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…

Fourthly, we reason thus; If it be not Moral, it must either be Judicial, or Ceremonial, for the Matter and Substance of it; but it is not Judicial: that is, it belongeth not to External Policy, and Civil Society, principally and especially, in that one Nation, because no such Duties are Comprehended, at least Primarily, in any Command of the First Table; but in the Second, which teacheth Duties to others, as this First, doth •o God: Neither is it Ceremonial; For, All Ceremonies, that are Typical, have their Rise since the Fall, and relate some way to Christ to-Come. But this of sanctifying One Day of Seven, had it's Rise in the State of Innocency, and was enjoined to Adam in Paradise, before he fell, and therefore cannot be called Ceremonial Properly, more than the Command of a Man's leaving Father and Mother, and cleaving to his Wife, so that they too should be one Flesh, which the Apostle Ephes. 5. maketh use of. Besides, if it were Ceremonial in the Substance, then were it Typical and Significant of some-thing to come, which is hard to show: Then also had it not been Lawful to have retained it; for Ceremonials now in their use are not only Dead, but Deadly: But this Morality, in Substance the same with the Command which we plead for, was retained ⟨p. 199⟩by the Apostles, and Primitive Church; (to say no more) There-fore it is not Ceremonial: And so this Law must needs be Moral.

Fourthly, we reason thus; If it be not Moral, it must either be Judicial, or Ceremonial, for the Matter and Substance of it; but it is not Judicial: that is, it belongeth not to External Policy, and Civil Society, principally and especially, in that one Nation, because no such Duties are Comprehended, at least Primarily, in any Command of the First Table; but in the Second, which teacheth Duties to others, as this First, doth •o God: Neither is it Ceremonial; For, All Ceremonies, that are Typical, have their Rise since the Fall, and relate some way to Christ to-Come. But this of sanctifying One Day of Seven, had it's Rise in the State of Innocency, and was enjoyned to Adam in Paradise, before he fell, and therefore cannot be called Ceremonial Properly, more than the Command of a Man's leaving Father and Mother, and cleaving to his Wife, so that they too should be one Flesh, which the Apostle