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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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Now the sole Reason hereof lies in those temporary and Ceremonial Additions which we have manifested to have been made unto the Original Law of the Sabbath in its Accommodation to their Church State, with the Place which it held therein, as we shall see yet farther in particular.
§. 13 The Occasion of this Renovation of the Command was the Building of the Tabernacle, which was now designed, and forthwith to be undertaken. And with Respect hereunto, there was a double Reason for the Repetition of this Command. First, Because that Work was for an holy End, and so upon the matter an holy Work; and whereon the people were very intent; hence they might have supposed, that it would have been lawful for them to have attended unto it on the Sabbath Days. This therefore God expressly forbids, that they might have no pretence for the Transgression of his Command. And therefore is the Penalty annexed unto it, so expressly here appointed and mentioned. Secondly, As the Tabernacle now to be built, was the only seat of that solemn instituted Worship which God was now setting up amongst ⟨p. 247⟩them; so the Sabbath being the great Means of its continuance and performance, this they were now to be severely minded of, lest by their neglect and forgetfulness thereof, they might come to a neglect and contempt of all that Worship, which was as it were built upon it. And as we observed before more than once, the Weekly Sabbath being inserted into the Economy of their Laws, as to the matter of Works and Rest, it is comprised in the General with other Feasts called Sabbaths also. Verily, my Sabbaths ye shall keep. And in this regard they are all cast together by our Apostle, Col. 2. 16. and the Sabbath Days. And they who by virtue of this and the like Commands, would bind us up to the Judaical Sabbath, do certainly lose both that, and all other ground for the Observance of any Sabbath at all. For look in what respects it is joined with the other Sabbaths by Moses, in the same it is taken away with them by the Apostle.