A53694:172
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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§. 24 We may add hereunto, that for the most part the conversation of the Jews amongst them was wicked and provoking. They were a people that had for many Generations been harassed and oppressed, by all the principal Empires in the world; this caused them to hate them, and to have their minds always possessed with revengeful thoughts. When our Apostle affirmed of them, that they pleased not God, and were contrary to all men; 1 Thess. 2. 15. he intends not their opposition to the Gospel, and the Preachers of it, which he had before expressed; but that envious contrariety unto mankind in general, which they were possessed with. And this evil frame, the Nations ascribed to their Law it self. Moses novos ritus contrariosque caeteris mortalibus & gentibus indidit, saith Tacitus. But this most falsely; no Law of man ever taught that benignity, kindness, and general usefulness in the world, as theirs did. The people themselves being grown wicked and corrupt, pleased not God, and were contrary to all men. Hence they were looked on as such, who observed not so much as the Law of Nature towards any but themselves; as resolving
§. 24 We may add hereunto, that for the most part the conversation of the Jews amongst them was wicked and provoking. They were a people that had for many Generations been harrased and oppressed, by all the principal Empires in the world; this caused them to hate them, and to have their minds alwayes possessed with revengeful thoughts. When our Apostle affirmed of them, that they pleased not God, and were contrary to all men; 1 Thess. 2. 15. he intends not their opposition to the Gospel, and the Preachers of it, which he had before expressed; but that envious contrariety unto mankind in general, which they were possessed with. And this evil frame, the Nations ascribed to their Law it self. Moses novos ritus contrariosque caeteris mortalibus & gentibus indidit, saith Tacitus. But this most falsly; no Law of man ever taught that benignity, kindness, and general usefulness in the world, as theirs did. The people themselves being grown wicked and corrupt, pleased not God, and were contrary to all men. Hence they were looked on as such, who observed not so much as the Law of Nature towards any but themselves; as resolving