A53694:256
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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§. 40 There is yet remaining that which is principally to be pleaded in this cause, and which of it self is sufficient to bear the weight of the whole. Now this is the Place which the command for the Observation of a Sabbath unto God, holds in the Decalogue. Concerning this we have no more to enquire, but whether it have obtained a station therein, in its own Right, or were on some other ⟨p. 179⟩occasion advanced to that Privilege. For if it be free of that Society in its own Right, or on the Account of its Origin and Birth, the Morality of it can never be impeached; if it had only an Occasional Interest therein, and held it by a lease of time, it may ere this be long since disseized of it. Now we do not yet dispute, whether the seventh Day precisely be ordained in the fourth Commandment; and do take up the whole nature of it, as the only subject of it, and alone required in it. Only I take it for granted, that the Observation of one Day in seven is required in the Command, which is so, because the seventh Day, or a seventh Day in a septenary Revolution, is expressly commanded.
§. 40 There is yet remaining that which is principally to be pleaded in this cause, and which of it self is sufficient to bear the weight of the whole. Now this is the Place which the command for the Observation of a Sabbath unto God, holds in the Decalogue. Concerning this we have no more to enquire, but whether it have obtained a station therein, in its own Right, or were on some other ⟨p. 179⟩occasion advanced to that Priviledge. For if it be free of that Society in its own Right, or on the Account of its Origine and Birth, the Morality of it can never be impeached; if it had only an Occasional Interest therein, and held it by a lease of time, it may ere this be long since disseized of it. Now we do not yet dispute, whether the seventh Day precisely be ordained in the fourth Commandment; and do take up the whole nature of it, as the only subject of it, and alone required in it. Only I take it for granted, that the Observation of one Day in seven is required in the Command, which is so, because the seventh Day, or a seventh Day in a septenary Revolution, is expresly commanded.