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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.
And here as was before pleaded, the Creation of the world in six days, with the Rest of God on the seventh, and that declared, gives unto all men an everlasting Law of separating one day in seven unto a Sacred Rest. For he that was made in the Image of God, was made to imitate him, and conform himself unto him; God in this Order of things, saying as it were unto him, what I have done, in your station do ye likewise. Especially was this made effectual, by his innate Apprehension that his Happiness consisted in entering into the Rest of God, the pledge whereof, it was his unquestionable Duty to embrace.
And here as was before pleaded, the Creation of the world in six dayes, with the Rest of God on the seventh, and that declared, gives unto all men an everlasting Law of separating one day in seven unto a Sacred Rest. For he that was made in the Image of God, was made to imitate him, and conform himself unto him; God in this Order of things, saying as it were unto him, what I have done, in your station do ye likewise. Especially was this made effectual, by his innate Apprehension that his Happiness consisted in entring into the Rest of God, the pledge whereof, it was his unquestionable Duty to embrace.
§. 31(4.) In this state of things, a Direction by a Revelation in the way of a Precept for the due and just exercise, of the Principles, Rules, and Documents before mentioned, is so far from impeaching the Morality of any Command or Duty, as that it completes the Law of it, with the addition of a formal obligatory Power and Efficacy. The Light and Law of Creation, so far as it was innate, or concreated with the faculties of our souls, and completing our state of Dependence on God, hath only the general nature of a Principle, inclining unto actions suitable unto it, and directing us therein. The Documents also that were originally given unto that Light from without, by the other Works and Order of the Creation, had only in their own Nature the force of an Instruction. The Will of God, and an Act of Sovereignty therein, formally constituted them a Law. But now man being made to live unto God, and under his Conduct ⟨p. 165⟩