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…

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.

Eighthly, No man will, I think, deny, but that Heb. 4. 4. intends the Seventh-day-sabbath, on which God rested from all his works; for the Text doth plainly say so: Yet may the observing Reader easily perceive, that both it, and the Rest of Canaan also, made mention of vers. 5. were typical, as to a day made mention of vers. 7, and 8. which day he calls another. He would not afterwards have made mention of another day. If Joshua had given them ⟨p. 51⟩rest, he would not. Now if they had not that Rest in Joshua's days, be sure they had it not by Moses; for he was still before.

Eighthly, No man will, I think, deny, but that Heb. 4. 4. intends the Seventh-day-sabbath, on which God rested from all his works; for the Text doth plainly say so: Yet may the observing Reader easily perceive, that both it, and the Rest of Canaan also, made mention of vers. 5. were typical, as to a day made mention of vers. 7, and 8. which day he calls another. He would not afterwards have made mention of another day. If Joshuah had given them ⟨p. 51⟩