A26918:723
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.
5. That you must pardon me for my purposely avoiding the name of the [Moral Law] Mr. Cawdry and Mr. Palmer who have written most largely of the Sabbath, have told you the reason. I love not such names, as are not fitted to the nature of things, but are fitted to signify almost what the Speaker pleaseth.
5. That you must pardon me for my purposely avoiding the name of the [Moral Law] Mr. Cawdry and Mr. Palmer who have written most largely of the Sabbath, have told you the reason. I love not such names, as are not fitted to the nature of things, but are fitted to signifie almost what the Speaker pleaseth.
I know no Law which is not formally Moral, as being Regula actionum Moralium. And men may if they will, as well confine the signification of the ⟨p. 233⟩word [Law] it self, as of a [Moral Law] Nor doth use it self sufficiently notify the distinguishing signification of it: For one meaneth by that name, all the Law of Nature as such. Another meaneth only so much of the Law of Nature as is common to all mankind. Another meaneth all Positive Laws of supernatural Revelation, which are perpetual and universal, as well as the Law of Nature. Therefore without finding fault with others, it sufficeth me to distinguish Laws by such names as plainly signify the intended difference. And though by the Law of Nature, I mean not formally the same thing that some others do, I have sufficiently opened my sense and the reasons of it, in my Reasons of the Christian Religion.
I know no Law which is not formally Moral, as being Regula actionum Moralium. And men may if they will, as well confine the signification of the ⟨p. 233⟩word [Law] it self, as of a [Moral Law] Nor doth use it self sufficiently notifie the distinguishing signification of it: For one meaneth by that name, all the Law of Nature as such. Another meaneth only so much of the Law of Nature as is common to all mankind. Another meaneth all Positive Laws of supernatural Revelation, which are perpetual and universal, as well as the Law of Nature. Therefore without finding fault with others, it sufficeth me to distinguish Laws by such names as plainly signifie the intended difference. And though by the Law of Nature, I mean not formally the same thing that some others do, I have sufficiently opened my sense and the reasons of it, in my Reasons of the Christian Religion.