A26918:614
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.
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 ⟨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.
2. Because the common sense in which the Jews, (against whom Christ spake) did take the word [Law] Was not for the Decalogue only but for the Pentateuch, or all Moses Law. And if Christ speak to them, he is to be supposed to speak intelligibly, and therefore in their sense.
2. Because the common sense in which the Jewes, (against whom Christ spake) did take the word [Law] Was not for the Decalogue only but for the Pentateuch, or all Moses Law. And if Christ speak to them, he is to be supposed to speak intelligibly, and therefore in their sense.