN SATANS Service He would have thee to Hell to pay thee with Eternal Pain But do Thus This is GODS Service Love GOD Serve Him Fear Him and it will be well with Thee for Ever I do SO love thee I Long to have thee Saved I cannot Endure thou shouldst be Damned Be Ruled without the Rod it grieves me to whip thee c. Thus Win them by working on the Will You know the Phrase John is a good Boy when Will is at Home an Up-hill way is a Down-hill way to a Willing Mind Let the Law of Kindnesse be in your Tongue and your Children will arise up and Call you Blessed †Pro. 31.26 28. ¶ 3 Talk frequently Thou sahlt teach them Diligently to thy Children Heb thou shalt Whet them to thy children * Deu. 6.7 The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To whet hath
would make us tremble to see persons come to Sermons as if they came for Shows and appear on Galleries as if they were on a Stage in Smithfield Fair to act a part in a play And how is it possible these painted persons should be reproved by a preacher who appears in a Pulpit in a monstrous Periwig a Crown of Pride N B If these persons preach not pride Down their hearers go down to Hell if they do at all attempt it it 's impudence in them and so it is to speak any word in the name of God †Ps 50.16 O what a Shame is it for a man to pretend to have the spirit of God and yet go as if destitute of the dictates of Nature for doth not even nature it Self teach you that if a man have long hair it is a Shame unto him * 1 Cor. 11.14 A shame if it be his Own which God and nature have given him much more it it be another mans hair which comes not from God nor nature but Art that coins a man for the Court or makes him liker a Courtier than a Preacher Scripture phrase Gods word in such a mans mouth is as a Jewel of Gold in a Swines Snout †Pr. 11.22 Simile And in handling it such do Swine-like musle a Pearl up and down the Mire The lip of the Leper was to be covered * Lev. 13.45 and the unclean spirit was to hold his peace †Mar. 1.25 Brethren to these in iniquity are such Ministers who suffer their Wives and Daughters to go like Ladies of honour as if they came from a Court to wait on a Queen or were of Madam Guins Gang though maintained byu the Congregation ¶ But O how perillous is Pride or Sin in such persons The perill of pride when the Priests were to go into the Tabernacle said the holy Lord God They shall wash their hands and their feet that they Dis not and it shall be a Statute for Ever to them * Exo. 30.21 When the Priests sons were wicked in worship there went out Fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord †Lev. 10.1 2. a prodigious plague If the Priests daughter did commit fornication she was doomed to the most dismal death viz to be burnt with fire * Lev. 21.9 when others did not die at all for fornication †Ex. 22.16 though they did for adultery * Lev. 20.10 These prodigious plagues shew how hatefull sin is in Such more than in others With such Ministers we may rank such Members who being Coached to their meetings suffer their Coachmen to sit at an Ale-house in Sermon-time and to sit drinking at the Table of Devils while they sit at the Lords Table AY Sir you can shake your Head and sit Silent but I must Speak these things stink up to Heaven The sins of professors of Religion make religion Stink in the nostrils of the prophane †Gen. 34 30. and make professors themselves stink in the nostrils of God * Isa 65.5 Let such preachers and professors take heed the Holy God who hates pride in a high degree do not speedily Spew them out of his mouth By reason of proud persons God may say to London Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom Pride c * Ezek. 16 49. PRIDE was one of the Engines that pulled down the fire of God from Heaven to burn them down to Hell A proud person is in a Perillous condition especially if a Preacher or a Professor But whosoever it be the higher in Pride the lower and farther from God the liker the Devil and the nearer Hell Yet a proud man is above God for God will have his will in nothing but what is good and just but a proud man will have his will right or wrong How can a proud person receive any grace from God Bernards Simile God is the Fountain his grace and mercy to man is the Stream as in a water-course the Stream can rise no higher than the Fountain from whence it comes so grace can rise no higher than God which a proud man is above N B Pride lifting up so high will let fall full low at last he that is above God will doubtlesse fall below the Devil ¶ Beware of World-likenesse Caution Likenesse in Christians to the world in Sin causes likenesse in Sorrow When the small Pox or the great Plague rages the Reason why God puts so little difference between the Egyptians and Israel is because Israel differs so little from Egypt They Live alike and Die alike Some professors promise themselves safety in Pestilence from this promise viz 1000 shall fall at thy side and 10000 at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee * Ps 91.7 but why because thou hast made the Lord the most high thy habitation †Ver. 9. this is a dwelling in God by a holy life It is a promise of preservation with a condition such expect it without why not Salvation too without believing Sir I see by your looks I have said more of preachers than hath pleased you but if persons will not be reproved and reformed when such a Plague of darknesse is approaching us from the Pit to prepare us or Ours for that place of torment we may write