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…

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.

Fifthly, I doubt the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, and so not moral; because though we read that the Law of Nature, and that before Moses, was charged upon the world, yet I fi•d not till then, that the profanation of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon the world: and indeed to me this very thing makes a great scruple in the case.

Fifthly, I doubt the Seventh-day-Sabbath is not of the Law of Nature, and so not moral; because though we read that the Law of Nature, and that before Moses, was charged upon the world, yet I fi•d not till then, that the prophanation of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon the world: and indeed to me this very thing makes a great scruple in the case.