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

3. Another glorious end for which God made the Sabbath, was, that the Sabbath on Earth might be a type and figure of the Sabbath in Heaven. That in this initial and imperfect Sabbath on earth, we might see (though in a glass darkly) what the Saints and Angels are doing in Heaven without ceasing; that we might peep into Heaven before we come thither, and long and wait for that eternal Sabbath. A day wherein God bows the Heaven and comes down, and offers himself in ways of sweet and friendly Communion with his people, Exod. 20. v. 23.

Fourth Duty is,

As we must call and count it glorious, so we must actually honour it or him, (it may be rendered both) and indeed when we honour this day we glorify God, ⟨p. 136⟩and we glorify God when we make him our end in honouring his day. Without both these we do take Gods Name in vain, and do but mock God, rather in pretending to keep a Sabbath, than glorify him. We must set up God in his own day and in his own Institution. And thus I have done with the opening of this blessed Model in the Duties of it. I should come now to the Privileges annexed, but sufficient to the day is the travel thereof.

As we must call and count it glorious, so we must actually honour it or him, (it may be rendred both) and indeed when we honour this day we glorifie God, ⟨p. 136⟩and we glorifie God when we make him our end in honouring his day. Without both these we do take Gods Name in vain, and do but mock God, rather in pretending to keep a Sabbath, than glorifie him. We must set up God in his own day and in his own Institution. And thus I have done with the opening of this blessed Model in the Duties of it. I should come now to the Priviledges annexed, but sufficient to the day is the travel thereof.