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

(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 ⟨p. 225⟩seat and subject of this Law was so great, as that we lost the Image of God, or that Light and knowledge into our Duty with respect unto him, which was necessary for us in that Covenant, the Law it self became insufficient, a lame and imperfect Guide unto the Ends of the Covenant. Besides, the Aspectable Creation, the outward Medium of instructing man in the knowledge of the Goodness, Power and Wisdom of God, being for our sin brought under the curse, and the creature into bondage, the contemplation of it would not so clearly, distinctly, and perfectly represent him unto us, as formerly. Let men fancy what they please, and please themselves whilst they will with their fancies, all things both within, and without in the whole Creation, were brought into such Disorder and Confusion by the Entrance of sin, as that the Law of Nature was utterly insufficient to enable us unto, or to guide us in our living unto God, according to the Tenor of the first Covenant.

(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 ⟨p. 225⟩seat and subject of this Law was so great, as that we lost the Image of God, or that Light and knowledge into our Duty with respect unto him, which was necessary for us in that Covenant, the Law it self became insufficient, a lame and imperfect Guide unto the Ends of the Covenant. Besides, the Aspectable Creation, the outward Medium of instructing man in the knowledge of the Goodness, Power and Wisdom of God, being for our sin brought under the curse, and the creature into bondage, the contemplation of it would not so clearly, distinctly, and perfectly represent him unto us, as formerly. Let men fancy what they please, and please themselves whilst they will with their fancies, all things both within, and without in the whole Creation, were brought into such Disorder and Confusion by the Entrance of sin, as that the Law of Nature was utterly insufficient to enable us unto, or to guide us in our liveing unto God, according to the Tenor of the first Covenant.