A37049:980
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.
1. Thus, if it be not human or Ecclesiastic, t ••n it must be divine, but it is not human or Ecclesiastic, ergo it's divine: That it is not human will appear 1. If it reach the Conscience, and that immediately, then it's not human but divine, but it doth so. 2. If no man or Church on earth have power to alter Gods day, now, nay, nor simply, or at all, then it's not human or Ecclesiastic, but first, none can change it, as we might clear from great absurdities, that would follow. 2. If any Church have this power let them show it, the Old Church had it not, neither the new, as is cleared in the first question.
1. Thus, if it be not human or Ecclesiastick, t ••n it must be divine, but it is not human or Ecclesiastick, ergo it's divine: That it is not human will appear 1. If it reach the Conscience, and that immediately, then it's not human but divine, but it doth so. 2. If no man or Church on earth have power to alter Gods day, now, nay, nor simply, or at all, then it's not human or Ecclesiastick, but first, none can change it, as we might clear from great absurdities, that would follow. 2. If any Church have this power let them shew it, the Old Church had it not, neither the new, as is cleared in the first question.
2. We proceed to evince this change to be by divine institution these four ways.
1. From reasons flowing from Scripture, or Consequences drawn from it, 1. Thus, where by genuine and native Consequences drawn from Scripture any thing is so imposed, as it cannot without sin be altered or neglected, there is a divine institution; but in the change of the Seventh day-Sabbath to the First such Consequences may be drawn from Scripture, as will (upon supposition of the change) a strict it to the First day, so as that cannot be altered or neglected without sin, Ergo, it's of divine institution: The question can be only of the minor, which is made out from what is said in the third Proposition, thus,