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…

Thirdly, If it be of the Law of Nature, then all men by nature are convinced of the necessity of keeping it, and that though they never read or heard of the revealed Will of God about it; but this we find not in the world.

For though it is true that the Law of Nature is common to all, and that all men are to this day under the power and command thereof, yet we find not that they are by nature under a conviction of the necessity of keeping of a Seventh-day-Sabbath. Yea, the Gentiles, though we read not that they ever despised the Law of Nature, yet never had, as such, a reverence of a Seventh-day-Sabbath, but rather the contrary.

Fourthly, If therefore the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, then it should seem not ⟨p. 6⟩to be obligatory to all. For instituted Worship, and the necessary circumstances thereunto belonging, is obligatory but to some. The Tree that Adam was forbid to eat of, we read not but that his Children might have eat the fruit thereof: and Circumcision, the Passover, and other parts of instituted Worship was enjoined but to some.

Fourthly, If therefore the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, then it should seem not ⟨p. 6⟩to be obligatory to all. For instituted Worship, and the necessary circumstances thereunto belonging, is obligatory but to some. The Tree that Adam was forbid to eat of, we read not but that his Children might have eat the fruit thereof: and Circumcision, the Passover, and other parts of instituted Worship was enjoyned but to some.