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…

Now, I say, they still retaining their nominal grandeur, though not by virtue of a Law, they could not, till Time and Dispensation came, be swept out of the way. We will make what hath been said, as to this, out by a familiar similitude.

Now, I say, they still retaining their nominal grandeur, though not by vertue of a Law, they could not, till Time and Dispensation came, be swept out of the way. We will make what hath been said, as to this, out by a familiar similitude.

There is a Lord or great man dies; now being dead, he has lost his virtual life. He has now no relation to a Wife, to Children, virtually; yet his Name still abides, and that in that Family, to which otherwise he is dead. Wherefore they embalm him, and also keep him above ground for many days. Yea, he is still reverenced by those of the family, and that in several respects. Nor doth any thing but time and dispensation wear this name away.

There is a Lord or great man dies; now being dead, he has lost his vertual life. He has now no relation to a Wife, to Children, vertually; yet his Name still abides, and that in that Family, to which otherwise he is dead. Wherefore they embalm him, and also keep him above ground for many days. Yea, he is still reverenced by those of the family, and that in several respects. Nor doth any thing but time and dispensation wear this name away.

Thus then the Old Testament-signs and shadows went off the stage in the Church of Christ among the Jews. They lost their virtue and signification when Christ nailed them to his Cross, Coloss. 2. But as to their Name, and the Grandeur that attended that, it continued with many that were weak, and vanished not, but when the abomination that made them desolate came.