A53694:351
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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Wherefore he brings over in this state, the use of the first Law, as renewed and represented in Tables of Stone for a directive Rule of Obedience unto the new Creature; whereby the first original Law is wholly supplied. Hereunto he makes an Addition of what positive Laws he thinks meet, as he did also under the Old Law of Creation, for the trial of our Obedience, and our furtherance in it. So the Moral Law of our Obedience is in each condition, the old and the new, materially the same; nor is it possible that it should be otherwise. But yet this old Law, as brought over into this new estate, is new also. For all things are become new. And it is now the Rule of our Obedience, not merely and absolutely unto God as the Creator, the first cause and last end of all, but as unto God in Christ bringing of us into a new Relation unto himself. In the Renovation then of the Image of God in our souls, and the transferring our of the Moral Law as a Rule accompanied with new distinct Principles, Motives and Ends, doth the ⟨p. 359⟩Law of the new Creation consist, and fully answer the Law of the first, as it was a Principle and a Rule, each of them having their peculiar positive Laws annexed unto them.
Wherefore he brings over in this state, the use of the first Law, as renewed and represented in Tables of Stone for a directive Rule of Obedience unto the new Creature; whereby the first original Law is wholly supplyed. Hereunto he makes an Addition of what positive Laws he thinks meet, as he did also under the Old Law of Creation, for the tryal of our Obedience, and our furtherance in it. So the Moral Law of our Obedience is in each condition, the old and the new, materially the same; nor is it possible that it should be otherwise. But yet this old Law, as brought over into this new estate, is new also. For all things are become new. And it is now the Rule of our Obedience, not meerly and absolutely unto God as the Creator, the first cause and last end of all, but as unto God in Christ bringing of us into a new Relation unto himself. In the Renovation then of the Image of God in our souls, and the transferring our of the Moral Law as a Rule accompanied with new distinct Principles, Motives and Ends, doth the ⟨p. 359⟩Law of the new Creation consist, and fully answer the Law of the first, as it was a Principle and a Rule, each of them having their peculiar positive Laws annexed unto them.