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…

3. There is need to distinguish betwixt the moral substance of a Command, and some ceremonial appendices belonging to it: So the Fourth Command might then possibly have had something ceremonial in that Seventh day, or in the manner used of sanctifying that Seventh day which now is gone as double Sacrifices, &c. or in its reasons whereby it is pressed; (as there is something peculiar to that People in the Preface, to all the Commands) as there was in the Sacraments of the old Law belonging to the second Command; yet both a Sabbath day and Sacraments may be, and are very necessary and moral in the Church; it is not then every thing hinging on this Command, as proper to that administration, and so but accidental to the sanctifying of a Sabbath, that we plead for; but this is it we plead for, that the Command is, as to its main scope, matter, and substance, moral-positive, and that it standeth as still binding and obliging unto us, and cannot without sin be neglected or omitted; it might be enough here to say, that if this Command were never repealed in the substance of it, nor did ever expire by any other thing succeeding in its place, then it must ⟨p. 191⟩needs be still binding; for certainly, it was once, as obligatory-proclaimed by the Law-giver himself, and was never since in its substance repealed, nor is it expired or found hurtful in its nature, but is as necessary now as then; it is true, the Seventh day Sabbath is repealed by instituting and substituting the First day Sabbath, or Lord's day, in its place; but that doth rather qualify the Command than repeal it; for 1. It saith that a day is moral and necessary. 2 It saith a day of seven is moral and necessary, which is all we say; and why necessary? as agreeable to this Command no doubt; whence we may Argue, if the substance of this Command be kept even when the particular day is changed, then is the Command moral (which this very change confirmeth) but the former is true, as is clear in experience; therefore it followeth that the Law stands unrepealed; for it's palpable that the day, as to its number or frequency, and duration, with the manner of sanctifying of it, belongs to the substance of the Commandment, but what day as to its order, first, second, or seventh doth not, because the first cometh in immediately upon Religion, God's Honour, and the good of Souls, which the other doth not:

3. There is need to distinguish betwixt the moral substance of a Command, and some ceremonial appendices belonging to it: So the Fourth Command might then possibly have had something ceremonial in that Seventh day, or in the manner used of sanctifying that Seventh day which now is gone as double Sacrifices, &c. or in its reasons whereby it is pressed; (as there is somthing peculiar to that People in the Preface, to all the Commands) as there was in the Sacraments of the old Law belonging to the second Command; yet both a Sabbath day and Sacraments may be, and are very necessary and moral in the Church; it is not then every thing hinging on this Command, as proper to that administration, and so but accidental to the sanctifying of a Sabbath, that we plead for; but this is it we plead for, that the Command is, as to its main scope, matter, and substance, moral-positive, and that it standeth as still binding and obliging unto us, and cannot without sin be neglected or omitted; it might be enough here to say, that if this Command were never repealed in the substance of it, nor did ever exspire by any other thing succeeding in its place, then it must