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…

4. That it is, and must be such a day as was commonly set apart by Christians to God as his, and that with respect to Christ the Mediator, and such a day as was known to them; And by the former practises it is clear, that this day is the first day of the Week, being the Lord Christ's day, who now having conquered death, and gotten the victory, He doth therefore claim this day as a tribute to him.

4. That it is, and must be such a day as was commonly set apart by Christians to God as his, and that with respect to Christ the Mediatour, and such a day as was known to them; And by the former practises it is clear, that this day is the first day of the Week, being the Lord Christ's day, who now having conquered death, and gotten the victory, He doth therefore claim this day as a tribute to him.

This being clear, that no other day can claim this title, and that the First day hath good ground to claim it, we may put it out of question, that it is the First day or no day, or if it were not the First, that to no purpose were the designation of that day inserted, seeing to no other day hath it been applied, nor can it be applied.

This being clear, that no other day can claim this title, and that the First day hath good ground to claim it, we may put it out of question, that it is the First day or no day, or if it were not the First, that to no purpose were the designation of that day inserted, seeing to no other day hath it been applyed, nor can it be applyed.

This truth has been uncontroverted in all Antiquity, and almost by all Writers (till of late Gomarus beginneth to question it) as Rivet cleareth on this command against him.