dement, may not pull theirneckcsout ofthe Commandemenc. . Secondly; from the titne, when this Commandemcnt s was firfl giuen, and the keeping ofaSabbath holie, firH in- From the flituted; wemayeafilypcrceiue, that this Commandement time. is nbmore ceren1oniall then ail the re!l. For it w~s giuen in snans innocencie,when !/!damwas perfett, and neededno ccremonie to leadehim toChri!l, becaufe hee did not neede Heb.<fe>· · . to beleeue in ChriH,being himfelfe perfect,and holding his · happie :eflate not by faith in ChnHs merics, but by confi– dence in Gods word, promifinghim life/o long as be con– _tinued in his innocencie and obedience; For this Gomman– -dement was not firH giuen at Mount Sinai, no n1o re then anyof the. other ten11c: but equally \Nith them bound the con{cienceofvidam the firH man, and is of likeant iquitie with the rdt. The fir!l fcuenrh dav that euer was·, was as I . nruch to be fanctified,as anySabbath following.As may appeare in the fecond ofGeneHs the z.and 3.vetfes: V\' here it _, is faid, that God afcer the creation in the fixe daies, reffed frem cr(ttting the fouenth: and therefore hee hlfll9wed theflHtmh dt~y andh!tjfedit. Now then,Gth it was in!tituted in Pa– radife,afore either rhere was a ceremonie, or need of a cere– mony)it maynot be reputed among the Iewitl1 ceremonies. And this reafon is the rather to bee marked, becaufe it thewes the foolitl1nes ofthat friuolous obiection that forne . men bring againfi the Sabbath. 0 (fay they)the !ewes were children in Chrill, andweakeling~, snd therefore they had neede ofa Sabbath: but wee are pafl babes, wee are men growne, and haue n1ore knowledge, wee are Gronger then they. AreyeGrongcr then the lrwes? Be it(though ifit were \veil tried, ma~lY ofthefe, that bragge of their !hcngrh a– bouc the Ievn;.s, would be found inferiour to manyofthe levves.) But be ir).for the time: grant them this; yet,~te they Rronger then eAJ~m in his innocencie? h:2ue they greater . knowledge and n1ore grace, then hee had before his fall? BHtGodGtw it ne~dfull for Adam to haue aSabbath. And if ' it were necdfullfor him that was without fionc, andhad no dogofcorruption tohinder him~no finner to infetl him,no I 3 · ill
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