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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.
Exercitatio Tertia.
(1) Of the Causes of the Sabbath. (2) God the Absolute Original Cause of it. Distinction of Divine Laws into Moral and Positive. (3) Divine Laws of a mixed nature, partly Moral, partly Positive. (4) Opinion of some that the Law of the Sabbath was purely Positive. Difficulties of that Opinion. (5) Opinion of them who maintain the Observation of one Day in seven to be Moral. (6) Opinion of them who make the Observation of the seventh Day precisely to be a Moral Duty. (7) The second Opinion asserted. (8) The common Notion of the Sabbath explained. (9) The true Notion of it farther enquired into. (10) Continuation of the same Disquisition. (11) The Law of Nature wherein it consists. Opinion of the Philosophers. (12) Not comprised in the Dictates of Reason. No obliging Authority in them formally considered. (13) Uncertainty and disagreement about the Dictates of Reason. Opinions of the Magi, Zeno; Chrysippus, Plato; Archelaus, Aristippus, Carneades; Brennus, &c. (14) Things may belong to the Law of Nature not discoverable to the common Reason of the most. (15) The Law of Nature wherein it doth really consist. (16) Light given unto a septenary Sacred Rest, in the Law of Nature. (17) Farther Instances thereof. (18) The Observation of the Sabbath on the same ⟨p. 115⟩foundation with Monogamy. (19) The seventh Day an appendix of the Covenant of Works. (20) How far the whole Notion of a Weekly Sacred Rest was of the Law of Nature. (21) Natural Light obscured by the Entrance of Sin. (22) The sum of what is proposed. (23) The enquiry about the Causes of the Sabbath renewed. (24) The Command of it in what sense a Law Moral, and how evidenced so to be. (25) To Worship God in Associations and Assemblies, a Moral Duty. (26) One Day in seven required unto solemn Worship by the Law of our Creation. (27) What is necessary to warrant the Ascription of any Duty to the Law of Creation. (28) 1. That is be congruous to the known Principles of it. (29) 2. That it have a general Principle in the Light of Nature. (30) 3. That it be taught by the Works of Creation. (31) 4. Direction for its Observance, by superadded Revelation, no impeachment of it. (32) How far the same Duty may be required by a Law Moral, and by a Law Positive. (33) Vindication of the Truths laid down from an Objection. (34) Other Evidences of the Morality of this Duty (35) Required in all states of the Church.