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

And thus as Circumcision bound all to keep the whole Law that conformed to it, (that being a sign of that part of the legal Covenant to Abraham and his natural Seed throughout their Generations) so the Seventh-day Sabbath is a sign of the same legal Covenant in that Ministration with the House of Israel, Exod. 20. and obliged all that observe it, to keep the whole Law also. And that this is not my Judgment alone, take what Dr. Owen has said on this account.

Whereas the Covenant which Man originally was taken into,¹ was a Covenant of Works, wherein Rest with God depended absolutely on his doing all the Works he had to do by way of Legal Obedience, he was during the Dispensation of that Covenant tied up precisely to the observation of the ⟨p. 105⟩seventh Day, or that which followed the whole work of Creation. And the seventh Day as such is a Token of the Rest promised in the Covenant of Works, and no other. And those who would advance that day again into a necessary observation, do consequentially introduce the whole Covenant of Works, and are become Debtors to the whole Law. For the Works of God which precede the seventh Day precisely, were those whereby Man was initiated into, and instructed in the Covenant of Works; and the Day it self was a Token and Pledge of the Righteousness thereof, or a moral and natural sign of it, and of God's Rest therein, and of Man's with God thereby. And it is no Service to the Church of God, nor hath any tendency to the Honour of Christ in the Gospel, to endeavour a Reduction of us to the Covenant of Works.

Whereas the Covenant which Man originally was taken into,¹ was a Covenant of Works, wherein Rest with God depended absolutely on his doing all the Works he had to do by way of Legal Obedience, he was during the Dispensation of that Covenant tied up precisely to the observation of the