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

§. 21 It appears therefore that the subject of the Apostles Proposition in this place hath been mistaken. It is another who is intended, even Christ himself, the Son of God, and his Rest from his works, which is here compared with the Rest of God from his, at the foundation of the world, to which end alone the mention of them was introduced, verse 3, 4. For,

First, The Conjunction [Greek or Hebrew], For, whereby he brings in his Assertion, manifests that the Apostle in these words gives an account whence it is that there is a new Sabbatism remaining for the people of God. There remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God; for he that is entered into his Rest, is ceased from his works. Had there not been a work laying the foundation of the Gospel-Church-state, and a Rest of God in it, and ensuing thereon, there could have been no such Sabbatism for Believers, for those things are required unto a Sabbath. He had proved before, that there could be no such Rest but what was founded in the works of God, and his Rest that ensued thereon; such a foundation therefore, he saith, this new Rest must have, and it hath it. This must be and is in the Works and Rest of him by whom the Church was built, that is Christ, who is God, as it is expressly argued, Chap. 3. vers. 3, 4. For as that Rest which all the world was to observe, was founded in his Works and Rest who made the world, and all things in it; so the Rest of the Church under the Gospel is to be founded in his works and Rest, by whom the Church was built, that is Jesus Christ: ⟨p. 380⟩For he on the account of his works and Rest is also Lord of the Sabbath, to abrogate one Day of Rest, and to institute another.

First, The Conjunction 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, For, whereby he brings in his Assertion, manifests that the Apostle in these words gives an account whence it is that there is a new Sabbatism remaining for the people of God. There remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God; for he that is entred into his Rest, is ceased from his works. Had there not been a work laying the foundation of the Gospel-Church-state, and a Rest of God in it, and ensuing thereon, there could have been no such Sabbatism for Believers, for those things are required unto a Sabbath. He had proved before, that there could be no such Rest but what was founded in the works of God, and his Rest that ensued thereon; such a foundation therefore, he saith, this new Rest must have, and it hath it. This must be and is in the Works and Rest of him by whom the Church was built, that is Christ, who is God, as it is expresly argued, Chap. 3. vers. 3, 4. For as that Rest which all the world was to observe, was founded in his Works and Rest who made the world, and all things in it; so the Rest of the Church under the Gospel is to be founded in his works and Rest, by whom the Church was built, that is Jesus Christ: