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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.
2. We hold that Christs Redeemed Kingdom hath been Governed by him, with variety of Administrations, by various Editions of his Law or Covenant: That is, I. Universally to Mankind; viz. 1. Before his Incarnation: which was; first, To Adam, and secondly to Noah, and to mankind in them both: 2. After his Incarnation. II. Particularly, to the seed of Abraham even the Jews as a particular Political society; chosen out of the World (not as the only people or Church of God on Earth, but) for peculiar extraordinary mercies as a peculiar people.
3. We believe that each of these Administrations was fittest for its proper time and subject, according to the manifold Wisdom of God: But yet the Alterations were many and great, and all tended towards perfection: so that the last Edition of the Covenant by Christ Incarnate and his Holy Spirit, much excelled all that went before, in the Kingdom of the Mediator. And all these changes were made by God-Redeemer himself.
3. We believe that each of these Administrations was fittest for its proper time and subject, according to the manifold Wisdom of God: But yet the Alterations were many and great, and all tended towards perfection: so that the last Edition of the Covenant by Christ Incarnate and his Holy Spirit, much excelled all that went before, in the Kingdom of the Mediatour. And all these changes were made by God-Redeemer himself.
4. As it was the work of the Redeemer to be the Repairer of Nature, and recoverer of man to God; so in all the several Administrations, the great Laws of Nature containing mans duty to God, resulting from and manifested in our Nature as related to God, and in the Natura rerum or the Works of God, was still made the chief part of the Redeemers Law: so that this Law