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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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§. 15 The Command is renewed again, Exod. 34. 21. Six Days thou shalt work, but on the seventh Day thou shalt Rest, in Earing time and in Harvest thou shalt rest. Earing time and Harvest are the seasons wherein those who till the Ground, are most intent upon their Occasions, and do most hardly bear with Intermissions, because they may be greatly to their Damage. Wherefore they are insisted on, or specified, to manifest that no Avocation nor pretence can justify men in working or labour on that Day. For by expressing Earing and Harvest all those Intervenings also are intended in those seasons, whereon damage and loss might redound unto ⟨p. 251⟩men, by omitting the gathering in of their Corn. And it should seem on this Ground, that on that day, they might not labour neither to take it away before a flood, nor remove it from an approaching fire. So some of the Masters think, although our Saviour convince them from their own Practice, in relieving Cattle fallen into Pits on that day, Luke 14. 5. and by loosing them that were tied to lead them to watering, Chap. 13. 15. that they did not conceive this universally, to be the intendment of that Law, that in no case, any work was to be done. And it seems they were wiser for their Asses in those Days, than the poor wretch was for himself in latter Ages, who falling into the Jakes at Tewkesbury on that Day, would not suffer himself to be drawn out, if the Story be truly reported in our Chronicles. In general, I doubt not but that this Additional Explanation in a way of severity, is in its proper sense purely Judaical, and contains something more of Rigidness, that is required by the Law of the Sabbath as purely Moral.
§. 15 The Command is renewed again, Exod. 34. 21. Six Dayes thou shalt work, but on the seventh Day thou shalt Rest, in Earing time and in Harvest thou shalt rest. Earing time and Harvest are the seasons wherein those who till the Ground, are most intent upon their Occasions, and do most hardly bear with Intermissions, because they may be greatly to their Dammage. Wherefore they are insisted on, or specified, to manifest that no Avocation nor pretence can justifie men in working or labour on that Day. For by expressing Earing and Harvest all those Intervenings also are intended in those seasons, whereon damage and loss might redound unto