Answ. The Apostle cannot be understood simply to cast away the observation of all days as a bondage, and so to make all times alike; For 1. That would contradict his own practise, and the practise of the other Apostles: for it is clear that they differenced the first day of the week from other days, and one day in special is called, The Lords-day, which other days of the week are not. 2. It all times be alike simply, and all making difference be there reproved, then could there be no time set apart to be observed by men, to the marring of that indifferency; and if so, then hath the Christian Church been still in a palpable gross sin; for if the keeping of a day by virtue of Gods Command, mar that indifferency, much more will the keeping of a day by mans command, and so there could never be a Sabbath. 3. We must therefore understand these places not as casting all days and times simply, but ceremonial and Jewish days, or days invented by men, because the scope of the places runneth that way, viz. against the bringing in of ceremonial worship as necessary, which while some weak ones, not yet sufficiently informed, did still practise, as Rom. 14. the Apostle would not have them hastily condemned in days, more then Meats; yet is there still a difference betwixt Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Supper and other meats, which this discourse of the Apostle taketh not away; so is it in days. And in these Epistles to the Galatians and Colossians, he speaketh of days, and not (as would seem of the weekly Sabbath, which is ordinarily called a day) as taking in all the extraordinary Feasts of the Jews, which is the more probable, because the ceremonial Law was pressed on them as still necessary, by false Teachers: or he speaketh of mere Jewish days, and so of the seventh day which they kept; for it is of such observation of days as was sinful, and brake them off from Grace and the Gospel, as other ceremonies did; that he speaketh of: but that cannot be said of all days, or of keeping one day of seven: Therefore this cannot be meant there.
Answ. The Apostle cannot be understood simply to cast away the observation of all days as a bondage, and so to make all times alike; For 1. That would contradict his own practise, and the practise of the other Apostles: for it is clear that they differenced the first day of the week from other dayes, and one day in special is called, The Lords-day, which other dayes of the week are not. 2. It all times be alike simply, and all making difference be there reproved, then could there be no time set apart to be observed by men, to the marring of that indifferency; and if so, then hath the Christian Church been still in a palpable gross sin; for if the keeping of a day by vertue of Gods Command, marr that indifferency, much more will the keeping of a day by mans command, and so there could never be a Sabbath. 3. We must therefore understand these places not as casting all days and times simply, but ceremonial and Jewish days, or dayes invented by men, because the scope of the places runneth that way, viz. against the bringing in of ceremonial worship as necessary, which while some weak ones, not yet sufficiently informed, did still practise, as Rom. 14. the Apostle would not have them hastily condemned in days, more then Meats; yet is there still a difference betwixt Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Supper and other meats, which this discourse of the Apostle taketh not away; so is it in dayes. And in these Epistles to the G•latians and Colossians, he speaketh of dayes, and not (as would seem of the weekly Sabbath, which is ordinarily called a day) as taking in all the extraordinary Feasts of the Jews, which is the more probable, because the ceremonial Law was pressed on them as still necessary, by false Teachers: or he speaketh of mere Jewish dayes, and so of the seventh day which they kept; for it is of such observation of dayes as was sinful, and brake them off from Grace and the Gospel, as other ceremonies did; that he speaketh of: but that cannot be said of all dayes, or of keeping one day of seven: Therefore this cannot be meaned there.
