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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.
So that the Law as denominated from the nobler Natural part, and as signifying the whole Law or system of precepts, then in force, is not destroyed, but perfected; But the Law as signifying that called Jewish delivered by Moses to that Republic, as such, though part of the said system, yet is the Imperfect part, and is taken down and is now no Law, though it be not destroyed, but fulfilled, and turned into a more perfect Testament and Administration.
So that the Law as denominated from the nobler Natural part, and as signifying the whole Law or systeme of precepts, then in force, is not destroyed, but perfected; But the Law as signifying that called Jewish delivered by Moses to that Republick, as such, though part of the said systeme, yet is the Imperfect part, and is taken down and is now no Law, though it be not destroyed, but fulfilled, and turned into a more perfect Testament and Administration.
Now that by the Law and Commandments I am not to understand the Decalogue only, in any of your cited Texts, I thus prove.
1. From the notation of the name. The word [Law] in its usual proper sense, doth signify the whole, or other parts as well as that; and not that one part only. Therefore I must ⟨p. 192⟩so take it, till you prove that in any Text it hath a limited sense. Else I shall turn Gods universal or indefinite terms into particular, and pervert his word, by limiting by my own invention where God hath not limited.
1. From the notation of the name. The word [Law] in its usual proper sense, doth signifie the whole, or other parts as well as that; and not that one part only. Therefore I must