Thesis 46.
[ 46] The generall which we acknowledge to be morall in this command (rightly understood) is a seventh day. Our ad∣versaries would make it more generall, and resolve it into a day or some day for solemne worship, yet when they are forced to see and acknowledge by the dint of argument, that this is too generall, because thus the Commandment may be observed, if one day in a thousand, or once in ones life it be sanctified; they doe therefore many times come nearer to us, to somewhat lesse generall then a day, viz. to a stinted, fixed and appointed day, and to such an appointed day as containes a sufficient proportion of time for God, with convenient frequency, no lesse frequent then theirs in the old Testament, which was every seventh day, as may be seen Thesis 44. and truly thus much being acknow∣ledged by them, one would think that the controversie (with this sort of men) was brought unto a comfortable and quiet issue and full agreement, but it is strange to see how contrary the language is of these men sleeping, from what it is when they are awake: They strike fiercely at a seventh day, and a determined time, as impossible to be morall, when they meet with them in the darke, and yet we see, acknow∣ledge them (in effect) to be morall, when they meet with them sometimes in the light.