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…

But in all the Scriptures we do not read, that the breach of a Seventh-day-Sabbath was charged upon men as men all that time. Whence I gather, that either a Seventh-day-Sabbath was not discerned by the Light of Nature, and so not by that Law imposed; or else, that men by the help and assistance of that (for we speak of men as men) in old time kept it better, than in after Ages did the Church of God with better assistance by far: For they are there yet found fault with as breakers of that Sabbath (Ezekiel 20. 13.)

But in all the Scriptures we do not read, that the breach of a Seventhday-Sabbath was charged upon men as men all that time. Whence I gather, that either a Seventh-day-Sabbath was not discerned by the Light of Nature, and so not by that Law imposed; or else, that men by the help and assistance of that (for we speak of men as men) in old time kept it better, than in after Ages did the Church of God with better assistance by far: For they are there yet found fault with as breakers of that Sabbath (Ezekel 20. 13.)

It follows therefore, that if the Law of Nature doth not of it self reveal to us, as men, that the Seventh ⟨p. 8⟩day is the holy Sabbath of God. That that day, as to the sanction of it, is not Moral, but rather Arbitrary, to wit, imposed by the will of God upon his people, until the time he thought fit to change it for another day.

And if so, it is hence to be concluded, that though by the Light of Nature men might see that time must be allowed and set apart for the performance of that Worship that God would set up in his House, yet, as such, it could not see what time the Lord would to that end choose. Nature therefore saw that by a positive Precept, or a Word revealing it, and by no other means.