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…

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.

This seems to have some truth in it, because among the Jews that believed, there continued a long time many that were wedded yet to the Law, to the ceremonial part thereof, and was not so clearly Evangelized as the Churches of the Gentiles was. Thou seest Brother, said James to Paul, how many thousands of the Jews there are that believe, and they are all zealous of the Law, Acts 15. 5. ch. 21. 20.

Of these, and such weak unbelieving Jews, perhaps Christ speaks, when he gives this exhortation to them to pray thus; whose Consciences he knew would be weak, and being so, would bind when they were entangled with an error, as fast as if it bound by a Law indeed.

Of these, and such weak unbelieving Jews, perhaps Christ speaks, when he gives this exhortation to them to pray thus; whose Consciences he knew would be weak, and being so, would bind when they were entangled with an errour, as fast as if it bound by a Law indeed.