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…

2. If the breaking of that command be equally sinful to us with them, and strike against the equity of the command, and Gods example in us as well as in them, then these reasons concern us also, and us as well as them: Now that they do so, and agredge the sin of profaning our Lords day as they did the sin of profaning their Sabbath, we must either grant, or we must deny that they concern us at all: Beside the weight of a challenge from the conscience by virtue of them, will put a tender heart out of question of it, seeing God giveth us Six days to our selves, as he did to them, and his example proposed to us ought to be respected by us, as well as by them, and the same general equity is in both.

2. If the breaking of that command be equally sinful to us with them, and strike against the equity of the command, and Gods example in us as well as in them, then these reasons concern us also, and us as well as them: Now that they do so, and agredge the sin of prophaning our Lords day as they did the sin of prophaning their Sabbath, we must either grant, or we must deny that they concern us at all: Beside the weight of a challenge from the conscience by vertue of them, will put a tender heart out of question of it, seeing God giveth us Six dayes to our selves, as he did to them, and his example proposed to us ought to be respected by us, as well as by them, and the same general equity is in both.

3. If the reasons be a sufficient ground of allowance to us for▪ Six working days together, even the last Six of the week, as they were to them for the first Six; then they determine not the Seventh day to be the day of rest primarily, but a Seventh following these Six of labour; but they do allow us warrantably to work Six days, even the last Six of the week, Ergo, they do not determine the Seventh day primarily; the connection of the major seemeth to be very clear: For first, these must stand and fall together, if the concession (to call it so) concern us in the Six working days, so must the reservation of a Seventh. 2. As the concession concerneth us in the Six working days, so must the prohibition of work on a Seventh of rest, for the one determineth the other, if the concession be for Six in number, so must the prohibition be for a Seventh in number; but if the concession be of Six in order, then it is the Seventh that is to be reserved, and if the Seventh be related to in the prohibition of work, then the concession must look to the first Six days, which it doth not, as we have showed. And therefore 3. seeing the Six days concession looketh to Six in number, so many thou mayest or shalt work together, and no more, the prohibition must also respect the number, to wit, a Seventh, and not the Seventh day: the minor will be clear to the Judicious considerer, by a particular application of the reasons of the fourth command.