A53694:315
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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§ 4 Secondly, The Law was renewed as an ingredient into that Economy under which God was pleased to bring his Church at that time, before the Exhibition of the Promise, or the Accomplishment of it. And sundry things are to be observed herein.
§ 4 Secondly, The Law was renewed as an ingredient into that Oeconomy under which God was pleased to bring his Church at that time, before the Exhibition of the Promise, or the Accomplishment of it. And sundry things are to be observed herein.
(1.) That God did not absolutely bring that people under the Covenant of Works in all the Rigour of it, according unto its whole Law and Tenor, to stand or fall absolutely by its Promises or Threatenings. For although the Law contained the whole Rule of the Covenant, and on the considerations to be afterwards mentioned, ⟨p. 228⟩it is often called the Covenant of God with that people, yet were they not absolutely tied up unto it, and concluded by it, as to the eternal issue of living unto God. This arose from the Interposition of the Promise. For the Promise of Grace in Christ, being given upon the first Entrance of sin for the Relief and Salvation of the Elect, and being solemnly renewed unto Abraham and his seed four hundred and thirty years before the giving of the Law unto his Posterity, there was a blessed Relief provided therein against the Curse and Threatenings annexed to the first Covenant, for all them that betook themselves unto it, and made use of it. Notwithstanding, I say, this Renovation of the first Covenant materially unto them, they were so far freed from its Covenant Terms, as that they had a Relief provided against what they could not answer in it, with the consequences thereof.
(1.) That God did not absolutely bring that people under the Covenant of Works in all the Rigor of it, according unto its whole Law and Tenor, to stand or fall absolutely by its Promises or Threatnings. For although the Law contained the whole Rule of the Covenant, and on the considerations to be afterwards mentioned,