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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.
6. How dangerous a thing it is made by the Holy Ghost to seek to set up Moses Law, (as the whole Epistle to the Gal. besides most of the other Epistles testify) as intimating a denial of Christ, and a falling from Grace, and a perverse setting up of that which Christ came to take down, as part of our own redemption. And how large and plain Paul is upon this Subject; and how the spirit in all the Apostles did determine it, Act. 15. And how the Cerinthians, Nicolaitans, Ebionites, Nazaraeans, and many more of the condemned Heresies of that age, which troubled the Churches, and whom the Apostles wrote against, went all that way of mingling the Jewish Law with the Gospel.
6. How dangerous a thing it is made by the Holy Ghost to seek to set up Moses Law, (as the whole Epistle to the Gal. besides most of the other Epistles testifie) as intimating a denyal of Christ, and a falling from Grace, and a perverse setting up of that which Christ came to take down, as part of our own redemption. And how large and plain Paul is upon this Subject; and how the spirit in all the Apostles did determine it, Act. 15. And how the Cerinthians, Nicolaitans, Ebionites, Nazaraeans, and many more of the condemned Heresies of that age, which troubled the Churches, and whom the Apostles wrote against, went all that way of mingling the Jewish Law with the Gospel.
7. How plainly and expressly Paul numbereth Sabbaths with the shadows that cease, Col. 2. 16. (to pass by other Texts) And what violence mens own wits must use, in denying the evidence of so plain a Text. Their reason, that he saith not Sabbath but Sabbaths, is against themselves; the plural number being most comprehensive, and other Sabbaths receiving their name from this; And the word Sabbath always used in Scripture, for a Rest which was partly Ceremonial. See what Dr. Young in his excellent Dies Domin saith of this Text (Though I know some say otherwise to the injury of their own cause,]