The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

2. That is not an universal Law of Nature, which Learned, Godly men, and the greatest number of these, yea, almost all the world, know ⟨p. 210⟩no such thing by, and confess they cannot prove by Nature. But such is the seventh day Sabbath—&c. It is not I alone that know nothing of any such Law, nor am able by any Natural Evidence to prove it, but also all the Divines and other Christians that I am or ever was acquainted with: Nay, I never knew one man that could say, that he either had such a Law in his own nature (unless some one did take his conceit for a Law) nor that he could show such 3 Law in natura rerum. And it is a strange Law of Nature, which is to be found in no ones Nature, but perhaps twenty mens or very few in a whole age; nor is discerned by all the rest of the world. If you say, that few understand nature or improve their reason: I answer 1. If it be such a Law of Nature as is obliterated in almost all mankind, it is a very great argument that nature being changed, the Law is changed. How can that oblige which cannot be known? 2. Are not we men as well as you? Have not several Ages had as great improvers of nature as you? If grace must be the improver, are there, or have there been none as gracious? If Learning must be the improver, have there been none as learned? If diligence or impartiality must be the improvers of nature, have there not been many as diligent, studious and impartial as your selves? Let all rational men judge which of these is the better argument, [I and twenty men more in the world do discern in Nature an universal obligation on mankind to keep the seventh day Sabbath: Therefore it is the Law of Nature.] Or [The world of mankind, godly and ungodly, ⟨p. 211⟩learned and unlearned, discern no such natural obligation, except you and the few of your mind: Therefore it is no Law of Nature.]

2. That is not an universal Law of Nature, which Learned, Godly men, and the greatest number of these, yea, almost all the world, know ⟨p. 210⟩no such thing by, and confess they cannot prove by Nature. But such is the seventh day Sabbath—&c. It is not I alone that know nothing of any such Law, nor am able by any Natural Evidence to prove it, but also all the Divines and other Christians that I am or ever was acquainted with: Nay, I never knew one man that could say, that he either had such a Law in his own nature (unless some one did take his conceit for a Law) nor that he could shew such 3 Law in natura rerum. And it is a strange Law of Nature, which is to be found in no ones Nature, but perhaps twenty mens or very few in a whole age; nor is discerned by all the rest of the world. If you say, that few understand nature or improve their reason: I answer 1. If it be such a Law of Nature as is obliterated in almost all mankind, it is a very great argument that nature being changed, the Law is changed. How can that oblige which cannot be known? 2. Are not we men as well as you? Have not several Ages had as great improvers of nature as you? If grace must be the improver, are there, or have there been none as gracious? If Learning must be the improver, have there been none as learned? If diligence or impartiality must be the improvers of nature, have there not been many as diligent, studious and impartial as your selves? Let all rational men judge which of these is the better argument, [I and twenty men more in the world do discern in Nature an universal obligation on mankind to keep the seventh day Sabbath: Therefore it is the Law of Nature.] Or [The world of mankind, godly and ungodly,