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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.
Secondly, Another End of the Original Sabbatical Rest was, that it might be a pledge unto man of his Rest in and with God. For in and by the Law of his Creation, man had an End, of Rest, proposed unto him, and that in God. This he was to be directed unto, and encouraged to look after. Herein God by his Works and Rest had instructed him. And by giving him the Sabbath, as he gave him a Pledge thereof, so he required of him, his Approbation of the Covenant Way of attaining it, whereof afterwards. Hence Psal. 92. whose Title is, [Greek or Hebrew], ⟨p. 131⟩A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day, which some of the Jews ascribe unto Adam, as it principally consists in contemplations of the Works of God, with holy Admirations of his Greatness and Power manifested in them, with praises unto him on their Account; so it expresseth the Destruction of ungodly sinners, and the salvation of the Righteous, whereof in that days Rest they had a pledge. And this belonged unto that state of man wherein he was created, namely, that he should have a pledge of Eternal Rest. Neither could his Duty and capacity be otherwise answered or esteemed reasonable. His Duty which was working in Moral Obedience, had a natural Relation unto a Reward. And his Capacity was such, as could not be satisfied, nor himself attain absolute Rest, but in the Enjoyment of God. A pledge hereof therefore belonged unto his condition.
Secondly, Another End of the Original Sabbatical Rest was, that it might be a pledge unto man of his Rest in and with God. For in and by the Law of his Creation, man had an End, of Rest, proposed unto him, and that in God. This he was to be directed unto, and incouraged to look after. Herein God by his Works and Rest had instructed him. And by giving him the Sabbath, as he gave him a Pledge thereof, so he required of him, his Approbation of the Covenant Way of attaining it, whereof afterwards. Hence Psal. 92. whose Title is, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ⟨p. 131⟩A Psalm, a Song for the Sabbath Day, which some of the Jews ascribe unto Adam, as it principally consists in contemplations of the Works of God, with holy Admirations of his Greatness and Power manifested in them, with praises unto him on their Account; so it expresseth the Destruction of ungodly sinners, and the salvation of the Righteous, whereof in that dayes Rest they had a pledge. And this belonged unto that state of man wherein he was created, namely, that he should have a pledge of Eternal Rest. Neither could his Duty and capacity be otherwise answered or esteemed reasonable. His Duty which was working in Moral Obedience, had a natural Relation unto a Reward. And his Capacity was such, as could not be satisfied, nor himself attain absolute Rest, but in the Enjoyment of God. A pledge hereof therefore belonged unto his condition.