The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

And this appears by the judgment of God himself, who best knows the excellency of his own works. For whereas upon the finishing the first Creation, he ordained the Seventh Day, that reasonable Creatures might more solemnly ascribe to him the Glory of his Attributes, which are visible in the things that are made; he hath upon the completing our Redemption, by the rising of Christ from the Dead, made the First-Day Sacred for his Service and Praise, there being the clearest illustration of his Perfections in that Blessed Work. God is more pleased in the contemplation of the new World, than of the old. The latter by its extraordinary Magnificence hath lessened the dignity of the former, as the greater Light obscures the less. Therefore the ⟨p. 118⟩Sabbath is changed into the Lords-Day. And what a just reproach is it to Man that he should be inobservant and unaffected with this glorious Mercy, wherein he may always find new cause of Admiration.¹ O Lord, how great are thy Works! and thy Thoughts how deep! a brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this. The admiring of any other thing in comparison of this Mystery, is the effect of Inconsideration, or Infidelity.

And this appears by the judgment of God himself, who best knows the excellency of his own works. For whereas upon the finishing the first Creation, he ordain'd the Seventh Day, that reasonable Creatures might more solemnly ascribe to him the Glory of his Attributes, which are visible in the things that are made; he hath upon the compleating our Redemtion, by the rising of Christ from the Dead, made the First-Day Sacred for his Service and Praise, there being the clearest illustration of his Perfections in that Blessed Work. God is more pleased in the contemplation of the new World, than of the old. The latter by its extraordinary Magnificence hath lessen'd the dignity of the former, as the greater Light obscures the less. Therefore the ⟨p. 118⟩Sabbath is changed into the Lords-Day. And what a just reproach is it to Man that he should be inobservant and unaffected with this glorious Mercy, wherein he may alwaies find new cause of Admiration.¹ O Lord, how great are thy Works! and thy Thoughts how deep! a brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this. The admiring of any other thing in comparison of this Mystery, is the effect of Inconsideration, or Infidelity.