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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 7
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.
III. And that the fourth Commandment of Moses Law bindeth us not to the seventh day Sabbath is proved.
1. Because that Moses Law never bound any to it but the Jews, and those Proselytes that made themselves inhabitants of their Land, or voluntarily subjected themselves to their policy. For Moses was Ruler of none but the Jews; nor a Legislator or deputed officer from God to any other Nation. The Decalogue was but part of the Jewish Law, if you consider it not as it is written in Nature, but in Tables of Stone: And the Jewish Law was given as a Law to no other people but to them. It was a National Law, as they were a peculiar people and holy Nation. So that even in Moses days it bound no other Nations of the World. Therefore it needed not any abrogation to the Gentiles, but a declaration that it did not bind them.
1. Because that Moses Law never bound any to it but the Jews, and those Proselites that made themselves inhabitants of their Land, or voluntarily subjected themselves to their policy. For Moses was Ruler of none but the Jews; nor a Legislator or deputed officer from God to any other Nation. The Decalogue was but part of the Jewish Law, if you consider it not as it is written in Nature, but in Tables of Stone: And the Jewish Law was given as a Law to no other people but to them. It was a National Law, as they were a peculiar people and holy Nation. So that even in Moses daies it bound no other Nations of the World. Therefore it needed not any abrogation to the Gentiles, but a declaration that it did not bind them.
2. The whole Law of Moses formally as such is ceased or abrogated by Christ. I say, As such, Because Materially, the same things that are in that Law, may be the matter of the Law of Nature, and of the Law of Christ: of which more anon. That the whole Law of Moses as such is abrogated, is most clearly proved, 1. By the frequent arguings of Paul, who ever speaketh of that Law as ceased without excepting any part, And Christ saith,