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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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Obedience to this Command, is pressed by an exceeding Weighty Reason, drawn from God's own Example; which maketh it clearly Relative, to it's First Institution, Gen. 2. Where it is said, That He Rested after Six Days Work, the Seventh Day; viz. the whole Seventh Day, and so should we▪ which is the more effectual, for proving the Morality of this Command: Because 1. It's a Reason that took place, even in Innocency, and so respecteth no Type or Ceremony. 2. It is Universal, belonging to all Men, who are God's Creatures: And therefore, since the Reason is perpetual, so must the Command be like-wise.
Obedience to this Command, is pressed by an exceeding Weighty Reason, drawen from God's own Example; which maketh it clearly Relative, to it's First Institution, Gen. 2. Where it is said, That He Rested after Six Dayes Work, the Seventh Day; viz. the whole Seventh Day, and so should we▪ which is the more effectual, for proving the Morality of this Command: Because 1. It's a Reason that took place, even in Innocency, and so respecteth no Type or Ceremony. 2. It is Universal, belonging to all Men, who are God's Creatures: And therefore, since the Reason is perpetual, so must the Command be like-wise.
7. This Command alone, and beside all others, is expressly pressed in the observation of it, not only on Masters and Rulers for themselves, but as taking burden on them, for all under ⟨p. 201⟩them, and within their Families to endeavour the sanctifying of the Lord's day with them, and by them as well as by themselves; whereby the extent of this Command is clearly and earnestly holden forth in more express terms, than in any other of all the Commands; though this be implied in them also.