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

yet take the seventh Day precisely as the seventh Day, and it is an Old Testament arbitrary institution, which falls under no promise of spiritual assistance in, or unto the observation of it. Under the New Testament we have found a new Creation, a new Law of Creation, a new Covenant, the Rest of Christ in that Work, Law, and Covenant, the limiting of a Day of Rest unto us, on the Day wherein he entered into his Rest, a new Name given unto this Day, with respect unto his Authority ⟨p. 394⟩by whom it was appointed, and an observation of it by all the Churches, so that we may say of it, This is the Day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it, as Psal. 118. 24.

yet take the seventh Day preeisely as the seventh Day, and it is an Old Testament arbitrary institution, which falls under no promise of spiritual assistance in, or unto the observation of it. Under the New Testament we have found a new Creation, a new Law of Creation, a new Covenant, the Rest of Christ in that Work, Law, and Covenant, the limiting of a Day of Rest unto us, on the Day wherein he entred into his Rest, a new Name given unto this Day, with respect unto his Authority ⟨p. 394⟩by whom it was appointed, and an observation of it by all the Churches, so that we may say of it, This is the Day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoyce and be glad in it, as Psal. 118. 24.

§. 30 These foundations being laid, I shall yet by some important considerations, if I mistake not, give some farther evidence unto the necessity of the Religious observation of the first Day of the Week, in opposition unto the Day of the Law, by some contended for. It is therefore, first, acknowledged, that the observation of some certain Day, in and for the solemn public Worship of God, is of indispensable necessity They are beneath our consideration by whom this is denied. Most acknowledge it to be a Dictate of the Law of Nature, and the Nature of these things doth require it. We have proved also, that there is such a Determination of this Time, unto one Day in seven, as it must needs be the highest Impudence in any Person, Persons or Churches, to attempt any alteration herein. And notwithstanding the pretences of some about their liberty, none yet have been so hardy from the foundation of the World, as practically to determine a Day for the Worship of God, in any other Revolution of Days or Times, to the neglect and exclusion of one Day in seven. Yea the Light hereof is such, and the use of it so great, that those who have taken up with the worst of Superstitions instead of Religion, as the Mahometans, yet complying in general with the performance of a solemn Worship to God, have found it necessary to fix on one certain Day in the Hebdomadal Revolution for that purpose. And indeed partly from the Appointment of God, partly