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

§. 24 Thus did the Author of the New Creation, the Son of God, the Builder of the Church, having finished his works, enter into his Rest. And this was, as all know, on the morning of the first day of the week. And hereby did he limit and determine the Day for a sacred Sabbatical Rest under the New Testament. For now was the Old Covenant utterly abolished, and therefore the Day which was the pledge of Gods and Mans Rest therein, was to be taken away, and was so accordingly, as we have showed. As the Rest from the beginning of the World, had its foundation from the works of God, and his Rest which ensued thereon, which was determined unto the seventh Day, because that was the Day wherein God ceased from those works, which Day was continued under the legal administration of the Covenant by Moses; so the Rest of the Lord Christ the Son of God, is the foundation of our Rest, which changing the old Covenant, and the day annexed unto it, he hath limited unto the first Day of the Week, whereon he ceased from his works, and entered into his Rest. And hereby the Apostle completes the due Analogy that is between the several Rests of God and his people, which he hath discoursed of in this Chapter. For as in the beginning ⟨p. 385⟩of the World, there was first, the work of God, and his Rest thereon, which made way unto a Rest for his people in himself and in his worship, by the contemplation of his works that he had made, on whose finishing he rested; and a Day designed, determined, blessed and sanctified, to express that Rest of God; whence mention is made of those works in the command for the observation of that Day, seeing the worship of God in and on it, consisted principally in the glorifying of him, by, and for those works of his; as also to be a means to further men in their entrance into eternal Rest, whereunto all these things do tend; and as at the giving of the Law, there was a great Work of God, and his Rest thereon, in his establishing his Worship in the Land of Canaan, which made way for the peoples entering into his Rest in that Worship and Country, and had a Day of Rest enjoined unto them, to express the one and the other, as also to help them to enter finally into the Rest of God; so now under the Gospel there is a Rest answering all these, in and by the instances which we have given.

§. 24 Thus did the Author of the New Creation, the Son of God, the Builder of the Church, having finished his works, enter into his Rest. And this was, as all know, on the morning of the first day of the week. And hereby did he limit and determine the Day for a sacred Sabbatical Rest under the New Testament. For now was the Old Covenant utterly abolished, and therefore the Day which was the pledge of Gods and Mans Rest therein, was to be taken away, and was so accordingly, as we have shewed. As the Rest from the beginning of the World, had its foundation from the works of God, and his Rest which ensued thereon, which was determined unto the seventh Day, because that was the Day wherein God ceased from those works, which Day was continued under the legal administration of the Covenant by Moses; so the Rest of the Lord Christ the Son of God, is the foundation of our Rest, which changing the old Covenant, and the day annexed unto it, he hath limited unto the first Day of the Week, whereon he ceased from his works, and entred into his Rest. And hereby the Apostle compleats the due Analogy that is between the several Rests of God and his people, which he hath discoursed of in this Chapter. For as in the beginning