A53694:449
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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(3) In this Covenant they receive the Spirit of Christ; or Adoption to serve God without legal fear, Luk. 1. 74. Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 6. And there is not any thing more insisted on in the Gospel, as the principal privilege thereof. It is indeed nothing to have liberty in the Word and Rule, unless we have it in the Spirit and Principle. And hereby are we delivered from that anxious solicitude about particular instances in outward duties, which was a great part of the yoke of the People of old. For,
(3) In this Covenant they receive the Spirit of Christ; or Adoption to serve God without legal fear, Luk. 1. 74. Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 6. And there is not any thing more insisted on in the Gospel, as the principal priviledge thereof. It is indeed nothing to have liberty in the Word and Rule, unless we have it in the Spirit and Principle. And hereby are we delivered from that anxious solicitude about particular instances in outward duties, which was a great part of the yoke of the People of old. For,
(1) Hence we may in all our duties look on God as a Father. By the Spirit of his Son, we may in them all cry Abba Father. For through Christ we have an access in one Spirit unto tho Father, Ephes. 2. 18. To God as a Father; as one that will not always chide; that doth not watch our steps for our hurt, but remembereth that we are but dust. One who tieth us not up to rigid exactness in outward things, whilst we act in an holy spirit of filial obedience as his sons or children. And there is great difference between the duties of servants and children; neither hath a Father the same measure of them. The consideration hereof, regulated by the general Rules of the Scripture, will resolve a thousand of such scruples