A53694:155
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 well observed, that God reproved the Profane Feasts of the Heathens; and therein unquestionably the neglect of them that were of his own Appointment. For this is the Nature and Method of Negative Precepts; and condemnatory sentences in Divine things, that they assert what is contrary to that which is forbidden, and recommend that which is opposite unto what is condemned. Thus ⟨p. 99⟩the Worship of God according to his own Institution is commanded in the prohibition of making to our selves, or finding out ways of Religious Worship and Honour of our own. For whereas it is a prime Dictate of the Law of Nature, that God is to be worshipped according to his own Appointment, which was from the Light of it acknowledged among the Heathen themselves, it is not any where asserted or intimated in the Decalogical Compendium of it, unless it be in that prohibition. It sufficeth then, that even among the Gentiles, God vindicated the Authority of his own Sabbaths, by condemning their impious Feasts and abominable Practices in them.
It is well observed, that God reproved the Profane Feasts of the Heathens; and therein unquestionably the neglect of them that were of his own Appointment. For this is the Nature and Method of Negative Precepts; and condemnatory sentences in Divine things, that they assert what is contrary to that which is forbidden, and recommend that which is opposite unto what is condemned. Thus ⟨p. 99⟩the Worship of God according to his own Institution is commanded in the prohibition of making to our selves, or finding out wayes of Religious Worship and Honour of our own. For whereas it is a prime Dictate of the Law of Nature, that God is to be worshipped according to his own Appointment, which was from the Light of it acknowledged among the Heathen themselves, it is not any where asserted or intimated in the Decalogical Compendium of it, unless it be in that prohibition. It sufficeth then, that even among the Gentiles, God vindicated the Authority of his own Sabbaths, by condemning their impious Feasts and abominable Practices in them.