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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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as the Cannibals, and those Indians, who suppose they may justly spoil all that are afraid of them. Yea some, who of late have pretended a severe inquisition into these things, seem to incline unto an Opinion, that Power and self Advantage, are the Rule of mens conversation among themselves in this world. So it was the Principle of Brennus in his time the Terror of Europe, that there was no other Law of Nature, but that the Weaker should obey the Stronger. And the Commander ⟨p. 141⟩of the Gauls who besieged the Roman Capitol, when he was on a composition to depart upon the giving to him such a weight of Gold, threw in his Sword into the Scale against it, giving no other Reason for what he did, but Vae Victis. Neither will another Rule which they had of assigning things to the Law of Nature hold firm, namely a general usage of mankind from Time immemorial. This Antigona pleads in Sophocles for her burying of Polynices.
as the Cannibals, and those Indians, who suppose they may justly spoil all that are afraid of them. Yea some, who of late have pretended a severe inquisition into these things, seem to incline unto an Opinion, that Power and self Advantage, are the Rule of mens conversation among themselves in this world. So it was the Principle of Brennus in his time the Terror of Europe, that there was no other Law of Nature, but that the Weaker should obey the Stronger. And the Commander ⟨p. 141⟩of the Gaules who besieged the Roman Capitol, when he was on a composition to depart upon the giving to him such a weight of Gold, threw in his Sword into the Scale against it, giveing no other Reason for what he did, but Vae Victis. Neither will another Rule which they had of assigning things to the Law of Nature hold firm, namely a general usage of mankind from Time immorial. This Antigona pleads in Sophocles for her burying of Polynices.
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