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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.
9 A. They did indeed keep yet the Jewish Sabbath, till Christs Resurrection, and the coming down of the Holy Ghost: And so they did the rest of the Jewish Law. For they yet knew not that it was abrogated; But must ⟨p. 198⟩we do so too? You may as well argue from their keeping the Sabbath before Christs Death, as on that day when he was dead. The change of the day was made by Degrees, by three several acts or means. 1. The Resurrection of Christ, was the founding act, which gave the Cause of changing it; Like Gods finishing his works of Creation at first. 2. The Inspiration of the Holy Ghost in the Apostles doth teach them, and bring all things to their remembrance which Christ commanded, and was the authorising means of the change: And the Apostles actual settlement thereupon was the Promulgation. 3. The gradual notification by the Preachers to the Churches, and finally the destruction of the Jewish Policy, and Temple, and Priesthood, were the fuller proclamation of it, and the way of bringing the change that was made by Command into fuller Execution.
9 A. They did indeed keep yet the Jewish Sabbath, till Christs Resurrection, and the coming down of the Holy Ghost: And so they did the rest of the Jewish Law. For they yet knew not that it was abrogated; But must ⟨p. 198⟩we do so too? You may as well argue from their keeping the Sabbath before Christs Death, as on that day when he was dead. The change of the day was made by Degrees, by three several acts or means. 1. The Resurrection of Christ, was the founding act, which gave the Cause of changing it; Like Gods finishing his works of Creation at first. 2. The Inspiration of the Holy Ghost in the Apostles doth teach them, and bring all things to their remembrance which Christ commanded, and was the authorising means of the change: And the Apostles actual settlement thereupon was the Promulgation. 3. The gradual notification by the Preachers to the Churches, and finally the destruction of the Jewish Policie, and Temple, and Priesthood, were the fuller proclamation of it, and the way of bringing the change that was made by Command into fuller Execution.