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…

I make not an Argument of this, but take an occasion to mention it as I go: But certainly, had the Seventh-day-Sabbath been moral, or of the Law of Nature, (as some would fain persuade themselves) it would not so slenderly have been passed over in all these repetitions of this Law, but would by Christ or his Apostles have been pressed upon the people, when so fair an opportunity as at these times offered it self unto them. But they knew what they did, and wherefore they were so silent as to the mention of a Seventh-day-sabbath when they so well talked of the Law as moral.

I make not an Argument of this, but take an occasion to mention it as I go: But certainly, had the Seventh-day-Sabbath been moral, or of the Law of Nature, (as some would fain perswade themselves) it would not so slenderly have been passed over in all these repetitions of this Law, but would by Christ or his Apostles have been pressed upon the people, when so fair an opportunity as at these times offered it self unto them. But they knew what they did, and wherefore they were so silent as to the mention of a Seventhday-sabbath when they so well talked of the Law as moral.

Fifthly, Moses and the Prophet Ezekiel both, do fully confirm what has been insinuated by us; to wit, that the Seventh day as a Sabbath was not imposed upon men until Israel was brought into the Wilderness.

Fifthly, Moses and the Prophet Ezekel both, do fully confirm what has been insinuated by us; to wit, that the Seventh day as a Sabbath was not imposed upon men until Israel was brought into the Wilderness.

1. Moses saith to Israel, Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore the Lord thy God commandeth thee to keep the sabbath day.