Friday, June 20, 2025

Those 2 Institutions From the Beginning

"The two ancient institutions of the Lord in Paradise were Marriage and the Sabbath, both which are called and esteemed honorable. “Marriage is honorable in all” (Hebrews 13:4); and in Isaiah the Sabbath is called “…the Holy of the Lord, honorable” (Isaiah 58:13); and Christ leads us to the beginning of them both. 
--When the question was whether men might put away their wives
for every fault, the answer is, that Moses did but suffer it to be so, because of the hardness of their hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:34-37
--And when the Pharisees were so ignorant, that they thought works of mercy were not to be done upon the Sabbath day, Christ leads them to the first institution of it, and tells them it was made for man. Mark 2:24, 27
Both these institutions were made for the good and benefit of man in his Paradise estate, which is sufficient proof for their duration."
EDWARD STENNET 1658