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

We must look upon the Sabbath as a day of Divine Institution; not of an humane ordination: the Sabbath hath a jus divinum written upon it, more authentic than theirs that decry it: My holy day, and the holy of the Lord, twice in this 13. verse, and this not in reference only to the seventh day but in reference to the first day of the week, which this Evangelical Prophet had then (by divine revelation) in his eye. How much more doth it concern us, who are reserved to this glorious Administration under the Gospel, to own the Divine right of the Evangelical Sabbath? Surely it is the voice of the glorious Trinity that calls it, my holy day; God the Father by Creation, God the Son by Redemption, and God the Holy Ghost by Sanctification, sending down a rich and plentiful effusion of Gifts and Graces upon the Apostles, for the enabling them to go forth and convert ⟨p. 139⟩the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel. To deny God his own right is Sacrilege and Atheism.

We must look upon the Sabbath as a day of Divine Institution; not of an humane ordination: the Sabbath hath a jus divinum written upon it, more authentique than theirs that decry it: My holy day, and the holy of the Lord, twice in this 13. verse, and this not in reference only to the seventh day but in reference to the first day of the week, which this Evangelical Prophet had then (by divine revelation) in his eye. How much more doth it concern us, who are reserved to this glorious Administration under the Gospel, to own the Divine right of the Evangelical Sabbath? Surely it is the voice of the glorious Trinity that calls it, my holy day; God the Father by Creation, God the Son by Redemption, and God the Holy Ghost by Sanctification, sending down a rich and plentiful effusion of Gifts and Graces upon the Apostles, for the enabling them to go forth and convert ⟨p. 139⟩the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel. To deny God his own right is Sacriledge and Atheism.

We learn from hence that we must give God the whole Entire day, my day saith God: a few hours, or the forenoon vvill not serve Gods turn: but he challengeth the whole time, as his own peculiar.