The law unsealed

Again, if by virtue of the command of a day to be sanctified, we should begin the night or the evening before, then, these two or three absurdities would follow, 1. Then we would confound the preparation by the word remember, and the day together. 2. Then we Christians might also, by virtue of the concession of six days for work, begin to work the night before Monday, as the Jews on this supposition might have begun their work the night before Sunday. 3. Then we were almost no sooner to begin the sanctifying of the day, then to break it off for rest, and when its sanctification is closed, as soon to fall to our ordinary callings.

Again, if by vertue of the command of a day to be sanctified, we should begin the night or the evening before, then, these two or three absurdities would follow, 1. Then we would confound the preparation by the word remember, and the day together. 2. Then we Christians might also, by vertue of the concession of six dayes for work, begin to work the night before Monday, as the Jews on this supposition might have begun their work the night before Sunday. 3. Then we were almost no sooner to begin the sanctifying of the day, then to break it off for rest, and when its sanctification is closed, as soon to fall to our ordidinary callings.

Arg. 3. If by this Command a whole natural day is to be employed for duties of Worship, as another day is employed in our ordinary Callings▪ then is it to begin in the morning, the antecedent will not be denied, the consequent is thus made good; if men account all the labour of their working time from one nights rest to another, to belong to one day, then must they begin in the morning, or else they must account what they work after the first evening to belong to another day, but that way of reckoning was never heard of, the twelfth hour belonging to that same day with the first hour.

Arg. 3. If by this Command a whole natural day is to be employed for duties of Worship, as another day is employed in our ordinary Callings▪ then is it to begin in the morning, the antecedent will not be denyed, the consequent is thus made good; if men account all the labour of their working time from one nights rest to another, to belong to one day, then must they begin in the morning, or else they must account what they work after the first evening to belong to another day, but that way of reckoning was never heard of, the twelth hour belonging to that same day with the first hour.