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, I say, if this Sabbath hath Ceremonies thereto belonging, and if these Ceremonies were essential to the right keeping of the Sabbath: And again, if these Ceremonies were given to Israel only, excluding all but such as were their Proselytes, then this Sabbath was given to them as excluding the Gentiles as such. But if it had been Moral, the Gentiles could as soon have been deprived of their Nature as of a Seventh-day-sabbath, though the Jews should have appropriated it unto themselves only.

Now, I say, if this Sabbath hath Ceremonies thereto belonging, and if these Ceremonies were essential to the right keeping of the Sabbath: And again, if these Ceremonies were given to Israel onely, excluding all but such as were their Proselytes, then this Sabbath was given to them as excluding the Gentiles as such. But if it had been Moral, the Gentiles could assoon have been deprived of their Nature as of a Seventh-day-sabbath, though the Jews should have appropriated it unto themselves onely.

Again, to say that God gave this Seventh-day-sabbath to the Gentiles, as such, (and yet so he must, if it be of the moral Law) is as much as to say, that God hath ordained that that Sabbath should be kept by the Gentiles without; but by the Jews, not without her Ceremonies. And what Conclusion will follow from hence, but that God did at one and the same time set up two ⟨p. 28⟩sorts of acceptable Worships in the world: one among the Jews, another among the Gentiles? But how ridiculous such a thought would be, and how repugnant to the wisdom of God, you may easily perceive.

Yea, what a diminution would this be to Gods Church that then was, for one to say, the Gentiles were to serve God with more liberty than the Jew! For the Law was a Yoke, and yet the Gentile is called the Dog, and said to be without God in the world,