Francis White, D.D., Bishop of Ely.

God imposed not this law (of the Fourth Commandment) upon Christian people by any evangelical precept; neither did He command the Gentiles at any time, before or after the Law, to initiate the example of resting the seventh day of every week. And therefore abstinence from worldly labour upon the old Sabbath, in imitation of God Almighty, would not be a work of holiness and true obedience in us Christians, but an act of judicial superstition. The evangelical law imposeth no commandment of total abstinence from secular labour, or from civil actions, during the space of a natural day, either upon the old Sabbath day, or upon the Sunday, or any other day of the week.—A Treatise on the Sabbath Day. London, 1635.