A53694:365
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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To this End he proceeds unto the Exposition and Vindication of the Testimony it self, which he had cited out of the Psalms. And herein he shows from the proper signification of the words, from the Time when they were spoken, and the Persons to whom, that no other Rest was intended in them, but what was now by him proposed unto them, as the Rest of God and his people, in the Gospel.
To this End he proceeds unto the Exposition and Vindication of the Testimony it self, which he had cited out of the Psalms. And herein he shews from the proper signification of the words, from the Time when they were spoken, and the Persons to whom, that no other Rest was intended in them, but what was now by him proposed unto them, as the Rest of God and his people, in the Gospel.
The general Argument which to this purpose he insists upon, consists in an enumeration of all the ⟨p. 369⟩several Rests of God and his people, which are mentioned in the Scriptures. For from the consideration of them all, he proves that no other Rest could be intended in the words of David, but only the Rest of the Gospel, whereinto they enter who do believe.
Moreover, from that Respect which the •••ds of the Psalmist have unto the other foregoing Rests of God and his people, he manifests that they […] were appointed of God, to be Representations of that spiritual Rest which was now brought in and established. This is the general Design of this Discourse.
Moreover, from that Respect which the •••ds of the Psalmist have unto the other foregoing Rests of God and his people, he manifests that they were appointed of God, to be Representations of that spiritual Rest which was now brought in and established. This is the general Design of this Discourse.