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…

Arg. 6. If by this command the day of rest from Gods most solemn work be to be our day of rest; then after Christs coming (not so before) not the Seventh, but the first day is to be observed; but by the command the former is true. Again, if ⟨p. 259⟩that day be to be kept in reference to any solemn work of God, which was the First day after his perfecting it, then the First day is to be kept: but by the command the former is true, because our resting day is to be kept in reference to the work of Redemption, and therefore must be on the First day, which was the day after its closing and perfecting, as to Christs suffering and labour, though not as to its application, even as the Seventh was of Gods resting from the work of Creation, though not from his works of Providence.

Arg. 7. If the Seventh day which the Jews kept, had any peculiar tie or motive unto them, which by Christ is now taken away, then it was meet that at Christs coming that day should be changed. We would understand here, that there might be somewhat peculiar or typical in their Seventh day, and yet nothing so in the fourth command, which commandeth one of Seven, but not the Seventh: And though we could not particularly pitch upon what is typical or peculiar in it, yet may we conceive that something there is, as in Tithes, Offerings, &c. though the particular thing which is typified be hardly instructed: As 1. If its beginning was on the evening to them (as some think) the reason of it was peculiar, to wit, their coming out of Egypt at evening, Exod. 12. And in so far at least it would be peculiar to them; And by Christs rising in the morning is changed.

Arg. 7. If the Seventh day which the Jews kept, had any peculiar tye or motive unto them, which by Christ is now taken away, then it was meet that at Christs coming that day should be changed. We would understand here, that there might be somewhat peculiar or typical in their Seventh day, and yet nothing so in the fourth command, which commandeth one of Seven, but not the Seventh: And though we could not particularly pitch upon what is typical or peculiar in it, yet may we conceive that something there is, as in Tythes, Offerings, &c. though the particular thing which is typified be hardly instructed: As 1. If its beginning was on the evening to them (as some think) the reason of it was peculiar, to wit, their coming out of Egypt at evening,