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…

This is manifest, for that he leaves the observation or non-observation of them, as things indifferent to the Mind and Discretion of the Believers. One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Rom. 14. 5.

This is manifest, for that he leaves the observation or non-observation of them, as things indifferent to the Mind and Discretion of the Believers. One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind. Rom. 14. 5.

By this last clause of the Verse, [Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind] he doth plainly declare, that such days are now stripped of their Sanction: For none of Gods Laws, while they retain their Sanction, are left to the will and mind of the believers, as to whether they will observe them or no. Men, I say, are not left to their liberty in such a case; for when a stamp of Divine Authority is upon a Law, and abides, so long we are bound, not to our mind, but to that Law: ⟨p. 48⟩But when a thing, once sacred, has lost its sanction, then it falls, as to Faith and Conscience, among other common or indifferent things. And so the Seventh-day-sabbath did. Again.

By this last clause of the Verse, [Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind] he doth plainly declare, that such days are now stript of their Sanction: For none of Gods Laws, while they retain their Sanction, are left to the will and mind of the believers, as to whether they will observe them or no. Men, I say, are not left to their liberty in such a case; for when a stamp of Divine Authority is upon a Law, and abides, so long we are bound, not to our mind, but to that Law: ⟨p. 48⟩