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

In comprehending things Spiritual under things Carnal, when yet the carnal are of no consideration in the Worship of God, but as they necessarily attend upon things spiritual. Hence that part of the Command which concerns the manner of the Observation of the Sabbath to be kept holy, is given out in a Prohibition of bodily Labour and Work, ⟨p. 243⟩or a Command of bodily Rest. But it is the Expression of the Rest of God and his complacency in his Works and Covenant, with the Sanctification of the Day in Obedience to his Commands, in and by the holy Duties of his Worship, that are principally intended in it. And this he farther intimates afterwards unto them by his Institution of a double Sacrifice to be offered Morning and Evening on that Day. (2.) In the Distribution of the people into the Capital Persons with their Relations, Servants and Strangers, that God would have to live amongst them, and join themselves unto them. In the whole it appears, that the Sabbath is not now commanded to be observed, because it is the seventh Day, as though the seventh Day were firstly and principally intended in the Command, which as we have showed, that neither the substance of the Command, nor the Reason of it, with which the whole of the Precept is begun and ended, will admit of; but the seventh Day is commanded to be observed, because by an antecedent Institution it was made to be the Sabbath unto that people, Exod. 16. (Whence it came to fall under the Command, not primarily, but reductively) as it had been on another account from the foundation of the World. The Sabbath therefore is Originally commanded as one day in seven to be dedicated unto an Holy Rest. And the seventh Day, if we respect the order of the days, is added, as that especial Day, which God had declared that he would have at that Time his Sabbath to be observed on.

In comprehending things Spiritual under things Carnal, when yet the carnal are of no consideration in the Worship of God, but as they necessarily attend upon things spiritual. Hence that part of the Command which concerns the manner of the Observation of the Sabbath to be kept holy, is given out in a Prohibition of bodily Labour and Work, ⟨p. 243⟩or a Command of bodily Rest. But it is the Expression of the Rest of God and his complacency in his Works and Covenant, with the Sanctification of the Day in Obedience to his Commands, in and by the holy Duties of his Worship, that are principally intended in it. And this he farther intimates afterwards unto them by his Institution of a double Sacrifice to be offered Morning and Evening on that Day. (2.) In the Distribution of the people into the Capital Persons with their Relations, Servants and Strangers, that God would have to live amongst them, and joyn themselves unto them. In the whole it appears, that the Sabbath is not now commanded to be observed, because it is the seventh Day, as though the seventh Day were firstly and principally intended in the Command, which as we have shewed, that neither the substance of the Command, nor the Reason of it, with which the whole of the Precept is begun and ended, will admit of; but the seventh Day is commanded to be observed, because by an antecedent Institution it was made to be the Sabbath unto that people,