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…

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;

Secondly, I find, as I have shewed, 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;

1. By calling of it the ministration of Death, of the Letter, and of Condemnation, a term most frightful, but no ways alluring to the godly. 2. By calling it a Ministration that now has NO glory, by reason of the exceeding glory of that Ministration under which by the holy Spirit the New Testament-Churches are: And these are weaning Considerations, 2 Cor. 3. 3. By telling of them it is a Ministration that tendeth to blind the Mind, and to veil the Heart as to the knowledge of their Christ: So that they cannot, while under that, behold his beauteous face, but as their heart shall turn from it to him,