A53694:276
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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§. 49 It is known that many things are usually objected against the Truth we have been pleading for; namely, the Morality of a Sacred Rest to God, on one Day in seven, from its Relation to the Law of Creation, and the Command for it in the Decalogue. And it is known also, that what is so objected, hath been by others solidly answered and removed. But because those Objections, or Arguments, have been lately renewed and pressed, by a Person of Good Learning and Reputation, and a new Reinforcement endeavoured to be given unto them, I shall give them a new Examination, and remove them out of our way.
§. 49 It is known that many things are usually objected against the Truth we have been pleading for; namely, the Morality of a Sacred Rest to God, on one Day in seven, from its Relation to the Law of Creation, and the Command for it in the Decalogue. And it is known also, that what is so objected, hath been by others solidly answered and removed. But because those Objections, or Arguments, have been lately renewed and pressed, by a Person of Good Learning and Reputation, and a new Reinforcement indeavoured to be given unto them, I shall give them a new Examination, and remove them out of our way.
§. 50 It is then objected in the first place; Disquisit. de Moralitate Sabbati; p 7. That the Command for the Observation of the Sabbath, is a Command of Time, or concerning Time only; namely, that some Certain and Determinate Time be assigned to the Worship of God; and this may be granted to be Moral. But Time is no part of Moral Worship, but only a Circumstance of it, even as Place is also. Therefore the Command that requires them in particular cannot be Moral. For these and the like Circumstances ⟨p. 198⟩must necessarily be of a Positive Determination.