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…

Seventhly, Thus Paul writes to the Church of Coloss. Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of any holy day, or of the new Moon, or of the Sabbath: which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ, Coloss. 2. 16, 17. Here also, as he serveth other Holy-days, he serveth the Sabbath: He gives a liberty to believers to refuse the observation of it, and commands that no man should judge against them for their so doing. And as you read, the reason of his so doing is, because the body, the substance is come: Christ, saith he, is the Body, or that which these things were a shadow or figure of. The Body is Christ.

Nor hath the Apostle, since he ⟨p. 49⟩saith [or of the Sabbath] one would th[…] left any hole, out at which mens inventions could get: but man has sought out many; and, so, many he will use.

Nor hath the Apostle, since he ⟨p. 49⟩saith [or of the Sabbath] one would th〈…〉 left any hole, out at which mens inventions could get: but man has sought out many; and, so, many he will use.

But again, That the Apostle by this word Sabbath intends the Seventh-day-sabbath, is clear; for that it is by Moses himself counted for a sign, as we have showed: and for that none of the other Sabbaths were a more clear shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ than this. For that, and that alone, is called the Rest of God: in it God rested from all his works. Hence he calls it by way of eminency MY Sabbath, and MY Holy-day,