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…

And so we come to the fourth way proposed for making out the morality of this Command, which is by adducing some Arguments drawn from Scripture.

The first whereof is, If the Law bind under the New-Testament, not only in respect of its matter, as its natural; nor only as it is repeated in the New-Testament, but also by virtue of the Authority enacting it: then this Law of the fourth Command ⟨p. 202⟩though not explicitly determined by nature, and though it were not mentioned particularly in the New-Testament, must be binding also, for it hath that same Authority: But the first is true, and is acknowledged generally by Divines (excepting a few) and is clear by Christ and his Apostles their citing of it, as supposing it to be binding: Therefore the last must be true also.

The first whereof is, If the Law bind under the New-Testament, not only in respect of its matter, as its natural; nor only as it is repeated in the New-Testament, but also by vertue of the Authority enacting it: then this Law of the fourth Command ⟨p. 202⟩though not explicitly determined by nature, and though it were not mentioned particularly in the New-Testament, must be binding also, for it hath that same Authority: But the first is true, and is acknowledged generally by Divines (excepting a few) and is clear by Christ and his Apostles their citing of it, as supposing it to be binding: Therefore the last must be true also.

2. Arg. If this Command be founded on moral grounds, then it self must be moral: But the grounds on which it is founded are moral: Ergo, &c. 1. It is moral that God should have a solemn and chief set-time. 2. That he himself, and none other should determine that time, seeing no other could do it and bless it. 3. These reasons-in the Command it self dividing time, into six parts of it to us, and a seventh part to God; and God's resting after six days working; with his making only seven days in the week, and employing six of them to work, &c. these reasons, I say, are all moral and bin ing now as before.