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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.
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.
5. If the very Reason of the day be not of natural, but of supernatural Revelation, then the sanctification of the day is not of natural, but supernatural revelation and obligation. But the former is certain. For no man breathing ever did or can prove by Nature, without supernatural Revelation, that God made and finished his works in six days, and rested the seventh. Aristotle had been like to have escaped his Opinion of the worlds eternity, if he could have found out this by nature.
5. If the very Reason of the day be not of natural, but of supernatural Revelation, then the sanctification of the day is not of natural, but supernatural revelation and obligation. But the former is certain. For no man breathing ever did or can prove by Nature, without supernatural Revelation, that God made and finished his works in six dayes, and rested the seventh. Aristotle had been like to have escaped his Opinion of the worlds eternity, if he could have found out this by nature.