Sabbath and Contemplation

...the use and end of the Sabbath, which God himself sanctified, and upon it rested, to contemplate his works of creation; and this to be taken as an example unto Adam, how his mind upon this day was to be up, even in the contemplation of the works of God. And that that was the principal duty of the Sabbath...

 

Thomas Goodwin, Of the Creatures and the Condition of Their State by Creation, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, ed. James Nichol, vol. 4 (London;Dublin: James Nisbet & W. Robertson, 1863), 121-122