Hitherto there is no difficulty, the pinch will lye in this, If the Scriptures speak of it as belonging to the days of the Gospel, In which (for making of it out) 1. We have these hints, Acts 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. Where Christians going about the Moral Duties of the Sabbath, is especially observed to be upon one day peculiarly. 2. That Title of the direct appropriating of a Day to the Lord, Rev. 1.10. Which places will fall in to be considered particularly when we come to the last question; Besides these we may produce three places to prove a Sabbath as belonging to the New Testament; though not the very Day used or observed for the Sabbath in the Old; and this will be enough to make out the Assertion, two of them are Prophesies, the third of them is in the Gospel. The first Prophecy is in the 66. Chap. of Isaiah v. 23. The second is in Ezekiel's Description of the New Temple, Chap. 43.44, 45, 46, &c. Where 1. It is clear that these places relate to the Days of the Gospel, as none can deny but they do so eminently. 2. It is clear that though they Prophesy of the Services of the Gospel under the names of Sacrifices, &c. proper to the Old-Testament-Administration, and of the Sanctified and set-apart time of the Gospel, under ⟨p. 193⟩the Name of Sabbath which then was determined, and whereto men were then bound by the fourth Command as they were to Sacrifices by the second: yet these Prophesies infer not by virtue of the fourth Command the very same Day to be under the Gospel, which was under the Law, more than the same Services by virtue of the second; which none will deny to be in force, notwithstanding of the change of Services: and there is as little reason to deny the fourth to be still in force as to its substance, notwithstanding of the change of the particular Day. Yet Thirdly it is clear that from the mentioning of these Services this will follow, that there should be set and fixed Ordinances, and a way of Worship in the New-Testament, as well as in the Old, and that there should be a solemn chief set-time for the Sabbath which men ought to sanctify, and that they should no more admit any other times, nor so set apart into a parity with it, than they were to admit any Service or Worship not allowed by God, or that was contrary to the second Command:
Hitherto there is no difficulty, the pinch will lye in this, If the Scriptures speak of it as belonging to the days of the Gospel, In which (for making of it out) 1. We have these hints, Acts 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. Where Christians going about the Moral Duties of the Sabbath, is especially observed to be upon one day peculiarly. 2. That Title of the direct appropriating of a Day to the Lord, Rev. 1.10. Which places will fall in to be considered particularly when we come to the last question; Besides these we may produce three places to prove a Sabbath as belonging to the New Testament; though not the very Day used or observed for the Sabbath in the Old; and this will be enough to make out the Assertion, two of them are Prophesies, the third of them is in the Gospel. The first Prophesie is in the 66. Chap. of Esaiah v. 23. The second is in Ezekiel's Description of the New Temple, Chap. 43.44, 45, 46, &c. Where 1. It is clear that these places relate to the Dayes of the Gospel, as none can deny but they do so eminently. 2. It is clear that though they Prophesie of the Services of the Gospel under the names of Sacrifices, &c. proper to the Old-Testament-Administration, and of the Sanctified and set-apart time of the Gospel, under ⟨p. 193⟩the Name of Sabbath which then was determined, and whereto men were then bound by the fourth Command as they were to Sacrifices by the second: yet these Prophesies infer not by vertue of the fourth Command the very same Day to be under the Gospel, which was under the Law, more than the same Services by vertue of the second; which none will deny to be in force, notwithstanding of the change of Services: and there is as little reason to deny the fourth to be still in force as to its substance, notwithstanding of the change of the particular Day. Yet Thirdly it is clear that from the mentioning of these Services this will follow, that there should be set and fixed Ordinances, and a way of Worship in the New-Testament, as well as in the Old, and that there should be a solemn chief set-time for the Sabbath which men ought to sanctifie, and that they should no more admit any other times, nor so set apart into a parity with it, than they were to admit any Service or Worship not allowed by God, or that was contrary to the second Command:
