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, 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, (Rom. 2. 10:) nor was his giving the Seventh-day-sabbath to them but a signe and token thereof.

But the great Objection is, Because the Seventh-day-sabbath is found amongst the rest of those Precepts which is so commonly called the Moral Law; for thence it is concluded to be of a perpetual duration.

But I Answer, That neither that as given on Sinai is moral; I mean, as to the manner and ends of its Ministration; of which, God permitting, we shall say more in our Answer to the fourth Question, whither I direct you for satisfaction. But,