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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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§. 35 That any Religious Observance hath been required through all Estates of the Church, having no foundation but only in Arbitrary Institution, cannot be proved by any one single Instance. The Institutions of the State of Innocency, in the matters of the Garden, with the Trees of Life, and of the knowledge of Good and Evil ceased, as all men confess, with that Estate. And although God did not immediately upon the sin of man destroy. that Garden, no nor it may be until the Flood, leaving it as a Testimony against the wickedness of that Apostate Generation, for whose sin the world was destroyed; yet was neither it, nor the Trees of it, of any use, or lawful to be used as to any significancy in the Worship of God. And the Reason is, because all Institutions, are Appendixes, and things annexed unto a Covenant; and when that Covenant ceaseth, or is broken, they are of no use or signification at all.
§. 35 That any Religious Observance hath been required through all Estates of the Church, having no foundation but only in Arbitrary Institution, cannot be proved by any one single Instance. The Institutions of the State of Innocency, in the matters of the Garden, with the Trees of Life, and of the knowledge of Good and Evil ceased, as all men confess, with that Estate. And although God did not immediately upon the sin of man destroy. that Garden, no nor it may be untill the Flood, leaving it as a Testimony against the wickedness of that Apostate Generation, for whose sin the world was destroyed; yet was neither it, nor the Trees of it, of any use, or lawful to be used as to any significancy in the Worship of God. And the Reason is, because all Institutions, are Appendixes, and things annexed unto a Covenant; and when that Covenant ceaseth, or is broken, they are of no use or signification at all.
§. 36 There was a new state of the Church erected presently after the Fall, and this also attended with sundry new Institutions, especially with that concerning Sacrifices. In this Church state some Alterations were made, and sundry additional Institutions given unto it, upon the Erection of the peculiar Church State of the Israelites in the Wilderness; ⟨p. 172⟩