A53694:217
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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This (Right) arse not to day nor yesterday, but was in force ever of old, nor doth any man know from whence it arose. For all Nations from beyond the Records of the Original of Things, had consented into Practices directly contrary to the Light of Nature; as is now acknowledged. And hence were all the Disputes of old, about the Nature, Bounds and Ends of Good and Evil, Duty and Vice, Honest and Filthy, Just and Unjust, that could never be determined. This Plato observing affirms in his Phaedo, that if any one name either Silver or Iron presently all men agree, what it is that is intended; but if they speak of that which is just and good, presently we are at variance with others, and among our selves. So great uncertainty is there in humane Reason, under its best natural improvements, in its Judgement what doth or doth not belong to the Principles and Condition of our Nature; so far is it from being comprehensive of the whole Law thereof.
This (Right) ar se not to day nor yesterday, but was in force ever of old, nor doth any man know from whence it arose. For all Nations from beyond the Records of the Original of Things, had consented into Practices directly contrary to the Light of Nature; as is now acknowledged. And hence were all the Disputes of old, about the Nature, Bounds and Ends of Good and Evil, Duty and Vice, Honest and Filthy, Just and Unjust, that could never be determined. This Plato observing affirms in his Phaedo, that if any one name either Silver or Iron presently all men agree, what it is that is intended; but if they speak of that which is just and good, presently we are at variance with others, and among our selves. So great uncertainty is there in humane Reason, under its best natural improvements, in its Judgement what doth or doth not belong to the Principles and Condition of our Nature; so far is it from being comprehensive of the whole Law thereof.