Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

2. This Command, as all the Rest of the Decalogue, was written twice by the finger of God in Tables of Stone. And hereof there was a double Reason. First, That it was a stable Revocation, and Objective Representation of that Law, which being implanted on the heart of man, and communicated unto him in his Creation, was variously defaced; partly by the corruption and loss of that Light through the entrance of sin, which should have guided us in the Right Apprehension and Understanding of its Dictates, and the Obedience that it required; partly through a long course of a corrupt conversation which the world had in the pursuit of the first Apostasy, and according to the Principles of it plunged it self into. God now again fixed that Law Objectively, in a way of durable Preservation, which in its primitive seat and subject was so impaired and defaced. And hereof the Additions mentioned, with peculiar Respect unto the Application of the whole, or any part of it, unto that people, were no impeachment, as is acknowledged in the Preface given unto them all, containing a Motive unto their dutiful Observance of the whole. And hence this Law must necessarily be esteemed a part of the Antecedent Law of Nature; neither can any other Reason be given, why God wrote it himself, with those, and only those that are so, in Tables of Stone. Secondly, This was done as an Emblem, that the whole Decalogue was a Representation of that Law, which by his Spirit he would write in the fleshly Tables of the Hearts of his Elect.

2. This Command, as all the Rest of the Decalogue, was written twice by the finger of God in Tables of Stone. And hereof there was a double Reason. First, That it was a stable Revocation, and Objective Representation of that Law, which being implanted on the heart of man, and communicated unto him in his Creation, was variously defaced; partly by the corruption and loss of that Light through the entrance of sin, which should have guided us in the Right Apprehension and Understanding of its Dictates, and the Obedience that it required; partly through a long course of a corrupt conversation which the world had in the pursuit of the first Apostasie, and according to the Principles of it plunged it self into. God now again fixed that Law Objectively, in a way of durable Preservation, which in its primitive seat and subject was so impaired and defaced. And hereof the Additions mentioned, with peculiar Respect unto the Application of the whole, or any part of it, unto that people, were no impeachment, as is acknowledged in the Preface given unto them all, containing a Motive unto their dutiful Observance of the whole. And hence this Law must necessarily be esteemed a part of the Antecedent Law of Nature; neither can any other Reason be given, why God wrote it himself, with those, and only those that are so, in Tables of Stone. Secondly, This was done as an Embleme, that the whole Decalogue was a Representation of that Law, which by his Spirit he would write in the fleshly Tables of the Hearts of his Elect.