A37049:967
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.
4. It will infer an appointment of Christs, whereby he appropriateth that day to his Service, and claimeth it to himself; why, because he calleth it his, even as in the fourth command there is no express institution of the Seventh day, yet because the Seventh was called the Lords, and in his former way and dispensations intimated as a day to be kept for him, therefore it's understood and taken for granted by the Jews to be instituted, seeing he calleth it his; so may we conclude here, that there is an institution and appointment of the First day to be the Lords, because it's claimed by him as his, although no such plain express institution be of it as of other Ordinances, it being clear that the institution of days i • left more generally to be gathered: From all which we may gather the conclusion, to wit, that the First day of the week is styled by the same peculiar Titles claimed by the Lord expressly as his right and due, and upon as valid grounds under the New Testament, as the Seventh day was under the Old; Therefore now the Seventh day is changed, and the First is come in its room, which was the thing to be proved.
4. It will infer an appointment of Christs, whereby he appropriateth that day to his Service, and claimeth it to himself; why, because he calleth it his, even as in the fourth command there is no express institution of the Seventh day, yet because the Seventh was called the Lords, and in his former way and dispensations intimated as a day to be kept for him, therefore it's understood and taken for granted by the Jews to be instituted, seeing he calleth it his; so may we conclude here, that there is an institution and appointment of the First day to be the Lords, because it's claimed by him as his, although no such plain express institution be of it as of other Ordinances, it being clear that the institution of dayes i • left more generally to be gathered: From all which we may gather the conclusion, to wit, that the First day of the week is stiled by the same peculiar Titles claimed by the Lord expresly as his right and due, and upon as valid grounds under the New Testament, as the Seventh day was under the Old; Therefore now the Seventh day is changed, and the First is come in its room, which was the thing to be proved.