The Practice of Piety

Thus we have proved that the Commandment of the Sabbath is Moral, and that the change of it, from the seventh to the first day of the week, was instituted by the authority of Christ, ⟨p. 555⟩and of his Apostles. But as in promulgating of the Law, divers Ceremonies peculiar to the Jews were annexed, the rather to bind that people to the more careful performance thereof, as to the first Commandment, their deliverance from Egypt, shadowing their redemption from Hell: to the fifth Commandment, length of days in Canaan, typing eternal life in heaven: to the sixth Commandment, abstinence from blood and things strangled, figuring the care to abstain from all kind of Murder: and to the whole Law, the Ceremony of ^*Parchment-Lace, putting them in mind to keep within the limits of the Law. So likewise to the fourth Commandment ⟨p. 556⟩were added some Ceremonies which peculiarly belonged to the Jews, and to no other people; as first, the double ^aSacrifices appointed for them on the Sabbath day, shadowing how GOD will be served on the Sabbath with greater obedience then on the week days: Secondly, the ^brigid and strict ceasing from making of fire, ^cdressing of meat, and all bodily labour, both ^dremembering them of their full deliverance by Moses conduct from the fiery Furnaces and slavery of Egypt upon ^ethat day: as also shadowing unto them the eternal Redemption of their souls from Hell, by the death of Christ. Thirdly, the keeping of the ⟨p. 567⟩Sabbath upon the precise seventh day, in order of the creation, shadowing to the Jews that Christ by his death and resting on their Sabbath in the grave, should bring them rest and ease from the burden and yoke of the Legal Ceremonies, which neither they, nor their Fathers were able to bear,