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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
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Obj. At least it will prove it mutable as they were.
Answ. No such matter: Because the very nature of such Circumstances, having no stated necessity or usefulness, showeth them to be mutable. But the reason of the Lords days use is perpetual: And it is founded partly in the Law of nature, which telleth us that some stated days should be set apart for holy things; and partly in the positive part of the fourth Commandment; which telleth us, that once God determined of one day in seven, yea, and this upon the ground of his own Cessation of his Creation-work, that man on that day might observe a Holy Rest in the worshipping of the great Creator, which is a Reason belonging not to the Jews only, but to the whole world. Yea, and that Reason (whatever Dr. Heylin say to the contrary, from the mere silence of the former History in Genesis) doth seem plainly to intimate that this is but the repetition of that Law of the Sabbath which was given to Adam: For why should God begin two thousand years after to give men a Sabbath upon the reason of his rest from the Creation, and for the Commemoration ⟨p. 53⟩of it, if he had never called man to that Commemoration before.
Answ. No such matter: Because the very nature of such Circumstances, having no stated necessity or usefulness, sheweth them to be mutable. But the reason of the Lords dayes use is perpetual: And it is founded partly in the Law of nature, which telleth us that some stated dayes should be set apart for holy things; and partly in the positive part of the fourth Commandment; which telleth us, that once God determined of one day in seven, yea, and this upon the ground of his own Cessation of his Creation-work, that man on that day might observe a Holy Rest in the worshipping of the great Creator, which is a Reason belonging not to the Jews only, but to the whole world. Yea, and that Reason (whatever Dr. Heylin say to the contrary, from the meer silence of the former History in Genesis) doth seem plainly to intimate that this is but the repetition of that Law of the Sabbath which was given to Adam: For why should God begin two thousand years after to give men a Sabbath upon the reason of his rest from the Creation, and for the Commemoration