A53694:269
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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5. Whereas there is a frequent Opposition made in the Old Testament, between Moral Obedience, and the outward observance of Ordinances of a mere arbitrary Institution, there is no mention made of the Weekly Sabbath in that case, though all Ceremonial Institutions are in one place or other enumerated. It is true, Isa. 1. 13. the Sabbath is joined with the New Moons, and its Observation rejected in comparison of Holiness and Righteousness. But as this is expounded in the next Verse, to be intended principally of the appointed annual Feasts or Sabbaths; so we do grant, that the Sabbath, as relating unto Temple Worship there intended and described, had that accompanying it, which was peculiar to the Jews and Ceremonial, as we shall show hereafter; But absolutely the Observation of the Sabbath is not opposed unto, nor rejected in comparison of other, or any Moral Duties.
5. Whereas there is a frequent Opposition made in the Old Testament, between Moral Obedience, and the outward observance of Ordinances of a meer arbitrary Institution, there is no mention made of the Weekly Sabbath in that case, though all Ceremonial Institutions are in one place or other enumerated. It is true, Isa. 1. 13. the Sabbath is joyned with the New Moons, and its Observation rejected in comparison of Holiness and Righteousness. But as this is expounded in the next Verse, to be intended principally of the appointed annual Feasts or Sabbaths; so we do grant, that the Sabbath, as relating unto Temple Worship there intended and described, had that accompanying it, which was peculiar to the Jews and Ceremonial, as we shall shew hereafter; But absolutely the Observation of the Sabbath is not opposed unto, nor rejected in comparison of other, or any Moral Duties.
6. The Observation of the Sabbath is pressed on the Church, on the same Grounds, and with the same Promises, as the greatest and most indispensable ⟨p. 192⟩