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The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…
The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
The Divine Appointment of the LORDS DAY, proved, as a separated Day… › Chapter 5
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.
The proof of this is needless to any one that is versed in the writings of the ancients; And others cannot try what we shall produce. I have been these ten years separated from my Library, and am therefore less furnished for this task than is requisite: But I will desire no man to receive more, than the Testimonies produced by Dr. Pet. Heylin himself, which with pitiful weakness he would pervert. And he being the Grand Adversary with whom I do now contend, I shall only premise these few Observations, as sufficient to confute all his Cavils and Evasions.
The proof of this is needless to any one that is versed in the writings of the ancients; And others cannot try what we shall produce. I have been these ten years separated from my Library, and am therefore less furnished for this task than is requisite: But I will desire no man to receive more, than the Testimonies produced by Dr. Pet. Heylin himself, which with pittiful weakness he would pervert. And he being the Grand Adversary with whom I do now contend, I shall only premise these few Observations, as sufficient to confute all his Cavils and Evasions.
1. When his great work is to prove that the Lords day was not called the Sabbath (unless by allusion) we grant it him (as to a Jewish Sabbath) as nothing to the purpose.
2. Whereas he strenuously proveth that the Lords day was not taken for a Sabbath de re, we grant it him also, taking the word in the primitive Jewish sense.