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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.
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 ⟨p. 189⟩Ep. to the Heb. do so fully plead against it.) 2. Or else that by the Law in all those Texts is meant all the Decalogue, and the Decalogue alone.
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 ⟨p. 189⟩Ep. to the Heb. do so fully plead against it.) 2. Or else that by the Law in all those Texts is meant all the Decalogue, and the Decalogue alone.
The Texts cited by you prove no more than what we hold as confidently as you: viz, 1. That all the Law of Nature, (where the Matter or Nature of the things continue) is continued by Christ, and is his principal Law. 2. That the Decalogue as to that matter of it, is continued as it is the Law of Nature (which is almost all that is in it,) but not as the Jewish Law given by Moses hands to the Political body. 3. That the Natural part of all the rest of Moses Law is continued as well as the Decalogue. 4. That all Moses Law as well as the Decalogue shall be fulfilled, and Heaven and Earth shall sooner pass away than one jot or tittle of it shall pass till it be fulfilled. 5. That the Elements, Shadows, Predictions, Preparations, &c. are all fulfilled by the coming of Christ, and by a more perfect Administration. For Christ fulfilled all Righteousness,