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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
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.
From thence therefore we must step on as far as Mount Sinai, for a new institution, and there we may find it standing in the midst of the 10 Moral precepts, the fourth whereof it makes in number.
Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day, &c.1
Then was that command which before was given by word of mouth and continued by tradition, now written in words at length, engraven in stone by the immediate finger of God; and there it stands during all the time of Moses and the Prophets on its own basis, until the Messiah came, who put upon it his own Sanction, Mat. 5.17. to the end. And under that Sanction did the seventh day Sabbath continue, until upon the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, that sun of Righteousness, and by his Command to his Apostles, Acts 1.2. the Sabbath was translated to the First day of the week, and that continued by Apostolical practice, and by the practice of succeeding ages of the Evangelical Church, the Gospel Sabbath, or Lords Day even to this present generation.