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…

We have said the more on this, because it doth not only clear the true Scope of the Command, but showeth the necessity of the Observation of that time, which the Lord hath sanctified for himself. 3. We should put a difference also betwixt Ceremonial and Mutable: All the Judicial Laws are Mutable; and the Decalogue it self, in respect of it's Curse; and, as it was a Covenant giving Life, is Actually changed and abolished: Yet is not for that to be reputed Ceremonial, and not Obligatory: (Though all Ceremonials be Mutable, yet all Mutables are not Ceremonial.) Besides, this change is not in the matter. Why may not therefore, the Seventh Day in Order, (which was observed from the Creation, to the Resurrection of Christ,) be changed to the First Day of the Week, which is a Seventh Day in Number still, without abolishing the Morality of the Fourth Command?

We have said the more on this, because it doth not only clear the true Scope of the Command, but sheweth the necessity of the Observation of that time, which the Lord hath •anctified for himself. 3. We should put a difference also betwixt Ceremonial and Mutable: All the Judicial Laws are Mutable; and the Decalogue it self, in respect of it's Curse; and, as it was a Covenant giving Life, is Actually changed and abolished: Yet is not for that to be reputed Ceremonial, and not Obligatory: (Though all Ceremonials be Mutable, yet all Mutables are not Ceremonial.) Besides, this change is not in the matter. Why may not therefore, the Seventh Day in Order, (which was observed from the Creation, to the Resurrection of Christ,) be chainged to the First Day of the Week, which is a Seventh Day in Number still, without abolishing the Morality of the Fourth Command?

Amongst other things in this Command, there is more express mention, of the whole Families joining in this Duty, than is in other Commands: Therefore it being a concerning-Duty to us; and a special thing included in the Command; we shall speak to that Point concerning Family Worship, (before we speak of the Second General proposed about the Particular Mor •lity of this Command, and the meaning of the Words of it,) that ye may see, that it is no invention of Men; when ye are called to it, and when it is pressed upon you.