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…

It is confessed that this proof is good, God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; therefore he commanded it to be kept holy by his people. The sanctifying of the day in the true notion thereof being nothing but Gods commanding man to sanctify it, which yet if any man deny, I appeal to my former argument, delivered in the former Section, for the justifying thereof. Only it is said that thence it followeth not that Then or at that time, to wit, the very day whereon God rested, he commanded it to be kept holy by his people. Now this exception also I have removed in the former. Section. And it is very strange we should be to seek of the time in reference whereunto this is delivered; most of all, if spoken only in reference to 2500 years after, and not the least intimation of so strange an anticipation beyond all example, as Walaeus and Rivetus have proved. When Abulensis saith that Moses spake this by anticipation rather to show the equity of the Commandment then the Original; If the book of Genesis were written before the Commandment was given on mount Sinai, this interpretation must suppose that the Lord had already revealed to Moses what he would do on Mount Sinai; and what ground is produced for the building of so much as any conjecture hereof thereupon? And what wise man would expect that any man should be satisfied herewith? Doth it not concern them who maintain this affirmative to make it good by Texts of Scripture? If after the Commandments were delivered on Mount Sinai; what need of representing the equity thereof, seeing the equity, and that in this very way, is expressed in the Commandment it self, and ⟨p. 202⟩that in such manner as to manifest evidently that God did not now begin to command this, but that he commanded it of old, even from the Creation, as already I have disputed and proved. And though Abulensis were of this opinion, yet Catarinus was not; and though Pererius the Jesuit took part with Tostatus, yet Rivetus hath showed that Cornelius de lapide, Emmanuel Sa. Ribera, all Jesuits do not, but with Catarinus rather, or that Steuchus, Eugubinus, Genebrard, and Jacobus Salianus concur with them, against the opinion of Tostatus, Gomarus acknowledgeth Marius also to be of the same mind, all Papists; and let me add unto these all the Rhemists, as appears in their notes upon Apoc. 1. 10.

It is confessed that this proofe is good, God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; therefore he commanded it to be kept holy by his people. The sanctifying of the day in the true notion thereof being nothing but Gods commanding man to sanctifie it, which yet if any man deny, I appeale to my former argument, delivered in the former Section, for the justifying thereof. Onely it is said that therence it followeth not that Then or at that time, to wit, the very day whereon God rested, he commanded it to be kept holy by his people. Now this exception also I have remooved in the former. Section. And it is very strange we should be to seeke of the time in reference whereunto this is delivered; most of all, if spoken onely in reference to 2500 yeares after, and not the least intimation of so strange an anticipation beyond all example, as Walaeus and Rivetus have proved. When Abulensis saith that Moses spake this by anticipation rather to shew the equity of the Commandement then the Originall; If the booke of Genesis were written before the Commandement was given on mount Sina, this interpretation must suppose that the Lord had already revealed to Moses what hee would doe on Mount Sina; and what ground is produced for the building of so much as any conjecture hereof thereupon? And what wise man would expect that any man should be satisfied herewith? Doth it not concerne them who maintaine this affirmative to make it good by Texts of Scripture? If after the Commandements were delivered on Mount Sina; what neede of representing the equity thereof, seeing the equity, and that in this very way, is expressed in the Commandement it selfe, and