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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.
4. If the Text mention it only as a Positive Institution, then it is not to be accounted a Law of nature. But the Text mentioneth it only as a Positive institution—As is plain, Gen. 2. 3. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, &c. If it had been a Law of nature, it had been made in Nature, and the making of Nature would have been the making of the Law. But here are two arguments against that in the Text.
1. Blessing and sanctifying are positive acts of supernatural institution, superadded to the works of nature: They are not Divine Creating acts, but Divine instituting acts.
2. That which is blessed and sanctified, Because God rested in it from all his works, is not blessed and sanctified merely by those works or that Rest: And if neither the works of Nature, nor the Rest of God from those works did sanctify ⟨p. 212⟩it, then it is not of natural sanctification, and so not of natural obligation.
2. That which is blessed and sanctified, Because God rested in it from all his works, is not blessed and sanctified meerly by those works or that Rest: And if neither the works of Nature, nor the Rest of God from those works did sanctifie ⟨p. 212⟩it, then it is not of natural sanctification, and so not of natural obligation.