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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.
The next pretended proof is, Rom. 2. 14, &c. where there is not one syllable mentioning the Decalogue as such, but only in general, The Law, so far as it was written in the Gentiles hearts. But where is it proved, that the Law or the Decalogue are words of the same signification, or extent; any more, than the whole and a part are? Or where is it proved, that none of the rest of the Law is written in Nature, but the Decalogue only? Or else that every word in the Decalogue it self is part of the Law of Nature, (which is the question.) I shall prove the contrary anon: In the mean time, the bare numbering of Chapters and Verses is no proof.
The next pretended proof is, Rom. 2. 14, &c. where there is not one syllable mentioning the Decalogue as such, but only in general, The Law, so far as it was written in the Gentiles hearts. But where is it proved, that the Law or the Decalogue are words of the same signification, or extent; any more, than the whole and a part are? Or where is it proved, that none of the rest of the Law is written in Nature, but the Decalogue only? Or else that every word in the Decalogue it self is part of the Law of Nature, (which is the question.) I shall prove the contrary anon: In the mean time, the bare numbring of Chapters and Verses is no proof.
3. It is next said, that [Adam was made and framed to the perfection of the ten words.] Answ. Adam was made in the Image of God, before the ten words were given in stone: But so much of them as is of the Law of Nature, and had matter existent in Adams days, no doubt, was a Law to him as well as it is to us. But that's nothing to the question, Whether all things in the ten words are of Natural Obligation?
3. It is next said, that [Adam was made and framed to the perfection of the ten words.] Answ. Adam was made in the Image of God, before the ten words were given in stone: But so much of them as is of the Law of Nature, and had matter existent in Adams dayes, no doubt, was a Law to him as well as it is to us. But that's nothing to the question, Whether all things in the ten words are of Natural Obligation?