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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 9
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.
And I know no reason but thus it should be still; or at least but that this course should be the ordinary celebration of the day.
Qu. But seeing the Sabbath was instituted in the beginning, to commemorate the work of the Creation, must that be laid by now, because of our commemoration ⟨p. 96⟩of the work of our Redemption?
Answ. No: Our Redeemers work is to restore us to the acknowledgement and Love of our Creator. And the Commemoration of our Redemption fitteth us to a holy acknowledgement of the Almighty Creator in his works: These therefore are still to go together; according to their several proper places: Even as the Son is the way to the Father, and we must never separate them in the exercise of our Faith, obedience or Love. A Christian is a sanctified Philosopher: And no man knoweth or acknowledgeth Gods works of Creation and Providence aright, in their true sense, but he that seeth God the Creator and Redeemer, the Beginning, the Governor and the End of all. Other Philosophers are but as those Children, that play with the Book and Letters, but understand not the matter contained in it; or like one that teacheth boys •litide literas pingere, to write a curious hand, while he understands not what he writeth.
Answ. No: Our Redeemers work is to restore us to the acknowledgement and Love of our Creator. And the Commemoration of our Redemption fitteth us to a holy acknowledgement of the Almighty Creator in his works: These therefore are still to go together; according to their several proper places: Even as the Son is the way to the Father, and we must never separate them in the exercise of our Faith, obedience or Love. A Christian is a sanctified Philosopher: And no man knoweth or acknowledgeth Gods works of Creation and Providence aright, in their true sense, but he that seeth God the Creator and Redeemer, the Beginning, the Governour and the End of all. Other Philosophers are but as those Children, that play with the Book and Letters, but understand not the matter contained in it; or like one that teacheth boyes litide literas pingere, to write a curious hand, while he understands not what he writeth.