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

be taken from us, I doubt we shall enjoy that spiritual rest from sin, in far less measure under the Gospel, then the Jews did under the law. Yet neither they nor we shall enjoy it entirely, till we are brought to our rest in glory. Certainly the conscionable observation of the Sabbath ever was, and is a principal means to draw us to that spiritual rest from sin, and eternal rest in glory. If Saint Paul by taxing the Jewish observation of days & times, doth therewithal tax the observation of the Lords day in place of the Jewish: then let us turn Anabaptists, and Socinians, and utterly renounce the observation of the Lords day, as well as of the Jewish Sabbath. The same Apostle Col. 2. speaks not of the Sabbath, but of Sabbaths; and there were days enough so called amongst the Jews, and that by the Lord both of days and years, besides the weekly Sabbath; yet we are content the rest of the seventh may be ranged amongst other Sabbaths, as prefiguring Christs rest that day in the grave. But to speak of the Sabbath hand-over-head without distinction we love not; nor see I any cause, why men should be in love therewith unless withal they love confusion: and to fish in troubled waters, is many times an advantage to serve turns. Let the rest of the seventh be in Gods name crucified with Christ upon the cross, or at least be buried with him in his grave, and so as never to rise with him; but let our Christian Sabbath (our Saviour speaks of Matth. 24.20.) take life together with our Saviours resurrection that brought with it a new creation, a new world, and there withal a new Sabbath, as Doctor Andrewes Bishop of Winchester delivers it in his Star Chamber speech in the case of Trask. As reason tells us that there must be some certain appointed time for Gods public Service; so as good reason tells us, we Christians cannot without sin, allow unto God for ⟨p. 219⟩his public service a worse proportion of time under the Gospel, then the Jews were bound to allow unto him under the Law. God himself never having deserved so much at the hands of man as under the Gospel; and there never being greater necessity of observing a Sabbath, then under the Gospel, the way of truth and holiness being so beset, and with such encumbrances as the like were never known to the world before;

be taken from us, I doubt wee shall enjoy that spirituall rest from sinne, in farre lesse measure under the Gospell, then the Jewes did under the law. Yet neither they nor we shall enjoy it intirely, till we are brought to our rest in glory. Certainely the conscionable observation of the Sabbath ever was, and is a principall meanes to draw us to that spirituall rest from sin, and eternall rest in glory. If Saint Paul by taxing the Jewish observation of dayes & times, doth therewithall tax the observation of the Lords day in place of the Jewish: then let us turne Anabaptists, and Socinians, and utterly renounce the observation of the Lords day, as well as of the Jewish Sabbath. The same Apostle