the Red Crosse on our doors Fath. Let than passe I spake only against Pride but I fear we have some who hear to Poor purpose besides such Proud persons Min. Now you talk of such hearers and put it into my head I tell you here are such Parcels as I could not have believed to be in London had I not heard and seen it eg ¶ 1 Some are pleased with their pure gospel 1 Sort of simple hearers without Law or Duty with faith without works Let a Minister tell them a story of Christ's benefits c they think All is their own Poor deluded creatures where is their Faith they must shew it by their Works if God may be Judge * Ja. 2.18 If their gospel Minister should preach duty so necessary and presse the power of godlinesse they would leave him for a Legal preacher not enduring such sound Doctrine for want of sound Hearts ¶ 2 Other judge of a Minister 2 Sort. by the multitude of his auditors being albe to give no other account of him than he who hasteth to some Hurly-burly or Tumult in the Street viz he runs because he sees others run before him If this be a rule to judge a Minister by we may cry up the Quakers and other who are unsound in Fundamentals for such have the great Assernablies ¶ 3 Other are taken with Tones 3 Sort. and Accents as if the life and power of Preaching lay in Points and Tittles for if a Sermon be Substantial yet if not Tonical it s to them a Toy Or let the same sounding Sermon be delivered
to fall into the belly of Hell ¶ 2) Mr L consuted Mr L who keeps Never a day Sabbath but slights the Sabbath as Ceremonial is to consider 1 The Sabbath was not given first to the Jews or seed of Abram as Ceremonies were Sabbath was made for Man but it was given to Adam as a Publick person for him and his posterity to be obeyed whether man stood or fell and this in Innocency before Ceremonies were in use And though Adam was not subject to wearinesse before sin yet a Sabbath was suitable for him as a Sacred cessation from his calling So God gave Adam a Sabbath and Blessed it i e to make it a blessing to him that kept it and Sanctified it †Gen. 2.3 i e he set it apart for holy use 2 The Sabbath was Certainly observed from Adam to the Law on Sinai though not much expressed in Genesis which is but a very short Epitomy of 2000 years Acts in which time many excellent acts were done which are omitted and not recorded Abrahams observation of the Sabbath day is without dispute because he is so commended for keeping Gods commandments * Ch. 26.5 And that the Sabbath was known to Israel before Sinai you may See †Exo. 16.23 the breach of which command is counted as the breach of all * Ver. 28. 3 This command for a Sabbath is one of the Ten delivered on Sinai before Ceremonies Josephus's Sabbatical river that runs six dayes and rests one will rise up in judgement with Mr L and Mr A. and wrote on two tables of Stone and put into the Ark as no Ceremony ever was Mr L playes the Papist who takes away one and leaves but nine 4 Christs precept for Prayer to prevent flight on the Sabbath which flight was to be 40 years after Ceremonies ceased proves the Sabbath no Ceremony Pray that your flight be not in the Winter q d that will wrong your Bodies neither on the Sabbath †Mat. 24.20 q d that will wrong your Souls Mr A and Mr L are brethren both under a 7-fold deceit to undeceive them let us put them together again to consider viz God in wisdom did so order the change of the Day that though it occasioned two Sabbaths to come together yet there was not Two in a week nor a week without One to signifie there must be nor more nor lesse than One Sabbath in One Week Fath. What say you of Mr S and of the change of the Sabbath Day Min. As for Mr S who denies the change of the Day The chang of the Sabbath I say Though the Change of the Sabbath be not founded out with a Trumpet on Sinai as the Command of the Sabbath was yet have we so much in Scripture as may Satisfie concerning it They that say Give me a plain precept for a practice or I will not regard it may mean Honestly but they speak Ignorantly For if from a Text we can draw a direct sound Inference to prove a practice that being the Sense of Scripture is to be regarded as Scripture it self The sense of Scripture we are to seek as Silver and if this be not to be regarded its vain to use any Scriptural Reason or Argument in discourse as Paul used to do * Act. 17.2 Ch. 18.4 19. Ch. 24.25 or to Study and expound the Scripture by preaching Then put a Boy into a pulpit to read a Chapter for what other Sermon can an able Minister make if nothing but the very words of Scripture must be delivered But let us see some Scriptural proof for this practice ¶ 1 The stone the builders refused O T proof i e for a foundation for Faith and Practice is become the head †Ps 118.22 of the work of Redemption he hath laid the foundation and finished it by his Resurrection This is the day the Lord hath made i e the day of the week on which Jesus rose we will rejoyce and be glad in it * Ver. 24. i e to foresee it by Faith if we live not to see it by Sight Yet prayes pathetically and speedily for it Save now I beseech the O Lord †Ver. 25. God is the Lord which hath shewed us light * Ver. 27. i e to foresse this Day ¶ 2 Thus saith the Lord my salvation is near to come †Isa 56.1 i e Actually it was come before Virtually Blessed is the man that doth This and the son of man that layeth Hold on it that keepth the Sabbath * Ver. 2. i e a Sabbath in remembrance of Christ's Actual redemption ¶ 3 When these 7 dayes