Thesis 72.
[ 72] To say that there is a necessity of beginning the Christian Sabbath, when Christ first entered into his Rest (the first mo∣ment of his Resurrection) because the Father began the Jewish Sabbath the first moment of his Rest after his six daies Labour, is not solid nor sound: For there was a necessity for God the Father to begin his Rest at the end of his work••: otherwise a morall rule had not bin observed, viz. That a seventh p••••t of Time be sanctified; for six dayes being finished in creating the World, there was now a necessity of sanctif••ing the seventh Day wherein his rest began, least a morall rule should be exemplarily broken; but there was no such necessity here; for the whole Evening of the first day may be sanctified upon occasion of Christs Rest on some part of that day, and no morall rule broken hereby: nay there had bin a morall rule broken if the Christian Sabbath had not begun upon this Eve∣ning; because hereby God should have lost a Sabbath Day within the compasse of seven dayes as they are measured by the Sun; and this is directly crosse to the morality of the fourth command; for if a whole night be lost (as these men reckon) only Time flowes on (they say) then it must be full seven daies and a halfe before God have a Sabbath to begin: and this absurdity in the course of Time, I believe will not be found, in Iosuahs time nor in altering the beginning of the yeere in Moses time Exod. 12. for ••o morall rule was 〈◊〉〈◊〉 upon by these and such like alterations.