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…

Now (supposing it as unquestionable that this is the very First day) we are to inquire if the title applied to this day be the same with that in the command, and which usually was given to the old Seventh-day-Sabbath, or that then Lords day.

Now (supposing it as unquestionable that this is the very First day) we are to inquire if the title applyed to this day be the same with that in the command, and which usually was given to the old Seventh-day-Sabbath, or that then Lords day.

And it is clear, 1. That this title claimeth this day to God as his day, it being possessively expressed, as when we say, the Lords Throne, the Lords Altar, the Lords Sabbath, &c.

And it is clear, 1. That this title claimeth this day to God as his day, it being possessively exprest, as when we say, the Lords Throne, the Lords Altar, the Lords Sabbath, &c.

2. It contradistinguisheth that day from other days, as if they were not so the Lords, but ours, like that in the command, Six days shalt thou labour, &c. but the Seventh is tho Lords, so it's the Lords in a peculiar way, we having lesser right to employ that day for our own use then any other day; and this claim of the First day to be the Lords, inferreth a condescension or dispensation whereby the last day becometh ours, for had there been two days belonging to him, one ⟨p. 268⟩day could not have been peculiarly called his; in which respect, • Cor. 11. [Greek or Hebrew], the Lords Supper is distinguished from [Greek or Hebrew] their own Supper, even so the Lords day is distinguished from other days.