extraordinarily in certain select and special cases:  as, Israel to borrow jewels of the Egyptians to rob them, without intention ever to restore them, Exod. xi. 2, &c.  The disciples to go preach—­yet to provide neither gold nor silver, &c.  Matt. x. 7-10.  The elders of the church (while miracles were of use in the church) to anoint the sick with oil in the name of the Lord, for their recovery, James v. 14.  These and like extraordinary commands were only of force by divine right, in these extraordinary select cases, when they were propounded.

1.  Implicit, or implied:  which are either comprehensively contained in or under the express terms and letter of the command; or, consequentially, are deducible from the express command.

Comprehensively, many things are contained in a command, that are not expressed in the very letter of the command.  Thus sound interpreters of the decalogue generally confess, that all precepts thereof include the whole parts under the general term, and God wills many things by them more than the bare words signify:  e.g. in negative commands, forbidding sin, we are to understand the positive precepts prescribing the contrary duties; and so, on the contrary, under affirmative commands, we are to understand the negative thereof:  thus Christ expounds the sixth commandment, Matt. v. 21-27, and ver. 43, to the end of the chapter.  So when any evil is forbidden, not only the outward gross acts, but all inward acts and degrees thereof, with all causes and occasions, all fruits and effects thereof, are forbidden likewise:  as, under killing, provoking terms, rash anger, Matt. v. 21, 22; under adultery, wanton looks, lustful thoughts, &c., Matt. v. 27-30.  Now all things comprehended in a command (though not expressed) are of divine right.

Consequentially, many things are clearly deducible from express commands in Scripture, by clear, unforced, infallible, and undeniable consequence.  Now what things are commanded by necessary consequence, they are of divine right, as well as things in express terms prescribed:  e.g. in the case of baptism, have the ordinary ministers of the New Testament any punctual express command to baptize? yet, by consequence, it is evident infallibly, the apostles are commanded to baptize, and the promise is made to them by Christ, that he will be with them always to the end of the world, Matt, xxviii. 18-20, which cannot be interpreted of the apostles’ persons only; for they were not to live till the world’s end, but are dead and gone long ago; but of the apostles and their successors, the ministers of the gospel to the world’s end; now to whom the promise of Christ’s presence is here to be applied, to them the precept of baptizing and teaching is intended by clear consequence and deduction.  So, infants of Christian parents under the New Testament are commanded to be baptized by consequence; for that the infants of God’s people under the Old Testament were