A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

For 1. If the command be moral, then is there no change in moral duties, for it is the same command to us, that it was to them, save in ceremonial things: 2. If the same things were allowed to them which are allowed to us, and if no more be allowed to be done by us, then was allowed to be done by them on the Sabbath, then the observation in it's strictness is equal, but the first is true, for works of piety, mercy and necessity, are allowed to us, and so were they to them, as by Christs reasoning against them (as being here superstitious) may appear: yea, 3. our allowances are taken from the practise of Christ and his reasonings with the Pharisees, who in these disputes aimed not to show that more was lawful by his coming then was before, but to show what then was lawful, though they ignorantly or wilfully misunderstood the ⟨p. 286⟩command, for even then God allowed mercy rather then sacrifice, &c. which places most clearly warrant us in our practise. 4. The Service we have now is as spiritual, and without all doubt the promise of the spirit, for keeping up in holy duties as large as formerly, and therefore our improving of it should be no less.

For 1. If the command be moral, then is there no change in moral duties, for it is the same command to us, that it was to them, save in ceremonial things: 2. If the same things were allowed to them which are allowed to us, and if no more be allowed to be done by us, then was allowed to be done by them on the Sabbath, then the observation in it's strictness is equal, but the first is true, for works of piety, mercy and necessity, are allowed to us, and so were they to them, as by Christs reasoning against them (as being here superstitious) may appear: yea, 3. our allowances are taken from the practise of Christ and his reasonings with the Pharisees, who in these disputes aimed not to shew that more was lawful by his coming then was before, but to shew what then was lawful, though they ignorantly or wilfully misunderstood the ⟨p. 286⟩command, for even then God allowed mercy rather then sacrifice, &c. which places most clearly vvarrant us in our practise. 4. The Service we have now is as spiritual, and without all doubt the promise of the spirit, for keeping up in holy duties as large as formerly, and therefore our improving of it should be no less.