A53694:356
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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§. 7 On these suppositions we lay, and ought to lay the observation of the Lords Day under the New Testament, according to the institution of it, or declaration of the mind of Christ, who is our Lord and Law-giver concerning it. 1. A new work of Creation, or a work of a new Creation is undertaken and ⟨p. 363⟩completed, Isa. 65. 17. Chap. 66. 22, 23. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rev. 21. 1. Rom. 8. 19, 20. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Gal. 6. 15. 2. This new Creation is accompanied with a new Law, and a new Covenant; or the Law of faith, and the Covenant of Grace, Rom. 3. 27. Chap. 8. 2, 3, 4. Jer. 31. 32, 33, 34. Heb. 8. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 3. Unto this Law and Covenant a Day of holy Rest unto the Lord doth belong, which cannot be the same Day with the former, no more than it is the same Law, or the same Covenant, which were originally given unto us, Heb. 4. 9. Rev. 1. 10. 4. That this Day was limited and determined to the first Day of the Week by our Lord Jesus Christ, is that which shall now further be confirmed; only I must desire the Reader to consider, that whereas the Topical Arguments whereby this Truth is confirmed, have been pleaded, improved, and vindicated by many of late, I shall but briefly mention them, and insist principally on the declaration of the proper grounds and foundations of it.
§. 7 On these suppositions we lay, and ought to lay the observation of the Lords Day under the New Testament, according to the institution of it, or declaration of the mind of Christ, who is our Lord and Law-giver concerning it. 1. A new work of Creation, or a work of a new Creation is undertaken and