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

§. 20 Thus was Man instructed in the whole Notion of a Weekly Sacred Rest, by all the Ways and Means which God was pleased to use in giving him an acquaintance with his Will, and that Obedience unto his Glory which he expected from him. For this knowledge he had partly by the Law of his Creation as innate unto him or concreated with the Principles of his nature, being the necessary exurgency of his Rational Constitution; and partly by the Works and Rest of God, thereon proposed ⟨p. 150⟩unto his consideration, both firmed by Gods Declaration of his Sanctification of the seventh Day. Hence did he know, that it was his Duty to express and celebrate the Rest of God, or the complacency that he had in the Works of his Hands in reference unto their great and proper End, or his Glory, in the Honour, Praise and Obedience of them unto whose contemplation they were proposed, for those Ends. This followed immediately from the Time spent in the Creation, and the Rest that ensued thereon, which were so ordered for his Instruction, and not from any other Cause or Reason taken either from the Nature of God, or of the things themselves; which required neither six days to make the world in, nor any Rest to follow thereon. For that Rest was not a cessation from working absolutely, much less merely so. Hence did he learn the Nature of the Covenant that he was taken into; namely, how he was first to work in Obedience, and then to enter into Gods Rest in Blessedness. For so had God appointed, and so did he understand his Will, from his own present State and Condition. Hence was he instructed to dedicate to God, and his own more immediate communion with him, one day in a Weekly Revolution, wherein the whole Law of his Creation was consummate, as a Pledge and Means of entering eternally into Gods Rest, which from hence he understood to be his End and Happiness. And for the sanctification of the seventh Day of the Week precisely, he had it by Revelation, or Gods sanctification of it, which had unto him the nature of a Positive Law, being a Determination of the day suited unto the Nature ⟨p. 151⟩and Tenor of that Covenant wherein he walked with God.

§. 20 Thus was Man instructed in the whole Notion of a Weekly Sacred Rest, by all the Wayes and Means which God was pleased to use in giving him an acquaintance with his Will, and that Obedience unto his Glory which he expected from him. For this knowledge he had partly by the Law of his Creation as innate unto him or concreated with the Principles of his nature, being the necessary exurgency of his Rational Constitution; and partly by the Works and Rest of God, thereon proposed