are expired i e Eight is a Sabbatical and Vital Number by the death and Resurrectiof Jesus it i e the Sabbath shall be upon the Eight day and so forward the first day added to seven is the eight day and I will accept you saith the Lord God †Ezek. 43.27 ¶ 1 After Jesus's resurrection he said to his Disciples All power is given to me in Heaven and in Earth * Mat. 28.18 which implies power to change the Sabbath And Christ gave them Commission to teach the Nations to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them †Ver. 19 20. i e nor more nor lesse N B If Jesus did not ordain the first day Sabbath the Disciples by their practice have taught England and other Nations to observe a New Sabbath of their Own invention ¶ 2 The Disciples assembled on the first day and shut the doors for fear of the Jews i e because it was in opposition to their seventh day Sabbath and Christ came and Sealed their New Sabbath with his sweet presence * Joh. 20.19 20. ¶ 2 Jesus was seen of the Apostles 40 dayes speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God †Act. 1.3 of which the Sabbath is One and none of the least ¶ 4 The Disciples came together to break bread upon the first day of the week * Chap. 20.7 in remembrance of Jesus for whose sake they observed that day ¶ 5 The congregation and Collection of the Churches of Galatia and Corinth upon the first day of the week was by the Apostles order †1 Cor. 16.1 2. to these at Corinth by writing and saith he the things which I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord * Ch. 14.37 ¶ 6 John being in Patmos said I was in the spirit on the Lords day †Rev. 1.10 A desert Island in the Aegean Sea He does not give the day this name but the day on which he was in the spirit he Signifies by its name so well know to the Churches to whom he wrote i e the Lords day so called upon the same account as the Supper is called the Lords Supper viz because Jesus who is Lord of all did institute both to be kept in remembrance of him ¶ 7. The first day is
for his Author I leave it with you to look That Jesus was virtually slain as soon as Adam sinned Ideny not no doubt he undertook for man before man was †Pro. 8.23 Rev. 3.14 but that Jesus's death which was 4000 years after mans fall must needs be on that day and hour of the week on which man fell I reject as ridiculous If such had said Jesus Rose on the week day and hour that Adam Fell it had carried a fairer colour If men must search as far as the foundation of the world for a foundation to falsifie the day of Christs death it is pity they are not better busied But if Adam's fall on the Sixth day be a proof for Christs death on the Sixth day let us lay aside the day of Christs death a little and begin with Adams fall ¶ 1 Adam was a glorious piece of Gods creation Adam's Fall his Soul and Body was an Epitomy of Heaven and Earth and an house for God to inhabit To say Adam fell on the Sixth day is to liken God his Maker to a foolish Builder who lets the house fall under his hand before he can finish it ¶ 2 It seems by Sacred Scripture that neither Adam nor Angels fell on the Sixth day for in the conclusion of the Creation at the Close of the Sixth day God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good and the evening and the morning were the Sixth day * Gen. 1.31 There is the Close up of the whole Creation complete ¶ 3 As it seems by Scripture Adam fell not on the Sixth day so it seems by Scripture he fell on the Seventh day and that is my perswasion And I will produce no other proof for it than the same Scripture your Author brings to prove Adam fell on the Sixth day viz that Hebrew Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam in honour did not abide a night †Ps 49.12 It seems he fell that first night which was on the first Sabbath day natural which began at Even ¶ Note Satans old enmity against the Sabbath Satans enmity at the Sabbath 1 He mystically murdered Adam and all his posterity on the first Sabbath that ever was 2 The first Bodily murder we know of in the world Satan acted by the hand of his servant Cain on the Sabbath day and for a Sabbath dayes service as I suppose by this Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the end of dayes * Gen. 4.3 the Seventh day was the end of dayes for there never was more than 7 dayes 3 Satan sets his Servants a work many wayes to break the Sabbath And this enmity is not onely against Gods Sabbath but also against mans Soul In indignation against both this great governour drives on as if he would drive all before him into Hell fire At his command they curse swear whore pot pipe prate sport work play walk at pleasure all which paths lead to the Lake of fire The Sabbath is spent as if it was the Devils day and not Gods day It is the Devils great Trading day for Hell and the wickeds great Treasuring day for Wrath for sin on Other dayes does not fill the Vials of Gods wrath so fast as it doth on This day Adde to all Satans provoking his servants to persecute Saints on Sabbath dayes for the Service of God disturbing them in their meetings haling them to Prisions for using the liberty Christ hath given them 4 Satan is very busie with Saints on Sabbath dayes He tempts them to work and buy and sell when the Sabbath is begun in the Evening To lay in Bed in the morning To trifle away time when they are Up. To talk of controversies Saints both sleep and wake to Satan and impertineneies to absent from Sermons to Sleep to him at Sermons to Wake to him at