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CHAP. LVIII.

Of the Seventh Day, or Sabbath, in Old Testament days, and the Laws about it; and of the Change to the First Day.

ON the seventh day God ended his work, &c. and rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made: and God bles∣sed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested, &c. Gen. 2. 2, 3.

To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord, bake that which you will bake to day, &c. for to morrow is a sabbath unto the Lord, &c. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, in it there shall be none, &c. Abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the sabbath day. So the people rested on the sabbath day, Exod. 16. 23, to the 30.

Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labour and do all thy work, but the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, &c. for in six days the Lord made heaven, &c. and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 41. Deut. 5. 12, 13, 14.

On the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed, Exod. 23. 12. ch. 34. 21.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one who defileth it, shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doth work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, and he shall surely be put to death. Where∣fore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, &c. it is a sign between me and the children for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven, &c. Exod. 31. 12. to 18. ch. 35. 2.

Six days shall work be done, &c. ye shall kin∣dle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day, Exod. 35. 3.

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation, &c. Levit. 23. 3.

They found a Man who gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day, &c. and the Lord said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death, all the Congre∣gation shall stone him with stones without the Camp, Numb. 15. 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.

And on the sabbath day two lambs, &c. this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, beside the con∣tinual burnt-offerings, &c. Numb. 28. 9, 10.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctifie it, &c. and re∣member that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, &c. Deut. 5. 12, 13, 14, 15.

If the people of the land bring ware, or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, we would not buy it on the sabbath, &c. Nehem. 10. 31.

Nehem••an contended with the Nobles of Judah, for profaning the Sabbath, and he caused the gates be shut on the Sabbath to keep out Merchandizes, and threatned such who brought them to sell on the Sabbath, Nehem. 13. 15, to the 23.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honour∣able, and shall honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasures, nor speak∣ing thine own words; then, &c. I will cause thee to ride upon the high places, &c. Isa. 58. 13, 14.

Bear no burthen on the sabbath day, nor bring in by the gates of Jerusalem, neither carry forth a burthen out of the houses on the sabbath day, nei∣ther do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, &c. Jerem, 17. 21, 22, 24, 27.

I gave them my sabbath to be a sign between me and them, &c. Ezek. 20. 12, 20, 21.

Hear this, O ye who swallow up the needy, &c. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? &c. Amos 8. 4, 5.

Jesus went through the Corn on the sabbath day, and his Disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of Corn to eat. But when the Pha∣risees saw it they said to him, Behold thy Disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, &c. and how on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless, &c. If ye had known what this means, I will have mercy and not sacri∣fice; ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day, &c. What man, &c. who shall have one sheep, and it shall fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out? &c. Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath day, Matth. 12. 1, 2, to the 13. Luke 6. 1, 2, 3, &c. ch. 13. 14, 15, 16.

The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath, Mark 2. 27, 28.

Very early in the morning, the first day of the week they came unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the Sun, &c. Mark 16. 2, 3, &c. Luke 24. 1, 2, 3, &c.

Jesus, &c. as his custom was, he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read; and there was delivered to him the Book of the Prophets, &c. Luke 4. 16, 31.

Ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken (or, without breaking the Law:) Are ye angry with me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sab∣bath day? John 7. 22, 23.

And the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, &c. the Disciples were assembled, &c. came Jesus in the midst, and saith to them, Peace, &c. And after eight days again (or, in eight days) his Disciples were within, &c. came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst of, &c. John 20. 19, 26.

Paul, &c. reasoned in the Synagogue every sab∣bath, and perswaded the Jews and Greeks, &c. Acts 18. 4.

Paul, &c. abode at Troas seven days: and upon the first day of the week, when the Disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight, &c. When he, &c. had broken bread and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed, Acts 20. 6, 7, 8, 11.

Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gathering when I come, 1 Cor. 16. 2.

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise; And God did rest the seventh day from all his works, &c. If Jesus (or, Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day; there remaineth therefore a rest (or a Sabbath) to the people of God, &c. Hebr. 4. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

I John, &c. was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, &c. Rev. 1. 9, 10.