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 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.)▪ 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 compleatly made the day before; and God did not sanctifie 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.

Secondly, To affirm the contrary, is to make the Law of Nature Supernatural, which is an impossibility. Yea, they that do so, make it a Predictor, a Prophet; a Prophet about divine things to come; yea, a Prophet able to foretell what shall be, and that without a Revelation; which is a strain that never yet Prophet pretended to.