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, 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.

Now this Law, as was said, being natural to a man, (for man is a L•m unto himself, (Rom. 2.) could ⟨p. 3⟩only teach the things of a man, and there the Apostle stints it, 1 Cor. 2. 11.)▪ But to be able to determine, and that about things that were yet without being either in Nature, or by Revelation, is that which belongs not to a man as a man; and the Seventh-day-Sabbath as yet, was such: For Adam was completely made the day before; and God did not sanctify the Seventh day before it was, none otherwise than by his secret Decree. Therefore by the Law of Nature Adam understood it not, it was not made known to him thereby.

Now this Law, as was said, being natural to a man, (for man is a L•m unto himself, (Rom. 2.) could ⟨p. 3⟩onely teach the things of a man, and there the Apostle stints it, 1 Cor. 2. 11