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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.
Answ. How far a day is of Natural due, I have showed before: In all the words of this reason (which I set down as I received them) there is much which is no matter of Controversy between us; As that there is a Light ⟨p. 204⟩and Law of Nature (which few men doubt of, who are worthy to be called men) And that by this Law of Nature God should be solemnly worshipped, and that at a set or separated time. I hope the Reader will not expect that I weary him with examining the Texts which prove this before it is denied. But the thing denied by us is, that the seventh day Sabbath as the seventh, is of Natural Obligation. The proofs which are brought for this I must examine: For indeed this is the very hinge of all our Controversy: For if this be once proved, we shall easily confess that it is not abrogate: For Christ came not to abrogate any of the Law of Nature (though as I have said, such particles of it may cease, whose Matter ceaseth, by a change in Nature it self.)
Answ. How far a day is of Natural due, I have shewed before: In all the words of this reason (which I set down as I received them) there is much which is no matter of Controversie betwen us; As that there is a Light ⟨p. 204⟩and Law of Nature (which few men doubt of, who are worthy to be called men) And that by this Law of Nature God should be solemnly worshipped, and that at a set or separated time. I hope the Reader will not expect that I weary him with examining the Texts which prove this before it is denyed. But the thing denyed by us is, that the seventh day Sabbath as the seventh, is of Natural Obligation. The proofs which are brought for this I must examine: For indeed this is the very hindge of all our Controversie: For if this be once proved, we shall easily confess that it is not abrogate: For Christ came not to abrogate any of the Law of Nature (though as I have said, such particles of it may cease, whose Matter ceaseth, by a change in Nature it self.)