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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.
Q 1. How far then are we bound by the Decalogue?
Answ. 1. As it is the Law of Nature; 2. As it is owned by Christ, and made part of his Law. Therefore no more of it bindeth directly, than we can prove to be either the Law of Nature, or the Law of Christ. 3. As it was once a Law of God to the Jews, and was given them upon a• reason common to them with us or all mankind, we must still judge, that it was once a Divine determination of what is most meet, and an exposition of a Law of Nature, and therefore consequentially, and as that which intimateth by what God once commanded, what we should take for his will, and is most meet, it obligeth still. And so when the Law of Nature forbiddeth Incest, or too near marriages, and God once told the Jews what degrees were to be accounted too near, this being once a Law to them directly, is a Doctrine and Exposition of the Law of Nature still to us; and so is consequentially a Law, by parity of reason. And so we shall show anon that it is by the fourth Commandment.
Answ. 1. As it is the Law of Nature; 2. As it is owned by Christ, and made part of his Law. Therefore no more of it bindeth directly, than we can prove to be either the Law of Nature, or the Law of Christ. 3. As it was once a Law of God to the Jews, and was given them upon a• reason common to them with us or all mankind, we must still judge, that it was once a Divine determination of what is most meet, and an exposition of a Law of Nature, and therefore consequentially, and as that which intimateth by what God once commanded, what we should take for his will, and is most meet, it obligeth still. And so when the Law of Nature forbiddeth Incest, or too near marriages, and God once told the Jews what degrees were to be accounted too near, this being once a Law to them directly, is a Doctrine and Exposition of the Law of Nature still to us; and so is consequentially a Law, by parity of reason. And so we shall shew anon that it is by the fourth Commandment.