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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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But this alone doth not confirm nor indeed come near the purpose or Argument of the Apostle. For he is to speak of such a Rest of God, as men might enter into, as was a foundation of Rest unto them, or otherwise his Discourse was not concerned in it; whereupon by ••citation of the words of Moses from Gen. 2. 2. he tells us, that this Rest of God was on the seventh day, which God accordingly blessed and sanctified, to be a Day of Rest unto man. So that in this state of the Church there were three things considerable; (1) The Rest of God himself on his works, wherein the foundation of the Church was laid. (2) A Rest proposed unto man to enter into with God, wherein lay the Duty of the Church. And (3) a Day of Rest, the seventh day, as a remembrance of the one, and a means and pledge of the other. And herewith we principally confirm our judgement, in the Sabbaths beginning with the World. For without this supposition, the mentioning of Gods work and his Rest, no way belonged to ⟨p. 373⟩the purpose of our Apostle. For he discourseth only of such Rests as men might enter into, and have a pledge of. And there was no such thing from the foundation of the world, unless the Sabbath were then revealed: Nor is it absolutely the Work and Rest of God, but the Obedience of men, and their duty, with respect unto them, which he considers. And this could not be, unless the Rest of God was proposed unto men to enter into, from the foundation of the world.
But this alone doth not confirm nor indeed come near the purpose or Argument of the Apostle. For he is to speak of such a Rest of God, as men might enter into, as was a foundation of Rest unto them, or otherwise his Discourse was not concerned in it; whereupon by ••citation of the words of Moses from Gen. 2. 2. he tells us, that this Rest of God was on the seventh day, which God accordingly blessed and san•tified, to be a Day of Rest unto man. So that in this state of the Church there were three things considerable; (1) The Rest of God himself on his works, wherein the foundation of the Church was laid. (2) A Rest proposed unto man to enter into with God, wherein lay the Duty of the Church. And (3) a Day of Rest, the seventh day, as a remembrance of the one, and a means and pledge of the other. And herewith we principally confirm our judgement, in the Sabbaths beginning with the World. For without this supposition, the mentioning of Gods work and his Rest, no way belonged to