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…

But again, That the Apostle by this word Sabbath intends the Seventh-day-sabbath, is clear; for that it is by Moses himself counted for a sign, as we have showed: and for that none of the other Sabbaths were a more clear shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ than this. For that, and that alone, is called the Rest of God: in it God rested from all his works. Hence he calls it by way of eminency MY Sabbath, and MY Holy-day, Isai. 58. 13.

But again, That the Apostle by this word Sabbath intends the Seventh-day-sabbath, is clear; for that it is by Moses himself counted for a sign, as we have shewed: and for that none of the other Sabbaths were a more clear shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ than this. For that, and that alone, is called the Rest of God: in it God rested from all his works. Hence he calls it by way of eminency MY Sabbath, and MY Holy-day, Isai. 58. 13.

Yet could that Rest be nothing else but typical; for God, never since the world began, really rested, but in his Son: This is he, saith God, in whom I am well pleased. This Sabbath then, was Gods Rest typically, and was given to Israel as a sign of his Grace towards them ⟨p. 50⟩in Christ: Wherefore when Christ was risen, it ceased, and was no longer of obligation to bind the Conscience to the observation thereof. [Or of the Sabbath] He distinctly singleth out THIS Seventh day, as that which was a most noble shadow, a most exact shadow. And then puts that with the other together; saying, they are a shadow of things to come; and that Christ has answered them all. The body is Christ.