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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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Again, if there be no day determined in the fourth Command, but only the seventh precisely which is Ceremonial, with a general Rule that some time is to be dedicated to the service of God, there is no more of Morality in this Command, then in any of those for the Observation of New Moons, and annual Feasts with Jubilees and the like; in all which the same general Equity is supposed, and a Ceremonial Day limited and determined. And if it be so, as far as I can understand; we may as lawfully observe New Moons and Jubilees, as a Weekly Day of Rest, according to the custom of all Churches.
Again, if there be no day determined in the fourth Command, but only the seventh precisely which is Ceremonial, with a general Rule that some time is to be dedicated to the service of God, there is no more of Morality in this Command, then in any of those for the Observation of New Moons, and annual Feasts with Jubilees and the like; in all which the same general Equity is supposed, and a Ceremonial Day limited and determined. And if it be so, as far as I can understand; we may as lawfully observe New Moons and Jubilees, as a Weekly Day of Rest, according to the custome of all Churches.
§. 58 The words of the Apostle Paul, Col. 2. 16, 17. are at large insisted on to prove that the Sabbath was only Typical and a shadow of things future. ⟨p. 214⟩Let no man therefore judge you in Meant or in Drink or in respect of an Holy Day, or of the New Moon ([Greek or Hebrew]) or of the Sabbaths, or Sabbath Days; which are a shadow of things to come, but the Body is of Christ. For hence they say it will follow, that there is nothing Moral in the Observation of the Sabbath; seeing it was a mere Type and Shadow as were other Mosaical Institutions; as also that it is absolutely abolished and taken away in Christ.