Sermons by wandring thoughts a thousands wayes Here you may see by what spirit they are acted that are opposite to the Sabbath day Mr A and Mr L did not tell you they came with a message from the Devil yesterday to disturb you in your duty But let us proceed to the day of Christs death ¶ Here let me premise a few Cautions Cautions premised 1 Do not reflect on any thing that seems improbable for it may be True though at first it seem false Nor any thing that seems impertinent q d to what purpose is this prove the Point for it may be to some purpose though it presently appear not 2 This being an intricate point for its clearing some Scriptures must be opened and some reconciled which cannot be done with few words in which I must crosse my Self for I affect to contract things in few words 3 It being new and contrary to the commmon Creed you will Object your All against it your Objections you must hear orderly answered or it will be in vain to offer them 4 Be very punctual in observing the day of the month I shall have occasion to speak of with its beginning and ending else I speak into the Air. If I digresse or go forward or back ward from any Day or Thing before I have done with it care not to carry it in your head for I shall bring you to it again In a word before I proceed resolve to hear all or none at all Fath. I will hear what you have to say Min. To introduce the day of Christs death Of the day of Christs Death I must begin with its lively Type viz The Lords Passe-over This from its first institution was on the 14 day of the first month Abib or Nisan according to that Sacred account from the time of Israel's deliverance out of Egypt †Ex. 12.2 The Paschal lamb was to be taken up on the 10 day * Ver. 3. and kept till the 14 day †Ver. 6. probably that the sight of it might occasion Soul preparation And it was to be killed in the Evening * Ver. 6. Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 between the two Evenings i e say some Sun-set and Dark night Short work though they eat it in hast I do not think they prepared it in Post-hast Fath. What 2 Evens else had they Min. The division of the day by hours was not used when the Passeover was commanded the word hour except in Daniel is not in the O T. But they divided the day into 3 parts called Morning Noon Even †Ps 55.17 from 6 to 10 was Morning from 10 to 2 was Noon from 2 to 6 at night was Even The beginning and end of this last part were the two Evens between which the Lamb was killed and it was eat at night * Ex. 12.8 Our Lord Jesus who came to fulfill the Law kept this Passeover according to Law he commanded his Disciples to kill and prepare it upon the 14 day and he eat it with them at Night when the 15 day began †Mat. 26.17
an holy Convocation * Exo. 12.15 16. These were Ceremonial Sabbaths and commonly called Sabbaths But it s the first day of the 7 which falls under our consideration viz the 15 day of the month which you may see called a Sabbath †Lev. 23.11 15. N B THIS is the Sabbath which the Jews made to follow Jesus's Funeral and which you suppose to be the 7 day Sabbath Fath. Suppose Ay well let that passe at present Then it seems this Sabbath should have been that day on which Jesus died Min. It s well observed and by this I see you observe what I say The 15 day of the month on which Jesus died was the day but they deferred it to the day following and called the 15 day preparation day * Jo. 19.42 Fath. Why did they so Min. As when a fixt Fair falls on Sunday Jews Translation the Countrey keeps it on Munday so if this Passeover Sabbath fixed on the 15 day of the month fell on some certain dayes of the week the Jews had a Custome to Translate it to the next day by their Rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Badu †Godwyn of which one Eleazar is said to be the Author who lived 350 years before Christs Birth * Hospinian de Orig fest P6 N B That this Sabbath was thus translated a man can no more deny than he can deny the Day to Spring or the Sun to Shine Fath. I cannot deny it but then I believe it was translated from the 6 day to the 7 day and so a double Sabbath Ceremonial and Moral and on that account called a high day †Joh. 19.31 Min. That I deny and this I affirm The high Sabbath no Sabbath that as to the Day it was no Sabbath at all Ceremonial nor Moral but one of their own invention Hence sometime it hath no Sabbatical Title e g John speaking of the day of Jesus's death saith It was the preparation of the Passeover * Joh. 19.14 it s no more but Passeover Matthew speaking of this high Sabbath calls it The next day that followed the day of Preparation †Mat. 27.62 Strange a Sabbath a Double Sabbath a High day and no other Title but the next day Thus God is pleased to drop words to see what notice men will take of them Fath. HOW no Sabbath why then is it called a High Day Min. The right day was a high day for on it Israel went out of Egypt with an high hand * Exo. 14.8 Why a High Sabbath And it was for a Monument of their miraculous deliverance e g This day shall be unto you for a Memorial †Ch. 12.14 Remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt * Ch. 13.3 And thou shalt shew thy son c †Ver. 8. And it shall be for a Sign unto thee upon thine hand and for a Memorial between thine eyes * Ver. 9. And many such Solemn injunctions to remember this day with wonder viz That Pharoh who stood so many a Storm like a person Plague-Proof should rise up in the night †Ch. 12.30 and call for Moses and Aaron and say Go