A53694:419
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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Themselves on the other hand, supposing that they are obliged to meet for all solemn worship on the seventh day, (which the other account unwarrantable for them to do, on the pretence of any binding Law to that purpose) and esteem it unlawful to assemble Religiously with others on the first Day, on the Plea of an Evangelical warranty, they absolutely cut off themselves from all possibility of Communion in the Administration of Gospel-Ordinances, with all other Churches of Christ. And whereas most other Breaches as to such Communion, are in their own nature capable of healing, without a Renunciation of those Principles in the minds of men, which seem to ⟨p. 408⟩give countenance unto them; the Distance is here made absolutely irreparable, whilst the Opinion mentioned is owned by any. I will press this no farther, but only by affirming, that persons truly fearing the Lord, ought to be very careful and jealous over their own understandings, before they embrace an Opinion and Practice, which will shut them up from all visible Communion, with the generality of the Saints of God in this World.
Themselves on the other hand, supposing that they are obliged to meet for all solemn worship on the seventh day, (which the other account unwarrantable for them to do, on the pretence of any binding Law to that purpose) and esteem it unlawfull to assemble Religiously with others on the first Day, on the Plea of an Evangelical warranty, they absolutely cut off themselves from all possibility of Communion in the Administration of Gospel-Ordinances, with all other Churches of Christ. And whereas most other Breaches as to such Communion, are in their own nature capable of healing, without a Renunciation of those Principles in the minds of men, which seem to ⟨p. 408⟩give countenance unto them; the Distance is here made absolutely irreparable, whilst the Opinion mentioned is owned by any. I will press this no farther, but only by affirming, that persons truely fearing the Lord, ought to be very carefull and jealous over their own understandings, before they embrace an Opinion and Practice, which will shut them up from all visible Communion, with the generality of the Saints of God in this World.