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…

And I say again, that Christ should suppose that their flight should, or might last some considerable part of a Winter, and yet that then they should have their rest on those Seventh-day-sabbaths, is a little besides my reason, if it be considered again, that the Gentiles before whom they were then to fly, were Enemies to their Sabbath, and consequently would take opportunity at their Sabbaths to afflict them so much the more. Wherefore, I would that they who plead for a continuation of the Seventh-day-sabbath from this Text, would both better consider LT, and the incoherence that seems to be betwixt such a Sabbath and a Winter.

And I say again, that Christ should suppose that their flight should, or might last some considerable part of a Winter, and yet that then they should have their rest on those Seventh-day-sabbaths, is a little besides my reason, if it be considered again, that the Gentiles before whom they were then to fly, were Enemies to their Sabbath, and consequently would take opportunity at their Sabbaths to afflict them so much the more. Wherefore, I would that they who plead for a continuation of the Seventh-daysabbath from this Text, would both better consider LT, and the incoherence that seems to be betwixt such a Sabbath and a Winter.

But again, were it granted that it is the Seventh-day-sabbath that ⟨p. 110⟩Christ here intendeth; yet, since, as we have proved, the Sanction before this was taken away; I mean, before this flight should be, he did not press them to pray thus because by any Law of Heaven they should then be commanded to keep it holy; but because some would, thorough their weakness, have conscience of it till then. And such would, if their flight should happen thereon, be as much grieved and perplexed, as if it yet stood obligatory to them by a Law.