What wee must thinke of Gods resting the seauenth day after his sixe daies worke. CHAP. 8.
BVt whereas God rested the seauenth day frō al his workes, & sanctified it, this is not to be childishly vnderstood, as if God had taken paines; he but spake the word, and (a) by that i•…•…telligible and eternal one (not vocall nor temporal) were all things created. But Gods rest signifieth theirs that rest in God, as the gladnesse of the house signifies those y• are glad in the house, though some-thing else (and not the house) bee the cause thereof. How much more then if the beauty of the house make the inhabitants glad, so that wee may not onely call it glad vsing the continent for the contained, as, the whole Thea•…•…er applauded, when it was the men: the whole medowes bellowed, for, the Oxen, but also vsing the efficient for the effect, as a merry epistle; that is, making the readers merry. The•…•…fore the scrip∣ture affirming that God rested, meaneth the rest of all things in God, whom he by himself maketh to rest: for this the Prophet hath promised to all such as he speak∣eth * 1.1 vnto, and for whom he wrote, that after their good workes which God doth in them or by them, (if they first haue apprehended him in this life by faith) they shal in him haue rest eternal. This was prefigured in the sanctification of the Sa∣boath by Gods command in the old law, whereof, more at large in due season.