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though' before the death of Christ, who was the substance of all the ceremonial law, and the butt towards which it pointed, there was a necessity of observing the same by reason of a command; yet now after the death of Christ until the full promulgation of the gospel of peace, it became morally indifferent, and might have been observed or not observed by the Jews during that interval as, considering all circumstances, was found to most convenient; for both he that did observe it, and he that did not observe it, might have done it to the Lord, which could not be, unless the keeping thereof during that time had been morally indifferent: He that observeth a day, observeth it to the Lord; and he who observeth not a day, to the Lord he doth not regard it...
...though' then it was true that he who regarded a day, did regard it unto the Lord, and so it was morally indifferent, whether to keep, with a religious intention as a piece of worship, the days set apart by God in the ceremonial law, or not, until the full time when they should have been buried; yet it is utterly unlawful now to keep any day holy (except the Lord's day, which is now become our Christian Sabbath) as holy in itself, by virtue of any dedication or sequestration, whether to Christ's nativity, ascension and the like, or to saints; as a passing from that liberty wherewith Christ has set us free, Gal. v.i. and contrary to an express command, Gal. iv. 9. 10. But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. See Col. ii. 16. It was but during that time that this was true, that he that regardeth a day, regardeth it unto the Lord, &c.
John Brown of Wamphray, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, pp. 525-6.
...though' then it was true that he who regarded a day, did regard it unto the Lord, and so it was morally indifferent, whether to keep, with a religious intention as a piece of worship, the days set apart by God in the ceremonial law, or not, until the full time when they should have been buried; yet it is utterly unlawful now to keep any day holy (except the Lord's day, which is now become our Christian Sabbath) as holy in itself, by virtue of any dedication or sequestration, whether to Christ's nativity, ascension and the like, or to saints; as a passing from that liberty wherewith Christ has set us free, Gal. v.i. and contrary to an express command, Gal. iv. 9. 10. But now after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. See Col. ii. 16. It was but during that time that this was true, that he that regardeth a day, regardeth it unto the Lord, &c.
John Brown of Wamphray, An Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, pp. 525-6.
