A37046:969
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.
2. All▪ things that have a tendency, as necessary▪ helps and means to the performance of the former works of piety, are lawful, as going to the Congregation to hear the Law, calling the Assembly for worship by Trumpets, or Bells, or by a Voice, journeying▪ going or riding to Church, &c. because the duties of the Sabbath cannot well be done without some of these, not at all without others of them.
If it should be asked here, What that, which is called a Sabbaths day journey, Acts 1. 12. was among the Jews? and whence it came, and what way may it be stinted or limited among Christians? Answ. It was to them 2000. Cubits, which according to the different measuring of that distance of ground consisting of these 2000 Cubits by a lesser or longer Cubit, is reckoned to be more or▪ less by learned Men; but all agree (says Goodwin in his Moses▪ and Aaron) in this, that these 2000. Cubits was a Sabbath days journey.
It arose to be reckoned so from these grounds; 1. From their expounding, Exod. 16. 29. Let none go▪ out of his place; thus, Let none go without the bounds of the City, which with its Suburbs was 2000. Cubits, or a mile about. 2. That the Tabernacle of the Congregation was so far from the Tents of these who pitched about it in the Wilderness▪