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…

This Argument will stand good against all who acknowledge this Law to have been once given by God till they can evidence a repeal.

To speak somewhat more particularly to this, the way we shall make out the morality of it, is by considering, 1. How the Scripture speaketh of it in general. 2. How it speaketh of the Decalogue. 3. How it speaketh of this Command in particular. 4. By adducing some Scriptural Arguments for it: As for the 1. To wit, the Scriptures speaking of it in general, we say, If the Scripture speak as frequently in clearing the Fourth Command, or the Sabbath (which is the morality of it) and press it as seriously, and that in reference to all times of the Church, as it doth any other moral duty; then for substance this Command is moral and perpetually binding, (for that seemeth to be the Character whereby most safely to conclude concerning a Command, to consider how the Scripture speaketh of it,) but the Scripture doth as often mention, and is as much, and as serious in pressing of that Command, and that in reference to all states of the Church as of any other, Ergo, &c. We shall make out this, by showing 1. its frequency in mentioning ⟨p. 190⟩of it. 2. Its seriousness in pressing it. 3. Its asserting of it as belonging to all times and states of the Church.

To speak somewhat more particularly to this, the way we shall make out the morality of it, is by considering, 1. How the Scripture speaketh of it in general. 2. How it speaketh of the Decalogue. 3. How it speaketh of this Command in particular. 4. By adducing some Scriptural Arguments for it: As for the 1. To wit, the Scriptures speaking of it in general, we say, If the Scripture speak as frequently in clearing the Fourth Command, or the Sabbath (which is the morality of it) and press it as seriously, and that in reference to all times of the Church, as it doth any other moral duty; then for substance this Command is moral and perpetually binding, (for that seemeth to be the Character whereby most safely to conclude concerning a Command, to consider how the Scripture speaketh of it,) but the Scripture doth as often mention, and is as much, and as serious in pressing of that Command, and that in reference to all states of the Church as of any other, Ergo, &c. We shall make out this, by shewing 1. its frequency in mentioning