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…

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?

If they say, they retain the day, but change their manner of observation thereof; I ask, Who has commanded them so to do? This is one of the Laws of this Sabbath: Thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon ⟨p. 44⟩the pure Table before the Lord. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant, Levit. 24. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. You may see also other places, as Numb. 28. 9, 10. Neh. 13. 22. and Ezek. 46. 4.