The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of ConnecticutBolles, John R. (John Rogers)
History
The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut
Bolles, John R. (John Rogers)
Rogerenes -- History
In page 5th sayth he: “The apostle doth not oppose the keeping one
day in a week holy to God.” To which I answer, It is not what the
apostle doth not oppose, but what the apostle commands, I Pet. 1,
16, “Be ye holy for I am holy.” An unholy man cannot do one holy
act, no more than a corrupt tree can bring forth good fruit: but I
have no where read in the books of the New Testament that we are
commanded to keep one day more holy than another....
... And the next place, I shall shew that the first commandment
that both the angel of God and Christ himself gave forth to his
apostles was to make the first day of the week (the day of his
resurrection) a day of labor by travelling out of one province
into another.... Thus it appears that had they believed them that
was sent by the angel of God and by Christ himself they should
have set out on their journey early in the morning for Galilee,
which was in another province, and by all probability more than
one day’s journey, as appears in the 2nd chapter of Luke, which
shews that Christ’s parents went a day’s journey towards Galilee
before they missed him.... So that it appears that Christ had no
regard to the day, otherwise than to make it a day of labor ...
through their unbelief they were disobedient to the message that
Christ sent them and did not make it a day of labor by travelling,
as they were required by the angel of God and by Christ himself;
which journey according to history was above 40 miles and the
message was sent them in haste, to set out upon this journey, upon
the first day of the week, the day of Christ’s resurrection.
In page 6th he quotes Gen. 2, 2, 3, which speaks only of God’s
resting from the works of creation, when all things were finished
and “was very good” ... and this God’s Sabbath or rest from his
works of creation had no evening or morning ascribed to it,
because it was his eternal rest or Sabbath, all things being now
finished. And it could be no Sabbath or rest to Adam, for he had
done no work to rest from, for he was the finishing work, ... So
that Adam in his first creation entered into God’s Sabbath and so
continued, till he by sin brought labor upon himself ... and we
have no account in Scripture of any Sabbath commanded or kept from
Adam till Mose’s time, ... For when God delivered the two tables
of the ten commandments, he gave Moses a particular account about
the seventh-day sabbath, how it was a sign, as is seen Exod. 31,
12 etc. compared with the last verse.... And a sign is not the
thing signified by it, any more than a shadow of a thing is the
substance....
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