The Principales of the Christian Religion (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1731 Excerpt: ...who had so wonderfully delivered them from that wretched Estate. 9.. How then, upon the whole, are we to consider the Jewijh Sabbath, here established by God? A. It is evident from the several Reasons given for ir, in the Command its.self, that it must be consider'd in two different Respects: 17?, As a Day a Day to be kept Holy by them in memory of the Creation: Exod. xx. u. and to declare themselves thereby to be the Worshippers of that God Who Createdthe Heaven and Earth: And to this End, they were Required to Observe a Seventh day of Reft, after Six of Labour; because God wrought Six Days, and Rested the Seventh. And, 2dly, As a Day to be Observed in Memory of their Egyptian Bondage, and of God's delivering them out of it: Deut. v. 15. And thus the Jews were tied to observe not only the Proportion, but the very Day of the Week too; as being that Day on which they had pass'd the Red Sea, and so were set intirely free from their Slavery. For which Reason al so they were obliged not only to worship God upon it, but moreover to abstain from all bodily Labonr; and that under the Pain of Death, Exod. xxxi. 12, &c. Numb.xv.32, 35. 10.; How far do you suppose this Command Obliges Us now? A. As much as ever it did the Jews, though not exactly after the fame Manner. We Worship, as they did, that God who in Six Days Created the Heaven, and Earth; the Sea, and all that in them is, and Rested the Seventh Day: and in acknowledgment thereof, We stand obliged, with Them, to keep a Seventh Day of Reft, after Six of Labour. But then as they Worshipped this God under thepeculiar Character, of the Codwho brought them of the Land of Egypt, and out of the House of Bondage; so were they determined to take that particular Day, the Seventh ofthe Week, for their Sabbath, upon...