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…

We will therefore conclude, that it is granted on all hands he hath. The Question then is, Whether he he hath exercised that power to the demolishing or removing of the Jews Seventh day, and establishing another in its room? The which I think is easily answered, in that he did not rest from his own Works therein; but chose, for his own Rest, to himself another day.

Surely, had the Lord Jesus intended to have established the Seventh day to the Churches of the Gentiles, he would himself in the first place ⟨p. 64⟩have rested from his own Works therein; but since he passed by that day, and took no notice of it, as to the finishing of his own Works, as God took notice of it when he had finished his; it remains that he fixed upon another day, even the First of the Week; on which, by his rising again, and showing himself to his Disciples before his Passion, he made it manifest that he had chosen, as Lord of the Sabbath, that day for his own Rest. Consequently, and for the Rest of his Churches, and for his Worship to be solemnized in.

Surely, had the Lord Jesus intended to have established the Seventh day to the Churches of the Gentiles, he would himself in the first place ⟨p. 64⟩have rested from his own Works therein; but since he passed by that day, and took no notice of it, as to the finishing of his own Works, as God took notice of it when he had finished his; it remains that he fixed upon another day, even the First of the Week; on which, by his rising again, and shewing himself to his Disciples before his Passion, he made it manifest that he had chosen, as Lord of the Sabbath, that day for his own Rest. Consequently, and for the Rest of his Churches, and for his Worship to be solemnized in.