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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.
II. Now I come to consider of what you say against all this. You Cite the numbers of many Chapters and Verses (contrary to your grand principles, these divisions being Humane Inventions;) in all which there is nothing about the Controversy in hand. The Texts speak not of the Decalogue only, but of the Law, and of Gods Commandments, and Christs Commandments. Now I must tell you before-hand, that I will take no mans word for the Word of God, nor believe any thing that you say, God speaketh; without proof. Prove it, or it goeth for nothing with me. For as I know that adding to Gods Word is Cursed, Rev. 22. 18. as well as taking away; so it I must once come to believe that God saith this or that without proof, I shall never know whom to believe: For twenty men may tell me twenty several tales, and say that God saith them all.
II. Now I come to consider of what you say against all this. You Cite the numbers of many Chapters and Verses (contrary to your grand principles, these divisions being Humane Inventions;) in all which there is nothing about the Controversie in hand. The Texts speak not of the Decalogue only, but of the Law, and of Gods Commandments, and Christs Commandments. Now I must tell you before-hand, that I will take no mans word for the Word of God, nor believe any thing that you say, God speaketh; without proof. Prove it, or it goeth for nothing with me. For as I know that adding to Gods Word is Cursed, Rev. 22. 18. as well as taking away; so it I must once come to believe that God saith this or that without proof, I shall never know whom to believe: For twenty men may tell me twenty several tales, and say that God saith them all.
I expect your proof then of one of these two assertions (for which it is that you hold, no man can gather by your own words, or citations.) 1. That all the Law which was in being at Christs Incarnation, was confirmed and continued by him (which yet I do not Imagine you to hold▪ […] all Pauls Epistles, and especially the