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…

2. All things that have a tendency, as necessary helps and means to the performance of the former works of piety, are lawful, as going to the Congregation to hear the Law, calling the Assembly for worship by Trumpets, or Bells, or by a Voice, Journeying, going or riding to Church, &c. because ⟨p. 278⟩the duties of the Sabbath cannot well be done without some of these, nor at all without others of them.

2. All things that have a tendencie, as necessary helps and means to the performance of the former works of piety, are lawful, as going to the Congregation to hear the Law, calling the Assembly for worship by Trumpets, or Bells, or by a Voice, Journeying, going or riding to Church, &c. because ⟨p. 278⟩the duties of the Sabbath cannot well be done without some of these, nor at all without others of them.

If it should be asked here, What that, which is called a Sabbaths day Journey, Acts 1.12. was among the Jews? and whence it came, and what way may it be stinted or limited among Christians? Answ. It was to them 2000 Cubits, which according to the different measuring of that distance of ground consisting of these 2000 Cubits by a lesser or longer Cubi •, is reckoned to be more or less by learned Men; but all agree (says Goodwin in his Moses and Aaron) in this, that these 2000 Cubits was a Sabbath days Journey.

If it should be asked here, What that, which is called a Sabbaths day Journey, Acts 1.12. was among the Jews? and whence it came, and what way may it be stinted or limited among Christians? Answ. It was to them 2000 Cubits, which according to the different measuring of that distance of ground consisting of these 2000 Cubits by a lesser or longer Cubi , is reckoned to be more or less by learned Men; but all agree (saies Goodwin in his Moses and Aaron) in this, that these 2000 Cubits was a Sabbath daies Journey.