Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

1 Because there are many who are not convinced of the Morality of the Sabbath, and so not of the continuance thereof, therefore it is requisite that I first prove the Commandment of the Sabbath to be moral and perpetual, and to continue in force even to the end of the world, for that is accounted Moral, which (as a rule of life) bindeth all Persons, in all places, at all times.

1 Because there are many who are not convinced of the Morality of the Sabbath, and so not of the continuance thereof, therefore it is requisite that I first prove the Commandement of the Sabbath to be moral and perpetual, and to continue in force even to the end of the world, for that is accounted Moral, which (as a rule of life) bindeth all Persons, in all places, at all times.

Arguments proving the Morality of the Sabbath.

1 Because it was sanctified in the time of Adams innocency, as we read, Gen. 2. 3, 4. now Adam in his innocent estate was a Public person, the great representative of all the World, that therefore which was commanded to him in his innocency, appertained to all his Posterity even to the end of the world. And if God saw it necessary for our first Parents in the time of their innocency to have a Sabbath Day to serve him in, that they might more freely and fully give themselves to holy and religious exercises. ⟨p. 86⟩Then what need have we the Posterity of Adam, now in our corrupted estate, to have a Sabbath, to take our thoughts off from our worldly businesses, and bestow them wholly on God, and the duties of his Worship and Service?