A53694:443
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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Secondly, The renovation and reinforcement of the old Covenant, with the promises and threatenings of it, which was to be upon them during the continuance of that state and condition. And although the Law had a new Use and End now given unto it, yet they were so in the dark, and the proposal of them attended with so great an obscurity, that they could not clearly look into the comfort and liberty finally intended therein. For the Law made nothing perfect; and what was of Grace in the administration of it, was so veiled with Types, Ceremonies, and shadows, that they could not see into the End of the things that were to be done away, 2 Cor. 3. 13.
Secondly, The renovation and re inforcement of the old Covenant, with the promises and threatnings of it, which was to be upon them during the continuance of that state and condition. And although the Law had a new Use and End now given unto it, yet they were so in the dark, and the proposal of them attended with so great an obscurity, that they could not clearly look into the comfort and liberty finally intended therein. For the Law made nothing perfect; and what was of Grace in the administration of it, was so veiled with Types, Ceremonies, and shadows, that they could not see into the End of the things that were to be done away, 2 Cor. 3. 13.
Thirdly, The sanction of the Law by death increased their bondage. For as this in it self was a terror unto them in their services, so it was expressive, and a representation of the original curse of the whole Law, Gal. 3. 13. And hereby were they greatly awed and terrified, although some of them by especial Grace were enabled to delight themselves in God and his Ordinances.
Thirdly, The sanction of the Law by death encreased their bondage. For as this in it self was a terror unto them in their services, so it was expressive, and a representation of the original curse of the whole Law,