The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

3. Because that on this day Christ rested from all the sufferings of his Passion, and finished the glorious work of our Redemption. If therefore the finishing of the work of the first Creation, whereby God mightily manifested himself unto his creatures, deserved a Sabbath for to solemnize the memorial of so great a work, to the honour of the worker; and therefore calls it mine holy-day: ¹much more doth the new Creation of the world, effected by the resurrection of Christ, (whereby he mightily declared himself to be the Son of God) deserve a Sabbath, ²for the perpetual commemoration thereof, to the honour of Christ, and therefore worthily called the Lord's day. ³For, as the deliverance out of the Captivity of Babylon, being greater, took away the name from the deliverance out of the Bondage of Egypt: ⁴so the day whereon Christ finished the redemption of the world, did more justly deserve to have the Sabbath kept on it, than on that day, whereon God ceased from creating the world. As therefore in the Creation, the first day ⟨p. 228⟩wherein it was finished, was consecrated for a Sabbath: so in the time of Redemption; the first day wherein it was perfected, must be dedicated to a holy rest; but still a seventh day kept according to God's moral Commandment. The Jews kept the last day of the week, beginning their Sabbath with the^* night, when God rested: but Christians honour the Lord better, on the ^afirst day of the week,^b beginning the Sabbath with the day when the Lord arose. They kept their Sabbath in remembrance of the World's Creation: but Christians celebrate it in memorial of the World's Redemption: yea, the Lord's-day being the first of the Creation and Redemption, puts us in mind, both of the making of the old, and redeeming of the new World.