serve the Lord as Ye have said * Ver. 31. also take your Flocks and your Herds as Ye have said and be gone and blesse me also †Ver. 32. That six hundred thousand men besides women and children should be pulled out of Prison from two hundred years Tyranny and all in One night a night INDEED to be much observed to the Lord * Ver. 42. Upon this account that Sabbath day was an High day †Joh. 19.31 Good Josiah and some few Princely Persons spent at this Passeover oxen bullocks and small cattel forty one thousand 41400 cattel killed and four hundred * 2 Chro. 35.7 8 9. this was an High day And whether they kept the right day or the wrong it was all one in their esteem they pretended Reason for its Translation And in case of necessity Hezekiah translated this Passeover to the Second month †2 Chro. 30.2 and in such case there was an allowance * Num. 9.6 to 11. N B This temporal deliverance on the 15 day was a Type of Eternal deliverance by Christs death on the same day of the year And though this temporal deliverance was long before Christs death yet it was by Vertue of Christs death who was virtually slain before the First Passeover was killed This then should have been an High day on Christs account but him the carnal Jews laid Low they killed Christ on the Right day and kept the Passeover Sabbath on the Wrong Fath. Blesse us no Sabbath but the Scripture calls it a Sabbath Min. So does the Scripture call the Devil Samuel 5 times in few words †1 Sam. 28.12 to 20. Satan called Samuel and does not once tell us it was the Devil In calling the Devil Samuel God tells us what Saul and the Witch called him and leaves it with us to Judge whether a wicked Silly Witch had power to bring Samuel Soul and Body from Heaven and Earth So in calling that a Sabbath God tells us what the Jews called it and leaves it with us to Judge whether Jesus or the Jews were likest to break Gods Law If that was a C Sabbath not translated Jesus was a Sinner not a Saviour Fath. I know not what to say of the translation of the day But for Jesus's dying on the 6 day the Scripture is clear besides invincible Arguments I have yet to bring The Scripture saith Jesus rose on the first day you dare not deny it and though it does not say Jesus died on Fryday or the 6 day yet in saying he died the day before the Sabbath and rose in the end of the Sabbath * Mat. 28.1 I think it s as plain as if the 6 day had been named Min. Mistake not the State of our difference We differ not about the day of Jesus's Resurrection except the Time of the day viz you for the Morning the midst of the day I for the Even the beginning of the day But our difference is in the day of Jesus's Death you say it was on the 6 day I deny it and do plainly tell you your proof by Inference from Scripture is no better than a Blind Conjecture Let me hear your invincible Arguments also Fath. I have read in learned Authors The R d Bp of for One. that the two dayes which bounded the feast of 7 weeks viz the first day and the 50 day fell that year both on the first day of the week That the first day of the 50 followed the Passeover Sabbath is as clear as the Sun †Lev. 23.11 15. seeing Jesus rose on that first day and lay dead on the 7 day and died the day before it s also as clear as the Sun that he died on the 6 day Moreover saith my Author
the week he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease * Ver. 27. this One Week was an Ordinary week of 7 dayes the Midst of which is the Fourth day or Middle day The time Jesus lay Dead having 3 dayes before it and 3 dayes after it all which of these 3 last Jesus lay dead So you may see though the Week-day of Jesus's death so long since be not known to this Day yet this day was foretold before Christs Birth by the Scriptures of Truth in which God drops words in the Dark to see if men will feel after him †Act. 17.26 27. Thus I have given you the Testimony of Gods two Testaments to prove my Opinion Fath. I confesse this is more than I looked for but if Christ lay so long dead it will occasion some more Questions Min. Bring out them Questions and let nothing remain to broile at bottom Fath. If there was a day between the 2 Sabbaths why did the Jews go to Pilate for an Order to secure the Sepulchre on a high Sabbath * Mat. 27.62 and not stay till next day Min. As necessity hath no Law so necessity hath no Holy-dayes Necessitas non habet Ferias What cannot be done Before nor deferred till After may be done on the Sabbath It could not be done Before their crowns were so full of concern to get Christ crucified there wanted room for that consideration And they had been Up the night before that day Too but having Slept upon it and settled their wicked wits now Sir we remember that that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 And it cannot be omitted till to morrow q d So he may be stole away to night by his deceitfull Disciples * Ver. 64. Fath. If there was a day for work between the Sabbaths why did not them zealous women bring their Spices on that day but stay till after the 7 day Min. Why lay the Popish Lords in the Tower why the Prisoners in Newgate Fath. Because they cannot get out Min. No more could they get in The Jews made the sepulchre Sure sealing the Stone and setting a Watch †Ver. 66. It was made fast for 3 dayes to prove Christ an Impostor Fath. Why did they stay till morning and not come at Even at the 3 dayes end Min. Why do not fearfull folk who are scared at their own Shadows go into Church-yards among graves