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

2. God being thus entered into his Rest. in like manner as formerly, two things ensue thereon: (1) That the people are invited and encouraged to enter into the Rest of God. This the Apostle treats concerning in this and the foregoing Chapter. And this their entrance into Rest, was their coming by Faith and Obedience into a participation of the Worship of God wherein he Rested, as a means and pledge of their everlasting Rest in him. And although some of them came short hereof, by reason of their unbelief, yet others entered into it under the conduct of Joshua. (2) Both these, his own Rest, and Rest of the people, God expressed by appointing a Day of Rest. This he did, that it might be a token, sign, and pledge, not now, as given to this people absolutely of his first Rest at the Creation, but of his present Rest in his instituted Worship; and to be a means in the solemn observation of that Worship, to farther their entrance into his Rest eternally. Hence had the seventh Day a peculiar Institution among that people, whereby it was made ⟨p. 375⟩to them, a sign and token, that he was their God, and they were his people. And here lies the foundation of all that we have before discoursed concerning the Judaical Sabbath, in our fourth Exercitation.

2. God being thus entred into his Rest. in like manner as formerly, two things ensue thereon: (1) That the people are invited and encouraged to enter into the Rest of God. This the Apostle treats concerning in this and the foregoing Chapter. And this their entrance into Rest, was their coming by Faith and Obedience into a participation of the Worship of God wherein he Rested, as a means and pledge of their everlasting Rest in him. And although some of them came short hereof, by reason of their unbelief, yet others entred into it under the conduct of Joshua. (2) Both these, his own Rest, and Rest of the people, God expressed by appointing a Day of Rest. This he did, that it might be a token, sign, and pledge, not now, as given to this people absolutely of his first Rest at the Creation, but of his present Rest in his instituted Worship; and to be a means in the solemn observation of that Worship, to farther their entrance into his Rest eternally. Hence had the seventh Day a peculiar Institution among that people, whereby it was made ⟨p. 375⟩to them, a sign and token, that he was their God, and they were his people. And here lies the foundation of all that we have before discoursed concerning the Judaical Sabbath, in our fourth Exercitation.