A53694:161
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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(5.) That an uncircumcised stranger was liable to punishment if he observed the Sabbath, is a foolish imagination, not inferior unto that of some others of them, who affirm that all the Gentiles shall keep the Sabbath, one day in seven in Hell.
(5.) That an uncircumcised stranger was liable to punishment if he observed the Sabbath, is a foolish imagination, not inferiour unto that of some others of them, who affirm that all the Gentiles shall keep the Sabbath, one day in seven in Hell.
6. For the Distinction which they have invented, that a Proselyte of the Gate might work for himself, but not for his Master, it is one of the many whereby they make void the Law of God through their Traditions. Those who of old amongst them feared God, knowing their Duty to instruct their Households or Families, that is, their Children and Servants, in the Ways and Worship of God, walked by another Rule.
6. For the Distinction which they have invented, that a Proselyte of the Gate might work for himself, but not for his Master, it is one of the many whereby they make void the Law of God through their Traditions. Those who of old amongst them feared God, knowing their Duty to instruct their Housholds or Families, that is, their Children and Servants, in the Wayes and Worship of God, walked by another Rule.
§. 21 It is farther pleaded by the same Author, p. 53. That the Gentiles knew nothing of this Sabbatical Feast, but that when it came to their knowledge they ⟨p. 102⟩derided and exploded it as a particular Superstition of the Jews. To this purpose many Instances out of the Historians and Poets, who wrote in the time of the first Roman Emperors, are collected by Selden, which we are again directed unto. Now it could not be, but that if it had been originally appointed unto all mankind, that they should have been such strangers unto it. But this matter hath been discoursed before. And we have showed that sundry of the first Writers of the Christian Church were otherwise minded; for they judged and proved, that there was a Notion at least of the seventh Days Sacred Rest, diffused throughout the world. And they lived nearer the times of the Gentiles Practice, than those by whom their Judgement and Testimony are so peremptorily rejected. It is not unlikely, but that they might be mistaken in some of the Testimonies whereby they confirm their Observation; yet this hinders not, but that the Observation it self may be true, and sufficiently confirmed by other Instances which they make use of.