A53694:447
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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(1) We are not now brought to receive the Law from Mount Sinai, but are come unto Mount Zion. So the Apostle at large, Heb. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. For ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched; (that is, which naturally might be so by mens hands, though morally the touching of it was forbidden) and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. And the sound of a Trumpet, and a voice of words, which they that heard entreated that the Word should not be spoke unto them any more; for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a Beast touch the Mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart. And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake; which it seems were the words he used, where it is on this occasion said of him, And Moses spake, but nothing is added of what he said, Exod. 19 19. which things are insisted on by him to show the Grounds of that bondage which the People were in under the Law; whereunto he adds, But you are come to Mount Zion, unto the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem; Jerusalem that is above, which is free, which is the mother of us all, Gal. 4. 26. That is, ⟨p. 428⟩we receive the Law of our Obedience from Jesus Christ, who speaks from Heaven, to be observed with a spirit of liberty.
(1) We are not now brought to receive the Law from Mount Sinai, but are come unto Mount Sion. So the Apostle at large, Heb. 12. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. For ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched; (that is, which naturally might be so by mens hands, though morally the touching of it was forbidden) and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest. And the sound of a Trumpet, and a voice of words, which they that heard entreated that the Word should not be spoke unto them any more; for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a Beast touch the Mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart. And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake; which it seems were the words he used, where it is on this occasion said of him, And Moses spake, but nothing is added of what he said,