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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 so we resume and close these six propositions, 1. The day may be changed from the last to the first: 2. It's meet it should be so, and there is good reason for it: 3. It can only be to the First: 4. It's so changed actually: 5. It's change is not by Human, but by Divine institution: 6. Its institution ⟨p. 276⟩seemeth to be from the rise of the Gospel Church, and the very day of Christs Resurrection. Hence we infer 1. Good warrant, even Gods warrant for employing the Seventh day to our selves, seeing God seeketh but one day in Seven, and now has chosen and claimeth the First. 2. Gods warrant for sanctifying the First-day-Sabbath or the Lords day as his institution. 3. That the Lords day is to be sanctified by us Christians, and that by virtue of this command, as the Seventh day was by the Jews on its grounds.
And so we resume and close these six propositions, 1. The day may be changed from the last to the first: 2. It's meet it should be so, and there is good reason for it: 3. It can only be to the First: 4. It's so changed actually: 5. It's change is not by Human, but by Divine institution: 6. Its institution ⟨p. 276⟩seemeth to be from the rise of the Gospel Church, and the very day of Christs Resurrection. Hence vve infer 1. Good vvarrant, even Gods vvarrant for imploying the Seventh day to our selves, seeing God seeketh but one day in Seven, and novv has chosen and claimeth the First. 2. Gods vvarrant for sanctifying the First-day-Sabbath or the Lords day as his institution. 3. That the Lords day is to be sanctified by us Christians, and that by vertue of this command, as the Seventh day vvas by the Jevvs on its grounds.
We come now to speak of the sanctification of this day, which is the main thing, and for which all the rest is intended, we shall first consider the precept, and then 2. the reasons whereby it is enforced.
We come novv to speak of the sanctification of this day, vvhich is the main thing, and for vvhich all the rest is intended, vve shall first consider the precept, and then 2. the reasons vvhereby it is inforced.