A53694:320
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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(5.) Unto this Renovation of the Covenant in the manner, and for the ends expressed, there was added a Typical Church State, with a great number of Religious Laws and Ordinances, in themselves carnal and weak, but mystically significant of spiritual and heavenly things; and instructive how to use the Promise that was before given, for their relief from the Rigour and Curse of the Law or Covenant, now proposed unto them. And in all these things did the ⟨p. 231⟩Covenant of God made with that people in the Wilderness consist. The Foundation, Matter, Manner of Administration, Promises and Threatenings of it were the same, with the Covenant of Works; but they were all accommodated to their Ecclesiastical and Political Estate, with especial Respect unto their approaching condition in the Land of Canaan; only there was, in the Promise, new Ends and a new Use given unto it, with a Relief against its Rigour and Curse.
(5.) Unto this Renovation of the Covenant in the manner, and for the ends expressed, there was added a Typical Church State, with a great number of Religious Laws and Ordinances, in themselves carnal and weak, but mystically significant of spiritual and heavenly things; and instructive how to use the Promise that was before given, for their relief from the Rigor and Curse of the Law or Covenant, now proposed unto them. And in all these things did the ⟨p. 231⟩Covenant of God made with that people in the Wilderness consist. The Foundation, Matter, Manner of Administration, Promises and Threatnings of it were the same, with the Covenant of Works; but they were all accommodated to their Ecclesiastical and Political Estate, with especial Respect unto their approaching condition in the Land of Canaan; only there was, in the Promise, new Ends and a new Use given unto it, with a Relief against its Rigor and Curse.
§. 4 On the Account of the Accessions that were thus made to the Law, and especially unto the Observation of the Sabbath, is it often mentioned in the Scripture, as that which God had in a peculiar manner given unto the Israelites, in whose especial Worship it had so great a place; many of their Principal Ordinances having a great Respect unto it; it being also, the only means of keeping up the solemnity of Natural Worship in their Synagogues among the people: