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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.
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.
3. Arg. If all moral duties be contained in the ten Commands, then this Command must needs be moral: But the first is true: Ergo, &c. This Command containeth a moral duty, which is in none of the preceding Commands; to wit, the stinting and determining of the solemn and chief time to be set a part for God's worship, to be one day of s •ven. It is true, Time is commanded to be allowed to God's worship in those other Command • wherein the duties of worship themselves are commanded; for, worship cannot be performed more than any other duty, without some time; but that the chief time should be so much, and so often, is only determined in this Command; from which it appeareth, 1. That an indefinite time of worship, or for it, is not the morality of this Command, because this followeth necessarily, as being supposed needful for the performance of every positive duty contained in the other Commands; its morality, therefore, must be, The determining of •hat definite time. 2. We may hence see a reason why there is no new Command for this in the New-Testament; because this standeth in the Law; neither are, Thou shalt not Swear, Kill, &c. mentioned as new Commands more than this; so •hat, had they not been mentioned in the New-Testament (as ⟨p. 203⟩