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A91419	A treatise of the Sabbath. Wherein is contained the time of the first institution of it. The manner how the first Sabbath was ordained. Whereunto is annexed A treatise of holy time: and therein the great question about the beginning and ending of the Lords Day is largely discussed: and in both sundry cases of conscience are handled, and many texts of scripture are opened, the practice of the churches in New England are inquired into / by William Pynchon, late of New England.	Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Pynchon, William, 1590-1662. Holy time.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4314; Thomason E816_5; Thomason E816_6; ESTC R210987	130,807	159

her the new name Hevah his faith is fully evident by this because by this new name he did so clearly distinguish her present new Spiritual condition from her corrupted condition Immediatly before this not only the Woman but Adam also were Spiritually dead in corruption and sin but it pleased God to take such a speedy course for their humiliation and conviction and for their reconciliation and conversion by the Seed of the Woman that Adam thereupon in testimony both of his own faith and of his Wifes faith did by way of excellency call her Hevah and so he changed her name from Isha to Hevah that is to say from woman to life And thus we have seen how the Seed of the Woman Christ Jesus did honour his first Parents with the life of faith and as hee did honour them so doubtlesse he did continue to honour all his Natural Parents after the flesh sooner or latter with the like honour of the life of faith and therefore they do ill that make the several wicked Kings of Solomons house in Matth. 1. to bee his Fathers after the flesh Christ came not of Solomons house as the Apostate Jews and some unadvised Christians do hold but he comes of Solomons brother called Nathan and all his Natural Fathers are laid down in Luke 3. and I make no question but he did honour every one of them with the grace of true faith according to his first example and this may teach all good children to honour their Parents with their best abilities Reas 3. It is evident that Adam and Eve were re-created in The conversion of our first Parents is recorded in the Womans enmity against the Serpent and his Seed the day of their Creation and Fall by the word enmity against the Serpent I will saith God put enmity between thee and the Woman At the first the Woman looked upon the Serpent as a faithful and diligent servant for her good and that the Angel that gave it speech was a good Angel and therefore the Woman was in great amity with them and with the Serpents fair and specious perswasions but now God told the Devil in the Serpent that he would from this time forth put enmity instead ●f amity betwixt him and the Woman and betwixt both their Seed● This enmity between the D●vil and the Woman ariseth from two contrary Principles 1 The D●vils enmity against the Woman is because by her re-creation and reconciliation which was effected by her Seed C●●ist he was disappointed of his Head-plot which was to bring the whole race of Man under his power and dominion 2 The Womans enmity against Satan is manifest●d by seeking the ruine of his dominion by advancing the Kingdom and power of Christ in her Soul by getting an assurance of her Redemption from Satans H●ad-plot reconciliation with God pardon of sin and power against corrupt aff●ctions for time to come This holy qualification of enmity which God by his Spirit had now put into Eves Soul against Satans Head-plot is another sure note of her sound conversion which was eff●cted and brought to passe in the cool of the self-same day in which Adam was created and fell D●ubtlesse the Woman did now say in her heart as David once said in Psalm 139. Do not I O Jehovah hate them that hate thee and am not I grieved for those that rise up against thee with perfection of hatred do I hate them they are to me for enemies Psal 139. 21 22. But though the woman was now converted reconciled and justified from the condemning power of her sins yet she was not freed from temporal afflictions and chastisements and therefore it pleased God to lay upon her certain degrees of punishment for her humiliation and upon all her sex for her sake First because she was first in the Transgression God made her desires subject to her husband Gen. 3. 16. Secondly God made her and all her Sex to bring forth children in pain and sorrow But notwithstanding these degrees of her humiliation God hath honoured the woman with a certain special honour above the man because Jesus Christ the Mediator was conceived and born of the seed of the woman alone without the help of man and therefore Adam might not reproach his wise because she was first in the Transgression but he must and did honour her because she was to be the chief outwa●d instrument of Christs Incarnation And secondly because she was made an heir as well as Adam of the promise of life by faith 1 Pet. 3. 