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…

QUEST. II. Whether the Seventh-day-Sabbath, as to Mans keeping of it holy, was ever made known to or imposed by a positive Precept upon him until the time of Moses? which from Adam was about two thousand years.

Something must also be here premised, in order to my propounding of my grounds for this Question; and that is, That the Seventh day was sanctified so soon as it had being in the world, unto the rest of God (as it is Gen. 2. 2, 3.) and he did rest from all his works which he had made therein. But the Question is, Whether when God did thus sanctify this day to his own rest, be did also by the space of time abovementioned, ⟨p. 11⟩impose it as an holy Sabbath of rest upon men; to the end they might solemnize Worship to him in special manner thereon? And I question this,

SOmething must also be here premised, in order to my propounding of my grounds for this Question; and that is, That the Seventh day was sanctified so soon as it had being in the world, unto the rest of God (as it is Gen. 2. 2, 3.) and he did rest from all his works which he had made therein. But the Question is, Whether when God did thus sanctifie this day to his own rest, be did also by the space of time abovementioned, ⟨p. 11⟩impose it as an holy Sabbath of rest upon men; to the end they might solemnize Worship to him in special manner thereon? And I question this,