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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.
II. It hath less in it than the Law of Nature: And therefore was never intended for a mere or perfect transcript of the Law of Nature: but for a perfect general summary of so much of that Law as God thought meet to give the Jews by supernatural revelation, containing the chief heads of Natures Law (lest they should not be clear enough in Nature it self) with the addition of something more.
II. It hath less in it than the Law of Nature: And therefore was never intended for a meer or perfect transcript of the Law of Nature: but for a perfect general summary of so much of that Law as God thought meet to give the Jews by supernatural revelation, containing the chief heads of Natures Law (lest they should not be clear enough in Nature it self) with the addition of something more.
I. That the Decalogue written in stone hath more than the Law of Nature, is proved 1. By these instances; 1. That God brought them out of the Land of Egypt, and out the house of servants, and that he is to be worshipped in that relation, ⟨p. 215⟩is none of the Law of Nature, universally so called.
2. That God is merciful (and therefore reconciled) to thousand Generations of them that Love him, notwithstanding mans natural state of sin and misery, and all mens actual sin, this is of supernatural Grace, and not the Law of mere Nature.
2. That God is merciful (and therefore reconciled) to thousand Generations of them that Love him, notwithstanding mans natural state of sin and misery, and all mens actual sin, this is of supernatural Grace, and not the Law of meer Nature.