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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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(2.) Rest, in it self absolutely considered is no part of Divine Worship antecedently unto a Divine Positive Command. But a Rest from our own works, which might be of use and advantage unto us, which by the Law of our Creation we are to attend unto in this world, that we may intend and apply our selves to the Worship of God, and solemnly express our universal Dependence upon him in all things; a Rest representing the Rest of God in his Covenant with us, and observed as a pledge of our entering into his Rest by virtue of that Covenant, and according to the Law of it, such as is the Rest here enjoined, is a part of the Worship of God. This is the Rest which we are directed unto by the Law of our Creation, and which by the Moral Reason of this Command is enjoined unto us, on one Day in seven; and in these things consists the Morality of this Precept, on whose account it hath a place in the Decalogue, which on all the Considerations before mentioned, could not admit of an Association with one that was purely Ceremonial.
(2.) Rest, in it self absolutely considered is no part of Divine Worship antecedently unto a Divine Positive Command. But a Rest from our own works, which might be of use and advantage unto us, which by the Law of our Creation we are to attend unto in this world, that we may intend and apply our selves to the Worship of God, and solemnly express our universal Dependance upon him in all things; a Rest representing the Rest of God in his Covenant with us, and observed as a pledge of our entring into his Rest by vertue of that Covenant, and according to the Law of it, such as is the Rest here injoyned, is a part of the Worship of God. This is the Rest which we are directed unto by the Law of our Creation, and which by the Moral Reason of this Command is injoyned unto us, on one Day in seven; and in these things consists the Morality of this Precept, on whose account it hath a place in the Decalogue, which on all the Considerations before mentioned, could not admit of an Association with one that was purely Ceremonial.
(3.) Granting the Dedication of some Time or part of Time unto the Solemn Worship of God to be required in this Command, as is by all generally acknowledged, and let a Position be practically advanced against this, we insist on, namely, that one Day in seven is the Time determined and