A53694:247
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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§. 34 Having given Evidence unto the Morality of the Sabbath from the Indications of it, and Directions unto it in the Light and Law of Nature, which will be found to be such, as not to be by any modest or sober man contemned; we proceed to add those other consequential confirmations of the same Truth, which God hath given us in the following Revelations of his Will about it. And First, this gives no small countenance unto an Apprehension of an unchangeable Morality in the Law of the Sabbath, that in all Estates of the Church, from the foundation of the world, under the several Covenants wherein it hath walked with God, and the various Dispensations of them, there is a fall Evidence, that in them all God hath still required of his people, the Observation of a Sacred Rest unto himself, in an Hebdomadal Revolution of Time or ⟨p. 171⟩Days. A full confirmation hereof, with its proofs and illustrations, the Reader will find at large in our Exposition of the fourth Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, so soon as God shall give an Opportunity to have it communicated unto him. At present, I shall touch only on the Heads of things.
§. 34 Having given Evidence unto the Morality of the Sabbath from the Indications of it, and Directions unto it in the Light and Law of Nature, which will be found to be such, as not to be by any modest or sober man contemned; we proceed to add those other consequential confirmations of the same Truth, which God hath given us in the following Revelations of his Will about it. And First, this gives no small countenance unto an Apprehension of an unchangeable Morality in the Law of the Sabbath, that in all Estates of the Church, from the foundation of the world, under the several Covenants wherein it hath walked with God, and the various Dispensations of them, there is a fall Evidence, that in them all God hath still required of his people, the Observation of a Sacred Rest unto himself, in an Hebdomadal Revolution of Time or ⟨p. 171⟩Dayes. A full confirmation hereof, with its proofs and illustrations, the Reader will find at large in our Exposition of the fourth Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, so soon as God shall give an Opportunity to have it communicated unto him. At present, I shall touch only on the Heads of things.