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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. All the Law of Nature was not in the Tables of Stone. Here I premise these suppositions.
1. That a General Law alone, obligeth not to all particulars, without a Particular Law. E. g. If the second Command say, Thou shalt perform all Gods instituted Worship: Or, Thou shalt Worship ⟨p. 217⟩me, as I appoint thee? This bindeth no man to Baptism, the Lords Supper, &c. till another Law appoint them. Therefore there is not so much in the general Law alone, as is in that and the particular also.
2. All that is presupposed in a particular Law, is not part of that Law.
3. It is not so much to infer a duty indirectly and by far fetched Consequences, as to command it directly.
3. It is not so much to inferr a duty indirectly and by far fetcht Consequences, as to command it directly.