A53694:360
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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§. 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, Joh. 20. 19, 26. And it seems that on this Day only he appeared unto them, when they were assembled together, although occasionally he showed himself to sundry of them at other seasons. Hence he left Thomas under his doubts an whole Week, before he gave him his gracious conviction, that he might do it in the Assembly of his Disciples on the first day of the week. From which time forward this Day was never without its solemn Assemblies, as shall further be cleared afterwards.
§. 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, Joh. 20. 19, 26. And it seems that on this Day only he appeared unto them, when they were assembled together, although occasionally he shewed himself to sundry of them at other seasons. Hence he left Thomas under his doubts an whole Week, before he gave him his gracious conviction, that he might do it in the Assembly of his Disciples on the first day of the week. From which time forward this Day was never without its solemn Assemblies, as shall further be cleared afterwards.
§. 11 Now because I am persuaded that the substance of all that we have laid down and pleaded for, in all the preceding Discourses, especially in what we have proposed concerning the foundation and causes of the Lords-day, is taught by the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Hebrews, chap. 4