Excerpt from A Threefold Treatise of the Sabbath: Distinctly Divided Into the Patriarchall, the Mosaicall, the Christian Sabbath; For the Better Clearing and Manifestation of the Truth in This Controversie Concerning the Weekly SabbathBut now thcfe words 111 pendant upon any thing after recorded was before this 3&c cd 111 time. For who can fay trueiy, and follidiy prove it, that the wordsin 8x0. 1. Were the infiitution of the Sabbath 111 time before this 111 gene/z}. For tis manife that the Sabbath waskcpt before the pro niuigation ofthe Law. I6. 30. And again the wordsin Em 20.

1 1. {hew us, noe what ew thing God did then but what he had done, when he reed the fcvmth day, from his fix dayes worksin the Crea tion, For asgod telicth them what he had done m the very firfi fiidayes' m the beginnidg, (0 he told them what he did that very fiventh on _which he refied from his work, he blefied, and hallowed 1t, and made 1t the Sabbath. Therefore its to be concluded, from the nature of atrue Prolc pfis, ahd thede ndance of that which is firfi ibghn, upon that which maireth it (o 111 time, that here rs noantici.me, ' nfaafibtakc attafion as they fay) tn infef't the thefi'cond 0fm and third verfi, *by way of a. Parcn thefis.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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