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Title:  Four profitable treatises very useful for Christian practise viz. I. The killing power of the law. II. The spiritual Watch. III. The new birth. IV. Of the Sabbath : all which are printed in folio, but these small pieces are intended for those that cannot go to the price of the greater volume / by the reverend Mr. William Fenner, late minister of Rochford in Essex.
Author: Fenner, William, 1600-1640.
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of our Saviour Christ, Mat. 5. 18. Hea∣ven and Earth shall passe away, but not one jot or title of the Law shall passe away: Marke, our Sa∣viour saith there, that there shall not one jot or title of the Decalogue passe away. As for the Ceremonial, and Judicial law, they stand not still, but the whole compasse of them is removed, the Ceremonial Law is quite and clean abolished; and the Judicial Law, in many particulars; there∣fore our Saviour meant it not of those two Laws, but he speaks of the Decalogue, and he saith, Hea∣ven and Earth shall passe away, before one jot of it shall passe away, much lesse an whole branch be rooted out. And Gal. 3. 10. the Apostle saith, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things that are written in this Law to do them: not only he that continueth not in the first, or second, or third Commandment, but he that continueth not in the fourth, and fifth, and all the rest. And Jam. 2. 10. the Apostle there saith, If a man should keep the whole Law of God, and be guilty only in one point, he is guilty of all. Suppose thou didst keep the Three first Commandments, and all the Six last, if thou keepest not the Fourth Com∣mandment, thou art guilty of the breach of all the Commandments.I let this passe, and come now to the last Pro∣position,Propos. 9. The first day of he week was the Lords day, and so to conti∣nue to the end the world. which is this, That though the last day of the week were kept for the Sabbath, till the coming of Christ, yet the first day of the week, that seventh day, is now the Lords Day, and is so to continue to the end of the World: I frame it thus, The change of the seventh day, to the first day of the week, is not by Ecclesiastical Law, 0