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

§. 11 Now because I am persuaded that the substance of all that we have laid down and pleaded for, in all the preceding Discourses, especially in what we have proposed concerning the foundation and causes of the Lords-day, is taught by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 4. I shall present unto the Reader the sum of his design and scope in that place, from vers. 3. to vers. 11. with an Application of it unto our present purpose; referring him yet, for farther satisfaction, unto our full Exposition of the Chapter it self. For this place is touched on by all who have contended about the original and duration ⟨p. 367⟩of the Sabbatical Rest, but not yet that I know of diligently examined by any. I shall not fear to lay much of the weight of the cause wherein I am engaged upon it, and therefore shall take a view of the whole Context, and the Design of the Apostle therein.

§. 11 Now because I am perswaded that the substance of all that we have laid down and pleaded for, in all the preceding Discourses, especially in what we have proposed concerning the foundation and causes of the Lords-day, is taught by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 4. I shall present unto the Reader the sum of his design and scope in that place, from vers. 3. to vers. 11. with an Application of it unto our present purpose; referring him yet, for farther satisfaction, unto our full Exposition of the Chapter it self. For this place is touched on by all who have contended about the original and duration ⟨p. 367⟩of the Sabbatical Rest, but not yet that I know of diligently examined by any. I shall not fear to lay much of the weight of the cause wherein I am engaged upon it, and therefore shall take a view of the whole Context, and the Design of the Apostle therein.

§. 12 The words of the Apostle are; For we which have believed do enter into Rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my Rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh Day on this wise, And God did Rest the seventh Day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my Rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not in because of unbelief: Again, he limiteth a certain Day, saying, in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them Rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another Day. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his Rest, he hath also ceased from his own works, as God did from his,