A53694:328
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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§. 9 The Jews in this place fall into a double mistake about the Practical Observation of their Sabbath. For from those words, Bake that which you will bake, and seethe that which you will seethe, and that which remaineth lay up for you to be kept until the morning; v. 23. They conclude it to be unlawful to bake or seethe any thing on the Sabbath Day; whereas the words have respect ⟨p. 239⟩only to the Manna that was to be preserved. And from the words of v. 29. See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two Days; abide you every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day; they have made a Rule, yea many Rules about what Motions or removals are lawful on the Sabbath Day, and what not. And hence they have bound themselves with many anxious and scrupulous Observances; though the Injunction it self do purely and solely respect the people in the Wilderness, that they should not go out into the Fields to look for Manna on that day; which some of them having done, v. 27. an occasion was taken from thence for this Injunction. And hereunto do some of the Heathen Writers ascribe the Original of the Sabbatical Rest among the Jews; supposing that the seventh day after their departure out of Egypt they came to a place of Rest, in Remembrance whereof they consecrated one day in seven to Rest and idleness ever after, whereunto they add other fictions of an alike nature. See Tacit. Hist. lib. 5.
§. 9 The Jews in this place fall into a double mistake about the Practical Observation of their Sabbath. For from those words, Bake that which you will bake, and seethe that which you will seethe, and that which remaineth lay up for you to be kept untill the morning; v. 23. They conclude it to be unlawful to bake or seethe any thing on the Sabbath Day; whereas the words have respect ⟨p. 239⟩only to the Manna that was to be preserved. And from the words of v. 29. See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the Bread of two Dayes; abide you every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day; they have made a Rule, yea many Rules about what Motions or removals are lawful on the Sabbath Day, and what not. And hence they have bound themselves with many anxious and scrupulous Observances; though the Injunction it self do purely and solely respect the people in the Wilderness, that they should not go out into the Fields to look for Manna on that day; which some of them having done, v. 27. an occasion was taken from thence for this Injunction. And hereunto do some of the Heathen Writers ascribe the Original of the Sabbatical Rest among the Jews; supposing that the seventh day after their departure out of Aegypt they came to a place of Rest, in Remembrance whereof they consecrated one day in seven to Rest and idleness ever after, whereunto they add other fictions of an alike nature. See Tacit. Hist. lib. 5.