A53694:323
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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§. 6 And that we may understand the whole Nature of the Judaical Sabbath, it must moreover be considered, that the Law in general, and all the Precepts of it, was the Instrument of the Polity of the people under the Government of God, as we before observed. For all the Judgements relating unto Civil things, were but an Application of the Moral Law to their State and Condition. Hence, was the sanction of the transgressions of it, to be punished with Death. So was it in particular, with respect unto the Sabbath. Numb. 15. 35 partly, that it might represent unto them, the Original Sanction of the whole Law as a Covenant of Works, and partly to keep that stubborn people by this severity within due bounds of Government. Nor was any thing punished by Death Judicially in the Law, but the transgression of some Moral Command. [Greek or Hebrew], The Hand of Heaven is threatened against their Presumptuous Transgressions of the Ceremonial Law, where no Sacrifice was allowed. I the Lord will set my Face against that man, and cut him off. This also made the Sabbath a yoke and a burden, that wherein their Consciences could never find perfect Rest. And in this sense also it is abolished and taken away.
§. 6 And that we may understand the whole Nature of the Judaical Sabbath, it must moreover be considered, that the Law in general, and all the Precepts of it, was the Instrument of the Politie of the people under the Government of God, as we before observed. For all the Judgements relating unto Civil things, were but an Application of the Moral Law to their State and Condition. Hence, was the sanction of the transgressions of it, to be punished with Death. So was it in particular, with respect unto the Sabbath. Numb. 15. 35 partly, that it might represent unto them, the Original Sanction of the whole Law as a Covenant of Works, and partly to keep that stubborn people by this severity within due bounds of Government. Nor was any thing punished by Death Judicially in the Law, but the transgression of some Moral Command. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The Hand of Heaven is threatned against their Presumptuous Transgressions of the Ceremonial Law, where no Sacrifice was allowed. I the Lord will set my Face against that man, and cut him off. This also made the Sabbath a yoke and a burden, that wherein their Consciences could never find perfect Rest. And in this sense also it is abolished and taken away.