A53694:317
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.) From the Nature and Tenor of the Covenant of Works, so renewed amongst that people, there was begotten in their minds such a Respect unto the Rigour of its Commands, the manner of their Observance, or of Obedience unto them, with the dread of its Curse, awfully denounced amongst them, as brought a servile and bondage frame of Spirit upon them, in all wherein they had to do with God, by virtue of the Law and Rule of that Covenant. This frame of Spirit, as that which stands in direct Opposition unto the freedom and liberty purchased for us by Jesus Christ, to serve God in Righteousness ⟨p. 229⟩and Holiness without fear all our Days, is much insisted on by the Apostle Paul especially in his Epistles to the Romans and Galatians. And in their Observation of the Sabbath in particular, they were under this bondage, filling them with many scrupulous Anxieties, which arose not from the Law of the Sabbath it self as originally given unto man in the state of Innocency; but from the Accommodation of the Law thereof unto them, after the Entrance of sin. And hereby their Sabbath Rest became unto them a great part of their wearying burdensome yoke, which is taken off in Christ.
(2.) From the Nature and Tenor of the Covenant of Works, so renewed amongst that people, there was begotten in their minds such a Respect unto the Rigor of its Commands, the manner of their Observance, or of Obedience unto them, with the dread of its Curse, awfully denounced amongst them, as brought a servile and bondage frame of Spirit upon them, in all wherein they had to do with God, by vertue of the Law and Rule of that Covenant. This frame of Spirit, as that which stands in direct Opposition unto the freedom and liberty purchased for us by Jesus Christ, to serve God in Righteousness ⟨p. 229⟩and Holiness without fear all our Dayes, is much insisted on by the Apostle Paul especially in his Epistles to the Romans and Galatians. And in their Observation of the Sabbath in particular, they were under this bondage, filling them with many scrupulous Anxieties, which arose not from the Law of the Sabbath it self as originally given unto man in the state of Innocency; but from the Accommodation of the Law thereof unto them, after the Entrance of sin. And hereby their Sabbath Rest became unto them a great part of their wearying burthensome yoke, which is taken off in Christ.