Questions about the nature and perpetuity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…Questions about the nature and perpetunity of the seventh-day Sabbath and proof that the…

Fifthly, The Seventh-day-sabbath, as such, was a sign and shadow of things to come; and a sign cannot be the thing signified and substance too: Wherefore when the thing signified, or substance, is come, the sign or thing shadowing ceaseth. And, I say, the Seventh-day-sabbath being so, as a Seventh-day-sabbath it ceaseth also. See again, Exod. 31. 13, 14. Ezek. 20. 12, 21. Coloss. 2. 14.

Fifthly, The Seventh-day-sabbath, as such, was a sign and shadow of things to come; and a sign cannot be the thing signified and substance too: Wherefore when the thing signified, or substance, is come, the signe or thing shadowing ceaseth. And, I say, the Seventh-day-sabbath being so, as a Seventh-day-sabbath it ceaseth also. See again, Exod. 31. 13, 14. Ezek. 20. 12, 21. Coloss. 2. 14.

Nor do I find that our Protestant Writers, notwithstanding their reverence of the Sabbath, do conclude otherwise; but that though time, as to worshipping God, must needs be contained in the bowels of the moral Law, as moral; yet they for ⟨p. 46⟩good reasons forbear to affix the seventh day as that time there too. They do it, I say, for good reasons, reasons drawn from the Scripture; or rather, for that the Scripture draws them so to conclude: yet they cast not away the morality of a Sabbath of rest to the Church. It is to be granted then, that time for Gods Worship abideth for ever, but the seventh day vanishes as a shadow and sign; because such indeed it was, as the Scripture above cited declares as to the Sanction thereof as a Sabbath.