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…

First then, By the Law or Light of Nature, I mean, that Law which was concreat with man; that which is natural to him, being Original ⟨p. 2⟩with, and Essential to himself; consequently that which is invariable and unalterable, as is that Nature.

Secondly, I grant that by this Law of Nature, man understands that there is one eternal God; that this God is to be worshipped according to his own will; consequently that time must be allowed to do it in: But whether the Law or Light of Nature teacheth, and, that of it self, without the help of Revelation, that the Seventh day of the week is that time sanctified of God, and set apart for his Worship, that's the Question; and the grounds of it are these:

Secondly, I grant that by this Law of Nature, man understands that there is one eternal God; that this God is to be worshiped according to his own will; consequently that time must be allowed to do it in: But whether the Law or Light of Nature teacheth, and, that of it self, without the help of Revelation, that the Seventh day of the week is that time sanctified of God, and set apart for his Worship, that's the Question; and the grounds of it are thefe:

First, Because the Law of Nature is antecedent to this day▪ yea completed as a Law before 'twas known or revealed to man that God either did or would sanctify the Seventh day of the week at all.

First, Because the Law of Nature is anticedent to this day▪ yea compleated as a Law before 'twas known or revealed to man that God either did or would sanctifie the Seventh day of the week at all.