A53694:380
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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§. 18 Thirdly, The Apostle proves from the words of the Psalmist, that there was yet to be a Third state of the Church; an especial state under the Messiah, which he now proposed unto the Hebrews, and exhorted them to enter into. And in this Church-state, ⟨p. 376⟩there is to be also a peculiar state of Rest, distinct from them which went before. To the constitution hereof, there are Three things required. First, that there be some signal work of God completed and finished, whereon he enters into his Rest. This was to be the foundation of the whole new Church-state, and of the west to be obtained therein. Secondly that there be a spiritual. Rest ensuing thereon, and arising thence, for them that believe to enter into. Thirdly, that there be a new, or renewed Day of Rest, to express that Rest of God, and to be a pledge of our entering into it. If any of these, or either of them be wanting, the whole structure of the Apostles discourse, will be dissolved; neither will there be any colour remaining for his mentioning the seventh day, and the Rest thereof. These things therefore we must farther enquire into.
§. 18 Thirdly, The Apostle proves from the words of the Psalmist, that there was yet to be a Third state of the Church; an especial state under the Messia, which he now proposed unto the Hebrews, and exhorted them to enter into. And in this Church-state, ⟨p. 376⟩there is to be also a peculiar state of Rest, distinct from them which went before. To the constitution hereof, there are Three things required. First, that there be some signal work of God compleated and finished, whereon he enters into his Rest. This was to be the foundation of the whole new Church-state, and of the west to be obtained therein. Secondly that there be a spiritual. Rest ensuing thereon, and arising thence, for them that believe to enter into. Thirdly, that there be a new, or renewed Day of Rest, to express that Rest of God, and to be a pledge of our e•tring into it. If any of these, or either of them be wanting, the whole structure of the Apostles discourse, will be dissolved; neither will there be any colour remaining for his mentioning the seventh day, and the Rest thereof. These things therefore we must farther enquire into.