at midnight Fath. Indeed because they dare not Min. No more durst they go into a Tomb at night to the Dead Frights make folks fearfull it had been a Terrible time with them When they came in the Morning they feared to go in Mary stooped down and looked in * Joh. 20.11 and the Disciple whom Jesus loved came Running to the Sepulchre yet went not He in †V. 2 4 5. Fath. How does your Opinion accord with this expression he rose again the third day * 1 Cor. 15.4 Min. This phrase the third day is most miserably mistaken if thus taken A miserable mistake viz Friday 1 Saturday 2 Sunday 3 as if the day of Christs Death and the day of his Resurrection were 2 of the 3 dayes for neither is the One or the Other any of that number But the third day must be understood by these Standing Rules viz the Son of man shall be 3 dayes and 3 nights in the heart of the earth †Mat. 12.40 The Son of man must be killed and After 3 dayes rise again * Mar. 8.31 Christ's enemies could remember his words though his friends forget them viz We remember that deceiver said After 3 dayes I will rise again †Mat. 27.63 The Angel said to the women He is risen as He said * Chap. 28.5 6. i e when the dayes and nights were ended which he prefixed On the first day said Cleopas to Christ To day is the third day since these things were done †Lu. 24.21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is a dark Text and thus to be translated To day the third day is Gone since these things were done * PAS LEX pag 43. Esther fasted 3 dayes night and day †Est 4.16 yet she is said to put on her Royal apparell to approach to the King on the third day * chap. 5.1 completo die tertio Junius i e at end of the third day Thus my Opinion does accord with the Word but how does Gods word and You agree from the beginning of your count viz Friday at Even to the time when Jesus rose is but a Night and a Day and from the beginning to the end i e the next morning is but 2 Nights and a Day how did Jesus fulfill his word Fath. Synechdochically I suppose Jesus was buried a little bit before the Sixth day ended and I count That for a day and that he lay a moment on the first day morning and I count That for a day Min. Yet here is but 3 dayes and 2 nights here is not a Bit of a third night Fath. Then the night preceeding the Sixth day must make it up Min. And can you imagine this to be Christs meaning In all this you do little better than say Jesus the man of Sorrow Jested Joqued and Juggled with his death I wonder in what Darknesse we over-look this word NIGHT If Jesus had said The Son of man shall lay 3 Dayes dead you had some Plea for your Opinion for Day sometime signifies Day without Night and so Part of a day natural but it is 3 dayes and 3 nights And I would know where in all the Bible this phrase day night does once signifie Day without Night or Night without Day except in Heaven or Hell But your First day as you call a Bit is without Night and your Last day as you call a Night is without Day By your Synechdochical rule you may argue that Jesus lay 3 Years or 3 Ages dead for Day figuratively signifies a Year or an Age. A Hellhinge A most miserable mistake This taking Scriptures Figuratively which should be taken Literally is the Hinge on which them poor deceived people called Quakers turn all into confusion and overturn all the Fundamental truths of the Gospel viz The birth life death burial resurrection ascension intercession second coming of Christ the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment yea Heaven and Hell and all Figurative and Within †O! Great Gulf Monstrum Horrendum This is a piece of the Pride of that Humble people who count the Common literal sense of Texts too Low for them Fath. How may we know when a Scripture is to be taken in a Figurative Sense Min. When a Literal sense is absurd or contrary to the Analogie of Faith or good morality of Life e g To eat the flesh of Jesus to drink his blood to cut off a right hand to pluck out a right eye To take such
are of kinne to that cursed King who cut the Roll and cast it into the fire * Jer. 36.23 but it was rescribed and many like words added †Ver. 32. if man will diminish the Preceptive part God will adde to the Penal part of his Precept There were desperate Antinomians in Job's dayes e g He stretcheth out his hand against God * Job 15.25 Take this literally and so did Julian the Apostate when wounded in battell and bleeding to death he stretched out his hand to throw his blood up to Heaven Julian against Jesus saying in indignation to Jesus Theod l 3. Cap. 20. O Galilean thou hast overcome me And the Amalekites who when they could catch a Jew and kill him would cut off the part that received the Seal of the Covenant and with an out-stretched hand throw it up towards Heaven Jerom. with indignation against God for that institution Take it metaphorically and so doth he stretch out his hand against God who useth his Wits and Words against God as the Antinomian when he argueth against Gods law A man should not lift up hand word or thought against God but hand heart tongue and all For God but he strengthens himself against the Almighty †Job 15.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shaddai Omnipotency it self who can do all things and yet what can the Almighty do for them yet he silled their houses with good things * Chap. 22. 