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

§. 3 Seeing therefore that the Moral Law, as a Covenant between God and man, required this Sacred Rest, as we have proved; we must enquire what place, as such, it had in the Mosaical Economy, whereon the true Reason and Notion of the Sabbath as peculiarly Judaical, doth depend. For the Sabbath being originally annexed to the Covenant between God and man, the Renovation of the Covenant doth necessarily require an especial Renovation of the Sabbath, and the Change of the Covenant as to the nature of it, must in like manner introduce a change of the Sabbath. And we shall find, that the Covenant of the Law, or of Works, had a twofold Renovation in the Church of Israel, in the framing and constitution of it. These rendered it their especial Covenant, although it was not absolutely a New Covenant, nor is it so called, but is every where called the Old; and hence the Sabbath became peculiarly theirs.

§. 3 Seeing therefore that the Moral Law, as a Covenant between God and man, required this Sacred Rest, as we have proved; we must enquire what place, as such, it had in the Mosaical Oeconomy, whereon the true Reason and Notion of the Sabbath as peculiarly Judaical, doth depend. For the Sabbath being originally annexed to the Covenant between God and man, the Renovation of the Covenant doth necessarily require an especial Renovation of the Sabbath, and the Change of the Covenant as to the nature of it, must in like manner introduce a change of the Sabbath. And we shall find, that the Covenant of the Law, or of Works, had a twofold Renovation in the Church of Israel, in the framing and constitution of it. These rendred it their especial Covenant, although it was not absolutely a New Covenant, nor is it so called, but is every where called the Old; and hence the Sabbath became peculiarly theirs.

(1.) It was renewed unto them materially. It was originally written in the heart of man, or concreated with the Faculties of his soul; where its Light and Principles being excited, guided, and variously affected with the consideration of the Works of God,) proposed unto him with an instructive Ability, for that End, whose Directions concurred to the making up of the entire Law of Creation) was evidently directive unto all the Duties which God in the first Covenant required at our hands. By the Entrance of Sin, with the corruption and debasing of the Faculties of our souls, which ensued thereon, whereby the Alteration in our Natures, the principal