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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.
Ans. It is the Doctrine of the true Antinomians that we are under no Divine Law, neither of Nature nor of Christ; But it is the Doctrine of Paul and all Christians, that the Jewish Mosaical Law as such is abolished.
Obj. But do not all Divines say that the Moral Law is of perpetual obligation?
Ans. Yes; Because it is Gods Law of Nature, and also the Law of Christ.
Obj. But do not most say that the Decalogue written in stone, is the Moral Law and of perpetual obligation.
Answ. Yes: for by the word [Moral] they mean [Natural,] and so take Moral, not in the large sense as it signifieth a Law de moribus as all Laws are whatsoever, but in a narrower sense as signifying, that which by Nature is of Universal and perpetual obligation. So that they mean not that it is perpetual as it is Moses Law and written in Stone formally, but as it is Moral, that is Natural; And they mean that Materially the Decalogue containeth the same Law which is