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 methinks, had this Seventh-day-Sabbath been imposed upon men from the beginning, the penalty or punishment due to the breach thereof had certainly been known before now.

But methinks, had this Seventhday-Sabbath been imposed upon men from the beginning, the penalty or punishment due to the breach thereof had certainly been known before now.

When Adam was forbidden to eat of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil, the Penalty was then, if he disobeyed, annexed to the Prohibition. So also it was as to Circumcision, the Passover, and other Ordinances for Worship. How then can it be thought, that the Seventh-day-Sabbath ⟨p. 17⟩should be imposed upon men from the beginning; and that the Punishment for the breach thereof, should be hid with God for the space of Two thousand years! Gen. 2. 16, 17. ch. 17. 13, 14. Exod. 12. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. and the same Chapter, vers. 19.

Fourthly, Gods giving of the Seventh-day-Sabbath was with respect to stated and stinted Worship in his Church; the which, until the time of Moses, was not set up among his people. Things till then were adding or growing: Now a Sacrifice, then Circumcision, then again long after that the Passover, &c. But when Israel was come into the Wilderness, there to receive as Gods Congregation, a stated, stinted, limited way of Worship, then he appoints them a time, and times, to perform this Worship in; but as I said afore, before that it was not so, as the whole five Books of Moses plainly show: wherefore the Seventh-day-Sabbath, ⟨p. 18⟩