4. The Fourth Argument for Sabbath-Sanctification, is taken ab Utili, from the Benefit which redounds from a Religious Observation of the Sabbath. The Lord blessed the Seventh-Day and hallowed it: It is not only a Day of God's Benediction, God did not only appoint the Seventh-Day, but he blessed the Seventh Day. The Sabbath-Day is not only a Day of Honour to God, but a Day of Blessing to us; it is not only a Day wherein we give God Worship, but a Day wherein he gives us Grace; on this Day a Blessing drops down from Heaven. This is a great Argument ⟨p. 332⟩for the keeping the Sabbath-Day Holy: God is not benefited by it, we cannot add one Cubit to his Essential Glory; but we our selves are advantaged: The Sabbath-Day religiously observed, entails a Blessing upon our Souls, our Estate, our Posterity. As the not keeping this Day Holy brings a Curse, Jer. 17.27. God curseth a Man's Blessings, Mal. 2.2. The Bread which he eats is poisoned with a Curse: So the Conscientious Observation of the Sabbath, brings all manner of Blessings with it. These are the Arguments to induce Sabbath-Sanctification. And so I have divided the Commandment into its several Parts, and explained the Sense of it.
4. The Fourth Argument for Sabbath-Sanctification, is taken ab Vtili, from the Benefit which redounds from a Religious Observation of the Sabbath. The Lord blessed the Seventh-Day and hallowed it: It is not only a Day of God's Benediction, God did not only appoint the Seventh-Day, but he blessed the Seventh Day. The Sabbath-Day is not only a Day of Honour to God, but a Day of Blessing to us; it is not only a Day wherein we give God Worship, but a Day wherein he gives us Grace; on this Day a Blessing drops down from Heaven. This is a great Argument ⟨p. 332⟩for the keeping the Sabbath-Day Holy: God is not benefited by it, we cannot add one Cubit to his Essential Glory; but we our selves are advantaged: The Sabbath-Day religiously observed, entails a Blessing upon our Souls, our Estate, our Posterity. As the not keeping this Day Holy brings a Curse, Ier. 17.27. God curseth a Man's Blessings, Mal. 2.2. The Bread which he eats is poysoned with a Curse: So the Conscientious Observation of the Sabbath, brings all manner of Blessings with it. These are the Arguments to induce Sabbath-Sanctification. And so I have divided the Commandment into its several Parts, and explained the Sence of it.
