A short treatise shewing the Sabbatharians confuted by the new Covenant, 1. That the ten commandments are not the morall law, but with their ordinances, statutes and judgements, the old Covenant. 2. That the old Covenant was as signes and shadows of things that were then to come. 3. Shewing the substance of the signe of the Sabbath. 4.Severall objections of the Sabbatharians answered. 5. That the new, which some do call the Covenant of Grace, is not really in the old Testament. 6. What the new Covenant is. 7. Of pure church-ordinances, which some doe call the discipline of the Church. 8. Of singing of Psalmes. 9. A proscript. By Iohn Hanson of the burrough of Abingdon, in the county of Berks

Christian Reader.

THe cause of this Treatise, is, that now at this time certain men looked on as eminent Christians, by a great delusion of Satan have too confi∣dently affirmed by disputations & otherwise, that the seventh day is the Sabbath. And that men ought to keep it Holy, in so much that lately in a Town in Barkshire, openly in the market or fair about noon-tide, one of them preached this doctrine, another opens his shop on a first day to sell his wares, affirming that it was lawfull so to doe; and divers good Christians have been found staggering with many scruples, saying that there be examples for it in the New Testament, and very few to be found which could give a sufficient ac∣count how they are released from keeping of the seventh day; which must then of necessity be ignorant why they keep the first. Where∣fore a poor servant of Iesus Christs as the no∣ble Baereans, searched the Scriptures, disputed with them, and here by the Lords assistants and his spirit, hath set forth this Treatise with as much speed as possible could be for the ser∣vice, which I owe unto my Lord and Master

Iesus Christ, & for the furtherance of his truth; Secondly, that this Iewish opinion, may not be spread, to the further corrupting of such as have been found wavering or staggering, or any other whatsoever.

Their ground was that the ten Command∣ments were the morall Law, and that the rest was the ceremoniall law: now if the ceremo∣nies only had been abrogat, then had they been in the right, and we all mistaken, and men might have continued asking, how are we released from keeping of the seventh day. I doubt not but that to judicious men, I have here made it appear, that they err, not know∣ing the Scriptures, I have seen severall large volumes on this subject, and when books are long, they are usually laid by as being weari∣some. The Wiseman 10. Eccles. 2. tells us there is no end in writing, many books and much reading is weariness of the flesh: wherefore I have made this so short, that thou mayest read it in two hours or three at the most: the clear∣ing of this truth requires only the plain letter, and I have left the mistery to them that excell? There is no Scripture of any private interpre∣tation, and who is able to satisfy every mans opinion, the clearest eye hath but a glimmering to the glory that shall be revealed, but truth

seldome wants opposition, and I question not but that some ignorant people will jeere at what is here set forth, whom I refer to the 19. Math. 11. all men cannot receive this thing save they to whom it is given, let them say what they will so that the truth of God shall more abound through my lye unto his glory 3. Rom. 7. I presume not to teach those that are learned in the Scriptures. But if thou shalt find any truth herein that may prove usefull either to thy soul or understanding, expect not so much as in larger volumes, but give God the glory, and esteem the Author.

Thy faithfull Brother in Christ Iesus, IOHN HANSON.