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…

I have charity for those that abuse themselves and their Lord, by their preposterous zeal and affection for the continuing of this day in the Churches. For I conclude, that if they did either believe, or think of the incoherence that this day with its Rites and Ceremonies has with the Ministration of the Spirit ⟨p. 141⟩our New Testament-Ministration, they would not so stand in their own light as they do, nor so stiffly plead for a place for it in the Churches of the Gentiles. But as Paul insinuates in other cases, there is an aptness in men to be under the law because they do not hear it, Gal. 4.

I have charity for those that abuse themselves and their Lord, by their preposterous zeal and affection for the continuing of this day in the Churches. For I conclude, that if they did either believe, or think of the incoherence that this day with its Rites and Ceremonies has with the Ministration of the Spirit ⟨p. 141⟩our New Testament-Ministration, they would not so stand in their own light as they do, nor so stifly plead for a place for it in the Churches of the Gentiles. But as Paul insinuates in other cases, there is an aptness in men to be under the law because they do not hear it, Gal. 4.

Nor will it out of my mind, but if the Seventh-day-sabbath was by Divine Authority, and to be kept holy by the Churches of the Gentiles, it should not have so remained among the Jews, Christs deadliest Enemies, and a been kept so much hid from the Believers, his best Friends. For who has retained the pretended sanction of that day from Christs time quite down, in the world, but the Jews; and a few Jewish Gentiles (I will except some.) But, I say, since a Sabbath is that without which the great Worship of God under the Gospel cannot be well performed: How ⟨p. 142⟩