A53694:359
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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And the Church of Christ could not pass one Week under the New Testament, or in a Gospel-state of worship, without this indication. For the Judaical Sabbath, as sure as it was so, and as sure as it was annexed unto the Mosaical administration of the Covenant, was so far abolished, as not to oblige really the Disciples of Christ in conscience unto the observation of it, whatever any of them might for a season apprehend. And if a new Day was not now determined, there was no Day or season appointed, for an observance of an holy Rest unto the Lord, nor any pledge given us of our entering into the Rest of Christ. And those who say, that it is required that some time be set apart unto the ends of a Sabbatical Rest, but that there is no divine indication of that time, when, not what it is, or shall be, if we consider what are the ends of such a Rest, as before declared, ⟨p. 366⟩must allow us to expect firmer proofs of their uncouth Assertion, than any as yet we have met withal.
And the Church of Christ could not pass one Week under the New Testament, or in a Gospel-state of worship, without this indication. For the Judaical Sabbath, as sure as it was so, and as sure as it was annexed unto the Mosaical administration of the Covenant, was so far abolished, as not to oblige really the Disciples of Christ in conscience unto the observation of it, whatever any of them might for a season apprehend. And if a new Day was not now determined, there was no Day or season appointed, for an observance of an holy Rest unto the Lord, nor any pledge given us of our entring into the Rest of Christ. And those who say, that it is required that some time be set apart unto the ends of a Sabbatical Rest, but that there is no divine indication of that time, when, not what it is, or shall be, if we consider what are the ends of such a Rest, as before declared, ⟨p. 366⟩must allow us to expect firmer proofs of their uncouth Assertion, than any as yet we have met withall.
§. 10 Accordingly, this Indication of the Gospel Day of Rest and Worship, was embraced by the Apostles, who were to be as the chief corner-stones, the foundation of the Christian Church. For immediately hereon they assembled themselves on that Day, and were confirmed in their Obedience by the Grace of our Lord, in meeting with them thereon,