A53694:282
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.
2. The Sabbath or Rest of a seventh Day was known and observed from the foundation of the World, as hath been proved. And therefore if from the Prefix, we are to conclude a Limitation, or Determination to be intended in the Words, Remember the Sabbath Day, yet it respects only the Original Sabbath, or the Sabbath in respect of its Original, and not any new Institution of it. For supposing the Observation of the Sabbath to have been before in use, whether that use were only of late, or a few days before, or of more ancient Times, even from the beginning of the World, the Command concerning it may be well expressed by [Greek or Hebrew] remember the Sabbath Day.
2. The Sabbath or Rest of a seventh Day was known and observed from the foundation of the World, as hath been proved. And therefore if from the Praefixe, we are to conclude a Limitation, or Determination to be intended in the Words, Remember the Sabbath Day, yet it respects only the Original Sabbath, or the Sabbath in respect of its Original, and not any new Institution of it. For supposing the Observation of the Sabbath to have been before in use, whether that use were only of late, or a few dayes before, or of more antient Times, even from the beginning of the World, the Command concerning it may be well expressed by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 remember the Sabbath Day.
3. Suppose that the Sabbath had received a limitation to the seventh Day precisely, in the Ordinance given unto that people in the first raining of Manna; then doth the Observation of that Day precisely by virtue of this Command necessarily take place. And yet the Command which is but the revival of what was required from the foundation of the world cannot be said to intend that Day precisely in the first place. For the Reason of, and in the Original Command for a Sabbatical Rest, was Gods making the World in six days, and resting on the seventh; which requires no more, but that in the continual Revolution of seven ⟨p. 202⟩