A53694:424
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.
Of the Lords-Day. The Sixth Exercitation.
(1) Practice the end of Instruction and Learning. (2) Practical observation of the Sabbath, handled by many. (3) Pleas concerning too much rigour and strictness in directions for the observation of the Sabbath. (4) Extremes to be avoided in directions of sacred duties. Extreme of the Pharisees. (5) The worse extreme of others in giving liberty to sin. (6) Mistakes in directions about the observation of the Lords Day. (7) General directions unto that purpose proposed. (8) Of the beginning and ending of the Sabbath. The first Rule about Time. (9) The frame of spirit required under the Gospel in the observation of the Lords Day. (10) Rules and Principles for its due observation. (11) Duties required thereunto of two sorts. (12) Preparatory duties their necessity and nature. (13) (14) Particular account of them. Meditation. (15) Supplication. (16) Instruction. (17) (18) Public duties of the Day it self. (19) What refreshments and labour consistent with them. (20) Of private duties.
(1) Practice the end of Instruction and Learning. (2) Practical observation of the Sabbath, handled by many. (3) Pleas concerning too much rigour and strictness in directions for the observation of the Sabbath. (4) Extreams to be avoided in directions of sacred duties. Extream of the Pharisees. (5) The worse extream of others in giving liberty to sin. (6) Mistakes in directions about the observation of the Lords Day. (7) General directions unto that purpose proposed. (8) Of the beginning and ending of the Sabbath. The first Rule about Time. (9) The frame of spirit required under the Gospel in the observation of the Lords Day. (10) Rules and Principles for its due observation. (11) Duties required thereunto of two sorts. (12) Preparatory duties their necessity and nature. (13) (14) Particular account of them. Meditation. (15) Supplication. (16) Instruction. (17) (18) Publick duties of the Day it self. (19) What refreshments and labour consistent with them. (20) Of private duties.