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

But let it be considered, that which is signified in the fourth Command, as perpetually obliging us, is, that we observe one day in seven as a day of Rest to the Lord. Let me give you one parallel case more, viz. the Law of Tithes. Now God required the tenth of their Increase: but will any Man say, God intended any one precise tenth? No, begin where you will, the tenth Sheaf or Lamb is the Lord's. So here, God will have one day in seven; but the reason why he fixed on the last of the seven under the old Covenant, I have showed; and shall further show why he chooseth the first of seven in the new Covenant, neither being expressed in the essential and first part of the fourth Command. Had God chose now one in six, or one in nine, he had altered, as one observes, ⟨p. 117⟩the substance of this Command.

But let it be considered, that which is signified in the fourth Command, as perpetually obliging us, is, that we observe one day in seven as a day of Rest to the Lord. Let me give you one parallel case more, viz. the Law of Tithes. Now God required the tenth of their Increase: but will any Man say, God intended any one precise tenth? No, begin where you will, the tenth Sheaf or Lamb is the Lord's. So here, God will have one day in seven; but the reason why he fixed on the last of the seven under the old Covenant, I have shewed; and shall further shew why he chuseth the first of seven in the new Covenant, neither being expressed in the essential and first part of the fourth Command. Had God chose now one in six, or one in nine, he had altered, as one observes, ⟨p. 117⟩the substance of this Command.

It is needless to recite the words of all^* those who hold that one in seven, not the precise last day of the seven, is perpetually to be observed, and that the old seventh Day is abolished: but I shall observe what Mr. Warren saith, viz. Thus I grant the time of Worship, a Sabbath it self, being an inseparable Adjunct of solemn Worship, is perpetual: but the old Day, the seventh from the Creation, was made mutable —and we have a Sabbath still, a literal Sabbath; but the old Sabbaths and old Sacrifices being Twins, tho both honourable and serviceable in their Generations, as they lived together and died together, let both together in God's Name be buried in the Grave of Christ, so as never to rise up again: but let our Gospel-worship and Gospel-Sabbath take life from our Saviour's Resurrection, which brought with it a new Creation, a new World, making all things new.