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

§. 19 First, the Apostle showeth, that there was a great work of God, and that finished, for the foundation of the whole. This he had made way for, chap. 3. vers. 4, 5. where he both expressly asserts the Son to be God, and shows the Analogy that is between the Creation of all things, and the building of the Church; that is, the works of the Old and New Creation. As then God wrought in the Creation of all, so Christ, who is God, wrought in the setting up of this new Church-state. And upon his finishing of it, he entered into his Rest, as God did into his, whereby he limited a certain Day of Rest unto his people. So he speaks; There remaineth therefore a Sabbatism for the people of God. For he that is entered into Rest, hath ceased from his works, as God did from his own. A new Day of Rest accommodated unto ⟨p. 377⟩this new Church-state, ariseth from the Rest that the Lord Christ entered into, upon his ceasing from his works. And as to this Day, we may observe; (1) That it hath this in common with the former Days, that it is a Sabbatism, or one day in seven, which that name in the whole Scripture use, is limited unto. For this portion of time to be dedicated unto Sacred Rest, having its foundation in the light and Law of Nature, was equally to be observed in every state of the Church. (2) That although both the former states of the Church had one, and the same Day, though varied in some Ends of it; now the Day it self is changed, as belonging to another Covenant, and having its foundation in a work of another Nature, than what They had respect unto. (3) That the observation of it is suited unto the spiritual state of the Church under the Gospel, delivered from the bondage frame of spirit wherewith it was observed under the Law. And these things must be farther confirmed from the Context.

§. 19 First, the Apostle sheweth, that there was a great work of God, and that finished, for the foundation of the whole. This he had made way for, chap. 3. vers. 4, 5. where he both expresly asserts the Son to be God, and shews the Analogie that is between the Creation of all things, and the building of the Church; that is, the works of the Old and New Creation. As then God wrought in the Creation of all, so Christ, who is God, wrought in the setting up of this new Church-state. And upon his finishing of it, he entred into his Rest, as God did into his, whereby he limited a certain Day of Rest unto his people. So he speaks; There remaineth therefore a Sabbatism for the people of God. For he that is entred into Rest, hath ceased from his works, as God did from his own. A new Day of Rest accommodated unto