"Six Arguments prove the Commandment of the Sabbath to be moral:
1. It was delivered to Adam before the fall, when there was no Ceremony, Gen. 2. 2. which is not spoken by anticipation, but the context shows it was then sanctified to him, v. 3.
2. Moses takes it for granted, it was known to be moral, and known before the Law was given, Exod. 16. 25.
3. Unless this be moral there cannot be ten Commandments, Deut. 10. 4.
4. God would not put a Ceremonial Law in the midst of the Morals, and urge it with more words, reasons, repetitions, and particulars, then any of the Morals, as he does the Sabbath, Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 11.
5. Christ speaking of those days when all the ceremonial Law was dead and buried, shows the Sabbath stands still, Matth. 24. 20.
6. The Prophet prophesying of the days of the Gospel when Christ should be revealed, Isa. 56. 1. pronounces a blessing on them in those times that keep the Sabbath from polluting it, vers. 2. and puts the keeping of the Sabbath for the whole obedience of the Covenant, vers. 6. which he would not do if it were ceremonial, 1 Sam. 15. 22."
—Edward Leigh, A System, or Body of Divinity, Consisting of Ten Books (London: William Lee, 1654), https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A47625.0001.001, 821; some spelling modernized.
1. It was delivered to Adam before the fall, when there was no Ceremony, Gen. 2. 2. which is not spoken by anticipation, but the context shows it was then sanctified to him, v. 3.
2. Moses takes it for granted, it was known to be moral, and known before the Law was given, Exod. 16. 25.
3. Unless this be moral there cannot be ten Commandments, Deut. 10. 4.
4. God would not put a Ceremonial Law in the midst of the Morals, and urge it with more words, reasons, repetitions, and particulars, then any of the Morals, as he does the Sabbath, Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 11.
5. Christ speaking of those days when all the ceremonial Law was dead and buried, shows the Sabbath stands still, Matth. 24. 20.
6. The Prophet prophesying of the days of the Gospel when Christ should be revealed, Isa. 56. 1. pronounces a blessing on them in those times that keep the Sabbath from polluting it, vers. 2. and puts the keeping of the Sabbath for the whole obedience of the Covenant, vers. 6. which he would not do if it were ceremonial, 1 Sam. 15. 22."
—Edward Leigh, A System, or Body of Divinity, Consisting of Ten Books (London: William Lee, 1654), https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A47625.0001.001, 821; some spelling modernized.