A25478:570
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(1.) I shall endeavour the stating of some Cases of Conscience concerning the Sabbath.
(2.) I shall raise some observations instead of more distinct Uses and application.
Case 1 If it be inquired what Sabbath it is that is here spoken of? we shall not need to stick long upon the solution.
Some indeed of the Antisabbatical Doctors, who love neither the Name nor Thing, will needs expound it of the yearly Sabbath, the day of the strictest rest among the Jews in their solemn convention for Humiliation and Atonement, of which we read Levit. 16.31. and 23.27.31. But surely it is an unreasonable straitening of the text to confine it to this, especially since the Prophet had sufficiently insisted upon that subject, both by way of reproof and Exhortation in the former part of the chapter. Here therefore I conceive we are to understand the Weekly Sabbath, not only the seventh day Sabbath which was yet in being, but the First day Sabbath also, which was to succeed, the Prophet being an Evangelical Prophet (as one calls him the Evangelist Isaiah) speaks of the Evangelical Sabbath, which was to continue to the end of the world.