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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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§. 2 I confess our endeavours herein may seem less necessary than in the foregoing Discourses. For there are many Treatises on this part of our present Subject, extant in our own language, and in the hands of those who esteem themselves concerned in these things. With some they meet indeed with no other entertainment, than the Posts did that were sent by Hezekiah through Ephraim, Manasseh and Zebulun, to invite them unto the Passover; they are laughed to scorn and mocked at, 2 Chron. 30. 10. But wisdom is justified of her children. Unto some they are of great use, and in great esteem. And for the most part in the main of their design they do agree. So that the Truth in them is established in the mouths of many witnesses, without danger of dividing the minds of men about it. But yet I cannot take my self to be discharged hereby from the consideration ⟨p. 415⟩of this concern also of a sacred Rest under the Gospel, the nature of our design requiring it. And there are yet important Directions for the right sanctifying of the Name of God, in and by the due observance of a Day of sacred Rest, which I have not taken notice to have been insisted on by others; and whereas a due improvement may be expected of the peculiar principles before discussed, I shall go through this part of the Work also.
§. 2 I confess our endeavours herein may seem less necessary than in the foregoing Discourses. For there are many Treatises on this part of our present Subject, extant in our own language, and in the hands of those who esteem themselves concerned in these things. With some they meet indeed with no other entertainment, than the Posts did that were sent by Hezekiah through Ephraim, Manasseh and Zebulun, to invite them unto the Passeover; they are laughed to scorn and mocked at, 2 Chron. 30. 10. But wisdome is justified of her children. Unto some they are of great use, and in great esteem. And for the most part in the main of their design they do agree. So that the Truth in them is established in the mouthes of many witnesses, without danger of dividing the minds of men about it. But yet I cannot take my self to be discharged hereby from the consideration ⟨p. 415⟩