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…

3. No other day can be substituted in place of the old Seventh day, reserving entire the morality of this command; therefore it must be this that is put in the place of that; for this command requireth, 1. one day of every Seven, allowing Six of every Seven to work, and that together: Now if the day had gone beyond the Sabbath ensuing, it had not been one day of Seven, if it had been the second, third, or fourth day, then the Six working days had not gone together. But now the First being appointed for God next to the Seventh, God hath his part or tribute called for, and then came Six working days together unto us of that same Week, and so still they run, God hath One, and we have Six of the same Week.

3. No other day can be substituted in place of the old Seventh day, reserving intire the morality of this command; therefore it must be this that is put in the place of that; for this command requireth, 1. one day of every Seven, allowing Six of every Seven to work, and that together: Now if the day had gone beyond the Sabbath ensuing, it had not been one day of Seven, if it had been the second, third, or fourth day, then the Six working dayes had not gone together. But now the First being appointed for God next to the Seventh, God hath his part or tribute called for, and then came Six working dayes together unto us of that same Week, and so still they run, God hath One, and we have Six of the same Week.

If it be here objected, that this way, the new World is begun with a Sabbath, whereas the Sabbath closed and ended the Creation of the old World. Answ. 1. Thus God hath no loss of what he required; for this way, no Week wanteth its Sabbath. 2. It's most suitable that the old World ⟨p. 262⟩should end in a Sabbath, and the new begin in a Sabbath, that so the worship of the new (which most distinctly discovereth the change) might the more immediately and convincingly preach the change, which could not so well have been done if working days of both had met together, or a working day of the one, and the Sabbath of the other. 3. Though the old Sabbath was the Seventh in order from the Creation, yet it was the First day after mans Creation, God beginning as it were, and entering him with that, even so when men are brought into this new World or change, God will begin it with gladness and joy to them.