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An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M.…
An answer to some cases of conscience respecting the country. By Solomon Stoddard, A.M. Pastor in Northampton.
printed by B. Green, 1722
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
An ANSWER TO SOME Cases of Conscience Respecting the COUNTRY.
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. THAT from the Beginning, the Sabbath began in the Evening. That Text, Lev. 23.32.— From evening to evening, ye shall celebrate your Sabbath, doth immediately respect the day of Expiation; but that is to be kept as a Sabbath; from evening, to evening. But this doth further evidence it, because the First Sabbath began in the evening. When the Evening and the Morning had made the Sixth Day: as soon as the Sixth day was past, the Sabbath began: and so it continued, ⟨p. 8⟩during the Time of the Old Testament. And if the Christian Sabbath began in the Morning, the seventh part of time is not kept.
2. THO' the Resurrection of CHRIST made a change of the day; yet there is no reason that the Time of the day when He rose, should make a change of the Time of the day wherein the Sabbath should begin.
(1.) BECAUSE the Scripture doth not assure us in what exact Time CHRIST rose: if GOD had appointed that we should begin the Sabbath then, He would have given us light to know when that Time was: for the Scripture is a perfect Rule. But none of the Pen-men do design to tell us the Exact Time when CHRIST Rose.