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

CHAPTER I. Shewing that the ten Commandments are not the Morall Law, but with their statutes, ordi∣nances and judgements, under the old Co∣venant.

OUr Fathers were under a cloud & full of mistakes, which the Sabbatharians have learned, whereof this may be one. They said that the ten Command∣ments were the morall law, and stand eternally in force, as given by the Lord on Mount Sinai; and all the rest of the law, which some call the ceremo∣niall law, was abolished by the death of Jesus Christ.

Now it is well worth the Christians time to re∣view the Scriptures, & to begin at the 20. of Exod. 1. Then God speak all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, &c. And then delivered his ten words, called the ten Commandments. The people seeing the thunders, the lightnings, the sound of the Trumpet, and the Mountain smoaking fled and stood a far off, vers. 18. and then desired Moses to speak to them, saying; let God not talk with us, lest we

dye, so the people being not able to endure the voice of God stood a far off, but Moses drew near unto God, vers. 21. And the Lord said unto Moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel. So that the Lord ceased not speaking his lawes, for said the Lord 21. Exod. 1. now these are the lawes which thou shall set before them; untill he had delivered them, which are contained in the 20.21.22.23. chap∣ters of Exodus, which some call the judiciall law. After which Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the lawes; and all the people answered with one voice and said, all the things which the Lord hath said will we do, 24. Ex. 3. even as they had promised formerly when Moses proposed them 19. Exod. 8. and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord 24. Exod. 4. afterward he took the book of the Covenant, and read it in the audience of all the people, who promised obedience vers. 7. And the Lord said come, and I will give thee tables of stone. And the Law and the Commandment which I have written for to teach them, vers. 12. so that Moses was in the Mount 40 dayes and 40 nights vers. 18. Then the Lord spake unto Moses saying, speak unto the children of Israel, 23. Exod. 1. so that while Moses was in the Mountain, the Lord shevved him all or∣dinances and that vvhich men call the ceremoniall lavv; then vvhen the Lord had made an end of communing vvith Moses upon Mount Sinai, he gave him two tables of the testimony, even tables of stone written with the finger of God, 31. Ex. 18. afterward he brake the two tables in pieces beneath the Mountain 32. Exod. 19. then Moses hewed two tables like the first and carried them up to Mount

Sinai 34. Ex. 4. then the Lord proclaimed his name as formerly vers. 5. and he wrote in the tables the words of the Covenant, even the ten Command∣ments vers. 28. and afterward all the children came near, and he charged the people with all that the Lord had said unto him in Mount Sinai 34. Ex. 32. Now if any suppose that Moses charged the people only with the ten Commandments, he may be mi∣staken, for he might rather say with all, except the ten Commandments, because 'tis said 9. Heb. 19. when Moses had spoken every precept to the peo∣ple according to the law, &c. But it is evident that they were charged with all the words of the Lord, 4. Deut. 13.44. you will find anon that the book of Leviticus and the rest were part of his words.

Now briefly to sum up the usuall opinions of men, in 20. Ex. from the first to the 18. vers. are the ten Commandments declared, which many call the morall law, and from the 23. vers. of that chapter unto the last vers. of the 23. chapt. many call the Iu∣ciall law, which are as an explanation, & they concur with the ten Commandments. After that followeth the Ceremoniall law, and then the Leviticall law. The Scriptures are plain, but men darken them, with such expressions, for all these are but the law or old Covenant: even so was that which men call the law of nature, which you will find in the next chap∣ter, wherefore the word the should have been or ought to be omitted: now to shew that the law which men call the Leviticall law, was part of that first Covenant; read the 7. Levit. 37. and you shall find, that this is also the law of burnt-offerings, and the other offerings which the Lord commanded Moses in

Mount Sinai; when he commanded the children of Israel to offer gifts, you may read the like 26. Levit. 46. so in the 27. Levit. 34. these are the Commandments which the Lord commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.

It is evident that there was no more written on the tables of stone then the ten words, and added no more thereto, meaning in the audience of the multi∣tude, 5. Deut. 22. and yet you have read that Moses wrote a book of the Covenant wherein were all Gods words, and read it in the audience of all the people, and set up an Altar under the Mountain, & sent young men which offered burnt-offerings; and he said behold the blood of the Covenant 24. Exod. from the 4. to the 9. and what was this book but the sum of the law, which is the Covenant? And this was that law which was given by Moses 1. Iosu. 17. Did not Moses give you a law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? 4. Rom. 15. the strength of sin is the law 1. Cor. 15.56. but the sting of death is sin. It would be a needless question, whether the ten Comandements are part of the law, for the Scribes did question 22. Math. 36.38. Mr. which is the greatest Commandment in the law, it was answered, thou shalt love the Lord thy God, this is the first & great command∣ment 20. Exod. 3. if you read the 24. Exod. 12. the Lord said and I will give thee tables of stone, & a law & the Commandment which I have written for to teach them; when the Lord Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he confined them not to the words which he taught them 11. Luke 1.2. neither where the people left solely and without a ministration to the words of his ten Commandments, for saith the Lord,

after the tenour of these words, I have made a Covenant with thee and with Israel 34. Exod. 27. and in them was contained according to all the words which the Lord had said in the Mount 9. Deut. 10. for Moses had spoken every precept according to the law 9. Heb. 19. then the law of commandments stood in ordinances 2. Eph. 15. & the first Covenant had ordinances, 9. Heb. 1. so the law had a shadow, 10. Heb. 1. the hand∣writing of God, 31. Exod. 18. this writing was the writing of God graven in the tables, 32. Exod. 16. and this writing was of ordinances, 2. Col. 14. so we read of the ministration of death written with letters & graven in stones 2. Cor. 3.7. so of the law of works, 3. Rom. 27. Now Reader, thou mayest prove both by the old and New Testament, that the ten words, the judiciall law, the ceremoniall law, and the levi∣ticall law, as many term them, have all relation to each other: And that they make but one, which is called the old Covenant; 'tis called the old 10. Heb. 13. it is written 2. Gen. 17. Thou shalt not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evill, for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt dye the death; and this some do call the Covenant of works, and perhaps they may know the ministration of it: yet every man cannot take it so, for it is indeed a prohibi∣tion, as the ten Commandments or most of them seem to be, yet they had their ministration as hath been already proved; if it could be granted that the ten Commandements were the morall law, standing eternally in their first dispensation as de∣livered on Mount Sinai; then might the Sabbatha∣rians have held dispute with the most learned man in England.

It hath been a mistake, to say that the ceremo∣niall law was put into the side of the Arke, and mistakes come for want of diligent reading; there are but two main Covenants of the law, called in Scripture the first and the second, 10. Heb. 9. or the old and the new, 8. Heb. 13. whereof the new may be called a Covenant of grace, by reason of the Me∣diator Iesus Christ our righteousness. Before the children of Israel passed over Iordan, they were to set up great stones and write upon them all the words of this law 27. Deut. 2.3. And Moses sets before them cursings and blessings, 30. Deut. 19. life and death; and tells them that they were rebellious against the Lord in his life time; & how much more then will they be after his death. These are the words of the Covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the Land of Moab, besides the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb, 29. Deut. 1. then Moses commanded the Levites, to take the book of this law, & put it in the side of the Arke of the Covenant, 31. Deut. 26. therefore whereas many speak of the ceremoniall law, it hath been evident∣ly proved that all the old lawes & ordinances have relation to each other: And this Covenant also made in the Land of Moab agrees with the rest, & was put into the side of the same Arke.