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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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§. 9 Secondly, Labour to observe this Day, and to perform the duties required in it, with a frame of mind becoming and answering the spirit, freedom and liberty of the Gospel. We are now to serve God in all things in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. 7. 6. with a spirit of peace, delight, joy, liberty, and a sound mind. There were three Reasons of the bondage servile frame of spirit, which was in the Judaical Church, in their observance of the duties of the Law, and consequently of the Sabbath.
First, The dreadful giving and promulgation of it on Mount Sinai, which was not intended merely to strike a terror into that Generation in the wilderness, but through all Ages, during that Dispensation, to influence and awe the hearts of the People into a dread and terror of it. Hence the Apostle tells us that Mount Sinai gendered unto bondage, Gal. 4. 24. ⟨p. 426⟩that is, the Law as given thereon, brought the People into a spiritually servile state, wherein although secretly on the account of the Ends of the Covenant they were children and heirs, yet they differed nothing from servants, Chap. 4. 1, 3.
First, The dreadfull giving and promulgation of it on Mount Sinai, which was not intended meerly to strike a terror into that Generation in the wilderness, but through all Ages, during that Dispensation, to influence and awe the hearts of the People into a dread and terror of it. Hence the Apostle tells us that Mount Sinai gendered unto bondage, Gal. 4. 24. ⟨p. 426⟩that is, the Law as given thereon, brought the People into a spiritually servile state, wherein although secretly on the account of the Ends of the Covenant they were children and heirs, yet they differed nothing from servants, Chap. 4. 1, 3.