7. and in that respect there is now no difference between the male and the female but all are one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. And the woman also may comfort her self in Christ notwithstanding her painful travell in Child-birth that she shall be saved by the promised seed of the woman if she continue in faith and love and sanctification 2 Tim. 2. 15. Conclusion Having in this Chapter made it evident by three Reasons as I conceive that Adam and Eve were Re-created and effectually converted from Sathan to God in the day of their Creation and Fall It follows by good consequence That God did not ordain the Sabbath in the time of Adams Innocency but after his Fall and Re-creation by the Promised Seed CHAP. III. Proving that Adam and Eve were Re-created before the seventh day namely in the latter part of the sixth day I Will labour to make this evident by a double inference 1 From the word Host and Finished Gen. 2. 1. 2 From the word Had made and Finished Gen. 2. 2. But for the better discerning of the said Inferences I will first labour to explain the text in Gen. 2. 1 2 3. Vers 1. And the Heavens and the Earth were Finished and all the Host of them Vers 2. And before the seventh day God had finished the work that he had made And he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had made Verse 3. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he had rested from all his works which God had created and made Two things must be marked for the better understanding of these words 1 Touching the translation of the word Before in vers 2. 2 Touching the circumstance of time namely after how much time or Chronology of story the second and third verses concerning the Institution of the Sabbath must be placed 1 Touching the translation of the word Before the seventh day vers 2. 1 The Seventy Translators translate it thus In the sixth day God ended all his works they put the sixth day into the Text instead of the seventh day and this they did lest the Heathens at whose request that Translation was made should think that God ended his works in the seventh day 2 Therefore to prevent this and such like grosse mistakes I have made choice to follow Mr. Broughtons correction of the Geneva Translation where instead of In the seventh day he reads Before

had tasted of the forbidden fruit she reached out her hands and gave some of it to her husband and he did eat without any suspicion of hurt from her that was given to him to be a meet helper and her act of giving was prevalent with him because instead of telling him that death was in her eating she used words of perswasion as it is most evident because he is said to hearken unto the voice of his wife Gen. 3. 17. and then the eyes of them both were opened and then they knew that they were naked afore this they knew that they were naked without cloaths and yet they were not ashamed because their created nakednesse was covered and adorned with pure created qualities Gen. 3 7. Gen. 2. 25. But now the case of their nakednesse was altered by the justice of God for Gods determinate sentence was In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death and this death was formally executed upon them according to the time and manner threatned and now Adam knew what evil was and what death was experimentally as the fallen Angels did for now they were made naked and bare of their pure created qualities A digression to shew that the death threatned in Gen. 2. 17. was executed The death threatned in Gen. 2. 17. was executed on mans nature in three degrees on mans nature in three degrees Consider that the first Covenant was made with Adam concerning mans nature in general as I have formerly noted and accordingly did God execute that death upon Adams nature as it was the original of mans nature in general I Therefore as Paul speaketh They were deprived of the glorious Image of God Rom. 3. 23. And this deprivation saith M. Perkins was inflicted by God as a deserved punshment for the sin of Adam and See Perkins on the Creed p. 162. See P. Martyr in Rom 5. and Bucan in his Com. pl. p. 104. this losse of Gods Image saith Peter Martyr was from the justice of God and I find it commonly held by other eminent Divines that God for the sin of Adam took away his created perfections from Adam as he took away his spirit of Government from Soul because he spared Agag against Gods positive Command 1 Sam. 16. 14. for they were not yet confirmed and therefore they were but lent him in case he disobeyed but the Graces of Gods Spirit which Christ hath purchased for the Re-creation of the Elect after Gods Image cannot now be utterly lost by the commission of many sins because they are purchased to be confirmed to them and not to fail untill they come to the fruition of an eternal Paradise in heaven The Image of God wherewith Adams Nature was adorned would have kept him and all his Posterity for ever from death if he had but first eaten of the Tree of Life but because he did first eat of the forbidden Fruit he was deprived of Gods Image And then secondly Death in Sin fell upon his Nature When the Souls of men are Created and placed in their Bodies saith Mr. Perkins God forsakes them not in regard of their See Perkins on the Creed p. 162. substance or faculties of their Soul but only in respect of his own Image whereof the Soul is deprived And he asketh this question How can the Soul dye the second Death His answer is That the Soul dyeth not by being utterly abolished but because it is as though it were not and because it ceaseth to be in respect of Righteousnesse and Fellowship with God and indeed saith he this is the death of all deaths when the Creature hath subsisting and being and yet is deprived of all comfortable fellowship with God 2 The second degree of that Death threatned in Gen. 2. 