A53694:142
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 18 The Design is to prove that the Sabbath was first given to the Jews and that in the Wilderness. And to this purpose, first having repeated the words of the fourth Commandment, he adds, Quis vero dicere audebit, verba haec convenire in hominem ab initio Creationis, sicut hic statuitur? (that is by his Adversary) an illi incumbebat opus & quidem servile, idque per sex dies? an ipsi erant servi & ancillae? an jumenta requietis indigentia? an peregrini inter portas ejus? quis non videt ad solum Israelitarum statum in toto illo praecepto respici? Ita Calvinus in Gen. 2. Postea in lege novum de Sabbato praeceptum datum est, quod Judaeis & quidem ad tempus peculiare foret; fuit enim legalis ceremonia, spiritualem quietem adumbrans, cujus in Christo apparuit veritas. Quo nihil efficacius dici poterat.
Hanc vero praecepti mentem esse patet ex aliis Testimoniis Scripturae apertissime, in quibus Judaeis tantum datum esse Sabbatum constanter docetur. Exod. 16. 29. Videte quod Jehovah dedit vobis illud Sabbatum; idcirco dat vobis cibum bidui. Et Ezek. 20. 12. Sabbata dedi eis, ut essent signum inter me & ipsos ad sciendum me Jehovam sanctificare ipsos. Denique Neh. 9. 14. Sabbatum quoque sanctum notum fecisti eis; quum praecepta statutaque & leges praeciperes eis per Mosem servum tuum. In quibus locis uniformiter docetur tanta cum emphasi, per Mosem deum dedisse Judaeis Sabbatum, non ergo aliis gentibus datum fuit; aut ipsis etiam per Majores ipsorum ante illud tempus ab origine Mundi. Disquisit. cap. 2. p. 50.
An. It is by all confessed, that the Command of the Sabbath in the Renewal of it in the Wilderness, was accommodated unto the Pedagogical State of