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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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§. 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⟩which yet hindered not, but that it was in General the same Church State, and the same Dispensation of the Covenant, that the people of God, before and after the giving of the Law, enjoyed and lived under. Hence it was, that sundry Institutions of Worship were equally in force both before and after the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai; as is evident in Sacrifices, and some other Instances may be given. But now when the State of the Church, and the Dispensation of the Covenant, came to be wholly altered, as they were by the Gospel, not any one of the old Institutions was continued, or to be continued, but they were all abolished and taken away. Nothing at all was traduced over from the Old Church States, neither from that in Innocency, nor from that which ensued on the Fall in all its variations, with any Obligatory Power, but what was founded in the Law of Nature, and had its force from thence. We may then confidently assert, that what God requireth equally in all Estates of the Church, that is Moral, and of an everlasting Obligation unto us, and all men. And this is the State of matters with the Sabbath, and the Law thereof.
§. 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⟩which yet hindred not, but that it was in General the same Church State, and the same Dispensation of the Covenant, that the people of God, before and after the giving of the Law, enjoyed and lived under. Hence it was, that sundry Institutions of Worship were equally in force both before and after the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai; as is evident in Sacrifices, and some other Instances may be given. But now when the State of the Church, and the Dispensation of the Covenant, came to be wholly altered, as they were by the Gospel, not any one of the old Institutions was continued, or to be continued, but they were all abolished and taken away. Nothing at all was traduced over from the Old Church States, neither from that in Innocency, nor from that which ensued on the Fall in all its variations, with any Obligatory Power, but what was founded in the Law of Nature, and had its force from thence. We may then confidently assert, that what God requireth equally in all Estates of the Church, that is Moral, and of an everlasting Obligation unto us, and all men. And this is the State of matters with the Sabbath, and the Law thereof.