The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

4. If the number of seven, (that is, the observation of one day in seven) in this Commandment be changeable; then as ceremonial, or as political: not as ceremonial; for then the Church ought not to observe it. Nor as political; for in the moral Law precepts political are not given. And to this Rivetus answereth, that the observation of the seventh day is ceremonial: and that the Primitive Church kept it not, neither did the Primitive Church keep it, nor do we keep it as ceremonial; but another seventh day, for Ecclesiastical policy sake, not civill.

4. If the number of seven, (that is, the observation of one day in seven) in this Commandement be changeable; then as ceremoniall, or as politicall: not as ceremoniall; for then the Church ought not to observe it. Nor as politicall; for in the morall Law precepts politicall are not given. And to this Rivetus answereth, that the observation of the seventh day is ceremoniall: and that the Primitive Church kept it not, neither did the Primitive Church keepe it, nor doe we keepe it as ceremoniall; but another seventh day, for Ecclesiasticall policy sake, not civill.

¹When he saith we keep another seventh day; he implieth that by the seventh formerly mentioned he meant that particular day of the week which the Jews kept; and that we indeed acknowledge to be ceremonial; but in this interpretation of Wallaeus, he manifestly corrupts his adversaries argument, which is plainly directed against the ceremoniality of one day in seven indefinitely considered, and not against the ceremoniality of the Jews seventh. Yet when he saith the Primitive Church did, and we do keep a seventh, but not as ceremonial; he speaks to the point; but his words following have no coherence herewith: so that he may seem to shuffle miserably in this, affecting to decline that which he is not able to answer. But take we him at the best, he must say that the observation of one day in seven was ceremonial, if he speaks to the purpose. Now let him show us if he can, the ceremoniality of one day in seven, and how Christ was the body of it; nothing more common then to affirm that the Jews Sabbath was ceremonial hand over head, without any distinction of the sanctification of the day, and the rest; much less distinguishing between the rest of one day in seven, and the rest of the seventh. At length I found a fair way opened for the explication of the ceremoniality found in the rest on the seventh day. But as for any ceremoniality in the rest of one day in seven; never (I think) any man set his wits on work to devise that. Lastly,