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

§. 8 As our Lord Jesus Christ, as the eternal Son and Wisdom of the Father, was the immediate cause, and Author of the old Creation, Joh. 1. 3. Col. 1. 16. Heb. 1. 2, 10. so as Mediator, he was the Author of this new Creation, Heb. 3. 3, 4. He built the House of God; he built all these things, and is God. Herein he wrought, and in the accomplishment of it, saw of the travail of his soul, and was satisfied, Isa. 53. 11. that is, he rested and was refreshed. Herein he gave a new Law of life, faith, and obedience unto God, Isa. 42. 4. not by an addition of new Precepts to the moral Law of God, not virtually comprised therein, and distinct from his own positive institutions ⟨p. 364⟩of worship, but in his revelation of that new way of obedience unto God in and by himself, with the especial causes, means, and ends of it, which supplies the use and end whereunto the Moral Law was at first designed, Rom. 8. 2, 3. Chap 10. 3, 4. whereby he becomes the Author of eternal salvation unto all that do obey him, Heb. 5. 9. This Law of life and obedience, he writes by his Spirit in the hearts of his people, that they may be willing in the day of his power, Psal. 110. 3. 1 Cor. 3. 3, 6. Heb. 8 10. not at once, and in the foundation of his work actually, but only in the causes of it. For as the Law of nature should have been implanted in the hearts of men in their conception, and natural nativity, had that dispensation of righteousness continued; so in the new birth of them that believe in him, is this Law written in their hearts in all generations,