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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Fifth Exercitation OF THE Lords-Day.
(1) A Summary of what hath been proved, a progress to the Lords-day. (2) The new Creation of all things in Christ, the foundation of Gospel-Obedience and Worship. (3) The old and new Creation compared (4) The old and new Covenant. (5) Distinct Ends of these Covenants. (6) Supposition of the Heads of things before confirmed. (7) Foundation of the Lords-day on those Suppositions. (8) Christ the author of the new Creation; his Works therein (9) His Rest from his Works the Indication of a new Day of Rest. (10) Observed by the Apostles. (11) Proof of the Lords-day from Heb. 4. proposed. (12) The words of the Text. (13) esign of the Apostle in general. (14) His answer unto an Objection; with his general Argument. (15) The nature of the Rests treated on by him. (16) The Church under the Law of Nature, and its Rest. (17) The Church under the Law of Institution, and its Rest. ⟨p. 354⟩(18) The Church under the Gospel, and its Rest. (19) The foundation of it. (20) Christ his Works, and his Rest, intended Heb. 4. 10 (21) This farther proved by sundry Arguments. 22) What were his Works whereby the Church was founded. (23) His entrance into his Rest, not in his Death, but in his Resurrection. (24) The Day of Rest limited and determined hereby. (25) The Sabbatism that remains for the people of God. (26) The sending of the Holy Ghost. (27) Church Assemblies on the first day of the Week. (28) The Lords-day, Rev. 1. 10. (29) The sum of the preceding Discourse. (30) Necessity of the Religious Observation of one day in seven. (31) Blessing of God on the Church-worship on the first day. (32) Of the seventh day Sabbath, Judaism restored in it. Of the Ebionites. (33) Schisms perpetuated by the opinion of the seventh day Sabbath (34) Penalty of the Law reinforced with it. (35) The Whole legal.