A53694:362
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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§. 12 The words of the Apostle are; For we which have believed do enter into Rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my Rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh Day on this wise, And God did Rest the seventh Day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my Rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not in because of unbelief: Again, he limiteth a certain Day, saying, in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them Rest, then would he not afterwards have spoken of another Day. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his Rest, he hath also ceased from his own works, as God did from his, Heb. 4. v. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
§. 12 The words of the Apostle are; For we which have believed do enter into Rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my Rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh Day on this wise, And God did Rest the seventh Day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my Rest. Seeing therefore it remaineth taht some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached, entred not in because of unbelief: Again, he limiteth a certain Day, saying, in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. For if Jesus had given them Rest, then wonld he not afterwards have spoken of another Day. There remaineth therefore a Rest to the people of God. For he that is entred into his Rest, he hath also ceased from his own works, as God did from his, Heb. 4. v. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
§. 13 The design of the Apostle in this Discourse, is to confirm what he had laid down, and positively asserted in the beginning of the Chapter. Now this is, That there is yet under the Gospel a promise of entering into the Rest of God, left or remaining unto Believers; and that they do enter into that Rest, by mixing the promise of it with Faith. This he declares;