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…

So then that Law is still moral, and still supposes, since it teaches that there is a God, that time must be set apart for his Church to worship him in, according to that will of ⟨p. 39⟩his that he hath revealed in his Word. But though by that Law time is required; yet by that, as moral, the time never was prefixed. The time then of old was appointed by such a ministration of that Law as we have been now discoursing of; and when that Ministration ceased, that time did also vanish with it. And now by our new Law-giver, the Son of God, he being Lord also of the Sabbath-day, we have a time prefixed, as the Law of Nature requireth, a new day, by him who is the Lord of it; I say, appointed, wherein we may worship, not in the oldness of that Letter written and engraven in Stones, but according to, and most agreeing with, his new and holy Testament. And this I confirm further by those reasons that now shall follow.

First, Because we find not from the resurrection of Christ to the end of the Bible, any thing written by which is imposed that Seventh-day-Sabbath ⟨p. 40⟩upon the Churches. Time, as I said, the Law as moral requires; but that time we find no longer imposed: And in all duties pertaining to God and his true Worship in his Churches, we must be guided by his Laws and Testaments: By his old Laws, when his old Worship was in force; and by his new Laws, when his new Worship is in force. And he hath verily now said, Behold, I make all things new.

First, Because we find not from the resurrection of Christ to the end of the Bible, any thing written by which is imposed that Seventhday-Sabbath ⟨p. 40⟩upon the Churches. Time, as I said, the Law as moral requires; but that time we find no longer imposed: And in all duties pertaining to God and his true Worship in his Churches, we must be guided by his Laws and Testaments: By his old Laws, when his old Worship was in force; and by his new Laws, when his new Worship is in force. And he hath verily now said, Behold, I make all things new.