A53694:141
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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§. 17 It remaineth that we take a view of the Opinion advanced by many Learned men in Opposition, unto what we have been pleading for. And this is, that the Command concerning the Sabbath was peculiar to the Jews alone, and that it was given unto them in the Wilderness, and not at all before. Many of the Jews as was declared, are of this Judgement, and thence call the Sabbath the Bride of their Nation, that which God gave to them as he did Eve to Adam, and to no other. Abulensis contends for this Opinion in his Comment on Exod. 16. who is followed by some Expositors of the Roman Church; and opposed by others, as Cornelius à Lapide, &c. The same Difference in Judgement is found amongst the Protestant Divines. The Dissertations of Rivet and Gomarus on this subject are well known. The Controversy being of late renewed, especially among some of the Belgic Divines, I shall take under consideration the Arguments of one of them who hath last of all defended this cause, and weigh of what importance they are; separating as much as we can, between the matter of our present Dispute, which is the Original of the Sabbath, and that of the Causes of it which we shall nextly enquire into.
§. 17 It remaineth that we take a view of the Opinion advanced by many Learned men in Opposition, unto what we have been pleading for. And this is, that the Command concerning the Sabbath was peculiar to the Jews alone, and that it was given unto them in the Wilderness, and not at all before. Many of the Jews as was declared, are of this Judgement, and thence call the Sabbath the Bride of their Nation, that which God gave to them as he did Eve to Adam, and to no other. Abulensis contends for this Opinion in his Comment on Exod. 16. who is followed by some Expositors of the Roman Church; and opposed by others, as Cornelius à Lapide, &c. The same Difference in Judgement is found amongst the Protestant Divines. The Dissertations of Rivet and Gomarus on this subject are well known. The Controversie being of late renewed, especially among some of the Belgick Divines, I shall take under consideration the Arguments of one of them who hath last of all defended this cause, and weigh of what importance they are; separating as much as we can, between the matter of our present Dispute, which is the Original of the Sabbath, and that of the Causes of it which we shall nextly enquire into.