A53694:426
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.
§. 1 IT remains that something be briefly offered, which may direct a practice suitable unto the principles laid down and pleaded. For this is the End of all sacred Truth, and all instruction therein. This that great Rule of our blessed Saviour both ⟨p. 414⟩teacheth us, and obligeth us to an answerable duty, If you know these things, happy are ye if you do them, Joh. 13. 17. words so filled with his wisdom, that happy are they in whose hearts they are always abiding. The End then of our learning Scripture-Truths, is to obtain such an Idea of them in our minds, as may direct us unto a suitable practice. Without this they are to us of no use, or of none that is good; [Greek or Hebrew]. Knowledge without practice puffeth, not buildeth up. For as Austin speaks with reference unto those words, Con. Faust. Man. lib. 15. cap. 8. Multa quibusdam sunt noxia, quamvis non sint mala. Things not evil, yea good in themselves, may be hurtful unto others. And nothing is useful but as it is directed to its proper End. This practice is unto sacred Truth.
§. 1 IT remains that something be briefly offered, which may direct a practice suitable unto the principles laid down and pleaded. For this is the End of all sacred Truth, and all instruction therein. This that great Rule of our blessed Saviour both ⟨p. 414⟩teacheth us, and obligeth us to an answerable duty, If you know these things, happy are ye if you do them, Joh. 13. 17. words so filled with his wisdome, that happy are they in whose hearts they are alwayes abiding. The End then of our learning Scripture-Truths, is to obtain such an Idea of them in our minds, as may direct us unto a suitable practice. Without this they are to us of no use, or of none that is good; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Knowledge without practice puffeth, not buildeth up. For as Austin speaks with reference unto those words, Con. Faust. Man. lib. 15. cap. 8. Multa quibusdam sunt noxia, quamvis non sint mala. Things not evil, yea good in themselves, may be hurtfull unto others. And nothing is usefull but as it is directed to its proper End. This practice is unto sacred Truth.