A37049:952
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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And as the practice of the Church holdeth out the change of the day, so doth the Title given, Rev. 1.10. to the first day of the week, to wit, the Lords day confirm the same, whence we argue.
If the Title, which by the Lord and his people was given to the Seventh day-Sabbath under the old Testament, and under which, and by which, he claimeth a Seventh day in this command; If I say that Title in the New Testament be not given unto the Seventh, but unto the First day of the week; then is the day changed from the Seventh day to the First, and the First falleth now under this command, as the Seventh formerly did; but the former is true, the First is styled as the Seventh was, and as this command styleth and claimeth the day to the Lord to be observed for him; therefore now is the Sabbath changed from the Seventh day to the First day of the Week.
If the Title, which by the Lord and his people was given to the Seventh day-Sabbath under the old Testament, and under which, and by vvhich, he claimeth a Seventh day in this command; If I say that Title in the New Testament be not given unto the Seventh, but unto the First day of the week; then is the day changed from the Seventh day to the First, and the First falleth now under this command, as the Seventh formerly did; but the former is true, the First is styled as the Seventh was, and as this command styleth and claimeth the day to the Lord to be observed for him; therefore now is the Sabbath changed from the Seventh day to the First day of the Week.
The Titles whereby the Sabbath is distinguished from other days and peculiarly claimed and marked by God as his, and that in this same command, must certainly evidence that day, which he hath set apart and doth claim as he applieth them: And therefore if these Titles be given and applied to the first day now, it must needs show a succeeding of that day unto the former Seventh, for during the Observation of the Seventh day these Titles were not, nay could not be applied to the First, no day being then the Lords but the Seventh.