A26918:724
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.
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.
6. That they who say, that the Old Covenant, or the Covenant of Works made by Moses with the Jews is abrogate or ceased, and the Decalogue as a part of, or belonging to that Covenant, do say the same thing that I do, when I maintain that the Decalogue and whole Law as Mosaical is ceased, but that all the Natural part is