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…

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.

Secondly, I find, as I have showed, that this Seventh-day-sabbath is confined, not to the Law of Nature as such, but to that ministration of it which was given on Sinai: which Ministration as it is come to an end as such, so it is rejected by Paul as a Ministration no ways capable of abiding in the Church now, since the ministration of the Spirit also hath taken its place, (2 Cor. 3.) Wherefore instead of propounding it to the Churches with Arguments tending ⟨p. 41⟩to its reception, he seeks by degrading it of its old lustre and glory, to wean the Churches from any likement thereof;