The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment are, God’s allowing us six days of the week for our own employments,1 his challenging a special propriety in the seventh, his own example, and his blessing the sabbath-day.2
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
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Exodus 20:11
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.