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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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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, 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.
And in these things was administered a spirit of bondage unto fear, which by the Apostle is opposed to the spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father, Rom. 8. 15. Which, where it is, there is liberty; where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, 2 Cor. 3. 17. and there only. And therefore although they boasted that they were the children of Abraham, and on that reason free and never in bondage; yet our ⟨p. 427⟩Saviour lets them know, that whatever they pretended, they were not free until the Son should make them so. And from these things arose those innumerable, anxious scrupulosities which were upon them in the observation of this Day, accompanied with the severe nature of those Additions in its observation, which were made unto the Law of it, as appropriated unto them for a season.
And in these things was administred a spirit of bondage unto fear, which by the Apostle is opposed to the spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father,