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

Quest. But since the Jewish seventh Day was a Sign and a Shadow, what was it a Sign and Shadow of?

Answ. Before I give a direct Answer to this, let me premise one thing, which in a special manner we ought to regard, viz. that the Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath was bottomed upon ⟨p. 100⟩the Covenant of Works in that Ministration of it given to the whole House of Israel, as suiting with their Ecclesiastical, Political, and Typical Church-state. And this Dr. Owen has fully proved,¹ speaking of that Covenant: Now, saith he, this is not absolutely and merely a Law, but as it contained a Covenant between God and Man. A Law it might have been, and not a Covenant, which doth not necessarily follow upon either its instructive or preceptive Power. Yet it was originally given in the Counsel of God to that end, and accompanied with Promises and Threatenings, whence it had the nature of a Covenant. By virtue of this Law, as a Covenant, was the observation of a Sabbath prescribed, and required, as a token and pledge of God's Rest in that Covenant in the performance of the Works whereon it was instituted, and of Man's Interest in it—Again, he saith; Seeing therefore that the Moral Law, as a Covenant between God and Man, required this sacred Rest—we must inquire what place, as such, it had in the Mosaical Economy, whereon the true Reason and Notion of the Sabbath doth depend: for the Sabbath being originally annexed to the Covenant between God and Man^*, the Renovation of the Covenant doth necessarily require a special Renovation of the Sabbath; and the change of the Covenant as to the nature of it, in like manner doth introduce a change of the Sabbath, &c.

Answ. Before I give a direct Answer to this, let me premise one thing, which in a special manner we ought to regard, viz. that the Law of the Seventh-day Sabbath was bottom'd upon ⟨p. 100⟩