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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.
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,]
7. How plainly and expresly Paul numbreth Sabbaths with the shaddows 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 alwaies 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,]
8. How many years together the Churches had been in possession, and consequently in the undoubted knowledge, of the true established day of holy Worship, before a word of the New Testament was Written. And therefore that it was not written to be the first enacting of this day or change; but for other uses.
9. And yet how much evidence of the fact there is in the Scripture it self, that really such a day was used for the ordinary Church-assemblies, as a peculiar separated day; even by the Common order of the Apostles in the Churches, as