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…

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.

Thirdly, And on THIS day some of the Saints that slept arose, and began their eternal Sabbath, Matth. 27. 52, 53. See how the Lord Jesus had glorified this day! Never was such a stamp of divine Honour put upon any other day, no not since the world began. And the graves were opened, and many bodies of Saints which slept arose and came ⟨p. 65⟩out of their graves after his resurrection, &c. That is, they rose as soon as he was risen: But why was not all this done on the Seventh day? No, that day was set apart that Saints might adore God for the works of Creation, and that Saints thorough that might look for Redemption by Christ: But now a work more glorious than that is to be done, and therefore another day is assigned for the doing of it in. A work, I say, of Redemption completed, a day therefore by it self must be assigned for this; and some of the Saints to begin their eternal Sabbath with God in Heaven, therefore a day by it self must be appointed for this. Yea, and that this day might not want that glory that might attract the most dim-sighted Christian to a desire after the sanction of it, the Resurrection of Christ, and also of those Saints met together on it: Yea, they both did begin their eternal rest thereon.