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…

4. There is a special Equity, holden out here in the Proportioning of this time: There are Six Days given us, to Labour on; and therefore it is all the Reason in the World, that the Lord have the Seventh: And if this Concession of God's, of Six Days to work on, be Moral (For all the time is God's; and we cannot, for our use, take any part of it, but by His grant; and there is no other Grant: But this dividing and proportioning of Time, betwixt him and us; in which Division too, he hath given us by far, the large •t Share; to wit, Six parts of Seven:) Then must the setting a part of a Seventh Day, be Moral also: And so the Command it self, wherein both are comprehended, viz. The Sixth given to us, and the Seventh reserved for him; they must needs stand and fall together: For they Mutually put each other; Thou shalt labour Six Days, and Rest on the Seventh; Thou shalt Rest on the Sabbath Day, and Labour Six.

4. There is a special Equity, holden out here in the Proportioning of this time: There are Six Dayes given us, to Labour on; and therefore it is all the Reason in the World, that the Lord have the Seventh: And if this Concession of God's, of Six Dayes to work on, be Moral (For all the time is God's; and we cannot, for our use, take any part of it, but by His grant; and there is no other Grant: But this dividing and proportioning of Time, betwixt him and us; in which Division too, he hath given us by far, the large •t Share; to wit, Six parts of Seven:) Then must the setting a part of a Seventh Day, be Moral also: And so the Command it self, wherein both are comprehended, viz. The Sixt given to us, and the Seventh reserved for him; they must needs stand and fall together: For they Mutually put each other; Thou shalt labour Six Dayes, and Rest on the Seventh; Thou shalt Rest on the Sabbath Day, and Labour Six.

5. This Day is claimed by the Lord, as a thing wherein he hath a special Propriety: It's the Lords Day; •or though he did give Six, yet he reserved a Seventh. And can, or dare, any say, That he discharged that, or dispensed it away from Himself, to any other? If not, it must be His still; and cannot without Sacrilege, be other ways applied.