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…

That a Seventh day (whatever it be which is chosen of God) and not the Seventh day in order, is to be sanctified by virtue of this command, as enjoining that, as the substance and matter of it, may be made out by these Arguments.

That a Seventh day (whatever it be which is chosen of God) and not the Seventh day in order, is to be sanctified by vertue of this command, as injoyning that, as the substance and matter of it, may be made out by these Arguments.

Arg. 1. That which is the substance of this command is moral, and bindeth perpetually, as we have formerly proved (for if its substance be not moral, then it self is not so either) but that a Seventh day should be sanctified hath been maintained ⟨p. 244⟩in the Church by the Apostles in their retaining the First day of the week, while the Seventh hath been laid by and never used; therefore it was not the Seventh, but a Seventh day which was primarily commanded in this command; so that no particular day is instituted here more then any positive service is prescribed in the second command; yet the observation of what was prescribed, or should be prescribed, was included. Even so it is here in reference to that day; and as we may infer that the second command enjoined not such and such ordinances primarily, because they are abolished; and that such as were negative or prohibited, as not making of Images, are moral, because they are continued, and Images are to be rejected; just so may we conclude that a Sev nth day here was primarily commanded, and is moral because it it is continued, and that the Seventh was not so commanded, because it is rejected and laid aside.

Arg. 1. That which is the substance of this command is moral, and bindeth perpetually, as we have formerly proved (for if its substance be not moral, then it self is not so either) but that a Seventh day should be sanctified hath been maintained ⟨p. 244⟩in the Church by the Apostles in their retaining the First day of the week, while the Seventh hath been laid by and never used; therefore it was not the Seventh, but a Seventh day which was primarily commanded in this command; so that no particular day is instituted here more then any positive service is prescribed in the second command; yet the observation of what was prescribed, or should be prescribed, was included. Even so it is here in reference to that day; and as we may inferr that the second command injoyned not such and such ordinances primarily, because they are abolished; and that such as were negative or prohibited, as not making of Images, are moral, because they are continued, and Images are to be rejected; just so may we conclude that a Sev nth day here was primarily commanded, and is moral because it it is continued, and that the Seventh was not so commanded, because it is rejected and laid aside.