A53694:386
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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Thirdly, The Rest which this person is said to enter into, is called His Rest absolutely. As God speaking of the former Rest, calls it, My Rest, so this is the My Rest, of another, namely the Rest of Christ: whereas when the entering of Believers into Rest is spoken of, it is called either Gods Rest, They shall enter into my Rest; or Rest absolutely, We that believe do enter into Rest, but not their Rest, or our Rest, for it is not our own absolutely, but Gods Rest whereinto we enter, and wherein we rest. But the Rest here is the Rest of him whose it is, and who is the Author of ours.
Thirdly, The Rest which this person is said to enter into, is called His Rest absolutely. As God speaking of the former Rest, calls it, My Rest, so this is the My Rest, of another, namely the Rest of Christ: whereas when the entring of Believers into Rest is spoken of, it is called either Gods Rest, They shall enter into my Rest; or Rest absolutely, We that believe do enter into Rest, but not their Rest, or our Rest, for it is not our own absolutely, but Gods Rest whereinto we enter, and wherein we rest. But the Rest here is the Rest of him whose it is, and who is the Author of ours.
Fourthly, There is a direct parallel in the words, between the works of the old Creation, and those of the new, which are compared by the Apostle. For,
1. There are the Authors of them, which on the one side is said to be God; as God did from his own, that is God the Creator, or God as Creator; on the other, He, [Greek or Hebrew], the same with [Greek or Hebrew], Chap. 3. vers. 3. that is He of whom we speak, as the Apostle declares himself, vers. 13. for in these words a transition is made unto his treating of the Person of Christ.
1. There are the Authors of them, which on the one side is said to be God; as God did from his own, that is God the Creator, or God as Creator; on the other, He, , the same with , Chap. 3. vers. 3. that is He of whom we speak, as the Apostle declares himself, vers. 13. for in these words a transition is made unto his treating of the Person of Christ.