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…

That Commandment contains two things 1. the sanctification of the Sabbath. 2. a designing of the time when; both as touching the proportion of time, to wit of one day in seven; and as touching the particularity of the day under the forementioned proportion. For in commanding a seventh, it commands one day in seven, the former inferring the latter, as well as it doth infer the setting of some time in general ⟨p. 215⟩a part for Gods service, which not one (that I know) denies to be the substance of this commandment. Now as the Lord designed, what should be their Sabbath day unto the Jews; so hath he designed what shall be the Sabbath day to us Christians.

That Commandement containes two things 1. the sanctification of the Sabbath. 2. a designing of the time when; both as touching the proportion of time, to wit of one day in seven; and as touching the particularity of the day under the forementioned proportion. For in commanding a seventh, it commands one day in seven, the former inferring the latter, as well as it doth inferre the setting of some time in generall ⟨p. 215⟩a part for Gods service, which not one (that I know) denies to bee the substance of this commandement. Now as the Lord designed, what should bee their Sabbath day unto the Jewes; so hath hee designed what shall bee the Sabbath day to us Christians.

This designation made to us we do not derive from the fourth commandment; but this day being by the word of God designed unto us, still holding up the same proportion of time: the rest of this day and the sanctification thereof, this and this alone do we derive from the fourth commandment, and also, that undoubtedly we Christians ought not to allow unto God a worse proportion of time for his Service, then did the Jews: and the proportion is apparent between the Lord the creators rest, and the Lord the redeemers rest. And our rest on the day of our Lord the creators rest, being abolished as a type of Christs rest in the grave; what is more convenient to come in the place thereof then our rest on that day, which is the Lord our redeemers rest. As touching the passage here alleged out of Calvin, I am sorry to observe the common error of others committed here also; by dismembering Calvins sentence, leaving out one half of it, making him to deliver that absolutely, which he utters only conditionally. And the other half of the first sentence here mentioned doth manifest as much, namely that Calvin speaks only against them, who think themselves obliged to the observation of one day in 7. for some mysterious significations sake; and accordingly Wallaeus showeth that he opposeth none but Papists, whose course is to observe festival days for some mystery sake, whereof he gives good evidence by a passage which he allegeth out of Bellarmine, all which I have formerly represented more at large, in my answer to the Preface Sect. 4. I come to the fourth Section of the Author; That some do urge the words of this Commandment, so far till they draw blood instead of comfort, are but words: nothing of this kind hath been hitherto made good so much as in the least colour of probability: And who upon due observing of the fourth commandment may not well be brought to admire the wisdom of God, that as he hath placed it in the moral law,