M. Ironside confesseth, That Gods resting and sanctifying the §165Sabbath, 1are ••etaneous, and acknowledgeth the connection of them together at the same time, by the c•pulative And, and that as God actually rested, so he actually sanctified the day: but this sanctification which he means is nothing else but destination, or Gods purpose and intention to sanctify •t afterward: so that in effect this evasion amounts to thus much, viz. that God did actually purpose to sanctify it, about 2500. years after the giving of the Law, but yet did not actually sanctify it, and if this be the meaning, it is all one as if he had said in plain terms, viz. that when God is said to sanctify the Sabbath, he did not indeed sanctify it, only he purposed so to do, and although M. Primrose and himself tells us that the word sanctify signifies in the Original some time to prepare and ordain: so it may be said that the word signifies sometimes to publish and proclaim: if they say that this latter cannot be the meaning, because we read not in Scripture of any such proclamation that this should be the Sabbath, the like may be said (upon the reasons mentioned) concerning their destination of it thereunto: Again, if to sanctify the day be only to purpose and ordain to sanctify it, then the Sabbath was no more sanctified since the Creation, then ab aeterno, and before the world began, for then God did purpose that it should be sanctified: but this sanctification here spoken of seems to follow Gods ⟨p. 154⟩resting which was in time, and therefore it must be understood of another sanctification then that which seems to be before all time: again as God did not bless the Sabbath in way of destination, so neither did he sanctify it in way of destination: but he did not bless it in way of destination, for let them produce but one Scripture where the word blessed is taken in this sense, for a purpose only to bless: indeed they think they have found out this purpose to sanctify in the word sanctified. Isa. 13.3. but where will they find the like for the word blessed also? for as the day was blessed so it was sanctified, and yet I think that the Medes and Persians in Isa. 13.3.
M. Ironside confesseth, That Gods resting and sanctifying the §165Sabbath, 1are ••etaneous, and acknowledgeth the connexion of them together at the same time, by the c•pulative And, and that as God actually rested, so he actually sanctifed the day: but this sanctification which he means is nothing else but destination, or Gods purpose and intention to sanctifie •t afterward: so that in effect this evasion amounts to thus much, viz. that God did actually purpose to sanctifie it, about 2500. years after the giving of the Law, but yet did not actually sanctifie it, and if this be the meaning, it is all one as if he had said in plain terms, viz. that when God is said to sanctifie the Sabbath, he did not indeed sanctifie it, only he purposed so to do, and although M. Primrose and himself tels us that the word sanctifie signifies in the Originall some time to pr•pare and ordain: so it may be said that the word signifies sometimes to publish and proclaim: if they say that this latter cannot be the meaning, because we reade not in Scripture of any such proclamation that this should be the Sabbath, the like may be said (upon the reasons mentioned) concerning their destination of it thereunto: Again, if to sanctifie the day be only to purpose and ordain to sanctifie it, then the Sabbath was no more sanctified since the Creation, then ab aeterno, and before the world began, for then God did purpose that it should be sanctified: but this sanctification here spoken of seems to follow Gods ⟨p. 154⟩resting which was in time, and therefore it must be understood of another sanctification then that which seems to be before all time: again as God did not blesse the Sabbath in way of destination, so neither did he sanctiffe it in way of destination: but he did not blesse it in way of destination, for let them produce but one Scripture where the word blessed is taken in this sence, for a purpose only to blesse: indeed they think they have found out this purpose to sanctifie in the word sanctified. Isa. 13.3. but where will they finde the like for the word blessed also? for as the day was blessed so it was sanctified, and yet I think that the Medes and Persians in Isa. 13.3.
- 1Irons. Q. 1 cap. 4.
