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…

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.

Let men take heed, lest while they plead for Law, and pretend themselves to be the onely 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 shewed, is no moral Precept, 'tis onely a branch of the ministration of Death and Condemnation.

Fifthly, The Seventh-day-sabbath, as such, was a sign and shadow of things to come; and a sign cannot be the thing signified and substance too: Wherefore when the thing signified, or substance, is come, the sign or thing shadowing ceaseth. And, I say, the Seventh-day-sabbath being so, as a Seventh-day-sabbath it ceaseth also. See again, Exod. 31. 13, 14.