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The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession…
The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pennsylvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The principles of the Protestant religion maintained, and churches of New-England, in the profession and exercise thereof defended, against all the calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book lately published at Pensilvania [sic], to undermine them both. / By the minsters of the Gospel in Boston, ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Richard Pierce, 1690
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Sect. 5. But if the Sabbath may but be cashiered, the other Ordinances will fall. Here then, his first cavil is against the first day of the week, but if he decries any outward Sabbath at all (as he calls it) the First day needs no more Vindication than any other: touching the Change of the Sabbath, such as acknowledge the Sabbath to be moral & perpetual ⟨p. 146⟩by divine precept, may find it made good by many, Sheppard, Owen and others. His Cavil also against Rev. 1. 10. hath been fully answered by the fore-cited Authors, and he seems himself to grant the cause, for he tells us (p. 103.) It is commendable in Christians to set apart the first day of the week for rest from Employments and to help the mind in its spiritual exercises: now, they must set this day apart rather than any other, either because the day it self hath some Betterness in it, or because Christ hath put an Excellency upon it; the former cannot be proved, the latter can be only by His sanctifying of it; to be a Day of Rest.
Sect. 5. But if the Sabbath may but be cashier'd, the other Ordinances will fall. Here then, his first cavil is against the first day of the week, but if he decries any outward Sabbath at all (as he calls it) the First day needs no more Vindication than any other: touching the Change of the Sabbath, such as acknowledge the Sabbath to be moral & perpetual ⟨p. 146⟩by divine precept, may find it made good by many, Sheppard, Owen and others. His Cavil also against Rev. 1. 10. hath been fully answered by the fore-cited Authours, and he seems himself to grant the cause, for he tells us (p. 103.) It is commendable in Christians to set apart the first day of the week for rest from Employments and to help the mind in its spiritual exercises: now, they must set this day apart rather than any other, either because the day it self hath some Betterness in it, or because Christ hath put an Excellency upon it; the former cannot be proved, the latter can be only by His sanctifying of it; to be a Day of Rest.