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

Again, it was made a part of their Law for Religious Worship, in their Typical Church State, in which, and whereby the whole Dispensation of the Covenant which they were under, was ⟨p. 235⟩directed unto other Ends. And so it had the Nature of a shadow, representing the good things to come, whereby the people were to be relieved from the Rigour and Curse of the whole Law, as a Covenant. And on these Reasons, new Commands were given for the Observation of the Sabbath, new Motives, Ends and Uses were added thereunto, every way to accommodate it to the Dispensation of the Covenant then in force, which was afterwards to be removed and taken away, and therewithal the Sabbath it self, so far as it had Relation thereunto. For the continuation of the seventh Day precisely belonged unto the new Representation that was made of the Covenant of Works. The Representation of that Covenant, with the sanction given unto it amongst the Judgements of Righteousness in the Government of the people in the Land of Canaan, which was the Lords and not theirs, made it a yoke and burden; and the use it was put unto amongst Ceremonial Observances, made it a shadow; in all which respects it is abolished by Christ. To say that the Sabbath as given unto the Jews is not abolished, is to introduce the whole System of Mosaical Ordinances, which stand on the same bottom with it. And particularly the Observation of the seventh Day precisely, lieth as it were in the Heart of that Economy. And these things will the more clearly appear, if we consider the dealing of God with that people about the Sabbath from first to last.

Again, it was made a part of their Law for Religious Worship, in their Typical Church State, in which, and whereby the whole Dispensation of the Covenant which they were under, was ⟨p. 235⟩directed unto other Ends. And so it had the Nature of a shadow, representing the good things to come, whereby the people were to be relieved from the Rigor and Curse of the whole Law, as a Covenant. And on these Reasons, new Commands were given for the Observation of the Sabbath, new Motives, Ends and Uses were added thereunto, every way to accommodate it to the Dispensation of the Covenant then in force, which was afterwards to be removed and taken away, and therewithall the Sabbath it self, so far as it had Relation thereunto. For the continuation of the seventh Day precisely belonged unto the new Representation that was made of the Covenant of Works. The Representation of that Covenant, with the sanction given unto it amongst the Judgements of Righteousness in the Government of the people in the Land of Canaan, which was the Lords and not theirs, made it a yoke and burden; and the use it was put unto amongst Ceremonial Observances, made it a shadow; in all which respects it is abolished by Christ. To say that the Sabbath as given unto the Jews is not abolished, is to introduce the whole Systeme of Mosaical Ordinances, which stand on the same bottom with it. And particularly the Observation of the seventh Day precisely, lyeth as it were in the Heart of that Oeconomy. And these things will the more clearly appear, if we consider the dealing of God with that people about the Sabbath from first to last.