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

(2.) It is evident, that the Apostle in this place dealeth with them who endeavoured to introduce Judaism absolutely, or the whole System of Mosaical Ceremonies into the Observation of the Christian Church. Circumcision, their Feasts and New Moons, their distinctions of Meats and D•n•s ⟨p. 216⟩he mentioneth directly in this place. And therefore he deals about these things so far as they were Judaical, or belonged unto the Economy of Moses, and no otherwise. If any of them fell under any other Consideration, so far as they did so, he designeth not to speak of them. Now those things only were Mosaical, which being instituted by Moses, and figurative of good things to come, or the things which being of the same nature with the residue of his Ceremonies, were before appointed, but accommodated by him to the use of the Church which he built […] such as Sacrifices and Circumcision. For they were all of them nothing else but an obscure Adumbration of the things whereof Christ was the Body. So far then as the Weekly Sabbath had any Additions made unto it, or limitation given of it, or directions for the manner of its Observance, or respected the services then to be performed in it, and by all accommodated unto that Dispensation of the Covenant which the Posterity of Abraham was then brought into, it was a shadow, and it taken away by Christ. Therewith falls its limitation to the seventh Day, its rigorous Observation, its penal Sanction, its being a sign between God and that people, in a word, every thing in it, and about it, that belonged unto the then present Administration of the Covenant, or was accommodated to the Judaical Church or State. But now if it be proved, that a septenary Sacred Rest was appointed in Paradise, that it hath its foundation in the Law of Creation, that thereon it was observed antecedently unto the Institution of Mosaical Ceremonies, and that God renewed the ⟨p. 217⟩Command concerning it, in his System of Moral Precepts manifoldly distinguished from all Ceremonial Ordinances, so far and in these Respects it hath no concern in these words of the Apostle.

(2.) It is evident, that the Apostle in this place dealeth with them who endeavoured to introduce Judaisme absolutely, or the whole Systeme of Mosaical Ceremonies into the Observation of the Christian Church. Circumcision, their Feasts and New Moons, their distinctions of Meats and Dns