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An Appendix to the former Disputations.
I Have annexed this insuing Appendix, for the infor∣mation fo the weak, and those that are not acquaint∣ed with the Laws and Terms of Disputation; and it may also serve for the general use of all that do de∣sire to be satisfied in the present controversie, who per∣haps may not have leasure or patience to read all the foregoing Arguments and Answers urged in the prece∣ding Disputations: and herein I shall observe this me∣thod. First, I shall lay down all those Arguments that I have ever met with, which are levied for the defence of the Saturday-Sabbath; with brief Answers thereunto.
Secondly, I shall urge the Reasons why I am perswa∣ded the Saturday-sabbath is not in force to the belee∣ving Gentiles.
Thirdly, I shall shew some Reasons for the justifying the present practise of the Christians in their Religious observations of the first day of the week, otherwise called the Lords-day.
And first, to the first, namely, the Arguments that are urged by some Judaizing Christians for the defence of the seventh-day sabbath; and they are of three sorts: the first sort are taken from the Scriptures, the second from some Reasons in Nature; and the third sort of Reasons are taken from Tradition. I shall plainly and briefly speak first to the first (viz.) those Arguments that are alledged for the Saturday-sabbath ou•• of the