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…

To the first then, this command doth morally and perpetually oblige to these: •. That there be a solemn time set apart and observed for Worship: 2. That this should be one day of Seven: 3. That it should be such a day, the very day, which God commandeth, the Sabbath of his appointment, whatever day it should be: 4. That it be a whole natural day of twenty four hours, yet having an Artificial day together undivided: 5. That six, and no more but six, working days intervene, and that these be together in a Week; and therefore 6. That the Sabbath be a bounding day, dividing one working Week from another; if then six working days must be in one week, and go together, this will follow also, that the Sabbath must be the first or last day of the Seven.

To the first then, this command doth morally and perpetually oblige to these: •. That there be a solemn time set apart and observed for Worship: 2. That this should be one day of Seven: 3. That it should be such a day, the very day, which God commandeth, the Sabbath of his appointment, whatever day it should be: 4. That it be a whole natural day of twenty four hours, yet having an Artificial day together undivided: 5. That six, and no more but six, working dayes intervene, and that these be together in a Week; and therefore 6. That the Sabbath be a bounding day, dividing one working Week from another; if then six working days must be in one week, and go together, this will follow also, that the Sabbath must be the first or last day of the Seven.

As for the Propositions clearing the change and consistency of it with this command, the first shall be this.

The Sabbath may be changed from the last or Seventh day to the First day of the week without any derogation to this command or inconsistency with it; for all that is moral in it,