A53694:281
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Instances may be given, and have been given by all Writers concerning the Hebrew Tongue, wherein the prefixed Letters sometimes answering the Greek Prepositive Articles, are redundant; and if at all emphatical, yet they do not at all limit, specify or determine. See Psal. 1. 4. Eccl. 2. 14. Lev. 18. 5. The Observation therefore of prefixing [Greek or Hebrew] to [Greek or Hebrew], which may possibly denote an Excellency in the thing it self, but tends nothing to the Determination ⟨p. 201⟩of a certain Day, but as it is afterwards declared to be one of seven, is too weak to bear the weight of the Inference intended. Nor will this be denied by any whoever aright considered the various use, and frequent redundancy of that Prefix.
1. Instances may be given, and have been given by all Writers concerning the Hebrew Tongue, wherein the prefixed Letters sometimes answering the Greek Praepositive Articles, are redundant; and if at all emphatical, yet they do not at all limit, specifie or determine. See Psal. 1. 4. Eccl. 2. 14. Lev. 18. 5. The Observation therefore of prefixing 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which may possibly denote an Excellency in the thing it self, but tends nothing to the Determination ⟨p. 201⟩of a certain Day, but as it is afterwards declared to be one of seven, is too weak to bear the weight of the Inference intended. Nor will this be denyed by any whoever aright considered the various use, and frequent redundancy of that Praefixe.