u. We will first quote from
Heb. 4:4-11: "For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this
wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works." (See Gen.
2:1-3.) "And in this place again. If they shall enter into my rest." See
third verse. "Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein,
and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day, after so long a
time, as it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have
spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his
own works, as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter into that
rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."

We now wish to briefly review this quotation. In the fourth verse it is
said that God rested on the seventh day from all his works. This is
recorded in Gen. 2:1-3. This is the "place" that the seventh-day rest is
spoken of. But this day of rest is only a shadow of another day of rest.
He speaks of another day. See seventh and eighth verses of quotation; also
Psa. 95:7, 8. "To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart."
"For if Jesus had given them rest," Rotherham says, "For if unto them
Joshua had given rest." See also margin of common version. Joshua led the
children of Israel across the Jordan into the land of Canaan. This land is
also typical of a restful state in the kingdom of grace. Had Joshua given
them rest he would not have spoken of another day of rest. But they did
not enter into his rest, therefore there remaineth another day of rest to
the people of God. What day is it? It is the gospel day. The marginal
rendering of the word "rest" is the "keeping of a Sabbath." "Hence there
is being left over a sabbath keeping for the people of God."--Rotherham.
Like as God did cease from his own works and rest on the Sabbath, and as
the Jews kept it strictly as a day of rest, so we in Jesus find rest and
have ceased from our own works. It was all works under the law, but we
have ceased from such works in Jesus. Therefore the Jewish Sabbath day of
rest only typifies the blessed rest of the day of salvation by grace, and
not by works.

Under the New Testament we keep as one of the early church fathers has
said, "The day on which our