An essay on the Sabbath or, a modest attempt towards a plain, scriptural resolution of the following questions; I. Whether the seventh day sabbath was given to Adam in paradise? II. Whether the same now obliges Christians? Occasioned by the Following Pieces lately wrote upon the Subject; Viz. Mr. Hallett's Discourse on the Lord's Day; Mr. Jophson's Discourse concerning the Religious Observation of the Lord's Day, &c; Mr. Chubb's Dissertation concerning the Time of keeping a Sabbath; Mr. Killingworth's Appendix to his Supplement to the Sermons preached at Salter's Hall against Popery. Mr. Dobel's Seventh Day Sabbath not obligatory on Christians, and his Appendix; And Dr. Watts's Holiness of Times, Places and People; In which every Thing, judged material, offered by any of these Gentlemen on the Negative Side of either of the above-mentioned Questions, is impartially Considered, By Robert Cornthwaite.

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MDCCXL. [1740]