The Observation of the Seventh-day Sabbath, according to the Law of Moses, cannot stand without the Execution of the Penalty of Death upon such as break it. Were it not so, it should not be the Religious Observation of the day which is in it self a thing tollera∣ble, and about which Christians need not judge one another; I say, were it only this, it should not offend me. But now, these which stand for the observation of the Seventh-day, according to the Law of Moses, do also stand for the penalty of Death, to be inflicted up∣on such as they judge wilful breakers thereof; * 1.1 confessing even in their Printed Books, that the reason why they do not execute that Penalty, is, Because they are no Magistrates; So then, it seems such Men want but opportunity; and doubtless, by how much Men are the more zealous, by so much they would drive the more furiously.
Finally, I offer it to the consideration of sober Men, whether it would be Gospel-like, for Believers in Christ to compel their Families to celebrate the Sabbath, such of them especially as are of Faith and Religion contradistinct to them in that Point? and yet behold, this must they do (according to Moses) for the Law of the Sabbath re∣quires the Master of the House to order his Children and Servants in point of Sabbatizing.