The law unsealed

If it be asked here, why God will have a day set apart for holy Exercises beside other days? It may be answered, 1. It's meet that God be acknowledged Lord of our time, by this Tribute being reserved to himself. 2. Because men having but a finite understanding, beside the now corruption of it, cannot be intensely taken up with spiritual and heavenly things and with temporal and earthly things, both at once, or at the same instant; for even Adam in innocency could not do that, therefore the Lord hath graciously set apart a day for mans help in that. 3. It's to teach man that his chief end is to converse with God, and to live with him, and that he ought to carry in his own affairs along the week, and order things so as the Sabbath may be duly sanctified, when it shall come in that sweet soul reposing converse with him. 4. To show man wherein his happiness consisteth, it's even in this, to walk and converse with God, and to be in his worship; this is his rest. 5. To show the excellency of Religion, and of the Works of Piety, or of Gods Worship, above mens Employments in earthly and worldly things: It was a Sabbath to Adam in innocency to be abstracted from his labour for the worship of God; the one is mens toil, the other is mens spiritual rest and ease, far contrary to that which men in the world ordinarily think and judge.

If it be asked here, why God will have a day set apart for holy Exercises beside other days? It may be answered, 1. It's meet that God be acknowledged Lord of our time, by this Tribut being reserved to himself. 2. Because men having but a finite understanding, beside the now corruption of it, connot be intensely taken up with spiritual and heavenly things and with temporal and earthly things, both at once, or at the same instant; for even Adam in innocency could not do that, therefore the Lord hath graciously set apart a day for mans help in that. 3. It's to teach man that his chief end is to converse with God, and to live with him, and that he ought to cary in his own affairs along the week, and order things so as the Sabbath may be duly sanctified, when it shal come in that sweet soul reposing converse with him. 4. To shew man wherein his happiness consisteth, it's even in this, to walk and converse with God, and to be in his worship; this is his rest. 5. To shew the excellency of Religion, and of the Works of Piety, or of Gods Worship, above mens Employments in earthly and wordly things: It was a Sabbath to Adam in innocency to be abstracted from his labour for the worship of God; the one is mens toyl, the other is mens spiritual rest and ease, far contrary to that which men in the world ordinarily think and judge.