17. was death in sin and this death fell upon Adams nature at the very See Perkins in the right way of dying wel instant as soon as God had substracted his Image from him for we see by experience that as soon as the God of Nature hath substracted the light of the Sun from our Horizon there remains nothing but obscure darkness and then no Artificers nor Scholars can work or write after their Masters perfect Copy but instead thereof they work and act irregularly and transgress against their Masters copy Even so as soon as God in Justice had substracted the Light and Life of his Image from Adam what remained but obscure darkness in his minde and then what could he do else but think and act irregularly and that continually as long as he did continue in that darkness and this darkness after the light it self is mystically applied to mans corrupt estate Eph. 4. 18. Eph. 5. 8. being alienated from the life of God Eph. 2. 1. When the Soul is deprived of Gods Image saith Mr. Perkins then follows a defect or want of righteousness and I may also say then follows a natural proness to all kinde of iniquity so that the very thoughts and imaginations of the heart are only evil and that continually and this frame is called Original sin to us though Adams Original sin was his actual eating of the forbid-Fruit and this is the second degree of that death threatned in Gen. 2. 17. 3 A third degree of that death was that Adam was now under the power and slavery of Satan which had the power of death Heb. 2. 14. to do his wil and pleasure in all things to the full and to be under the power of a Tyrant is death Psal 18. 4. But it pleased God in his eternal Counsel and Providence to provide Jesus Christ to take possession of the world as the right Heir of it as soon as Adam fel and so to uphold all things by the word of his power Heb. 1. 2 3. by which means both Satans power tyranny and malice and mans corrupt desires and endeavours are restrained and ordered so that now they cannot See Capel on Tempt p. 55 56. and see mere in ch 3. in R. 2. do that wickedness which else they would do and were it not for this Government of Christ at the instant of Adams fall no man can imagine what destructive mischiefs would have faln at that very instant upon the whole Creation which was the very thing that Satan aimed at in his temptation but blessed be God that provided Jesus Christ against that time of need But after this digression in setting out the degrees of the first Spiritual death as it must be understood in Gen. 2. 17. I will now return to speak a little more of the Devils speech and subtilty in deceiving the Woman and in making her his instrument to deceive Adam The Devil did not deal with the Woman about any Morall disobedience as he did with Christ after he had tried him with many other temptations for forty days together for he knew that Adams nature was framed after Gods Image in respect of Moral perfection but he deals with her about positive

the Human Nature of Christ in the latter part of the sixth day was the perfection of the whole Creation more perfect to the worlds end for by the Creation of the Human nature of Christ of the Seed of the Woman which must be created in the sixth day for it is a Creature and therefore it was truly existing in that Prophetical declaration of it Gen. 3. 15. I say this addition to the Creation in the cool of the sixth day made the whole Creation perfect and intire lacking nothing and so much the word had made and had finished must import namely it must import such a finishing act and perfection of all the Creation as must have as full and as large a The Mystical as well as the Natural Creation was finished and made before the Seventh day and therefore Adam and Eve were re-created before the seventh day sense as can be contained in the Scriptures namely it must have a Mystical sense as well as a Literal John saith Chap. 1. 3. All things were made by him even all things without exception that were made were made by him in six days therefore we must not leave any sort of Creature out of the Work of those six days excepting him that did create them so that whatever Mystical thing is found in any part of the Scripture to be Created by God in relation to Man or to the Mediator it must be included as a particular Commentary or Exposition of these terms had finished had made had created Before the seventh day Arius denied Christ to be of the same nature with his Father See the Sum of Divinity by Jo. Dowuham p. 35. See also more here in ch 5. and made him only a Creature yet he held him to be an excellent Creature and as it were a secondary God Created before the World and by whom God Created the World and saved Mankind and therefore as a God in Office to be adored not in Essence The like he saith of the Holy Ghost But seeing it is plain that God made all Creatures in six days both the Son and the Spirit if they were Creatures must have been comprehended in that work Hence I inferre that seeing the Human nature of Christ was a Creature and differing much from fallen man because he was conceived by the Holy Ghost it must be comprehended in the Creation of the sixth day and therefore his Human nature did exist in that Prophetical declaration of being made of the Seed of the Woman to break the Serpents head John saith All things were made by him even his own Human nature and without him was nothing made that was made John 1. 3. and the Apostle makes Christ as Mediator to be the first of all things that he might be the Head of his Body the Church that in all things he might have the preheminence therefore Adam and Eve must be Re-created in the day of their Creation that so from that day forward Christ might be the Head of his Body the Church that in all things he might have the preheminence Col. 1. 15. to 19. and in this respect also Christ is said to save us and to call us by a holy Calling before the world was 2 Tim. 1. 9. because he was ordained to his Office before the world was 6 The very frame of the words in Gen. 22. being delivered so often in the pretertence may assure us that not only the first natural being or existing of the Creation is meant but that the very best supernatural being thereof is also meant for if the adding of some Common gifts to Nature be called a Creation Eze. 28. 14 15. then the super-adding of saving gifts to fallen man must needs be esteemed as the highest degree of all Gods Creation as these Scriptures do testifie Ier. 33. 26. Ezek. 43. 1. 7. 15. 21. Es 44. 2. Ephes 2. 10. Psal 100. 3. Psal 102. 18. Hence it follows that seeing the Heavens and the Earth were finished after they had been made it must be understood that they were finished by the Redemption and Gubernation of the promised Seed before the seventh Day and therefore that Adam and Eve must necessarily be recreated on the sixth day and so by the Figure Synedoche and also by the figure Continent for the thing contained they must be a part of the New Heavens and of the New Earth as well as all other re-created Souls are Es 51. 16. Es 65. 17 18. Es 66. 22. Es 41. 20. Psal 96. 11. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rev. 21. 1. The finishing act of that which God had created in the end of the sixth day by the promised Seed may well be resembled to the finishing act of the Temple by Joash and Jehoiada they imployed faithful Work-men to repair it after that wicked Athaliah had destroyed it and then it is said That a Healing went up upon the work 1 Chro. 24. 13. that is to say the breaches and decays thereof were healed repaired and amended for to heal a thing is to repair it or to make it perfect and sound again 2 Chro. 7. 14. Psal 60. 2. 2 Chro. 34. 10. and thus the Temple which had been made was re-created finished and perfected by those faithful men ver 14. In like sort after that Satan by his malicious Head-plot had ruinated and broken down that glorious Temple-work of Gods Creation by inticing Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden Fruit then God laid help upon one that was able and faithful to repair it for in the end of the sixth day God told the Devil by way of threatning and Adam and Eve by way of Promise That the Seed of the Woman should break this Head-plot of the Devil by his Mediatorial obedience when he should make his Soul a propitiatory Sacrifice for his sin even at the same time when the Devil should peirce him in the foot-soals as a sinful Malefactor now God could not declare this but by his Sons pre-consent contract and Covenant upon his undertaking Gods Attonement or Reconciliation was procured and the holy Spirit was procured thereby also for Adams re-creation and so a Healing went up upon the Creation by this faithful Workman and blessed Mediator Christ Jesus the strong Rock whose work is perfect Deut. 32. 4. and in this respect the Apostle Peter calls the Mediator the faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. whose work is perfect but Peters Greek Ctistes is borrowed from the seventy on 1 Sam. 22. Psal 18. 2. where the Hebrew is Rock and there it is the attribute of the Mediator and Christ told his Apostles that he would build his Church upon that Rock and that the gates of Hell should not overcome it Mat. 16. 18. Master Perkins on the Creed pag. 154. saith God is called the faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. because he did not leave his Works of Creation without his faithful care and providence as Masons and Carpenters leave their Houses as soon as they are built