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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
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2. It is proved that Christ by his Spirit in his Apostles did institute another day. And seeing the Spirit was given them to bring his words to remembrance, and to enable them to teach the Churches all things whatsoever he commanded them, it is most probable that this was at first one of Christs own personal Precepts.
3. And to put all out of doubt, that neither the Law of Nature, nor any Positive Law, to Adam, Noah, or Moses, or by Christ doth oblige us to the seventh day Sabbath, it is expressly repealed by the Holy Ghost, Col. 2. 16. [Let no man therefore judge you in meats or in drink, or in respect of an Holy day (or Feast) or of the New Moon, or of the Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to came; but the body is of Christ.] I know many of late say, that by Sabbaths here is not meant the weekly Sabbath, but only other Holy days, as Monthly or Jubilee rests: But 1. This is to limit without any proof from the word of God: When God speaks of Sabbaths in general without exception, what is man that he should put in exceptions without any proof of Authority from God? By such boldness we may pervert all his Laws. Read Dr. Young upon this Text. 2. Yea, when it was the weekly Sabbath, which then was principally known by the Name of a Sabbath, above all other Festivals whatsoever, ⟨p. 81⟩it is yet greater boldness without proof to exclude the principal part, from whence the rest did receive the name. 3. Besides the Feasts and New Moons being here named as distinct from the Sabbath, are like to include so much of the other separated days, as will leave it still more unmeet to exclude the weekly Sabbath in the Explication of that word [Sabbaths] when so many Feasts are first distinguished: [Greek or Hebrew] incuit Grotius, hic sunt Azyma dies omer, scenopegia, dies [Greek or Hebrew].
3. And to put all out of doubt, that neither the Law of Nature, nor any Positive Law, to Adam, Noah, or Moses, or by Christ doth oblige us to the seventh day Sabbath, it is expresly repealed by the Holy Ghost,