Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…

1. It commenced not when Morality commenced, but two thousand years after. 2. It was not universal as the Law, as moral is, 'twas given only to the Church of the Jews in those Tables. 3. Its end is past as such a ministration, though the same Law as to ⟨p. 35⟩the morality thereof abides. Where are the Tables of Stone and this Law as therein contained? We only, as to that, have the notice of such a ministration, and a rehearsal of the Law, with that mode of giving of it, in the testament of God.

1. It commenced not when Morality commenced, but two thousand years after. 2. It was not universal as the Law, as moral is, 'twas given onely to the Church of the Jews in those Tables. 3. Its end is past as such a ministration, though the same Law as to ⟨p. 35⟩the morality thereof abides. Where are the Tables of Stone and this Law as therein contained? We onely, as to that, have the notice of such a ministration, and a rehearsal of the Law, with that mode of giving of it, in the testament of God.

But to come to Particulars.

1. The very Preface to that Ministration carrieth in it a type of our deliverance from the Bondage of Sin, the Devil, and Hell. Pharaoh, and Egypt, and Israels bondage there, being a type of these. 2. The very Stones in which this Law was engraven, was a figure of the Tables of the Heart. The first two were a figure of the Heart carnal, by which the Law was broken: The last two, of the Heart spiritual, in which the new Law, the Law of Grace is written and preserved, Exod. 34. 1