Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

Of the Observation of the Sabbath by the Light of Nature we shall treat afterwards. As to the Instances mentioned by him, That concerning Abraham is not destitute of good probability. That expression [Greek or Hebrew], and kept my charge, seems to have peculiar respect unto the Sabbath, called elsewhere the charge of God. Hence some of those amongst Christians who contend for the Wilderness Original of the Sabbath, yet grant, that probably there was a free Observation of it among the Patriarchs, from the Tradition they had of the Rest of God upon the Creation ⟨p. 71⟩of the world. So Torniellus, Annal. Vet. Test. Suarez. de Religione, lib. 2. cap. 1. s. 3. Prideaux Orat. de Sabbat. For as there is no doubt but that the Creation of the World was one of the principal Articles of their Faith, as our Apostle also asserts; Heb. 11. 3. So it is fond to imagine that they had utterly lost the Tradition of the Rest of God upon the finishing of his works; and it may easily be conceived what that would influence them unto, should you suppose that they had lost the remembrance of its express Institution, which will not be granted. What therefore may be certainly judged or determined of their practice in this matter, shall be briefly declared.

Of the Observation of the Sabbath by the Light of Nature we shall treat afterwards. As to the Instances mentioned by him, That concerning Abraham is not destitute of good probability. That expression 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and kept my charge, seems to have peculiar respect unto the Sabbath, called elsewhere the charge of God. Hence some of those amongst Christians who contend for the Wilderness Original of the Sabbath, yet grant, that probably there was a free Observation of it among the Patriarchs, from the Tradition they had of the Rest of God upon the Creation ⟨p. 71⟩of the world. So Torniellus, Annal. Vet. Test. Suarez. de Religione, lib. 2. cap. 1. s. 3. Prideaux Orat. de Sabbat. For as there is no doubt but that the Creation of the World was one of the principal Articles of their Faith, as our Apostle also asserts; Heb. 11. 3. So it is fond to imagine that they had utterly lost the Tradition of the Rest of God upon the finishing of his works; and it may easily be conceived what that would influence them unto, should you suppose that they had lost the remembrance of its express Institution, which will not be granted. What therefore may be certainly judged or determined of their practice in this matter, shall be briefly declared.