The law unsealed

The second way we may reason for the change to be by Divine Institution, is from this Command: If (supposing still a change) by the morality of this Command, the seventh can be changed into no day but the first day of the week▪ then is the change into the first day, of Divine Institution (for so that must necessarily be, which is by virtue of a Command) but by this Command no other day can be admitted; for each week is divided in six working days▪ and these together to us, and one of rest and that to God; now by changing it to the first God getteth one, and we six and that together; but if the day were the second third, fourth, &c. it would not be so; for the six working days would be interrupted, which is contrary to that morality of the Command, whereby our days are distinguished from his, that ours, for one week being fully by, we may with the greater freedom give God his.

The second way we may reason for the change to be by Divine Institution, is from this Command: If (supposing still a change) by the morality of this Command, the seventh can be changed into no day but the first day of the week▪ then is the change into the first day, of Divine Institution (for so that must necessarily be, which is by vertue of a Command) but by this Command no other day can be admitted; for each week is divided in six working dayes▪ and these together to us, and one of rest and that to God; now by changing it to the first God getteth one, and we six and that together; but if the day were the second third, fourth, &c. it would not be so; for the six working dayes would be interrupted, which is contrary to that morality of the Command, whereby our dayes are distinguished from his, that ours, for one week being fully by, we may with the greater freedom give God his.

The third way we take to prove the change of the day to be by Divine Institution is this: If by the practise of the Apostles, who were guided and inspired by the Spirit in things belonging to their Office infallibly, this day was observed as different from other days; then there is a Divine Institution of, and warrant for, this day; but by the practise of the Apostles this day is celebrated as different from, and preferred to, other days, or as Divine, therefore its of Divine Institution: If the Divine practise and example of the Apostles in things moral and common to all, do not either suppose a Divine antecedent institution, or infer a subsequent, then their practise and example, which in these things is infallible and unerring, will have no more force then the example of others which were absurd, their examples being especially pressed on us; and if in any thing their example be Divine, it must be in this so particularly and so well circumstantiated; and where their meeting is not recorded to have been on any other second, third, &c. day, certainly their practise must be not only more then nothing, but very significant; and indeed in positive worship, the Lord hath been pleased to be more sparing (to say so) and to leave us more to gather from Examples then in negatives, as in the positive part of swearing admitting of Church members, in government, baptism and admission to the Supper, yet none can say that there is no Scripture Institution in these, where there may be such grounds or examples.