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

Take here what Mr. Baxter saith on this Text,¹ viz. How plainly and expressly Paul numbereth Sabbaths with Shadows that cease, see Col. 2. 16. to pass by other Texts; and what violence mens own Wits must use in denying the Evidence of so plain a Text. The Reason that he saith not Sabbath, but Sabbaths, is against themselves, the plural Number being most comprehensive, and other Sabbaths receiving their name from this▪ And the word Sabbath is always used in Scripture for a Rest, which was partly Ceremonial. See what Dr. Young in his excellent Dies Domin.saith, &c.

Take here what Mr. Baxter saith on this Text,¹ viz. How plainly and expresly Paul numbereth Sabbaths with Shadows that cease, see Col. 2. 16. to pass by other Texts; and what violence mens own Wits must use in denying the Evidence of so plain a Text. The Reason that he saith not Sabbath, but Sabbaths, is against themselves, the plural Number being most comprehensive, and other Sabbaths receiving their name from this▪ And the word Sabbath is always used in Scripture for a Rest, which was partly Ceremonial. See what Dr. Young in his excellent Dies Domin.saith, &c.

1. 1Baxter on the Lord's Day, P. 167

III. Moreover, can any serious thinking Christian suppose that Paul, the great Apostle of the Gentiles, would thus write of Sabbath Days, New Moons, Times and Years, without exception, if the Seventh-day Sabbath had remained as the Sabbath of the Lord, and the Day of Gospel-worship? What, speak thus without restriction, or intimation, and yet not include the Seventh-day Sabbath! Had not that Day been comprehended and meant by Sabbath Days, sure he had let this Church have known it; it behoved him to be faithful to us, who was our Apostle, and so he says he was, and had declared the whole Counsel of God,