The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

5. But yet there are temporary Laws of Nature, which are about Temporary things; or where the Nature of the thing it self is mutable, from whence the Natural duty doth result. As it was a duty by the then Law of Nature it self; for Adams Sons and Daughters to Marry [Increase and multiply] being made a natural Benediction, and the means a natural Duty. And yet now, it is incest against the Law of Nature, for Brother and Sister to Marry. So it was a Natural duty for Adam and Eve before their Fall to love each other as innocent; but not so when they ceased to be innocent: For cessanie materiâ cessat obligatio.

6. So also some Positive Commands made to Adam in Innocence ceased on the fall, and sentence; (As to dress that Garden.) And some positives of the first Administrations of Grace, did cease by the supervening of a more perfect administration. As the two Symbolical or Sacramental Trees in the Garden, were no longer such to man when he was turned out; so no positive Ordinance of Grace, was any longer in force, when God himself repealed it, by the introduction of a more perfect Administration.

7. Accordingly we hold, that a change is now made of the sanctified day. Where note, 1. That we take not the seventh day, (no nor one day in ⟨p. 185⟩seven, though that be nothing to our Controversy) to be a Duty by the proper Law of Nature, but by a Positive Law: 2. That the seventh day is never called a Sabbath till Moses time, but only a Sanctified and blessed day; the word Sabbath being ever taken in Scripture for a day of Ceremonial Rest, as well as of spiritual Rest and Worship. 3. That Christ himself hath continued a seventh day, but changed the seventh day to the first; not as a Sabbath, that is, A day of Ceremonial Rest, for he hath ended all Sabbaths as shadows of things that were to come, even of rest which remained for the people of God,