A53694:299
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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§. 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.
§. 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 Ment or in Drink or in respect of an Holy Day, or of the New Moon (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) or of the Sabbaths, or Sabbath Dayes; 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 meer Type and Shadow as were other Mosaical Institutions; as also that it is absolutely abolished and taken away in Christ.
An. This place must be afterwards considered; I shall here only briefly speak unto it. And (1.) It is known and confessed, that at that time all Judaical Observations of Days, or the Days which they religiously observed, whether Feasts or Fasts, Weekly, Monthly, or Annual were by themselves and all others, called their Sabbaths, as we have before evinced. And that kind of Speech which was then in common use, is here observed by our Apostle. It must therefore necessarily be allowed, that there were two sorts of Sabbaths amongst them; The first and principal was the Weekly Sabbath, so called from the Rest of God upon the finishing of his works. This being designed for Sacred and Religious Uses, other Days separated unto the same Ends in general, became from their Analogy thereunto to be called Sabbaths also, yea, were so called by God himself, as hath been declared. But the Distinction and Difference between these Sabbaths was great. The one of them was ordained from the foundation of the world; before the Entrance of sin, or giving of the Promises, and so belonged unto all mankind in