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…

Fifthly, God the Father again leaves such another stamp of divine note and honour upon this day as he never before did leave upon any; where he saith to our Lord, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, Acts 13. 33. still, I say, having respect to the first day of the week; for that, and no other, is the day here intended by the Apostle. ⟨p. 68⟩This day, saith God, is the day: And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he saith on this wise, I will give thee the sure mercies of David: wherefore he saith in another Psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Wherefore the day in which God did this work, is greater than that in which he finished the work of Creation for his making of the Creation saved it not from corruption, but now he hath done a work which corruption cannot touch, wherefore the day on which he did this, ha• this note from his own mouth This day, as a day that doth transcend.

And, as I said, this day is the Fir•• of the Week; for 'twas in that da• that God begat his beloved So from the dead. This first day o• the week therefore on it God foun• that pleasure which he found not i• the Seventh day from the World ⟨p. 69⟩Creation, for that in it his Son did live again to him.