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…

From all this therefore I conclude, that there is a difference to be put between the morality of the Law, and the ministration of it upon Sinai. The Law, as to its morality, was before; but as to this ministration, 'twas not till the Church was with Moses, and he with the Angels on Mount Sinai in the Wilderness.

Now in the Law as moral, we conclude a time propounded, but no Seventh-day-sabbath enjoined: But in that Law, as thus ministered, which Ministration is already out of doors, we find a seventh day; that seventh day on which God rested, on which ⟨p. 38⟩God rested from all his works, enjoined. What is it then? why the whole Ministration as written and engraven in stones being removed, the Seventh-day-sabbath must also be removed; for that the time, nor yet the day, was as to our holy Sabbath, or rest, moral; but imposed with that whole Ministration, as such, upon the Church, until the time of Reformation: Which time being come, this Ministration, as I said, as such, ceaseth; and the whole Law, as to the morality of it, is delivered into the hand of Christ, who imposes it now also; but not as a Law of Works, nor as that Ministration written and engraven in Stones, but as a Rule of life to those that have believed in him, 1 Cor. 9. 21.

Now in the Law as moral, we conclude a time propounded, but no Seventh-day-sabbath enjoyned: But in that Law, as thus ministred, which Ministration is already out of doors, we find a seventh day; that seventh day on which God rested, on which ⟨p. 38⟩God rested from all his works, enjoyned. What is it then? why the whole Ministration as written and engraven in stones being removed, the Seventh-day-sabbath must also be removed; for that the time, nor yet the day, was as to our holy Sabbath, or rest, moral; but imposed with that whole Ministration, as such, upon the Church, until the time of Reformation: Which time being come, this Ministration, as I said, as such, ceaseth; and the whole Law, as to the morality of it, is delivered into the hand of Christ, who imposes it now also; but not as a Law of Works, nor as that Ministration written and engraven in Stones, but as a Rule of life to those that have believed in him,