. 126 Thefourth Commande.ment. . not he ·giuen vs libertie ~o labour fix-e dayes in our calling; and is not the equitie altogether as -forcible to v-s in euery age, as it was to them; in their ages? IfGodhaue 't~·ken from vs none of the fixe dayes:,which he gaueto them ; .what rea– fon haue we to take away the feuenth or auy part ofthe fe. uenth, more than they ? 1 Then,fecondly it is .the Lords;therfore the Iewesmaynot imploy it any other-waies than·according to his will: and- . doth not this reafon hold as llrogly n~w?Hauewe any priui. ~ Jedge·granted;to lay the.euHh hands vpon thofe holy things, which,are Gods, more than in old time the Iewes had? And for the example ofGod, that he ceafed from .crea... . ting;, doth it not reach ,to·a-ll men .and to all times· alike ?are not we as much bound to follow Gods example as euer.any?· I:.afHy, it is .a day bleff(ld to them ~hat keepe it, a·nd to this . · end confecrated, 'that it may Bring a bleffing. Hath time, · worne out the force of this-argument? Is God leffe able to bleffe,vs now ,or fhould we leffe defire,or do we Ieffe Aand in~ nted ofhis bldfii1g than·they (We fee then:, that all the rea•. fons are firme and Hrong,the length oftime cannot .abrogate the truth andHrength ofthereafons; therefore neither can it· difanullthe Commandement,~hich is grounded hereupon•. For,'Nhere God giues aceremoniallcommandement, wbich , he would haue the Iewes.only to obferue,there he frames his·– . reafon 'thereafter, from fome thing that fpecially toucheth the lewcs:t and hath no fuch agreement, or affinity. to other nations or times. As for the J.latfeouer, he commaunds the .. ' . ~ · Iewes to keep~ that•.Why ?Becaufe the Angell palfe.d ouer·, . , their houfes) when he deflroy.edth~ .~'Egyptians. And they. . .·,:. ·. mufi g.iue their firflborne to Go·d: Why? Beca~fe G{)d did· \ , not fmite their firll borne in the flaoghter ofthe .&gyptians•. A'nd, fo many other ceremonies haue reafons annexed vnto them: which being poculiar to the Iewes,{hewed, thatthcy. , did only. bind the lewes vnder the law. But ofall the reafons-. heere alledged, we fee that none is ceremoniaH,,pecuHar, or· · , r ·nroper to the Iewes: but euery one common to all; and.as· large as alftheworld : . therefore thofe that cannot exempt: .~h~~fe!~~~ , ~~m - ~h~ arg}tme~t~ ,- ~,~~~!~ing ~ thecodmman-- - . ement 0,.
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