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

For they were partly to be divine and spiritual, partly terrene and earthly, though under the Government of the Sovereign Divine Principle in him. Hence it was required that in this condition, being not absolutely fitted as the Angels for constant contemplation, that he should work and labour in the earth, whilst he continued in it, and his Terrene part not refined or made Spiritual and Heavenly. This made a certain Time of Rest necessary unto him, and that upon a double Account flowing from the Principles of his own Nature. For his Earthly Constitution could not always hold out to labour with its own satisfaction, and his Intellectual and divine part was not to be always diverted, but to be furthered in and unto its own peculiar Operations. This made a Sacred Rest necessary to him. And in that Addition of sweat and travail which befell him in his labour afterwards, That was not a new course of life enjoined him, but a Curse was mixed with that course and labour which was originally allotted unto him. So then, although there is a different manner of working more necessary, and supposed in the giving of the Law, then was at the first Institution of a Sabbatical Rest, yet the change is not in the Law or Command for labour, but in the state or condition of man himself.

For they were partly to be divine and spiritual, partly terrene and earthly, though under the Government of the Soveraign Divine Principle in him. Hence it was required that in this condition, being not absolutely fitted as the Angels for constant contemplation, that he should work and labour in the earth, whilst he continued in it, and his Terrene part not refined or made Spiritual and Heavenly. This made a certain Time of Rest necessary unto him, and that upon a double Account flowing from the Principles of his own Nature. For his Earthly Constitution could not alwayes hold out to labour with its own satisfaction, and his Intellectual and divine part was not to be alwayes diverted, but to be furthered in and unto its own peculiar Operations. This made a Sacred Rest necessary to him. And in that Addition of sweat and travail which befell him in his labour afterwards, That was not a new course of life enjoyned him, but a Curse was mixed with that course and labour which was originally allotted unto him. So then, although there is a different manner of working more necessary, and supposed in the giving of the Law, then was at the first Institution of a Sabbatical Rest, yet the change is not in the Law or Command for labour, but in the state or condition of man himself.