17 18. and yet what can the Almighty do for them Reason will tell a man the Almighty can do All things Reason differs the spirit of a Man from the spirit of a Beast what unreasonable blind beast is this then that thus argues If the Almighty can do nothing For he can do nothing Against a man and that I presume is their hope viz the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil * Zeph. 1.12 He runs upon the bosses of his bucklers †Job 15.26 alluding to the fierce assault of a Souldier The buckler is Defensive armour the bosse Offensive i e a Sharp Spike if a man come close it kills him God's Buckler is the Preceptive part of his law by which he defends his honour his Bosse is the Curse threat or Penal part by which he kills them that break his command e g Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge there is the Buckler in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die * Gen. 2.17 there is the Bosse Adam runs upon it and dies for it Thus Job's Antinomian or ours his Cousin German He will offer violence to God and his Law with Gospel in his mouth He runs upon him even on his neck †Job 15.26 He will try a twich with God He would pull God out of Heaven and throw the world out at Window A Saint playes the man against Satan but he playes the Devil against God who makes his Law void Here is sin of a Size what blows big enough for sin So big it will puzzle an Apostle and a Philosopher too to define it Fath. What may be the Reason of our Antimian aversnesse to the Law of God Min. 1 Because of its Antiquity 1 R. and their Novelty They have an evil eye upon the O T for its Names-sake Upon this account they may slight God himself who is the Ancient of dayes †Dan. 7.9 And on this account they may slight the Gospel for that is as old as the Law as no doubt they will do when a New one comes up And on the same account they may slight their Own opinion for it 's as old as Adam's fall Adam was an Antinomian when he brake the Law It 's older than Adam's fall the Devil was an Antinomian when he tempted Adam to be of the like Religion ¶ 2 Because of its Purity 2 R. It is a sacred divine perfect pur * Ps 19.8 holy spiritual Law †Rom. 7.12 14. It binds hands feet tongue heart and All to holinesse Antinomians are Libertine who love not to be bound by the bonds of Gods holy commands but a David loves the law upon this account thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it * Ps 119.140 ¶ 3 Because of their own Obscurity 3 R. and ignorance of its excellency That excellent office of the law viz to wound for Sin and send to a Saviour they are Strangers to They never saw their own sins in Gods Looking-glasse but other mens sins in the Devils Prospecitive-glasse Simile The young Blackmoor Simile and so are like the Black boy that fled from his Black father to his White mother not considering his Own blacknesse Antinomians slight the law as the Indians did their Gold when they knew not its worth And as a Natural man doth Gods gold i e Simile grace which is to him as drosse And as the Jews did Jesus not discerning his Beauty though altogether lovely †Cant. 5.10 The very Name of Jesus was hatefull to the Jews they could not call him by it but this fellow * M. 26.61 that deceiver †Ch. 27.63 and the Carpenter * Mar. 6.3 so is the very word Law contemptible to our Antinomians But this is madnesse with a Witnesse for without law what right hath a man to any good viz Temporal Spiritual or Eternal What right to house goods land without law or what Safety are lands or life in without law what right to Christ Heaven eternal life without law It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse IS righteousnesse i e by the law of Works It is by Law that Christs righteousnesse is a Christians righteousnesse i e by the law of Grace †Jer. 23.6 It is by Law that Christians are Saved i e the law of Faith and it 's by Law that sinners are Damned i e by the law of Works God imputeth righteousnesse by law and Saveth and God imputeth sin by law and Damneth and is LAW to be slighted He that breaks one breaks all * Ja. 2.10 Break one break all the breach of the ten commandments brings a man 10000 Talents into Gods debt by Law and is LAW to be slighted Little England hath a great deal of Rome in it and seeing darknesse is now a dayes so desirable it's to be wished these persons wish not for Popery and Tyranny who do so disgust this good word LAW for if a man would have laws against Theft nulled no doubt that man desires to be a Thief and so of any other such like desire to destroy Law It is no wonder these persons are in darknesse for they will shut their eyes against Scripture-light if it be contrary to their own conceptions Simile They are like the Elephant who makes the water Muddy that he may not see his Deformity They will search Scripture for what seems to suit with their sinfull minds but would bury the opposite truth in
