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…

Answ. The Apostle cannot be understood simply to cast away the observation of all days as a bondage, & so to make all times alike: For 1. That would contradict his own practise, and the practise of the other Apostles: for it is clear that they differenced the first day of the week from other days, and one day. […] special is called The Lord's-day, which other days of the week are not. 2. If all times be a-like simply, and all making difference be there reproved, then could there be no time set apart to be observed by men, to the marring of that indifferency: ⟨p. 206⟩and if so, then hath the Christian Church been still in a palpable gross sin; for if the keeping of a day by virtue of God's Command, marr that indifferency, much more will the keeping of a day by mans command, and so there could never be a Sabbath. 3. We must therefore understand these places not as casting all days and times simply, but ceremonial and Jewish days, or days invented by men, because the scope of the places runneth that way, viz. against the bringing in of ceremonial worship as necessary, which while some weak ones, not yet sufficiently informed, did still practise, as Rom. 14. the Apostle would not have them hastily condemned in Days, more than Meats; yet is there still a difference betwixt Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Supper and other meats, which this discourse of the Apostle taketh not away; so is it in days. And in these Epistles to the Galatians and Colossians, he speaketh of days, and not (as would seem of the weekly Sabbath, which is ordinarily called a day) as taking in all the extraordinary Feasts of the Jews, which is the more probable, because the c •remonial Law was pressed on them as still necessary, by false Teachers: or he speaketh of mere Jewish days, and so of the Seventh day which they kept; for it's of such observation of days as was sinful, and brake them off from Grace and the Gospel, as other ceremonies did; that he speaketh of: but that cannot be said of all days, or of keeping one day of seven: Therefore this cannot be meant there.

Answ. The Apostle cannot be understood simply to cast away the observation of all days as a bondage, & so to make all times alike: For 1. That would contradict his own practise, and the practise of the other Apostles: for it is clear that they differenced the first day of the week from other days, and one day. special is called The Lord's-day, which other days of the week are not. 2. If all times be a-like simply, and all making difference be there reproved, then could there be no time set apart to be observed by men, to the marring of that indifferency: