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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.
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3. Though this have long been doubted in the Church, some thinking it mentioned ⟨p. 181⟩but by Anticipation yet I deny it not, but believe that it was Sanctified and kept from the beginning, because the Reason of the Consecration was from the beginning. But, 1. The second Person is not called Christ before the fall, nor without respect to his humane Nature. 2. It is uncertain whether it was before the fall; because we know not whether man fell on the same day in which he was Created, which is the commonest opinion, (though unproved) Whereupon Mr. •. Walker in his Treat. of the Sabbath maintaineth, that the fall and promise went before the Sabbath, and so that Gods rest had respect to Christ promised, as the perfection of his works, and that the Sabbath was first founded on Christ and the promise. But because all this is unproved Opinion, I incline to the Objectors, and the common sense.