A53694:376
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 17 Secondly, the Apostle considers the Church under the Law of Institutions; and herein he representeth the Rest of the Land of Canaan, wherein also the three distinct Rests before-mentioned do occur.
§. 17 Secondly, the Apostle considers the Church under the Law of Institutions; and herein he representeth the Rest of the Land of Canaan, wherein also the three distinct Rests before-mentioned do occurre.
1. There was in it a Rest of God. This gives denomination to the whole: He still calls it his Rest; if they shall enter into my Rest. And the prayer about it was, Arise O Lord into thy Rest, thou and the Ark of thy strength, or the pledge of his presence and Rest. And this Rest also ensued upon his work, for God wrought about it works great and mighty, and ceased from them when they were finished. And this work of his answered in its greatness unto the work of Creation, whereunto it is compared by himself, Isa. 51. 15, 16. I am the Lord thy God that divided the Sea, whose waves roared, the Lord of Hosts is his Name, and have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the Heavens, and lay the foundation of the Earth, and say unto Zion thou art my people. The dividing of the Sea whose waves roared, is put by a Synecdoche for the whole ⟨p. 374⟩work of God, preparing a way for the Church-state of that people in the Land of Canaan. And this he compares to the work of Creation, in planting the Heavens, and laying the foundation of the Earth. For although those words are but a Metaphorical expression of the Political and Church-state of that people, yet there is an evident Allusion in them unto the original Creation of all things. This was the work of God, upon the finishing whereof, he entered into his Rest, in the satisfaction and complacency that he had therein. For after the Erection of his Worship in the Land of Canaan, he says of it, this is my Rest, and here will I dwell.