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…

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.

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 chuse. Nature therefore saw that by a positive Precept, or a Word revealing it, and by no other means.

Nor doth this at all take away a whit of that Sanction which God once put upon the Seventh-day-Sabbath; unless any will say, and by sufficient Argument prove, that an Ordinance for divine Worship receiveth greater Sanction from the Law ⟨p. 9⟩of Nature than from a divine Precept: or standeth stronger when 'tis established by a Law humane, for such is the Law of Nature, than when imposed by Revelation of God.