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…

Now then for the ground of the Question.

First, we read not that God gave it to any but to the Seed of Jacob. Hence it is said to Israel, and to Israel only, The Lord hath given [you] his Sabbaths: And again, I also gave [them] my Sabbaths, Exod. 16. 29. Ezek. 2. 5, 12.

First, we read not that God gave it to any but to the Seed of Jacob. Hence it is said to Israel, and to Israel onely, The Lord hath given [you] his Sabbaths: And again, I also gave [them] my Sabbaths, Exod. 16. 29. Ezek. 2. 5, 12.

Now, if the gift of the Seventh-day-sabbath was only to Israel, as these Texts do more than seem to say; then to the Gentiles, as such, it was not given. Unless any shall conclude, that God by thus doing preferred the Jew to a state of Gentilism; or that he bestowed on them by thus doing, some high Gentile Privilege. But this would be very fictitious: For, to lay aside reason, the Text always, as to preference, did set the Jew in the first of places, (Rom. 2. 10:) nor was his giving the Seventh-day-sabbath to them but a sign and token thereof.

Now, if the gift of the Seventhday-sabbath was onely to Israel, as these Texts do more than seem to say; then to the Gentiles, as such, it was not given. Unless any shall conclude, that God by thus doing preferred the Jew to a state of Gentilism; or that he bestowed on them by thus doing, some high Gentile Priviledge. But this would be very fictious: For, to lay aside reason, the Text always, as to preference, did set the Jew in the first of places, (