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

Dies igitur & tempus sanctum erat & agnoseebatur, non per se, sed per sanctitatem hominis, qui in tempore see sanctificat, & cogitations, & studia, & actiones suas Deo, qui sanctus est, vindicat & consecrat. I understand not how God can be said to bless the seventh Day, because man who was created the sixth Day was made for the Glory of his Name. For all things, as well as man, were made for the Glory of God. He made all things for himself, Prov. 16. 4. And they all declare his glory, Psal. 19. Nor is it said, that God rested on the seventh Day from making of man, but from all the works that he had made. Grant man who was last made, to have been the most eminent part of the visible Creation, and most capable of immediate giving glory to God yet it is plainly said that the Rest of God respected all the works that he had made, which is twice repeated; besides that the works themselves are summed up into the making of the Heavens and Earth and all the Host of them. And wherein doth this include the blessing of the seventh Day? it may be better applied to the first, wherein man was made; for on the seventh God did no more make man, than he did the Sun and Moon, which were made on the fourth. Nor is there here any Distinction supposed between Gods resting on the seventh Day, and his blessing of it, which yet are plainly distinguished in the Text. To say he blessed and sanctified it, merely by resting on it, is evidently to confound the things that are not only distinctly proposed in the Text, but so as that one ⟨p. 59⟩is laid down as the cause of the other. For because God rested on the seventh Day, therefore he blessed it. Nor is the Sanctification of the Day any better expressed. God, saith he, had appointed on that day and always to sanctify himself in man as the Crown and Glory of his work. I wish this Learned Man had more clearly expressed himself. What Act of God is it, that can be here intended? It must be the Purpose of his Will. This therefore is given us as the sense of this place. God sanctified the seventh Day, that is, God purposed from Eternity to sanctify himself always in man, whom on the sixth Day he would create for his Glory. These things are so forced, as that they scarcely afford a tolerable sense.

Dies igitur & tempus sanctum erat & agnoseebatur, non per se, sed per sanctitatem hominis, qui in tempore se sanctificat, & cogitationes, & studia, & actiones suas Deo, qui sanctus est, vindicat & consecrat. I understand not how God can be said to bless the seventh Day, because man who was created the sixth Day was made for the Glory of his Name. For all things, as well as man, were made for the Glory of God. He made all things for himself,