A53694:389
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.
2. The works of the one and the other are expressed. The works of the Creator are [Greek or Hebrew], his proper works, his own works, the works of the old Creation, [Greek or Hebrew]. And there are the works of him of whom he speaks, [Greek or Hebrew], his works, those which he wrought in like manner as God did his own at the beginning; that is the work of building the Church. For these works must answer each other, and have the same respect unto their Authors; they must be good and complete in their kind, and such as Rest and Refreshment may be taken in, and on them. To compare the sins and sufferings of men with the works of God, our Apostle did not intend.
2. The works of the one and the other are expressed. The works of the Creator are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his proper works, his own works, the works of the old Creation, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And there are the works of him of whom he speaks, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, his works, those which he wrought in like manner as God did his own at the beginning; that is the work of building the Church. For these works must answer each other, and have the same respect unto their Authors; they must be good and compleat in their kind, and such as Rest and Refreshment may be taken in, and on them. To compare the sins and sufferings of men with the works of God, our Apostle did not intend.
3. There is the Rest of the one and the other; and these also have their mutual proportion. Now God rested from his own works of Creation, (1) By ceasing from creating, only continuing all things by his Power in their order, and propagating them unto his Glory. (2) By his respect unto them, and refreshment in them, as those which expressed his Excellencies, and set forth his praise, and so satisfied his glorious design. So also must he rest who is spoken of. (1) He must cease from working in the like kind of works; he must suffer no more, die no more, but only continue the work of his grace and power in the preservation of the new creature, and the orderly increase and propagation of it by his Spirit. (2) He takes delight and satisfaction in the works that he hath wrought; for he sees of the travel of his soul, and is satisfied, and is in the possession of that Glory which was set before him, whilst he was engaged in this work.