2. The clean contrary therefore to your Collection is true: viz. That God did indeed end the Work of his Creation on the sixth day, and rested in it, as finished on the seventh: But Christ was so far from ending his on the sixth, and resting in it on the seventh, that on that day above all other he seemed conquered by men and by him that had the power of death, Heb. 2. 14 and was held as Captive by the Grave, so that his Disciples hopes did seem dead with him, Luk. 24. 21. This State of Death being not the least, if not the lowest part of his Humiliation: Whence came the Churches Article that he descended into Hades. 3. I did more probably before prove from Christs own words compared with his burial, a casting down of the seventh day Sabbath, thus. That day on which ⟨p. 197⟩the Disciples are to fast, is not to be kept as a Sabbath (For that is a day of Thanksgiving) But on the day of Christs Burial, the Disciples were to fast, (that is, to walk heavily:) Which appeareth from Mark. 2. 20. When the Bridegroom is taken from them, then they shall fast. Now though this meant not to command any one day for fasting, much less the whole time of his bodily absence, yet both the sense of the words themselves, and the interpretation of the Event tell us, that as there was no day in which he was so sadly taken from them as that Sabbath day, which almost broke their hearts and hopes, (for the next day he was restored to them) So there was no day in which they were so dejected, and unlike to the Celebraters of a Gospel day of Joy, or Sabbath. Do you call the day of Satan's power, and triumph, and of the Disciples greatest fear and grief that ever befell them, the Celebration of a Sabbath rest? It had indeed somewhat like an outward Rest, but so as seemed plainly to bury in his Grave the seventh day Ceremonial Sabbath. And from the Reasons now pleaded it was that the Western Churches kept the seventh day as a Fast.
2. The clean contrary therefore to your Collection is true: viz. That God did indeed end the Work of his Creation on the sixth day, and rested in it, as finished on the seventh: But Christ was so far from ending his on the sixth, and resting in it on the seventh, that on that day above all other he seemed conquered by men and by him that had the power of death, Heb. 2. 14 and was held as Captive by the Grave, so that his Disciples hopes did seem dead with him, Luk. 24. 21. This State of Death being not the least, if not the lowest part of his Humiliation: Whence came the Churches Article that he descended into Hades. 3. I did more probably before prove from Christs own words compared with his burial, a casting down of the seventh day Sabbath, thus. That day on which ⟨p. 197⟩the Disciples are to fast, is not to be kept as a Sabbath (For that is a day of Thanksgiving) But on the day of Christs Burial, the Disciples were to fast, (that is, to walk heavily:) Which appeareth from Mark. 2. 20. When the Bridegroom is taken from them, then they shall fast. Now though this meant not to command any one day for fasting, much less the whole time of his bodily absence, yet both the sense of the words themselves, and the interpretation of the Event tell us, that as there was no day in which he was so sadly taken from them as that Sabbath day, which almost broke their hearts and hopes, (for the next day he was restored to them) So there was no day in which they were so dejected, and unlike to the Celebraters of a Gospel day of Joy, or Sabbath. Do you call the day of Satans power, and triumph, and of the Discples greatest fear and grief that ever befell them, the Celebration of a Sabbath rest? It had indeed somewhat like an outward Rest, but so as seemed plainly to burie in his Grave the seventh day Ceremonial Sabbath. And from the Reasons now pleaded it was that the Western Churches kept the seventh day as a Fast.
