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…

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⟩rest, he would not. Now if they had not that Rest in Joshuah's days, be sure they had it not by Moses; for he was still before.

All the Rests therefore that Moses gave them, and that Joshua gave them too, were but typical of another day, in which God would give them rest, vers. 9, 10. And whether the day to come, was Christ, or Heaven, it makes no matter: 'Tis enough that they before did fail, as always Shadows do, and that therefore mention by David is, and that afterward, made of another day. There remains therefore a rest to the people of God. A Rest to come, of which the Seventh day in which God rested, and the Land of Canaan, was a type; which Rest begins in Christ now, and shall be consummated in glory.