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

And howsoever in Paradise before Man's Fall, the keeping of the Sabbath on the seventh day of the Creation, was not a Ceremony, but an Argument of perfection: yet after the Fall, it became Ceremonial, and ⟨p. 257⟩subject to change in respect of the Restoration by Christ. As man's life before the fall being immortal, became afterwards mortal; and nakedness being an ornament before, became afterwards a shame; and Marriage became a type of the Mystical Union betwixt Christ and his Church, Ephes. 5. and to fulfil the Ceremonies (added for the Jews sake unto the Sabbath) Christ at his Death rested in the Grave all the Jewish Sabbath day: and by that rest fulfilled all those Ceremonial Accessories. Now as the ceasing of the Ceremonies annexed to the 1, 5, and 6 Commandments, and to Marriage, did not abolish those Commandments and Marriage; nor cause them to cease from being the perpetual Rules of God's worship, and man's righteousness; no more did the abrogating of the Ceremonies annexed to the Sabbath, abolish the morality of the Commandment of the Sabbath: so that though the Ceremonies be abolished, by the access of the Substance; and the Shadow over-shadowed by the Body, (which is Christ) yet the holy rest (which was commanded and kept, before either the Jews were a people, or those Ceremonies annexed to the Sabbath) still continueth as God's perpetual Law, whereby all the Posterity of Adam are bound to rest from their ordinary business, that they may wholly spend every seventh day in the solemn Worship, and only Service of GOD their Creator and Redeemer; but in the ⟨p. 258⟩substance of the fourth Commandment, there is not found one word of any Ceremony.

And howsoever in Paradise before Man's Fall, the keeping of the Sabbath on the seventh day of the Creation, was not a Ceremony, but an Argument of perfection: yet after the Fall, it became Ceremonial, and ⟨p. 257⟩subject to change in respect of the Restauration by Christ. As man's life before the fall being immortal, became afterwards mortal; and nakedness being an ornament before, became afterwards a shame; and Marriage became a type of the Mystical Vnion betwixt Christ and his Church,