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

§. 32 Let us now a sittle consider the Day that by some is set up, not only in competition with this, but to its utter exclusion. This is the seventh Day of the week, or the old Judaical Sabbath, which some contend that we are perpetually obliged to the observation of, by virtue of the Fourth Commandment. The Grounds whereon they proceed in their Assertion, have been already disproved, so far as the ⟨p. 399⟩Nature of our present undertaking will admit; and such evidences given unto the change of the Day, as will not easily be everted, nor removed. The consequences of the observation of the seventh Day, should the practice of it be re-assumed amongst Christians, is that which at present I shall a little enquire into, when we have summed up somewhat of what hath been spoken. (1) It was not directly, nor absolutely required in the Decalogue, but consequentially only, by way of Appropriation to the Mosaical Economy, whereunto it was then annexed. The command is to observe the Sabbath-day, and the blessing is upon the Sabbath-day; God blessed the Sabbath-day. And the mention of the seventh day in the Body of the command, fixeth the number of the Days in whose Revolution a Sabbatical Rest returns, but determines not an everlasting Order in them; seeing the Order relating to the Old Creation, is inconsistent with the Law, Reason, and Worship of the New. And if the seventh day and the Sabbath, as some pretend, are the same, the sense of the command in the enforcing part of it is, but the seventh day, is the seventh day of the Lord thy God, which is none at all. (2) The state of the Church, and the Administration of the Covenant, whereunto the observation of this day was annexed, are removed, so that it cannot continue, no more than an House can stand without a Foundation. (3) The Lord Christ who was the Lord of the Sabbath, and by assuming that Iitle to himself, manifested his Authority as to the disposal of the Day whereon a Sabbatical Rest was to be observed, hath in his own Rest from his works, limited unto us another day of Sacred Rest, called from his appointment ⟨p. 400⟩of it, the Lords-day, his Day who is the Lord of the Sabbath.

§. 32 Let us now a sittle consider the Day that by some is set up, not only in competition with this, but to its utter exclusion. This is the seventh Day of the week, or the old Judaical Sabbath, which some contend that we are perpetually obliged to the observation of, by vertue of the Fourth Commandment. The Grounds whereon they proceed in their Affertion, have been already disproved, so far as the