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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.
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 ⟨p. 184⟩of Nature, whose sum is the Love of God, and of his Image, is ever the Primitive unchangeable Law; and the rest are secondary subservient Laws, either Positive, or remedying, or both. And no tittle of this shall ever cease, if nature cease not.
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 ⟨p. 184⟩of Nature, whose summe is the Love of God, and of his Image, is ever the Primitive unchangeable Law; and the rest are secondary subservient Laws, either Positive, or remedying, or both. And no tittle of this shall ever cease, if nature cease not.
5. But yet there are temporary Laws of Nature, which are about Temporary things; or where the Nature of the thing it self is mutable, from whence the Natural duty doth result. As it was a duty by the then Law of Nature it self; for Adams Sons and Daughters to Marry [Increase and multiply] being made a natural Benediction, and the means a natural Duty. And yet now, it is incest against the Law of Nature, for Brother and Sister to Marry. So it was a Natural duty for Adam and Eve before their Fall to love each other as innocent; but not so when they ceased to be innocent: For cessanie materiâ cessat obligatio.