Thesis 173.
If Adams fall was before the Sabbath (as Mr. Broad and some [ 173] others otherwise orthodox in this point of the Sabbath, con∣ceive, by too much inconsiderate wresting of Psal. 49.12. Iohn 8.44.) yet it will not hence follow that he had no such command in innocency to observe the Sabbath before his fall: For whether man had fallen or no, yet the thing it selfe speaks that God was determined to work six dayes in making the world, and to rest and so to sanctifie the seventh, that hee might therein be exemplary to man; and consequently God would have given this law, and it should have been a rule to him whether he fell or no; and indeed the seventh daies rest depends no more upon mans fall, then the six daies worke of creation, which we see were all finished before the fall; the seventh daies holinesse being more sutable to that state then the six daies labour, to which we see he was appointed, if Gods example had any force to direct and lead him there∣unto. Againe, if the law of labour was writ upon his heart before he was actually called forth to labour, viz. To dresse and keep the garden, Gen. 2.15. why might not also the law of holy rest be revealed unto him by God, and so answera∣bly writ upon his heart before he fell, or came actually to rest upon the Sabbath? Little of Adams universall obedience to the Law of workes, was as yet actuall while he remained innocent; and yet all his obedience in time to come was writ upon his heart the first moment of his creation in the Image of God, as it were aforehand, and why might not thi•• Law of the Sabbath be writ so aforehand?* 1.1 And therefore M. Broad need not trouble himself or others in enquiring whether God sanctified the Sabbath before or after the first seventh day wherein God rested; and if before it, how Adam could know of the Sabbath before Gods compleat rest upon the first