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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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§. 56 It is farther yet pleaded, that the Sabbath was a Type of our Spiritual Rest in Christ; both that which we have in him at present by Grace, and that which remains for us in Heaven. Hence it was a shadow of good things to come, as were all other ⟨p. 209⟩Ceremonial Institutions. But that the same thing should be Moral, and a shadow is a contradiction. That which is a shadow, can in no sense be said to be Moral, nor on the contrary. The Sabbath therefore was merely Ceremonial.
§. 56 It is farther yet pleaded, that the Sabbath was a Type of our Spiritual Rest in Christ; both that which we have in him at present by Grace, and that which remains for us in Heaven. Hence it was a shaddow of good things to come, as were all other ⟨p. 209⟩Ceremonial Institutions. But that the same thing should be Moral, and a shadow is a contradiction. That which is a shadow, can in no sense be said to be Moral, nor on the contrary. The Sabboth therefore was meerly Ceremonial.
An. It doth not appear, it cannot be proved, that the Sabbath either as to its first Original, or as to the substance of the Command of it in the Decalogue, was Typical, or instituted to prefigure any thing that was future. Yea, the contrary is evident. For the Law of it, was given before the first Promise of Christ, as we have proved; and that in the state of Innocency, and under the Covenant of Works in perfect force, wherein there was no respect unto the Mediation of Christ. I do acknowledge that God did so order all his Works in the first Creation, and under the Law of Nature, as that they might be suitable Morally to represent his Works under the New Creation, which from the Analogy of our Redemption to the Creation of all things is so called. And hence according to the Eternal Counsel of God, were all things meet to be gathered into an Head in Christ Jesus. On this account there is an Instructive Resemblance, between the Works of one sort and of the other. So the Rest of God after the Works of the old Creation, is answered by the Rest of the Son of God, upon his laying the Foundation of the New Heavens and New Earth in his Resurrection. But that the Sabbath Originally, and in its whole nature, should be a free Institution to prefigure, and as in a shadow to represent any thing Spiritual or Mystical, after wards to be introduced, is not, nor