A53694:403
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.
In all things of this nature, as they had the infallible guidance of the Holy Ghost, so they acted immediately in the Name and Authority of Christ, where what they ordained was no less of divine Institution, than if it had been appointed by Christ in his own person. It is true, they themselves did for a season, whilst their Ministry was to have a peculiar regard to the Jews, for the calling and conversion of the remnant that ⟨p. 392⟩was amongst them, according to the election of grace, go frequently into their Synagogues on the seventh Day to preach the Gospel, Act. 13. 14. Chap. 16. 13. Chap. 17. 2. Chap. 18. 4. But it is evident that they did so, only to take the opportunity of their Assemblies, that they might preach unto the greater numbers of them, and that at such a season wherein they were prepared to attend unto sacred things. Upon the same ground Paul laboured if it were possible to be at Jerusalem at the Feast of Pentecost, Act. 20. 16. But that they at any time assembled the Disciples of Christ on that day for the worship of God, that we read not.
In all things of this nature, as they had the infallible guidance of the Holy Ghost, so they acted immediately in the Name and Authority of Christ, where what they ordained was no less of divine Institution, than if it had been appointed by Christ in his own person. It is true, they themselves did for a season, whilest their Ministery was to have a peculiar regard to the Jews, for the calling and conversion of the remnant that ⟨p. 392⟩was amongst them, according to the election of grace, go frequently into their Synagogues on the seventh Day to preach the Gospel, Act. 13. 14. Chap. 16. 13. Chap. 17. 2. Chap. 18. 4. But it is evident that they did so, only to take the opportunity of their Assemblies, that they might preach unto the greater numbers of them, and that at such a season wherein they were prepared to attend unto sacred things. Upon the same ground Paul laboured if it were possible to be at Hierusalem at the Feast of Pentecost,