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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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Answ. This is anon to be answered in due place. I only prove that it continued, till a successive dispensation, and Gods own change did put an end to it; but no longer.
Answ. This is anom to be answered in due place. I only prove that it continued, till a successive dispensation, and Gods own change did put an end to it; but no longer.
Obj. But to commemorate the Creation, and ⟨p. 55⟩praise the Creator is a Moral work, and therefore ceaseth not.
Answ. True: but that it be done on the seventh day; is that which ceaseth. For the same work is transferred to the Lords day; and the Creator and Redeemer to be honoured together in our Commemoration. For the Son is the only way to the Father; who hath restored us to Peace with our Creator; And as no man cometh to the Father but by the Son, and as we must not now worship God, as a Creator and Father never offended, but as a Creator and Father reconciled by Christ, so is it the appointment of Christ by the Holy Ghost, that we commemorate the work of Creation now as repaired and restored by the work of Redemption, on the Lords day, which is now separated to these works.