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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.
7. Besides all this, when no man of himself could tell, whether one day in six or seven or eight were his duty to observe, God hath come in, and 1. By Doctrine or History told us, that he made the world in six days, and rested the seventh. 2. By Law; and bath commanded one day in seven to the Jews; by which he hath made known consequential•y to all men, that one day in seven is the fittest proportion of time. And the case being thus determined by God, by a Law to others, doth ⟨p. 89⟩consequentially become a Law to us, because it is the determination of Divine Wisdom; unless it were done upon some reasons in which their condition differeth from ours. And thus the Doctrine and Reasons of an abrogated Law, continuing, may induce on us an obligation to duty. And in this sense the fourth Commandment may be said still to bind us to one day in seven.
7. Besides all this, when no man of himself could tell, whether one day in six or seven or eight were his duty to observe, God hath come in, and 1. By Doctrine or History told us, that he made the world in six dayes, and rested the seventh. 2. By Law; and bath commanded one day in seven to the Jews; by which he hath made known consequential•y to all men, that one day in seven is the fittest proportion of time. And the case being thus determined by God, by a Law to others, doth ⟨p. 89⟩consequentially become a Law to us, because it is the determination of Divine Wisdom; unless it were done upon some reasons in which their condition differeth from ours. And thus the Doctrine and Reasons of an abrogated Law, continuing, may induce on us an obligation to duty. And in this sense the fourth Commandment may be said still to bind us to one day in seven.
But in two points the obligation (even as to the Matter) ceaseth. 1. We are not bound to the seventh day, because God our Redeemer who is Lord of the Sabbath, hath made a change. 2. We are not bound to a Sabbath in the old notion, that is, to a day of Ceremonial Rest for it self required; but to a day to be spent in Evangelical Worship.