A26918:630
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.
2. So all that while they kept other parts of the Jewish Law: They scrupled, yea refused a while Communion with the Gentiles as Act. 10. shows. They so carried it to the Jews that Paul made it his defence, that he had ⟨p. 199⟩not offended any thing at all, either against the Law of the Jews or against the Temple, Act. 25. 8. And when he Circumcised Timothy, purified himself, shaved his head, for his Vow, &c. Do you think that all these are duties to Believers?
2. So all that while they kept other parts of the Jewish Law: They scrupled, yea refused a while Communion with the Gentiles as Act. 10. shews. They so carryed it to the Jews that Paul made it his defence, that he had ⟨p. 199⟩not offended any thing at all, either against the Law of the Jews or against the Temple, Act. 25. 8. And when he Circumcised Tim•thy, purified himself, shaved his head, for his Vow, &c. Do you think that all these are duties to Believers?
3. None of the Texts cited by you do prove that the Apostles kept the Sabbath at all as a Sabbath, that is, a day on which it was their duty to Rest; But only that they Preached on that day in the Synagogues, and to the people; For when should they Preach to them but when they were Congregated, and capable of hearing? They took it for no sin to Preach on the Sabbath no more than I would do to Preach Christ on Friday, which is their Sabbath, to the Turks, if they would hear me. But Sabbatizing according to the Law, was something else than Preaching.