A37049:876
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.
For answering this we would premit, 1. That there is a great difference betwixt these two; the one, to wit, that there be a Seventh doth concern the matter and substance of piety; the other, to wit, which of these Seven it be, is more circumstantial and is alike, if it be appointed by God, and have the blessing.
2. That it is usual for God in his commands concerning worship, not at first to express a particular definitely, but to deliver it in the bosom of a general indefinitely, mediately, and by clear consequence, as it were several Species under one Genus.
2. That it is usual for God in his commands concerning worship, not at first to express a particular definitely, but to deliver it in the bosome of a general indefinitely, mediately, and by clear consequence, as it were several Species under one Genus.
As for instance, 1. when Deut. 12.5. he commandeth his people to offer their Sacrifices in the place which he should choose, here there is a stinting or astricting of them to the place which God should reveal unto them; this before the Temple was built, tied them to the Ark, and sometimes to one place, and sometimes to another, as it was removed and placed, till it was brought to Jerusalem; but after the Temple was built and chosen for the place, it astricted men to that▪ yea when the Temple is destroyed, and Christ come, it astricteth men to no place by another, but it obligeth men to worship God every where in spirit and truth: It's true, this is a Ceremonial precept, and will not hold in all things, especially as to its abolition, yet while it stood by a positive Authority or Precept, it showeth that God may command a particular, as one day of seven, and yet not instantly so determine, but that one and the same command may enforce to diverse days at diverse times, upon supposition o Gods manifesting his mind, even as by one command men were astricted successively to diverse places.