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

The other Word [Greek or Hebrew] and sanctified it, is farther instructive in the intention of God, and is also exegetical of the former. Suppose still, as the Text will not allow us to do otherwise, that the Day is the Object of this Sanctification, and it is not possible to assign any other sense of the Words, but that God ••t apart by his Institution that Day to be the Day of his Worship, to be spent in a Sacred Rest unto himself; And this is declared to be the intendment of the Word in the Decalogue, where it is used again to the same purpose: For none ever doubted but that the meaning of [Greek or Hebrew] and he sanctified it, therein, is any other, but that by his Institution and command he set it apart for a Day of holy Rest: And this signification of that Word is not only most common, but solely to be admitted in the Old Testament, if Cogent Reason be not given to the contrary; as where it denotes a Dedication and separation to Civil uses, and not to Sacred, as it sometimes doth, still retaining its general nature of separation: And therefore I will not deny but that these two words may signify the same thing, the one being merely exegetical of the other; He blessed it, by sanctifying of it: as Numb. 7. 1. [Greek or Hebrew]; And he anointed them and sanctified them: that is, he sanctified them by anointing them; or by their Unction set them apart unto an Holy Use, which is the Instance of ⟨p. 62⟩Abarbinel on this place: This then is that which is affirmed by Moses. On the seventh Day after he had finished his work, God rested or ceased from working, and thereon, blessed and sanctified the seventh Day, or set it apart unto holy uses for their Observance, by whom he was to be worshipped in this world, and whom he had newly made for that Purpose. God then sanctified this Day, Not that he kept it holy himself, which in no sense the Divine Nature is capable of; nor that he purified it, and made it inherently holy, which the nature of the Day is incapable of; nor that he celebrated that which in it self was holy, as we sanctify his name, which is the act of an inferior towards a superior; but that he set it apart to sacred use authoritatively; requiring us to sanctify it in that use obedientially.

The other Word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and sanctified it, is farther instructive in the intention of God, and is also exegetical of the former. Suppose still, as the Text will not allow us to do otherwise, that the Day is the Object of this Sanctification, and it is not possible to assign any other sense of the Words, but that God t apart by his Institution that Day to be the Day of his Worship, to be spent in a Sacred Rest unto himself; And this is declared to be the intendment of the Word in the Decalogue, where it is used again to the same purpose: For none ever doubted but that the meaning of and he sanctified it, therein, is any other, but that by his Institution and command he set it apart for a Day of holy Rest: And this signification of that Word is not only most common, but solely to be admitted in the Old Testament, if Cogent Reason be not given to the contrary; as where it denotes a Dedication and separation to Civil uses, and not to Sacred, as it sometimes doth, still retaining its general nature of separation: And therefore I will not deny but that these two words may signifie the same thing, the one being meerly exegetical of the other; He blessed it, by sanctifying of it: as