The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts

My Brethren, Let this be considered well, that if the knowledge of the Seventh-day wholly depended on the Will of God, or on mere Institution, and resulted not, as all pure and simple moral Precepts do, from the holy Rectitude of God's Nature, it follows that the precise Day pertains not to the Essence of the Fourth Commandment, but the simple Morality of that Precept lies only in a time of Worship: And certainly if God by a mere positive Command had not given it to Israel, they had no more known it their duty to keep it, than the Pagan World did, who were wholly ignorant ⟨p. 32⟩thereof, as I shall prove. And be sure if God wrote not the Law or knowledge of the Seventh-day Sabbath on Adam's Heart; the Seventh-day is not of the same nature with simply moral Precepts, which God engraved on his Heart, even the substance or tenor of all the Ten Commandments, and made him know them naturally, without any instruction by word of mouth. But it appears by their own Assertion, it was instituted, &c. Therefore the knowledge of the Seventh-day as a special time of Worship, was not wrote in his Heart. Our Opponents dare not deny but the substance of the whole Moral Law was wrote in his Heart, and they foresee it is dangerous to deny it: From whence it appears, that all the other Precepts are simply moral, and so is a time of Worship; but the precise Seventh-day, by their own concession, was instituted in Man's Innocency, and so depends wholly upon an express positive Command, declared to Adam by audible Words resounding in his Ears.

My Brethren, Let this be considered well, that if the knowledg of the Seventh-day wholly depended on the Will of God, or on mere Institution, and resulted not, as all pure and simple moral Precepts do, from the holy Rectitude of God's Nature, it follows that the precise Day pertains not to the Essence of the Fourth Commandment, but the simple Morality of that Precept lies only in a time of Worship: And certainly if God by a mere positive Command had not given it to Israel, they had no more known it their duty to keep it, than the Pagan World did, who were wholly ignorant ⟨p. 32⟩thereof, as I shall prove. And be sure if God wrote not the Law or knowledg of the Seventh-day Sabbath on Adam's Heart; the Seventh-day is not of the same nature with simply moral Precepts, which God engraved on his Heart, even the substance or tenor of all the Ten Commandments, and made him know them naturally, without any instruction by word of mouth. But it appears by their own Assertion, it was instituted, &c. Therefore the knowledg of the Seventh-day as a special time of Worship, was not wrote in his Heart. Our Opponents dare not deny but the substance of the whole Moral Law was wrote in his Heart, and they foresee it is dangerous to deny it: From whence it appears, that all the other Precepts are simply moral, and so is a time of Worship; but the precise Seventh-day, by their own concession, was instituted in Man's Innocency, and so depends wholly upon an express positive Command, declared to Adam by audible Words resounding in his Ears.