Work upon the ark. Meditations upon the ark as a type of the church

OBSERVATION. XII.

In the Church of God, a Sabbath will be kept Holy to the Lord. It is a Remarkable passage in Gen. 8.8, 10, 12. Noah sent forth a Dove; and he staid yet other Seven Days; and again he sent forth the Dove; and he staid yet other Seven Days, and sent forth the Dove. Why did Noah keep a period of Seven Days in this matter? Learned Men conceive that he had Respect unto a Sabbath in •t; and a Sabbath too, say some Critical Enquirers, on that very Day of the Week which we count the First. It is thought, •hat on the morrow after the Sabbath he still sent out the Dove. And why not? We are assured in Gen. 2.3. That from the very Creation of the Wo•ld, God sanctified the Seventh Day; that is, He Commanded it to be separated and Dedicated unto Sacred Services among the Children of Men. To say, That at the Creation, God Sanctified the Seventh Day, by ordering that it should be •ept Holy by a little people four & twenty •undred years afterward, is an unaccountable Anticipation, and a cruel Hardship on the Text. No, 'Tis but R••••nable to think, ⟨p. 40⟩That the Patriarchs ▪ long before Israel w•s Encamped at Marah, did use to keep an Holy Sabbath, in the Hebdomadal Revolution. Hence the Apostle at