A37046:877
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. 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.
Again, if by this Command a whole artificial day together (that is, our waking and working time betwixt two nights) be to be employed for Gods worship, they its beginning must be in the morning, for if the latter or following evening belong to this natural day before sleeping time come on, then the even before cannot belong to it, for it cannot have both; but by this Command a whole waking day▪ or an artificial day is to be sanctified together, and the even after it before waking time end as well as the morning: Therefore it must begin in the morning, and no• on the evening before.