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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
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The Third Exercitation. Causes of the Sabbath.
§. 1 WE have fixed the Original of the Sabbatical Rest, according to the best light we have received into these things, and confirmed the Reasons of it with the consent of mankind. The next step in our progress must be an Enquiry into its Causes. And here also we fall immediately into those Difficulties and Entanglements, which the various Apprehensions of Learned Men promoted and defended with much Diligence, have occasioned. I have no Design to oppose or ⟨p. 117⟩contend with any, although a modest Examination of the Reasons of some, will be indispensably necessary unto me. All that I crave, is the liberty of proposing my own Thoughts and Judgement in this matter, with the Reasons and Grounds of them. When that is done, I shall humbly submit the whole, to the Examination and Judgement of all that call upon the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord, and ours.
§. 1 WE have fixed the Original of the Sabbatical Rest, according to the best light we have received into these things, and confirmed the Reasons of it with the consent of mankind. The next step in our progress must be an Enquiry into its Causes. And here also we fall immediately into those Difficulties and Entanglements, which the various Apprehensions of Learned Men promoted and defended with much Diligence, have occasioned. I have no Design to oppose or ⟨p. 117⟩contend with any, although a modest Examination of the Reasons of some, will be indispensibly necessary unto me. All that I crave, is the liberty of proposing my own Thoughts and Judgement in this matter, with the Reasons and Grounds of them. When that is done, I shall humbly submit the whole, to the Examination and Judgement of all that call upon the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord, and ours.