Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians…Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians…

and accordingly we being upon the election of the day. Now, consider the case of Adam; God having revealed unto him how many days he had spent in the creating of all things, and in what order he created them, the last day of the six being the day wherein he created the beasts of the field, then man, and after placing him in Paradise, and after experience of his wisdom appearing in the naming of the beasts brought before him, not finding an help meet for him, casting him in a sleep, and taking a rib out of his side, thereof made a woman to be a help meet for him. The next day, which was the seventh, God resting from his work, what day should man have preferred for Gods service before this; considering the proportion between Gods rest from his works, and mans rest from his; and that as this day was the first of Gods rest, so it was the first of mans work; And the very Heathens have counted it reasonable, à Jove principium, to begin with God, especially there being no better means to take livery and seisin of the world made by God for the service of man, than by the service of God, man being made to this end, and ⟨p. 195⟩accordingly after Gods image, endued with an understanding heart to know him, and with rational affections to fear and serve him. And that with the first, as Caietan observeth, and that out of the judgement of reason, Par est ut post accepta beneficia agnoscamus benefactorem quandoque uno statim: It is fit after benefits received, we should acknowledge our Creator sometimes, yea, forthwith: As we read the Angels did; as the Book of Job informs us, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding, who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it. Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The sum of all is this: 1. It is generally confessed, and that by the very light of nature, that sometime, and that in a sufficient proportion, is to be set apart for Gods service. 2. God being our great Lord and Master, it is most fit, by the very suggestion of nature, that God himself should set forth unto us his servants, both the proportion of time, according to which, and the particularity of the day wherein he will be served by us.

and accordingly wee being upon the election of the day. Now, consider the case of Adam; God having revealed unto him how many dayes he had spent in the creating of all things, and in what order hee created them, the last day of the six being the day wherein he created the beasts of the field, then man, and after placing him in Paradise, and after experience of his wisedome appearing in the naming of the beasts brought before him, not finding an help meet for him, casting him in a sleepe, and taking a rib out of his side, thereof made a woman to be a help meet for him. The next day, which was the seventh, God resting from his worke, what day should man have preferred for Gods service before this; considering the proportion betweene Gods rest from his works, and mans rest from his; and that as this day was the first of Gods rest, so it was the first of mans worke; And the very Heathens have counted it reasonable, à Iove principium, to begin with God, especially there being no better meanes to take livery and seisin of the world made by God for the service of man, than by the service of God, man being made to this end, and