oblivion They bring their opinions to the Word not to be discovered but covered and maintained and Role them through the Bible to see what Mosse they can gather to cloath them with Scripture with Scripture they will Not compare but run away with a Piece of a Scripture as the Devil did †Ps 91.11 Mat. 4.6 If these persons were Indians they were objects of pity but if they will shut their eyes in a land of light let them go into the land of darknesse as persons to whom is referved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever * Jud. 13. ¶ 4 Because of their Impurity and wickednesse 4 R. This cursed Doctrine of disowning the Law comes from a corrupt Heart and by such it shall be drunk Up and swallowed Down with delight Such are glad of a gospel that gives them liberty from Piety to live in Iniquity They love to hear a smooth Sermon to day to see a Play to morrow to go to a Dancing-school the next day Chrysostom's saying of Dancing though Chrysostome sayes Where dancing is the Devil is And to go Gaudy in their Garments for the sake of a little cursed credit among the carnal and this at Such a time when God is calling so loud for Sackcloth and Ashes And to neglect their childrens Souls when Papists are coming to cut their Throats and send them to Hell to howl there against their Parents for their Lawlesse life To say the law is no rule of life is for the Devil to speak with a Tongue of flesh enough to horrifie a mans heart to hear it Such in effect say Idolatry swearing Sabbath-breaking killing stealing whoring are no sin No wonder if such fall foul and become vessels for the Devil to empty his Excrements into until they are full and flow over A Story too true I knew a person Anno 1666 then a Preacher who in opposition to the use of the law in preaching said I hate the law of God as Poyson after which this preacher turned adulterer even when he had an amiable wife of his own What wonder it may be the man did it to bear his testimony against the law of God which he used to complain of as the cause of the corruptions of his heart God will one day roar like a Lion against these Rebels and rend the caul of their heart †Ho 11.10 Chap. 13.8 when he assaults ehm q d Was I 40 dayes and 40 nights preparing a Law for you to loath slight snuffe at and spit out your venome against Let such expect the Antitype of the 40 dayes deluge for their portion to last as long as everlasting N B They that forsake God's Law forsake God himself Rehoboam forsook the law of the Lord * 2 Chro. 12.1 what then Thus saith the Lord Ye have forsaken Me †Ver. 5. To the same purpose is this saying Ye are gone from mine Ordinances return unto Me * Mal. 3.7 q d In going from mine Ordinances ye are gone from Me. Some wicked men own God in Words and deny him in Works †Tit. 1.16 Antinomians deny God in Words and overpasse the deeds of the wicked * Jer. 5.28 Religion I value it not with the dust of my Shoes which I shake off as a witnesse against them It is worse to make the Law void than to make Heaven and Earth void †Luk. 16.17 and he that had rather overturn heaven and earth than his own rotten opinion I fear will never find a place in Heaven nor on Earth long but in Hell ere long ¶ 5 Because of the Judgments of God which Antinomians are under 5 R. and they are two-fold 1 The judgment of Delusion for their transgression They have chosen their own wayes and their soul delighteth in their abominations I also will choose their Delusions * Isa 66.3 4. They received not the love of of the truth that they might be Saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they all might be Damned †2 Thess 2.10 11 12. If once persons are made drunk with the wine of the wrath of God in the cup of an imaginary gospel of liberty then the Law is spewed out and cast behind the back like a mad man Simile who cares not if he straw the street with Pearls 2 The judgment of Prophanation Sometimes God punisheth Sin with Sin i e one sin with another for sin he gives up to sin for the practice and Pleasure of sin God gives up to the Power of sin this is the way to prepare for the greatest plague in Hell Better be under all Job's boils and Pharoh's plagues and all the Tyrants in Turkey An unparallel'd plague than under this judgment of the Powr of sin though it be to the sinner a Pleasure ¶ To these judgments of Delusion and Prophanation is linked the judgment of eternal Destruction Man chooses his abomination God chooses his Delusion and God will choose his Destruction Let no man think to choose his work and his wages his sin and his sorrow if man will choose his Sin God will choose his Sword and sharpen it for the Slaughter to cut in pieces the Sinner * Ezek. 21.10 Fath. It 's a sad case to be in I told Mr A a piece of my mind one day and he was angry and said I had learned by Lesson of my Legal Preachers Min. Angry Silly folly what kind of angry folly is this for a man to shew me a piece of Pitch and be angry because I say it 's Black Legal Preacher They that call a Minister Legal Preacher because he uses the Law lawfully know neither Law nor Gospel and had need begin at great A. If a man be Practical he will seem to be Legal though he be indeed Evangelical Holy E Hunt That holy man at Hitchin E Hunt when I first knew him and observed how much he delighted in Gods law and did in heart and life adhere to holinesse I feared he did rest in his own righteousnesse But when he came to declare his Conversion and his Opinion in point of Justification he made it appear that he trusted in Christ only for That and that he was in Practice an excellent Person The Lord make Me and Mine and You and Yours like him And let Mr A say what he will I say a mans spirit thoughts words works are No more to be approved than they are Legal Legality a glory a mans legality is his glory which is to the Antinomian a Mystery Fath. Mr. A saith he hath fulfilled the law in Christ hath Justification and Sanctification alike in Christ and needs none in himself in heart or life which he saith is to Me a Mystery Min. A mystery of iniquity of which let me make a discovery Righteousnesse for Justification is resident in Christ Righteousnesse for Sanctification is resident in the Christian Mr A saith they are both