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

Now lest any should suppose that Christ rather ceased from his Works,¹ when he died, because it is said 'tis finished, &c. which certainly refers to all those things that were Types or Prophecies of him to that time; for the Work of Redemption could not be finished till he rose from the dead: Take what the Doctor further saith to this. It remains, saith he, only that we enquire into Christ's entrance into his Rest, both how and when he did so, even as God entered into his on the Seventh-day. For this (saith he) must limit and determine a Day of Rest to the Gospel-Church. Now this was not his lying down in the Grave. His Body indeed there rested for a while: But that was no part of his mediatory Rest, as he was the Founder and Builder of the Church. For,

1. 1Christ ceased from his Work on the day of his Resurrection. P. 284. Sect. 23.

1. It was part of his Humiliation: Not only his death, but his abode and continuance in the state of death was so, and a principal part of it: For after the whole human Nature was united to the Person of the Son of God, to ⟨p. 208⟩have it brought into a state of dissolution, or to have the Body and Soul separated from each other, was a great Humiliation. And every, thing of this nature belonged to his Work, and not to his Rest.

2. This separation of Body and Soul under the Power of Death was penal, a part of the Sentence of the Law which he underwent. And therefore Peter declares, that the Pains of Death were not loosed but by his Resurrection,