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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
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.
Answ. We are not upon a Controversy of title or propriety, whether God be Lord of other days: For so no doubt, he is Lord of all, and therefore no more of one than another, because his propriety in each one is absolute; And it can be no more in any. Thus also he is absolute Lord of all things, all places, all persons, &c. And yet some things, some places, some persons have been separated to his service by a peculiar Dedication and Relation; and thence have been peculiarly called The Lords. And the Texts cited by you out of the old Testament prove that such was the seventh day Sabbath then: But not that it is so now; or was to be so for perpetuity.
Answ. We are not upon a Controversie of title or propriety, whether God be Lord of other dayes: For so no doubt, he is Lord of all, and therefore no more of one than another, because his propriety in each one is absolute; And it can be no more in any. Thus also he is absolute Lord of all things, all places, all persons, &c. And yet some things, some places, some persons have been separated to his service by a peculiar Dedication and Relation; and thence have been peculiarly called The Lords. And the Texts cited by you out of the old Testament prove that such was the seventh day Sabbath then: But not that it is so now; or was to be so for perpetuity.
And the words of the new Testament cited [The Son of man is Lord also, or even of the Sabbath day,] shows no more, then that it was in his power: He giveth it as a reason for his doing that which the Pharisees counted Sabbath-breaking (By which he oftentimes offended them;) ⟨p. 161⟩and not as a reason of his establishing it. And it seemeth plainly to mean, that being but a Positive Law, and a Law of Moses, he had power to change it, and dispense with it, as well as with other Positives and Mosaical Laws. As it is said, Ephes. 1. 22, 23. he hath made him Head over all things to the Church; not Head to all things; so he is Lord over, or of all days; But all are not separated to his Worship. As it is said,