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

Now in the Work and Rest of God thus stated, did the whole Rule of the Obedience of man originally consist; and therein was he to seek also his own Rest, as his Happiness and Blessedness. For God had not declared any other way for his Instruction in the End of his Creation, that is his Obedience unto him, and Blessedness in him, but in and by his own Works and Rest. This then is the first End of this Holy Rest. And it must always be born in mind, as that without which we can give no glory to God as rational creatures, made under a Moral Law in a dependence on Him. For this he indispensably requireth of us, and this is the sum of what he requireth of us; namely that we glorify him according to the Revelation that he makes of himself unto us, whether by his Works of Nature, or of Grace. To the solemnity ⟨p. 130⟩hereof, the Day enquired after is necessary. To express these things is the General End of the Sabbatical Rest prescribed unto us, and our observation. For so it is said, God wrought and rested, and then requires us so to do. And it hath sundry particular Ends or Reasons. First, That we might learn the satisfaction and complacency that God hath in his own works, Gen. 2. 2, 3. That is, to consider the impressions of his Excellencies upon them, and to glorify him as God on that Account, Rom. 1. 19, 20, 21. For hence was man originally taught to Fear, Love, Trust, Obey, and Honour him absolutely; even from the manifestation that he had made of himself in his works, wherein he rested. And had not God thus rested in them, and been refreshed upon their completing and finishing; they would not have been a sufficient means to instruct man in those Duties. And our Observation of the Evangelical Sabbath, hath the same respect unto the works of Christ, and his Rest thereon, when he saw of the Travel of his soul and was satisfied, as shall afterwards be declared.

Now in the Work and Rest of God thus stated, did the whole Rule of the Obedience of man originally consist; and therein was he to seek also his own Rest, as his Happiness and Blessedness. For God had not declared any other way for his Instruction in the End of his Creation, that is his Obedience unto him, and Blessedness in him, but in and by his own Works and Rest. This then is the first End of this Holy Rest. And it must alwayes be born in mind, as that without which we can give no glory to God as rational creatures, made under a Moral Law in a dependance on Him. For this he indispensibly requireth of us, and this is the summ of what he requireth of us; namely that we glorifie him according to the Revelation that he makes of himself unto us, whether by his Works of Nature, or of Grace. To the solemnity