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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.
If besides all this you must have particular precepts, promises and threatenings in the form which you imagine to be fittest, you may for want of those deny many other Gospel Laws as well as this. Have you not much more for the separation of the Lords day, than you have for Infants Baptism, for a Christian Magistrate, for Christians waging War, for prohibited degrees as to Marriage, &c.
If besides all this you must have particular precepts, promises and threatnings in the form which you imagine to be fittest, you may for want of those deny many other Gospel Laws as well as this. Have you not much more for the separation of the Lords day, than you have for Infants Baptism, for a Christian Magistrate, for Christians wageing Warr, for prohibited degrees as to Marriage, &c.
I am persuaded the sober study of these points would do much to convince the contrary minded, 1. How much of Christs work as to the settlement of Church-Orders, was committed to the Apostles to be done, and how little he publicly settled himself in person, before his Resurrection.
I am perswaded the sober study of these points would do much to convince the contrary minded, 1. How much of Christs work as to the settlement of Church-Orders, was committed to the Apostles to be done, and how little he publickly setled himself in person, before his Resurrection.
2. How much the Gospel administration excelleth that of the Law. And what eminent Glory God designeth to himself by the work of mans Redemption, and how much more now he calleth man to Read, and Study and Know him in the face of Jesus Christ, than in the Creation, And how largely the change of the Covenant is proved in the Epistle to the Hebrews.