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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.
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 ⟨p. 78⟩the Law of Nature, and therefore is materially still in force: But they still except certain points and circumstances in it, as the prefatory reason [I am the Lord that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, &c.] And especially this of the seventh day Sabbath.
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 Vniversal 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 ⟨p. 78⟩the Law of Nature, and therefore is materially still in force: But they still except certain points and circumstances in it, as the prefatory reason [I am the Lord that brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt, &c.] And especially this of the seventh day Sabbath.
Q 1. How far then are we bound by the Decalogue?