1. But to begin with the first Argument, that Moses wrote those words in his History by way of Prolepsis, or Anticipation, and so to be •ead, as it were, in a Parenthesis: that is, Moses being the first Man that wrote by Revelation or Inspiration; and having before he began to write, received the Command of the Seventh-day Sabbath, and the reason of its Institution, ⟨p. 42⟩coming to write of the Time when God finished his Work, put in this concerning the Sabbath by way of Anticipation, saying, God blessed the Seventh-day, and sanctified it; not that Adam knew any thing of it, or that he gave him a Command to keep it.1 Dr. Owe• owns there are sundry things asserted in History by way of Anticipation, tho he suppose they fell out commonly in the same Age: but methinks he saith little to the purpose to confute what other learned Men have said on this account; and to reserve my own thoughts to myself, I shall give you an account of what two […] three of them assert, who believe Moses wrot• this in Gen. 2. by way of Anticipation. On• Author having showed that some believe God […] the beginning of the World did set apart th• seventh day,2 and commanded Adam to keep it says, that others, and those ancienter, and o• more Authority, conceive these words to be spoken by a Prolepsis or Anticipation, and to relate to the times wherein Moses wrote; and intimated only the reason why God required of the Jews to sanctify the seventh day rather than any other: no Precept to that purpose being given to Adam and to his Posterity, nor any Mystery in the number seven, why it should be thought most proper for God's Public Worship: And this, saith he, is indeed the ancienter and more general Opinion, unanimously delivered both by Jews and Christians, and not so much as questioned till these latter days: And tho some ascribe it to Tostatus as the first Inventer of it, yet it is ancienter far than he; tho were it so, it could not be denied but it had an able and learned Author, who, considering the times in which he lived, and the shortness of his Life, hardly ever had his equal. ⟨p. 43⟩[…] is true, Tostatus makes this Query, Whether […] Sabbath being sanctified by God in the In••cy of the World, had been observed by Men •o the Light of Nature;
1. But to begin with the first Argument, that Moses wrote those words in his History by way of Prolepsis, or Anticipation, and so to be •ead, as it were, in a Parenthesis: that is, Moses being the first Man that wrote by Revelation or Inspiration; and having before he began to write, received the Command of the Seventh-day Sabbath, and the reason of its Institution, ⟨p. 42⟩coming to write of the Time when God finished his Work, put in this concerning the Sabbath by way of Anticipation, saying, God blessed the Seventh-day, and sanctified it; not that Adam knew any thing of it, or that he gave him a Command to keep it.1 Dr. Owe• owns there are sundry things asserted in History by way of Anticipation, tho he suppose they fell out commonly in the same Age: but methinks he saith little to the purpose to confut• what other learned Men have said on this account; and to reserve my own thoughts to m••self, I shall give you an account of what two 〈…〉 three of them assert, who believe Moses wrot• this in Gen. 2. by way of Anticipation. On• Author having shew'd that some believe God 〈…〉 the beginning of the World did set apart th• seventh day,2 and commanded Adam to keep it says, that others, and those antienter, and o• more Authority, conceive these words to be spoken by a Prolepsis or Anticipation, and to relate to the times wherein Moses wrote; and intimated only the reason why God required of the Jews to sanctify the seventh day rather than any other: no Precept to that purpose being given to Adam and to his Posterity, nor any Mystery in the number seven, why it should be thought most proper for God's Publick Worship: And this, saith he, is indeed the antienter and more general Opinion, unanimously deliver'd both by Jews and Christians, and not so much as question'd till these latter days: And tho some ascribe it to Tostatus as the first Inventer of it, yet it is antienter far than he; tho were it so, it could not be deny'd but it had an able and learned Author, who, considering the times in which he lived, and the shortness of his Life, hardly ever had his equal.
- 1P. 64, 65.
- 2Heylin's Hist. of the Sabbath, p. 3.
