A37046:850
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Arg. 2. If God hath put a difference some way betwixt the Sabbath commanded here, and the day of his own rest, the seventh day, then it would seem its not that day which it commanded: But he hath put a difference, first, in the mandatory part, Remember; what? not the seventh day, but the Sabbath day, or day of rest: 2. In the blessing, it is not said, he blessed the seventh day, but the Sabbath; therefore is that difference so palpable, as being specially intended; whereas if the scope of the Command were only the seventh day, it had been much more clear to have set it down other ways; and no other probable reason of the difference can be given.
Arg. 2. If God hath put a difference some way betwixt the Sabbath commanded here, and the day of his own rest, the seventh day, then it would seem its not that day which it commanded: But he hath put a difference, first, in the mandatory part, Remember; what? not the seventh day, but the Sabbath day, or day of rest: 2. In the blessing, it is not said, he blessed the seventh day, but the Sabbath; therefore is that difference so palpable, as being specially intended; whereas if the scope of the Command were only the seventh day, it had been much more clear to have set it down other wayes; and no other probable reason of the difference can be given.
Arg. 3. Either a seventh day is commanded primarily, and then the seventh but secondarily and consequentially, or the seventh was commanded the Jews primarily, and one of seven but consequentially (for both were commanded to them) and the first, to wit, the seventh as being in use before. But it cannot be said that the seventh day was primarily commanded, and one of seven consequentially only, because the general is first commanded, and then the particular; as when God required Tithes of increase and Cattle, by the Command of Tithes he first required the proportion, and then what particular proportion as to order, he himself should carve out to them; and so consequently came in the tenth Beast (which passed under the rod) by a particular command, Lev. 27. 32, 33▪ because there God determined; but if that tenth had not been set down, the general command had but determined upon the tenth of Cattle, as of Sheaves, or bolls of Corn, even so it is as to the day, the Command requireth one of seven primarily: but that it is this seventh, followeth from another determination.