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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.
And he that considereth the brevity of the History in Genesis, will think he is very bold, that obtrudeth on the world his Negative Argument: [The Sabbath is not there mentioned: therefore it was not then kept.]
And if it was a Positive Law given to Adam on the reason of the Creation Rest, it was then such a Positive, as must be next to a Law of Nature, and was given to all mankind in Adam, and Adam must needs be obliged to deliver it down to the world.
So that though the Mosaical Law (even as given in Stone) be ceased, yea, and Adams Positives ⟨p. 54⟩too, formally as such; yet this is sure, that once God himself determined by a Law, that one stated day in seven, was the fittest proportion of time to be separated to holy Worship. And if it was so once, yea, to all the world from the Creation, it is so still: Because there is still the same reason for it: And we are bound to judge Gods determination of the proportion to be wiser than any that we can make. And so by parity of Reason consequentially even those abrogated Laws do thus far bind us still; not so far as abrogated; but because the record and reason of them, is still a signification of the due proportion of time, and consequently of our duty.