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

First, The dreadful giving and promulgation of it on Mount Sinai, which was not intended merely to strike a terror into that Generation in the wilderness, but through all Ages, during that Dispensation, to influence and awe the hearts of the People into a dread and terror of it. Hence the Apostle tells us that Mount Sinai gendered unto bondage, Gal. 4. 24. ⟨p. 426⟩that is, the Law as given thereon, brought the People into a spiritually servile state, wherein although secretly on the account of the Ends of the Covenant they were children and heirs, yet they differed nothing from servants, Chap. 4. 1, 3.

First, The dreadfull giving and promulgation of it on Mount Sinai, which was not intended meerly to strike a terror into that Generation in the wilderness, but through all Ages, during that Dispensation, to influence and awe the hearts of the People into a dread and terror of it. Hence the Apostle tells us that Mount Sinai gendered unto bondage, Gal. 4. 24. ⟨p. 426⟩that is, the Law as given thereon, brought the People into a spiritually servile state, wherein although secretly on the account of the Ends of the Covenant they were children and heirs, yet they differed nothing from servants, Chap. 4. 1, 3.

Secondly, The renovation and reinforcement of the old Covenant, with the promises and threatenings of it, which was to be upon them during the continuance of that state and condition. And although the Law had a new Use and End now given unto it, yet they were so in the dark, and the proposal of them attended with so great an obscurity, that they could not clearly look into the comfort and liberty finally intended therein. For the Law made nothing perfect; and what was of Grace in the administration of it, was so veiled with Types, Ceremonies, and shadows, that they could not see into the End of the things that were to be done away,