A53694:244
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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§. 33 These things by many are denied. They will not grant, that there is any Rule or Direction in the Law of Creation for a Sacred Rest unto God, on one day in seven. For they say, that no such can be made to appear with that Evidence, which the common Anticipations of the minds of men, are accompanied withal. But this Objection hath been sufficiently obviated, by a due stating of the Law of Nature, which is not to be confined unto inbred natural Anticipations only. And it is certain also, that some say the very same concerning the Being of God himself, of the Difference between Good and Evil; namely, that there are no manifest and steadfast Presumptions of them in the mind of man, which yet hinders not, but that the Acknowledgement of a Divine Being, as also the Difference that is between Good and Evil, is natural, and inseparable from the faculties of our souls. Hence Julian in Cyril. lib. 5. con. Jul. joins the first and fourth Precept together: saith he, [Greek or Hebrew]. ⟨p. 168⟩He says, (and swears) that all Nations judged that the Commandments (of the Decalogue) ought to be kept, excepting the first forbidding other Gods, and the other of remembering the Sabbath to keep it, the One may be rejected as well as the other.
§. 33 These things by many are denyed. They will not grant, that there is any Rule or Direction in the Law of Creation for a Sacred Rest unto God, on one day in seven. For they say, that no such can be made to appear with that Evidence, which the common Anticipations of the minds of men, are accompanied withal. But this Objection hath been sufficiently obviated, by a due stating of the Law of Nature, which is not to be confined unto inbred natural Anticipations only. And it is certain also, that some say the very same concerning the Being of God himself, of the Difference between Good and Evil; namely, that there are no manifest and stedfast Presumptions of them in the mind of man, which yet hinders not, but that the Acknowledgement of a Divine Being, as also the Difference that is between Good and Evil, is natural, and inseparable from the faculties of our souls. Hence Julian in Cyril. lib. 5. con. Jul. joyns the first and fourth Precept together: saith he, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. ⟨p. 168⟩He sayes, (and swears) that all Nations judged that the Commandments (of the Decalogue) ought to be kept, excepting the first forbidding other Gods, and the other of remembring the Sabbath to keep it, the One may be rejected as well as the other.