A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

1. That God might sanctify his people, Ezekiel 20.12. moreover I gave them my Sabbaths for a sign between me and them; not a ceremonial sign as some would dwindle it, that have no more Religion in them than an old rotten Ceremony cometh to, but a moral sign, i. e. a Testimony, Pledge, or Covenant, whereby it might appear that they were Gods people, sanctified to his service and honour. So it follows, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifieth them. The Sabbath is Gods Medium to raise up to himself an holy people.

1. That God might sanctifie his people, Ezekiel 20.12. moreover I gave them my Sabbaths for a sign between me and them; not a ceremonial sign as some would dwindle it, that have no more Religion in them than an old rotten Ceremony cometh to, but a moral sign, i. e. a Testimony, Pledge, or Covenant, whereby it might appear that they were Gods people, sanctified to his service and honour. So it follows, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifieth them. The Sabbath is Gods Medium to raise up to himself an holy people.

2. That Gods people might sanctify him: so ver. 41. I will be sanctified in you: so Levit. 10.3. I will be sanctified in them that draw nigh me; God sanctifieth us when he makes us holy, we sanctify God when we acknowledge him to be holy. God sanctifieth us when he makes us what we are not, we sanctify him when we acknowledge him to be what he is. These be glorious ends; but,

2. That Gods people might sanctifie him: so ver. 41. I will be sanctified in you: so Levit. 10.3. I will be sanctified in them that draw nigh me; God sanctifieth us when he makes us holy, we sanctifie God when we acknowledge him to be holy. God sanctifieth us when he makes us what we are not, we sanctifie him when we acknowledge him to be what he is. These be glorious ends; but,