The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

Man could not possibly have known how many days God was creating the world, so to know what day he rested, that they might conform unto him in their rest; unless God had revealed it unto them; but supposing God had revealed it, and withal had called it his holy day, and it were known unto them that one day in the week must be set apart as Gods holy Day, in this case I appeal to every Christian conscience whether this were not sufficient to conclude that surely the day of the Lords rest, being his holy Day, ought to be the day of our rest, and our holy day. Now, thus the case stands with us Christians; we know what day our Saviour rose, having finished the work of mans Redemption; we know the Jews Sabbath is abrogated; we know the proportion of one day in seven remains still to be consecrated as an holy day to the Lord; we know the Lord prescribed to the Jews for their Sabbath his resting day from the creation; which is called his holy day: And in like manner we know, that under the Gospel, the first day of the week being the day of our Saviours resurrection, is called by Saint John the Lords Day; as for Easter and Pentecost, the ⟨p. 119⟩case is nothing like; those festivals being not of single days, but of whole weeks, once in a year, yet this proportion we find between them and the weekly Sabbath. There are in a year seven times seven weeks, and a fraction less than half a seven; so that the memory of the creation was seven times in a year celebrated more than the memory either of their deliverance out of Egypt, or, of their reaping the fruits of the land of Canaan, the one far surmounting the other, yet their Easter began the day of the year whereon they came out of Egypt. And Doctor Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Thes. 41. de Sabbat. professeth, that God sets out the day by the work he doth on the day, the work I say done, doth difference a day from a day: and Thes. 43. Now then, when God doth any remarkable work, thou will he be honoured with a commemoration day for that work. If the work concern the whole, by the whole Church; and by a part, if it concern a part: and Thes. 44. And his Will is understood often by his Precept; but when we have not that, the practice doth guide the Church, 45. This is a Ca holique rule, observed in the institution of all sacred feasts, both Divine and Humane, 46.

Man could not possibly have knowne how many dayes God was creating the world, so to know what day he rested, that they might conforme unto him in their rest; unlesse God had revealed it unto them; but supposing God had revealed it, and withall had called it his holy day, and it were knowne unto them that one day in the weeke must be set apart as Gods holy Day, in this case I appeal to every Christian conscience whether this were not sufficient to conclude that surely the day of the Lords rest, being his holy Day, ought to be the day of our rest, and our holy day. Now, thus the case stands with us Christians; we know what day our Saviour rose, having finished the worke of mans Redemption; we know the Jewes Sabbath is abrogated; we know the proportion of one day in seven remaines still to be consecrated as an holy day to the Lord; we know the Lord prescribed to the Jewes for their Sabbath his resting day from the creation; which is called his holy day: And in like manner we know, that under the Gospel, the first day of the weeke being the day of our Saviours resurrection, is called by Saint Iohn the Lords Day; as for Easter and Pentecost, the