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

7. 1. So Christ was Circumcised, and joined in the Synagogue Worship, and held Communion with the Jewish Church, and Priesthood, and observed all the Law of Moses, never violating any part; For he was made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law, Gal. 4. 4, 5. Do you think that all this is established for us? 2. And his Counsel, Mat. 24. 20. had respect to the Jews misery and not to their duty. He ⟨p. 195⟩therefore foretelleth their destruction, because they would reject him and his Law, in a perverse zeal for Moses Law; And therefore intimateth that even Moses should condemn them, and their misery should be increased by their zeal for his Law; For their City was taken on the Sabbath day, which increased their Calamity, who scrupled on that day to fight or fly. And can you think Christ approved of that opinion, who had so oft before condemned the like, about their over rigid sabbatizing? Or as Dr. Hammond thinks, it is liker to be spoken of a Sabbath year, when the War and Famine would come together. However it be, it only supposeth their adherence to their Law and Sabbath, but justifieth it not at all: Though yet the total and full abrogation of the Jewish Law, was not fully declared, till, at that time of the destruction of their City and Temple, their policy more fully ceased.

7. 1. So Christ was Circumcised, and joyned in the Synagogue Worship, and held Communion with the Jewish Church, and Priesthood, and observed all the Law of Moses, never violating any part; For he was made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law, Gal. 4. 4, 5. Do you think that all this is established for us? 2. And his Counsel, Mat. 24. 20. had respect to the Jews misery and not to their duty. He ⟨p. 195⟩therefore foretelleth their destruction, because they would reject him and his Law, in a perverse zeal for Moses Law; And therefore intimateth that even Moses should condemn them, and their misery should be increased by their zeal for his Law; For their City was taken on the Sabbath day, which increased their Calamity, who scrupled on that day to fight or fly. And can you think Christ approved of that opinion, who had so oft before condemned the like, about their over rigid sabbatizing? Or as Dr. Hammond thinks, it is liker to be spoken of a Sabbath year, when the War and Famine would come together. However it be, it only supposeth their adherence to their Law and Sabbath, but justifieth it not at all: Though yet the total and full abrogation of the Jewish Law, was not fully declared, till, at that time of the destruction of their City and Temple, their policy more fully ceased.