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…

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.

Now if these be the Laws of the Sabbath, this Seventh-day-sabbath; And if God did never command that this Sabbath should by his Church be sanctified without them▪ And, as was said before, if these Ceremonies have been long since dead and buried, how must this Sabbath be kept?

Let men take heed, lest while they plead for Law, and pretend themselves to be the only doers of Gods will, they be not found the biggest transgressors thereof. And why can ⟨p. 45⟩they not as well keep the other Sabbaths, as the Sabbaths of Months, of Years, and the Jubilee? For this, as I have showed, is no moral Precept, 'tis only a branch of the ministration of Death and Condemnation.