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…

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.

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 compleated, 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.