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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.
Let none say that many of these same things are commanded in order to God, and our neighbour. For I grant that the same material acts be ⟨p. 218⟩so; as they are expressions of Love to God and Man: But to do them in Love to our selves and for our own Salvation, is another principle and end, not contrary to, but necessarily conjunct with the former two: And indeed all the duties of self-love as such are past by (as supposed) in Moses Decalogue; because they are deeply written in mans Nature, and because the Law was Written as Political, for another use.
Obj. But these are all supposed in the first Command of Loving God, and in the second Table, Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self.
Answ. 1. These last are not the words of the Decalogue: but a part of the summary of all the Law. 2. Both Tables indeed suppose the Love of our selves, but that which is supposed, is not a part of them.
Obj. But it is the Socinians that say the Old Testament speaketh of no reward or punishment but in this life.