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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 4:10

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Hebrews4:10

10 For he that is entred into his rest , he also hath ceased from his own works , as God did from his .

This proveth the foregoing Consequence of a Rest remaining, from the Nature of a true Rest, which is a resting from all Labours, which the Israelites did not in Canaan, therefore it is yet to come. For every true Believer who hath full possession of God's Rest; where God is satisfying of them in bliss, they rest in his Loves, of which the Sabbath and Canaan were but Types.

Such true Christians have ceased and rested from all their sinful Works and Labours, as Works of Callings, Miseries, Anxieties, and Sufferings of any kind, resting from them perfectly and perpetually, having finished all his Work of Evangelical Obedience through them.

They have rested not in a Parity of Rest, or Work in kind, but as God from his own in likeness of order, his Work going before Rest, and of Rest fitted for▪ Believers by him conformable to his own. Some refer these Words and the Relative he to our Lord Jesus Christ, as Head of his Body the Church of true Belielievers; and that the Parallel runs between God the Father and him in the Works of the Old and New Creation, which Works were good and compleat in their different Kinds in their Cessation from them, and their Rest in their respective Sabbaths; both Days being founded thereon; and that Believers shall be conformable to their Head, treading in his steps, in doing and suffering, and then in Rest.

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