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…

The 2. and main reason followeth, v. 11. wherein this command is three way • pressed also, 1. By Gods example, who during the sp •ce of six days wrought (though he might as easily have made all in one day) and rested the Seventh, and not before the Seventh, on which he wrought none; even so it becometh men to do, seeing he intended this for their imitation, and for that end doth propose it here: Gods rest on the Seventh is not absolute and in every respect (for John 5 17. he worketh hitherto, that is, in the works of Providence, sustaining, preserving, and governing the Creatures made by him, and their Actions) but all things needful for the perfecting of the world were then made and finished. (Whence by the way we may gather, that not only all Creatures were made, Angels even these that since turned Devils, &c. but that they were made within the Six days of Creation, when Heaven, Earth, Sea and all that was in them was made) Therefore all our works that are necessary to be done in the six working days, would be done and ended, that we may rest on the Sabbath, as he did.

The 2. and main reason followeth, v. 11. wherein this command is three way • pressed also, 1. By Gods example, who during the sp •ce of six days wrought (though he might as easily have made all in one day) and rested the Seventh, and not before the Seventh, on which he wrought none; even so it becometh men to do, seeing he intended this for their imitation, and for that end doth propose it here: Gods rest on the Seventh is not absolute and in every respect (for John 5 17. he worketh hitherto, that is, in the works of Providence, sustaining, preserving, and governing the Creatures made by him, and their Actions) but all things needful for the perfecting of the world vvere then made and finished. (Whence by the way vve may gather, that not only all Creatures vvere made, Angels even these that since turned Devils, &c. but that they vvere made within the Six days of Creation, vvhen Heaven, Earth, Sea and all that was in them was made) Therefore all our works that are necessary to be done in the six working days, vvould be done and ended, that we may rest on the Sabbath, as he did.