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[ 128] * 1.1M. Primrose would prove the exegesis, That by the Sabbath day is meant that seventh day only from the creation, because God actually blessed and sanctified that Sabbath day, because God cannot actually blesse a seventh, being an unlimited, indefinite and uncertain indetermined time: The time (saith he) only wherein he rested, he only actually blessed, which was not in a seventh day in∣determined, but in that determined seventh day: But all this may be readily acknowledged and yet the truth remain firm; for that particular seventh being secundarily morall, hence as it was expressely commanded, so it was actually and parti∣cularly blessed; but as in this seventh a generall of a seventh is included, so a seventh is also generally blessed and sanctifi∣ed. Otherwise how will M. Primrose maintain the morality of a day of worship out of this commandment? for the same objection may be made against a day, which himself acknow∣ledgeth, as against a seventh day which we maintain; for it may be said, that That day is here only morall wherein God actually rested, but he did not rest in a day indefinitely, and therefore a day is not morall; let him unloose this knot, and his answer in defence of the morality of a day will help him to see the morality of a seventh day also: That particular day indeed wherein God actually and particularly rested, he particularly blessed, but there was a seventh day also more generall which he generally blessed also; he generally blest the Sabbath day, he particularly blest that Sabbath day, and in blessing of that he did virtually and by Analogy blesse our particular Christian Sabbath also, which was to come: As Moses in his actuall blessing of the tribe of Levi, Deut. 23.7, 10. he did virtually and by Analogy blesse all the Ministers of the Gospel not then in being: And look as when God com∣manded them to keep holy the Sabbath in ceremoniall duties, he did therein virtually command us to keep it holy in Evan∣gelicall duties; so when he commanded them to observe that day because it was actually appointed and sanctified and bles∣sed of God, he commanded us virtually and analogically therein to observe our seventh day also if ever he should actu∣ally appoint and blesse this other.