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

This some learned Divines suppose to have been by way of Anticipation only; to be a Sabbath in Deck (as it were) until the Church should have need of it; Others as eminent and learned as they, do assert it to have been by way of institution; a notion of a far more easy understanding than the former and more useful. This Sabbath rested (it seems) sometimes in silence: Save only that we may possibly spell it out in some imperfect Characters in their offerings and sacrifices before ever the Law was given, (which were originally proper Sabbath work) until at length we may read of it in words ⟨p. 137⟩at length Exod. 16.22, 23. and Moses spake to the people, this is that which the Lord hath said, to morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath. And this some conceive to be a second and renewed Institution; but with little probability. Moses rather speaks of it as a thing notoriously known to the Israelites in the Wilderness, it being of a more ancient Original than the Miracle of the Manna: yet it may serve as a testimony unto the Sabbath, and of use unto our purpose.

This some learned Divines suppose to have been by way of Anticipation only; to be a Sabbath in Deck (as it were) until the Church should have need of it; Others as eminent and learned as they, do assert it to have been by way of institution; a notion of a far more easie understanding than the former and more useful. This Sabbath rested (it seems) sometimes in silence: Save only that we may possibly spell it out in some imperfect Characters in their offerings and sacrifices before ever the Law was given, (which were originally proper Sabbath work) until at length we may read of it in words ⟨p. 137⟩at length Exod. 16.22, 23. and Moses spake to the people, this is that which the Lord hath said, to morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath. And this some conceive to be a second and renewed Institution; but with little probability. Moses rather speaks of it as a thing notoriously known to the Israelites in the Wilderness, it being of a more antient Original than the Miracle of the Manna: yet it may serve as a testimony unto the Sabbath, and of use unto our purpose.