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The sabbaths sanctification
The sabbaths sanctification ... by W.G.
London: printed by G.M. for Joshua Kirton and Thomas Warren, 1641
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. The substance of the Law which requireth a seventh day.
The words of the Law are these, The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. I deny not but that the Law hath a special relation to the first seventh day: but so as it was a memorial of that great work of Creation. When that was swallowed up with a greater, then the substance of the Law is to be observed in a sevenths day memorial of that greater work.
The words of the Law are these, The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord. I denie not but that the Law hath a speciall relation to the first seventh day: but so as it was a memoriall of that great worke of Creation. When that was swallowed up with a greater, then the substance of the Law is to be observed in a sevenths day memoriall of that greater worke.
And it is observable, that the seventh which we celebrate is so ordered, as in the change no week had two Sabbaths, nor any week, as part of a week was without a Sabbath. Their Sabbath concluded their last week: and our Sabbath began our first week. The change could not have been so fit to any other day.
And it is observable, that the seventh which we celebrate is so ordered, as in the change no weeke had two Sabbaths, nor any weeke, as part of a weeke was without a Sabbath. Their Sabbath concluded their last weeke: and our Sabbath began our first weeke. The change could not have beene so fit to any other day.