A53694:367
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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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.
In pursuit hereof, he declares in particular, (1) That the Rest mentioned in the Psalm, is not that which ensued immediately on the Creation of all things. This he evinceth, because it was spoken of afterwards, a long time after, and that to another purpose, v. 4, 5. (2) That it was not the Rest of the Land of Canaan, because that was not entered into by them unto whom it was first proposed and promised; for they came short of it by their unbelief, and perished in the Wilderness; but this Rest which is now afresh proposed is such, as the people of God must and will enter into, v. 6, 7. (3) Whereas it may be objected, that although the Wilderness Generation entered not in, yet their posterity did so under the conduct of Joshua, v. 8. he answers, that this Rest in the Psalm being proposed and promised in David so long a time, (above 400 years) after the people had quietly possessed the Land whereinto they were conducted by Joshua, it must needs be that another Rest then yet to come, was intended in those words of the Psalmist, v. 9. ⟨p. 370⟩And (4) to conclude his Argument, he declareth that this new Rest had a new peculiar foundation, which the other had no interest or concernment in, namely his ceasing from his works, and entering into his Rest, who is the Author of it, verse 10. This is his way and manner of arguing for the proof of what he had before laid down, and which he issueth in that Conclusion, verse 9. There remaineth therefore a Rest for the people of God.