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 I answer, as I hinted before, that God did sanctify it to his own ⟨p. 14⟩rest. The Lord also hath set apart him that is godly for himself. But again, 'tis one thing for God to sanctify this or that thing to an use, and another thing to command that that thing be forthwith in being to us. As for instance: the Land of Canaan was set apart many years for the Children of Israel before they possessed that Land. Christ Jesus was long sanctified; that is, set apart to be our Redeemer before he sent him into the world (Deut. 32. 8. Joh. 10. 36.)

But I answer, as I hinted before, that God did sanctifie it to his own ⟨p. 14⟩rest. The Lord also hath set apart him that is godly for himself. But again, 'tis one thing for God to sanctifie this or that thing to an use, and another thing to command that that thing be forthwith in being to us. As for instance: the Land of Canaan was set apart many years for the Children of Israel before they possessed that Land. Christ Jesus was long sanctified; that is, set apart to be our Redeemer before he sent him into the world (Deut. 32. 8. Joh. 10. 36.)

If then, by Gods sanctifying of the Seventh day for a Sabbath, you understand it for a Sabbath for man, (but the Text saith not so) yet it might be so set apart for man, long before it should be, as such, made known unto him. And that the Seventh-day-Sabbath was not as yet made known to men, consider