A53694:37
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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Now for the Particular Controversies before mentioned, I shall not insist upon them all, for that were endless; but shall reduce them unto those general Heads, under which they may be comprehended, and by the right stating whereof they will be determined. Nor shall I enter into any especial contest, unless it be occasionally only, with any particular Persons, who of old or of late have eristically handled this subject. Some of them have I confess given great provocations thereunto; especially of the Belgic Divines, whose late Writings are full of Reflections on the Learned Writers of this Nation. Our only design is [Greek or Hebrew]. And herein I shall lay down the general regulating Principles of the Doctrine of the Scriptures in this matter; confirming them with such Arguments, as occur to my mind; and vindicating them from such Exceptions, as they ⟨p. 17⟩either seem liable unto, or have met withal: All with respect unto the Declaration given of the Doctrine and Practice of the Sabbath in the different Ages of the Church by our Apostle, Chap. 4. of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Now for the Particular Controversies before mentioned, I shall not insist upon them all, for that were endless; but shall reduce them unto those general Heads, under which they may be comprehended, and by the right stating whereof they will be determined. Nor shall I enter into any especial contest, unless it be occasionally only, with any particular Persons, who of old or of late have eristically handled this subject. Some of them have I confess given great provocations thereunto; especially of the Belgick Divines, whose late Writings are full of Reflections on the Learned Writers of this Nation. Our only design is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And herein I shall lay down the general regulating Principles of the Doctrine of the Scriptures in this matter; confirming them with such Arguments, as occurr to my mind; and vindicating them from such Exceptions, as they ⟨p. 17⟩either seem liable unto, or have met withal: All with respect unto the Declaration given of the Doctrine and Practice of the Sabbath in the different Ages of the Church by our Apostle, Chap. 4. of the Epistle to the Hebrews.