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h A further reaſon ſ<tting home this Counſel, was. the certain Be- ncfit of our care in Believing; for that the community of real Chriſtt- ans, Partakers and Exerciſers of the ſame precious Faith, as Paul himſelf, 2 Pef. x. 1, have the ſame Priviledge as believing Caleb and Foſhma had, Numb. 14. 24, 30. to enter into God's Reſt, initially having Peace with God now, and his Love ſhed abroad in their Hearts by the Holy Ghoſt, witneſſing their Reconciliation, Juſtifica- tion, Renovation, Adoption, fo as they rejoyce in Hope of the Glo- ry of God, Roms. 1, 2, 5. and are by Believing and Obedience making out to the attainment of the final and compleat Reſt of God in Heaven, of which they are afraid to fall ſhort. i God himſelt confirms this by his Oath, chap. 3. 11,18. Pſal. 95.11. At the ſme time that he excludeth all Unbelievers from entring in, he in- c/utively, and by conſequence ſweareth that all Believers do and ſhall enter in. & That reſt which David there ſpeaks of, was not God's Reſt on the Seventh Day from the Creation after the finiſhing of God's Works, nor the Temporal Reſt in the Land of Canaan, which the Fews had and were paſt, as theſe Hebrews might ſuggeſt, but another Reft to come, either in the World to come, chap. 2. 5. or n the Heavenly Reſt in Glory, which he takes occaſion furthur to ex- Iplain to them. { Kim ſome render as a Particle of exception al- though, as if it intended, a!though God's reſt is ſome where meant of his Reft after the finiſhinzs of the Works of Creation, yet here God ſpeaks of the Reſt of Canaan, a Type of the Heavenly one ; others, that God ſwore they ſhould not enter into his Reſt, although God's Works were done, and the reſt were ready, becauſe of their Unbe- lief. Others render it, And indeed, he ſaid and ſpake of the ſame hea- venly RefF, long before he ſpake of the Reſt of Canaan, ever. upon the finiſhing of his Works from the Foundation of the World ; which ſeems m oft acrceable to the Spirit's Deſign here. |
a For he ſpake ina certain place of the ſeventh ds on this wiſe 7, * and God did reſt the ſeventh day
from all his works 7.
m The Spirit proves, that the Reſt mentioned by David, Pſal gs. T1. is not meant the Seventh Davs Reſt, becauſe ſpoken 2000 Years after that Reſt was paſt ; but this Reſt of which he ſpeaks, was to come, though ſpoken of and known then : For Mes had ſpoken of it in a well-known place to them, Gen. 2. 1, 2, 3. and this when he wrote of the Seventh Day, which was eminently noting the Sabbath, and a Type of God's moſt excellent Reſt which he ſivare unto Belic- vers. n God doth not here reſt as if he-were weary, 1/4. 40. 28. but ceaſed from the Creation of all kind of thinzs he purpoſed. to make, but not from their Propazation andjhis Providence about them, AZ, 17.25. And this he did on the Seventh Day, which he infti- tutcd a Sabbath for his People, Gen. 2. 3. which reſting Day may type out the Eternal Reſt of Ansels and Men ; when their Work of Obe- dience is fmſked : and yet was not God's Reft ſpoken ot inthe Pſalm, nor promifed in the Goſpel to Believers, for this was yet to come ; vhereas the Seventh Days Reſt was entred into from the Foundation of the World. |
5 And in this pace again o ; If they ſhall enter into my reſt þ.
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