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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.
which when they have done, it is as many days from the third day to the third, as from the seventh to the seventh. 5. If Time were naturally measured by Weeks, yet it followeth not, that Rest must be so: some ⟨p. 209⟩Countries are strong and can labour longer, and others tender and weak, and can labour less. 6. And seeing that the Reason of a day for worshipping Assemblies, is greater and more noble, than the Reason of a day for Bodily Rest, Nature will rather tell us, that God should have the first day, than the last; A Jove principium: As God was to have the first born, the first fruits, &c. 7. If we might frame Laws for Divine Worship by such conceits of convenience, as this is of the last day in seven as fittest for Rest, and call them all the Laws of Nature, what a multitude of additions would be made, and of how great diversity? whilst every mans conceit went for Reason, and Reason for Nature, and so we should have as many Laws of Nature, as there are diversities of conceits. And yet that there is such a thing as a Law of Nature in which all Reason should agree, we doubt not. But having in vain expected your proof, that the seventh day Sabbath is the Law of Nature, or of universal natural obligation, I shall briefly prove the Negative (that it is not)
which when they have done, it is as many dayes from the third day to the third, as from the seventh to the seventh. 5. If Time were naturally measured by Weeks, yet it followeth not, that Rest must be so: some ⟨p. 209⟩Countreys are strong and can labour longer, and others tender and weak, and can labour less. 6. And seeing that the Reason of a day for worshipping Assemblies, is greater and more noble, than the Reason of a day for Bodily Rest, Nature will rather tell us, that God should have the first day, than the last; A Jove principium: As God was to have the first born, the first fruits, &c. 7. If we might frame Laws for Divine Worship by such conceits of convenience, as this is of the last day in seven as fittest for Rest, and call them all the Laws of Nature, what a multitude of additions would be made, and of how great diversity? whilst every mans conceit went for Reason, and Reason for Nature, and so we should have as many Laws of Nature, as there are diversities of conceits. And yet that there is such a thing as a Law of Nature in which all Reason should agree, we doubt not. But having in vain expected your proof, that the seventh day Sabbath is the Law of Nature, or of universal natural obligation, I shall briefly prove the Negative (that it is not)