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…

But shall we think that the Apostles speaks any thing of all here said, to wean Saints off from the Law of Nature as such! No verily, that he retains in the Church, as being managed there by Christ: But THIS Ministration is dangerous now, because it cannot be maintained in the Church, but in a way of contempt to the Ministration of the Spirit, and is derogatory to the glory of that.

Now these, as I said, are weaning Considerations. No man, I do think, that knows himself, or the glory of a Gospel-ministration, can, if he understands what Paul says here, desire that such a Ministration should be retained in the Churches.

Fourthly, This Seventh-day-sabbath ⟨p. 43⟩has lost its ceremonies (those unto which before you are cited by the Texts) which was with it imposed upon the old Church for her due performance of Worship to God thereon: How then can this Sabbath now he kept? Kept, I say, according to Law. For it the Church on which it was at first imposed, was not to keep it, yea, could not keep it legally without the practising of those Ceremonies: And if those Ceremonies are long ago dead and gone, how will those that pretend to a belief of a continuation of the Sanction thereof, keep it, I say, according as it is written?