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…

What can be more plain? And these to be sure, are two notable witnesses of God, who, as you see, do jointly concur in this; to wit, that it was not from Paradise, nor from the Fathers, but from the Wilderness, and from Sinai, that men received the Seventh-day-sabbath to keep it holy.

What can be more plain? And these to be sure, are two notable witnesses of God, who, as you see, do joyntly concur in this; to wit, that it was not from Paradise, nor from the Fathers, but from the Wilderness, and from Sinai, that men received the Seventh-day-sabbath to keep it holy.

True, it was Gods Sabbath before: for on the first Seventh day we read, that God rested thereon, and sanctified it. Hence he calls it in the first place MY Sabbath. I gave them MY Sabbath: But it seems 'twas not given to the Church ⟨p. 23⟩till he had brought them into the Wilderness.

But, I say, if it had been moral, it had been natural to man; and by the Light of Nature men would have understood it, even both before it was, and otherwise. But of this you see we read nothing, either by positive Law, or countenanced Example, or any other way, but rather the flat contrary; to wit, That Moses had▪ the knowledge of it first from Heaven, not by Tradition. That Israel had it, not of, or from their Fathers, but in the Wilderness, from him, to wit Moses, after he had brought them out of the Land of Egypt. And that that whole Law in which this Seventh-day-sabbath is placed, was given for the bounding and better ordering of them in their Church-state for their time, till the Messiah should: come and put by a better Ministration this: out of his Church, as we shall further show anon.