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…

In this debate then, we take morning and evening largely, ⟨p. 250⟩as they divide the whole natural day, so the morning is from twelve at night to twelve in the day, and the evening from twelve in the day to twelve at night: And it must be so here, for 1. Moses, Gen. 1. divideth the natural day in morning and evening, which two put together, make up the whole day; and these Six days, made up each of them of morning and evening, are natural days, the whole week being divided in Seven of them: and that reckoning from Gods example is no doubt proposed for our Imitation in this. Hence the morning watch was before day, and the morning Sacrifice about nine of the clock, so the evening sacrifice was about three in the afternoon, and the evening watch about nine at night. 2. It is granted by all, and is clear from this command, that as we account the Six working days of the week, so must we account the Seventh, for one must begin where another endeth; and if one of them begin at the evening or morning, all the rest must do so likewise. 3. We suppose the sanctifying of the ordinary Sabbath was from morning to evening, I say of the ordinary Sabbath; because for extraordinary Sabbaths, as of the Passover, Exod. 12. and of the Atonement, Levit. 23. there were special reasons; and though otherwise they were to be sanctified as Sabbaths, yet that they were to begin in the evening before, was added as a special solemnity of these solemn times, and therefore the example or instance of these will not be concludent here to the prejudice of what we assert, but rather, to the contrary, seeing there is a particular excepting of them from the ordinary rule, and the particular intimation of their beginning in the evening, will rather confirm our assertion, that the ordinary Sabbaths did begin in the morning. 4. It's not questioned, if on the evening before, people should be preparing for the Sabbath following, we said that this is included in the word remember; but if we speak of the Sabbath to begin at the evening before, then it will be comprehended as a part of the very day, and so it will conclude the work or observation of the day to close at the next evening.

In this debate then, we take morning and evening largely,