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…

For Answer to the first we say, There are two sorts of days mentioned in the Scripture, one is Artificial of twelve hours, so the Jews divided their day, making their hours longer or shorter as the day was long or short, but they kept up the number of their hours alway; the other is a natural day, which is a seventh part of the Week, and containeth twenty four hours, taking in so much time as interveneth betwixt the Suns beginning to ascend, after midnight, the nocturnal Solstice, till it pass the Meridional altitude, which is the Suns Vertical point for that day, till it come to that same very point of Midnight again, which is the Suns natural course every twenty four hours, comprehending both the artificial day, which is from midnight to midday, and the artificial night also, which is from midday to midnight again.

For Answer to the first we say, There are two sorts of dayes mentioned in the Scripture, one is Artificial of twelve hours, so the Jews divided their day, making their hours longer or shorter as the day was long or short, but they kept up the number of their hours alway; the other is a natural day, which is a seventh part of the Week, and containeth twenty four hours, taking in so much time as interveneth betwixt the Suns begining to ascend, after midnight, the nocturnal Solstice, till it pass the Meridional altitude, which is the Suns Vertical point for that day, till it come to that same very point of Midnight again, which is the Suns natural course every twenty four hours, comprehending both the artificial day, which is from midnight to midday, and the artificial night also, which is from midday to midnight again.

The day mentioned here is the natural day, because it's a seventh day, proportionable to each of the six days, given unto us, and they with the seventh making up the Week, it must contain as many hours as any of the rest doth; but the six days wherein God made Heaven and Earth, &c. are natural days; therefore the seventh, to wit, the day of rest, must be so also.

The day mentioned here is the natural day, because it's a seventh day, proportionable to each of the six dayes, given unto us, and they with the seventh making up the Week, it must contain as many hours as any of the rest doth; but the six dayes wherein God made Heaven and Earth, &c. are natural days; therefore the seventh, to wit, the day of rest, must be so also.