A26918:692
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.
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.
Answ. True: But Camero (de tripl. faed.) and others that rightly understand the matter affirm, that, 1. The Law of Nature containeth future rewards and punishments in another life, 2. And so doth the Covenant of Grace made with Adam and all mankind in him, and renewed to Noah, Abraham and the Israelites, which by Paul is called The Promise as distinct from the Law. 3. But the Law of Moses in its own proper Nature as such, was only Political, and spake but of Temporal Rewards and Punishments. 4. Though yet all the faithful were bound to take the Law and Promise together, and so to have respect both to Temporal and Eternal things. ⟨p. 219⟩For the Law it self connoted and supposed things Eternal as our great concernment.