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…

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. ⟨p. 4⟩Besides; to grant this, is to run into a grievous error; for this doth not only make the Law of Nature the first of Prophets; contrary to Gen. 3. 10. compared with Joh. 1. 1. but it seems to make the will of God, made known by Revelation, a needless thing. For if the Law of Nature, as such, can predict, or foretell Gods Secrets, and that before he reveals them, and this Law of Nature is universal in every individual man in the world, what need is there of particular Prophets, or of their holy writings? (and indeed here the Quakers and others split themselves:) For if the Law of Nature can of it self reveal unto me one thing pertaining to instituted Worship, for that we are treating of now, and the exact time which God has not yet sanctified and set apart for the performance thereof, why may it not reveal unto me more, and so still more; and at last all that is requisite for me to know, both as ⟨p. 5⟩to my Salvation, and how God is to be worshipped in the Church on Earth.

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 foretel what shall be, and that without a Revelation; which is a strain that never yet Prophet pretended to. ⟨p. 4⟩Besides; to grant this, is to run into a grievous errour; for this doth not onely make the Law of Nature the first of Prophets; contrary to Gen. 3. 10. compared with Joh. 1. 1. but it seems to make the will of God, made known by Revelation, a needless thing. For if the Law of Nature, as such, can predict, or foretel Gods Secrets, and that before he reveals them, and this Law of Nature is universal in every individal man in the world, what need is there of particular Prophets, or of their holy writings? (and indeed here the Quakers and others split themselves:) For if the Law of Nature can of it self reveal unto me one thing pertaining to instituted Worship, for that we are treating of now, and the exact time which God has not yet sanctified and set apart for the performance thereof, why may it not reveal unto me more, and so still more; and at last all that is requisite for me to know, both as