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…

We meddle then only with that time that the Worship aforesaid is to be performed in; which time the Law of Nature as such supposes, but the God of Nature chooses. And this time as to the Churches of the Gentiles, we have proved is not that time which was assigned to the Jews, to wit, THAT Seventh day which was imposed upon them by the ministration of death; for, as we have showed already, that Ministration indeed is done away by a better and more glorious Ministration, the Ministration of the Spirit; which Ministration surely would be much more inferior than that which has now no glory, was it defective as to this. That is, if it imposed a Gospel-service, but appointed not time to perform that Worship in: or if notwithstanding all its commendation, it should be forced to borrow of a ⟨p. 59⟩Ministration inferior to it self; that, to wit, the time without which by no means its most solemn worship can be performed.

We meddle then onely with that time that the Worship aforesaid is to be performed in; which time the Law of Nature as such supposes, but the God of Nature chuses. And this time as to the Churches of the Gentiles, we have proved is not that time which was assigned to the Jews, to wit, THAT Seventh day which was imposed upon them by the ministration of death; for, as we have shewed already, that Ministration indeed is done away by a better and more glorious Ministration, the Ministration of the Spirit; which Ministration surely would be much more inferiour than that which has now no glory, was it defective as to this. That is, if it imposed a Gospel-service, but appointed not time to perform that Worship in: or if notwithstanding all its commendation, it should be forced to borrow of a ⟨p. 59⟩Ministration inferiour to it self; that, to wit, the time without which by no means its most solemn worship can be performed.

This then is the Conclusion, that TIME to worship God in is required by the Law of Nature; but that the Law of Nature doth, as such, fix it on the Seventh day from the Creation of the World, that I utterly deny, by what I have said already, and have yet to say on that behalf: Yea, I hope to make it manifest, as I have, that this Seventh day is removed; that God, by the ministration of the Spirit, has changed the time to another day, to wit, The first day of the week. Therefore we conclude the time is fixed for the worship of the New Testament-Christians, or Churches of the Gentiles, unto that day.