A53694:340
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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§. 16 Mentioned it is again with a new Addition, Exod. 35. 2, 3. Six Days shall work be done, but on the seventh Day there shall be to you an holy Day, a Sabbath of Rest unto the Lord: whosoever doth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath Day. Here again the Penalties, and the Prohibition of kindling fire are Mosaical; and ⟨p. 252⟩so is, on their account, the whole Command, as here renewed, though there be that in it, which for the substance of it, is Moral. And here the seventh Day precisely is made [Greek or Hebrew] holiness unto them; (or [Greek or Hebrew] a Convocation of holiness; an holy Convocation as it is expressed, Levit. 23. 2. where these words are again repeated) whose Profanation was to be avenged with Death. The Prohibition also added about kindling of fire in their habitations hath been the occasion of many anxious Observances among the Jews. They all agree that the kindling of fire for Profit and Advantage, in Kilns, and Oasts for the making of Brick, or drying of Corn, or for founding or melting Metals, is here forbidden. But what need was there that so it should be; seeing all these things are expressly forbidden in the Command in general, Thou shalt do no manner of work; somewhat more is intended. They say therefore, that it is the kindling of fire for the dressing of Victuals; And this indeed seems to be the intendment of this especial Law; as the Manna that was to be eaten on the Sabbath, was to be prepared on the Parasecue. But withal I say, this is a new additional Law, and purely Mosaical; the Original Law of the Sabbath making no entrenchment on the ordinary duties of humane life, as we shall see afterwards. Whether it forbade the kindling of fire, for Light and Heat, I much question The present Jews in most places employ Christian Servants about such works. For the poor wretches care not what is done to their Advantage; so ⟨p. 253⟩they do it not themselves. But these and the like Precepts belonged unquestionably unto their Pedagogy, and were separable from the Original Law of the Sabbath.