The Gofpel of the Sabbaths. 444.5 reft from the Works of his weekly Calling, in imitation ofGod, and in remembrance of the great Work of the Creation of the World. But tho' the Sabbath be partly Moral, and it mutt needs be fo, fee- ing it is one of the Ten Commandments, otherwife there would be but nine moral Commands ; and the original Ground of a Sabbath is not a ceremonial Inftitution, nor theSin and Fall of Man, but a particular, Calling ; and therefore Adam in his innocent and finlefs Eftate needed a Sabbath ; and God far, &ified this Day before the Fall of Man, Gen. I, 2, 3. Yet the Yewifh Sabbath was in fome. Refpeis Ceremonial, and therefore it is abrogated, and the Chriftian Sabbath fubftituted iníteada thereof : And therefore the Holy Ghoft here in the Text reckons the Jewith Sabbaths in the fame Rank with their NewMoons and yearly+ Feftivals amongft the . Shadows of good things to come ; for it had fame typical Refpe&s and Ufes, force ceremonial Rites and Obfervati- ons annexed to it. I (hall inftance in two things wherein it is typical. r. For the Commemoration of their typical Redemptionand Deliverance out ofEgypt. Therefore though the fourth Commandment, as it is re- corded in Exod. chap. zo. is grounded upon the Labour of a particular, Calling, and uponGod's refting from the Work of Creation upon the.: feventh Day ; ( which are moral Grounds) yet in the fourth Com- mandment, as it is repeated Deut. 5. one ofthere moral Confiderations is omitted, viz. the Work of Creation ; - and there is a typical Cone deration fubftituted inftead thereof, viz. their Deliverance out of Egypt,: Deut. 5. 15. 2. As there was in the Jewith Sabbath a Commemoration of that typical Redemption out of Egypt : So fecondly, it was a typical Prefi- guration of the Refi of the BodyofYefus Cbrifi in the Grave that whole Day ; which was indeed the only whole Day of his Refting or Ceffation from the A&ions ofa bodily Life : For he was in the Grave only force fmall, part ofthe fixth Day, and of the firft Day ; but he.refted the whole Jewifh Sabbath. So then, as they had other legal Days and Times that pointed them to other things about the Mef:ïah : So theSabbath . points to his refting in the Grave, and he did not only refit in ,thehurn- Ming of himfelf under the Guilt of our Sins, but in his Refurre&ion, from the dead. The day of his Refurre&ion was the Day of his en- tring into his State of Rett from his Sufferings ; but on. the.Sabbath he refted from the A&ions of his bodily Life : Therefore the feventh Day Sabbath is abrogated, and the Lord hath fubftituted the firft Dayof the Week ; for the Sabbath is Moral. And there is a Ground too for the changing of the Day : That there fhould be one Day in. [even to . attend on the Worfhip of God, this is moral and perpetual: That it fhould
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