·ThefourthComm~tndement: · 129 ' 'y~uinrht mou~t,111t fJfthejir1,in theday tJ(thea!fem!Jlie,llnfll theL1rdg41Jt themvntome.That reafon,whichMofts brings to confinne the authoritie of all, doth as flrongly eflab!Hh this,asanyofthe other: vi~.thatGod firfi fpake it with'the reft, and after w1·ote it alto in the tables of flone~ ·God did ·giuc t~eceremonialllawes by the miniilerieofAngels, and vfed Mofos as his inHrumcnt to write them:But for the grea– tcrrcuerence ofthefetcn,hcwouldnot vfe thehelpeofM,. _ftJhand3ndpen, but with his owne finger wrote them, not. io paper, with idke, but in Hone (to fhew the Hrength and condniJanceofrhern) and cotnrnanded Mofes to put thetn in t.he Arke, to tbew that no m~m could fulfill and perfeCtly obey them, but ondy'ChriH. If thefe tenne we·re altogethe-r _wrir.ccn byGod,lod no exceptionmade, whereby the Sab– badl ihouldb~ infcriour to the reH,but all rogether put into the Arke, thC'n a manmay as well rend anyofthe other Jen away,as this: yea, ·and ch~t with more fhewofwarrant. For none ofthemall is more fenced with reafons,and mounded .about with more flrong arguments! to keepe out thecauils and obiecHons ofmen,then this is. So tbat,whcre God hath offet purpofe vfed the Llronge!l meanes eovphold &grace it; for man to ouerthrow it, and bring it to contempt, is -2. note either ofgreat follie,or elfe ofimpudent impi-etie. The fourth reafon is drawne frem the perfon-s, vpon - 4 whom idieth, and vntowhom it ts giuen. For weeknow, Pror rhs · that the.ceremonies 4iJ lie onelyvpon the Iewes, the Gen- ~ho:itt~ . tiles were not boun'd. to obferue them: but now this Corn- giuc:n. mandement faith, not onely thou, thy fonneJthy daughter~ thy man,thy 111aide,(which containes all fupetiours,and in– feriour~, and-con{equently their vvhoie common-wcahh) but it goes further, and faith, the flranger V\hich is within thygates. So that ifa heathen man of~motherCcuntr:e and , religion:,had come amongfl the; the1\1agi(lrate was bocnd to lookc to him: though hec could not confiraine h:m to petforme religious duties; yer. ,hevv3s to reflraine Un1 fi om · all feruile workes, wb~reby the Sabba th might (i D~nly bee violare i.~.. Now the Ceremonies were as a l'larttnon. w21l betwixt the !ewes aud Gentiles , to fepanu~ the Ie~es I i' . from . t. •
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