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

(2) That God appointed this Day, to teach us, that as he rested therein, so we should seek after Rest in him here, and look on this Day as a pledge of eternal Rest with him hereafter. So was it from the beginning. This was the End of the appointment of this Day. Now our Rest in God in general consists in two things: (1) In our Approbation of the Works of God, and the Law of our Obedience, with the Covenant of God thereon. These things are expressive of, and do represent unto us the Goodness, Righteousness, Holiness, Faithfulness, and Power of God. For these, and with respect unto them, are we to give Glory to him. What God rests in, he requires that through it, we should seek for our Rest in him. As this was the duty of man in Innocency, and under the Law, so it is ours now much more. For God hath now more eminently and gloriously unveiled and displayed the Excellencies of his Nature, and the Counsels of his Wisdom, in and by Jesus Christ, than he had done under the first Covenant. And this should work us to a greater and more holy admiration of them. For if we are to acknowledge, ⟨p. 432⟩that the Law is holy, just, and good, as our Apostle speaks, although it is now useless as to the bringing of us to Rest in God; how much more ought we to own and subscribe to the Gospel, and the declaration that God hath made of himself therein, that so it is. (2) In an actual solemn compliance with his Will, expressed in his Works, Law, and Covenant. This brings us unto present satisfaction in him, and leads us to the full enjoyment of him. This is a Day of Rest; but we cannot Rest in a Day, nor any thing that a Day can afford; only it is an help and means of bringing us to Rest in God. Without this design, all our Observation of a Sabbath is of no use nor advantage. Nothing will thence redound to the Glory of God, nor the benefit of our own souls. And this they may do well to consider who plead for the observation of the seventh Day precisely. For they do profess thereby that they seek for Rest in God, according to the tenor of the first Covenant. That they approve of, and that they look (by that profession) to be brought to Rest by; though really, and on other Principles, they do otherwise.

(2) That God appointed this Day, to teach us, that as he rested therein, so we should seek after Rest in him here, and look on this Day as a pledge of eternal Rest with him hereafter. So was it from the beginning. This was the End of the appointment of this Day. Now our Rest in God in general consists in two things: (1) In our Approbation of the Works of God, and the Law of our Obedience, with the Covenant of God thereon. These things are expressive of, and do represent unto us the Goodness, Righteousness, Holiness, Faithfulness, and Power of God. For these, and with respect unto them, are we to give Glory to him. What God rests in, he requires that through it, we should seek for our Rest in him. As this was the duty of man in Innocency, and under the Law, so it is ours now much more. For God hath now more eminently and gloriously unveiled and displayed the Excellencies of his Nature, and the Counsels of his Wisdome, in and by Jesus Christ, than he had done under the first Covenant. And this should work us to a greater and more holy admiration of them. For if we are to acknowledge,