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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Remember that there is a Weekly Rest, or an holy Rest of one Day in the week, due to the solemn work of glorifying God as God. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. We have had a Week unto our own occasions, or we have a prospect of a Week in the patience of God for them. Let us Remember that God puts in for some Time with us. All is not our own. We are not our own Lords. Some time God will ⟨p. 431⟩have to himself from all that own him in the World. And this is that Time, season, or Day. He esteems not himself acknowledged, nor his Sovereignty owned in the World, without it. And therefore this Day of Rest he required, the first Day as it were that the World stood upon its legs; hath done so all along, and will do so to the last Day of its duration. When he had made all things, and saw that they were good, and was refreshed in them, he required that we should own and acknowledge his Goodness and Power therein. This duty we owe to God, as God
1. Remember that there is a Weekly Rest, or an holy Rest of one Day in the week, due to the solemn work of glorifying God as God. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. We have had a Week unto our own occasions, or we have a prospect of a Week in the patience of God for them. Let us Remember that God puts in for some Time with us. All is not our own. We are not our own Lords. Some time God will ⟨p. 431⟩have to himself from all that own him in the World. And this is that Time, season, or Day. He esteems not himself acknowledged, nor his Soveraignty owned in the World, without it. And therefore this Day of Rest he required, the first Day as it were that the World stood upon its legs; hath done so all along, and will do so to the last Day of its duration. When he had made all things, and saw that they were good, and was refreshed in them, he required that we should own and acknowledge his Goodness and Power therein. This duty we owe to God, as God