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…

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.

But the Text will put this controversy to an end. The Sanction of the Seventh-day-Sabbath, even as it was the Rest of God, was not till after the Law of Nature was completed; God rested the seventh day, and sanctified it, (Gen. 2. 3.) Sanctified it; that is, set it apart to the end there mentioned, to wit, to rest thereon.

But the Text will put this controversie to an end. The Sanction of the Seventh-day-Sabbath, even as it was the Rest of God, was not till after the Law of Nature was compleated; God rested the seventh day, and sanctified it, (