The Lord came from Sinai, and rose 1up from Seir unto them, he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of Saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Yea, he loved the people: all his Saints are in thy hands, and they sate down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. Moses commanded a Law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was King in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people, and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together. It is true, there is an hole picked in the fourth Commandment, concerning the sanctifying of the Sabbath; as if that among all the rest, were not moral, but ceremonial. Yet this honour it hath from God, that immediately after the Creation, the Lord resting on the seventh day from his works, therefore he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. And 2therefore Doctor Andrewes, ere he died Bishop of Winchester, ⟨image 5⟩in his pattern of Catechetical doctrine (I commonly cite it under his name, because it is commonly received to be his) and as I have heard upon divers good grounds, treating upon this Commandment; and having proposed this question; But is not the Sabbath a Ceremony, and so abrogated by Christ? Makes answer to it in this manner, Do as Christ did in the cause of divorce; look whether it were so from the beginning; Now the beginning of the Sabbath was in Paradise, before there was any sin, and so before there needed any Saviour, and so before there was any Ceremony or figure of a Saviour. And if they say, it prefigured the rest that we shall have from our sins in Christ, we grant it, and therefore the day is changed, but no ceremony proved. And yet we are not ignorant, how Papists have practised to raze the second commandment also out of the Law given on mount Sinai, as if that also were out of date, being (as they conceive) but of a positive nature at first, so little evidence do they find for it by the light of Nature; and now the world is grown so wise, that they know how to worship God by Images, without committing any idolatry at all; though this mystery of religious state is not thought fit to be communicated unto the vulgar. But do we not all acknowledge the light of Nature to be much corrupted since the fall of Adam? how much more our judgement of moral things;
The Lord came from Sinai, and rose 1up from Seir unto them, he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of Saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. Yea, he loved the people: all his Saints are in thy hands, and they sate downe at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. Moses commanded a Law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was King in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people, and the Tribes of Israel were gathered together. It is true, there is an hole pickt in the fourth Commandement, concerning the sanctifying of the Sabbath; as if that among all the rest, were not morall, but ceremoniall. Yet this honour it hath from God, that immediatly after the Creation, the Lord resting on the seventh day from his works, therefore he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. And 2therefore Doctor Andrewes, ere he died Bishop of Winchester, ⟨image 5⟩in his patterne of Catecheticall doctrine (I commonly cite it under his name, because it is commonly received to bee his) and as I have heard upon divers good grounds, treating upon this Commandement; and having proposed this question; But is not the Sabbath a Ceremony, and so abrogated by Christ? Makes answer to it in this manner, Doe as Christ did in the cause of divorce; look whether it were so from the beginning; Now the beginning of the Sabbath was in Paradise, before there was any sinne, and so before there needed any Saviour, and so before there was any Ceremony or figure of a Saviour. And if they say, it prefigured the rest that we shall have from our sinnes in Christ, we grant it, and therefore the day is changed, but no ceremony proved. And yet we are not ignorant, how Papists have practised to raze the second commandement also out of the Law given on mount Sina, as if that also were out of date, being (as they conceive) but of a positive nature at first, so little evidence doe they finde for it by the light of Nature; and now the world is growne so wise, that they know how to worship God by Images, without committing any idolatry at all; though this mystery of religious state is not thought fit to be communicated unto the vulgar. But doe we not all acknowledge the light of Nature to be much corrupted since the fall of Adam? how much more our judgement of morall things;
- 1Deut. 33. 2, 3, 4, 5.
- 2Gen. 2. 3.
