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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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Then was the Law fulfilled and satisfied, Satan subdued, Peace with God made, the Price of our Redemption paid, the Promise ⟨p. 384⟩of the Spirit received, and the whole Foundation of the Church of God gloriously laid on his Person, in his Works and Rest. (4) Then and therein was he declared to be the Son of God with power, Rom. 1. 4. God manifesting unto all, that this was he concerning and unto whom he said, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, Acts 13. 33.
Then was the Law fulfilled and satisfied, Sathan subdued, Peace with God made, the Price of our Redemption paid, the Promise ⟨p. 384⟩of the Spirit received, and the whole Foundation of the Church of God gloriously laid on his Person, in his Works and Rest. (4) Then and therein was he declared to be the Son of God with power, Rom. 1. 4. God manifesting unto all, that this was he concerning and unto whom he said, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, Acts 13. 33.
§. 24 Thus did the Author of the New Creation, the Son of God, the Builder of the Church, having finished his works, enter into his Rest. And this was, as all know, on the morning of the first day of the week. And hereby did he limit and determine the Day for a sacred Sabbatical Rest under the New Testament. For now was the Old Covenant utterly abolished, and therefore the Day which was the pledge of Gods and Mans Rest therein, was to be taken away, and was so accordingly, as we have showed. As the Rest from the beginning of the World, had its foundation from the works of God, and his Rest which ensued thereon, which was determined unto the seventh Day, because that was the Day wherein God ceased from those works, which Day was continued under the legal administration of the Covenant by Moses; so the Rest of the Lord Christ the Son of God, is the foundation of our Rest, which changing the old Covenant, and the day annexed unto it, he hath limited unto the first Day of the Week, whereon he ceased from his works, and entered into his Rest. And hereby the Apostle completes the due Analogy that is between the several Rests of God and his people, which he hath discoursed of in this Chapter. For as in the beginning