The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts

Sixthly, ¹The Morality of the fourth Commandment consists not in the observation of the precise seventh Day, because that day was a sign or shadow of something to come. I did at first prove, in opening my Text, that the weekly Jewish Sabbath is comprehended in those days the false Brethren taught the Galatians to observe; ²and gave many Arguments to evince, that tho there is one day in seven by a positive Law perpetually to be kept,³ yet the old Jewish ⟨p. 97⟩seventh day from the Creation, and under the Covenant of Works, was a shadow of things to come.

1. 1The Seventh-day Sabbath proved to be a sign of the Covenant of Works.
2. 2Gal. 4. 10.
3. 3Col. 2. 16.

But I shall add here something out of an approved Author, further to confirm this: That Sabbath,¹ saith he, and the particular seventh day which the Jews observed, was certainly of a shadowy nature; being instituted at first with reference to Christ, as all other Shadows were, having a Type after fixed to it. And of this we may safely expound that forementioned Text, Col. 2. 16. Let no man judg you in Meats or in Drinks, or in respect of an holy day, or New Moons or Sabbaths, which were shadows of things to come: but the Body is of Christ. The only question is, whether their weekly Sabbath was here intended. Some are jealous lest in pressing it so far, it should prove prejudicial to our weekly Christian Sabbath; but this is a mere causeless Jealousy. For let us ponder the scope and design of the place, and it will appear that the Apostles design is not to level Christian Days and Duties, but such as the Jews observed, and would have introduced with Circumcision. 'Tis apparent that in all those three places,