Chap.a; The Sabbath 'not wholly Ceremonial. Cofn.4 á65 f, h *as the Sth'Ds'ity tt wáj 'had ia. Ít is in the twenty niathCannon, and ofthe authentical'grea book act w v11 géd in'tLat of 'Chalcetloñ the d'33. Thms it is, That Lnrifleamen :Stay not udaicxe,`firgbow,7,eixs thät'is, not ,}heSebbth or Soturdy 4,1.7 07. day;t fre), büt'they aid e° 'Work that daÿ (this comes home) giving their honourof iclebratiento-the Lords ala} `'` ind'efany`in thispoint befound to Judaite, let them be Anathema Deo &Chrillo. to Godand:Cl0ft both. Thusfar this learned Prelate ; bywhtëlÌ 'diftourfe madq Æ bl'ptnered in hit iaiteryeárs it Oars fully what his opinion Was in thisfeint of the Sdb:bath, and kow his' meaning is tohéexpounded in thispoint gf the =rah?' off the day See more of this fubjtei` in the third Chapter, per tot err,. 7J There is i } liefides cñ thë:Çommandin nt another 'Word. [Remember] which be- baufë irisfropërly of a thingOft, it referrdth us to fórnt time or place before : and There is no mentionof the fabbath but in two places before : the one of them is in Éxedsts 'briethat is not theplace bete meant : for God in the end of the Command- ment ad- ïii [ciod f leffed it t.] referreth us to that other placewhere thofe words 'arc narnn+`to' Genefis 2 3. And by tries oècafion falleth in that'fiift güeftion abolitthemoralityof the day: many think the fabbath is meetly aceremony, and are pér'fwaded that it is fo, and therefore hold, that men are not bound re, fantftifie it finte Chrifls time, it being ab- id; tedby him. In anfwer whereto we are to followdur Saviours rule; who in the cafe OfPolygamie, bids us inquirehow itWas ab initio, fromthebeginning, tocall it to the fir :} inititution : for. the first inflitution is that which will inform ourjudge- Merits belt, arid the first endwhichappear's by the inftitution is the true end. 'A thing is notPaid to be meetly ceremonial,if a ceremonial ufe or end be annexed to it, for then-fcarce anyofthe ten Commandments but should be ceremonial, for they havemany of them fomeceremony annexed to them. $útthat istaabe accountedceremonial whofe find andprincipal end is to bed cere- firony, and to type out fomethiñg, which this dayofyell cannot be faid to do. The Péisfon is, btcanfe Paradife ärid` mans perfh ion cannot eonfift with ceremonies, a etremonycannot agree to the ftate ofmans innocency. !' ?bis is to bi 4nderflóodoffuchCeremonies as had reference to thrift as a Redeemer, eerd fo the enfuiilg words ex onsd thefe, for otherioife ceremonies which have amoral Minor.a .qf fo°rriticatiön, öwere inftitü edfor other ends might Randwith-mans eftaie in Laradife, Ceremonies, for what was the tree of life but a ceremony. And,the reafon ofthat is, becaufe that before there was á Saviour, there couldnot Bea type of aSav_iour, as ceremonies were h and before there Was fin, there needed no Saviour : and foéonfequently needing no Saviour, there needed no ceremony ; and needing no Saviour, nor ceremony, it could`not be ceremonial. But this was it, that Adam (having inthe fixdayes a natural ufe in his bodyofthe creatures) Mould for the glory of God on the feventh day have afpiritual ufe and confideration of them in a more_ fpccial manner. And although there might be a worfhip performed to God on other dayes, yet that it might be more fo- lerrn, publick, and univerfal, and the heart ofman more free from diftraëfion, and worldly avocations, God therefore would have a fpecial day dedicated, to his honour and fervice , wherein the Creature fhould folemnly performe his homage ro the Creator , and this was the firfi general end , though o. tiler ends were after added as in Deuteronomy it pleafed God to add this reafon, that the People fhould remember their Delivery our of Egypt, but this was but finis pofterior, a particular and after end, and acceflory. And it were well if we might add to our dayes of reff thememory of benefits received; And in Exodus God yieldeth a reafon taken' from a politick eïid, that ourfamily and catrel may red, and return more frefh to their labour. And if any will fay, that betides theft ends; therewas prefigured by this red, that red we all have from fin; Its true, but yet that is butan aceelfory end. As in the Sa- craments of Circumcifion and paffeover, befides the generalends of their inftitution; whichwere to feat and fignify Gods preventing and following grace,there were other cols typical and acceffory : as that of Circumcifion did liignifie the Circumcifionof the heart,and the.Paffeover the facrifice of Childoffered upon theCrofs.In which refpe£ts, though thofe two Sacraments are abolifht, yet the Sacrament of initiation, and LI another
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