A53694:136
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the world, the morality of the Fourth commandment with the change of the Seventh day are enquired into : together with an assertion of the divine institution of the Lord's Day, and practical directions for its due observation / by John Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1671
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It is of some consideration in this cause, and is usually urged to this purpose; that Noah observed the septenary Revolution of Days, in sending forth the Dove out of the Ark; Gen. 8. 10, 12. That this was done casually is not to be imagined. Nor can any Reason be given why, notwithstanding the disappointment he met with, the first and second time, he should still abide seven days before he sent again, if you consider only the natural condition of the Flood, or the ⟨p. 83⟩Waters in their abatement. A Revolution of Days, and that upon a sacred account, was doubtless attended unto by him. And I should suppose that he still sent out the Dove the next day after the Sabbath, to see as it were, whether God had returned again to Rest in the works of his hands. And Gen. 29. 27. a Week is spoken of as a known account of Days or Time. Fulfil her Week; that is, not a Week of years, as he had done for Rachel; but fulfil a Week of Days in the Festivals of his marriage with Leah. For [Greek or Hebrew] can have no other sense, seeing [Greek or Hebrew] of the Feminine Gender relates unto Leah, whose Nuptials were to be celebrated, and not to [Greek or Hebrew] a Week, which is of the Masculine. And it was the custom in those ancient times of the world, to continue the celebration of a Marriage Feast for seven Days, or a Week: as Judg. 14. 12, 15, 17. The seven days of the Feast, is spoken of as a thing commonly known and in vulgar use.
It is of some consideration in this cause, and is usually urged to this purpose; that Noah observed the septenary Revolution of Dayes, in sending forth the Dove out of the Ark; Gen. 8. 10, 12. That this was done casually is not to be imagined. Nor can any Reason be given why, notwithstanding the disappointment he met with, the first and second time, he should still abide seven dayes before he sent again, if you consider only the natural condition of the Flood, or the ⟨p. 83⟩Waters in their abatement. A Revolution of Dayes, and that upon a sacred account, was doubtless attended unto by him. And I should suppose that he still sent out the Dove the next day after the Sabbath, to see as it were, whether God had returned again to Rest in the works of his hands. And