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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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(3). Remember, that we have lost our original Rest in God by sin. God made us upright, in his own Image, meet to take our Rest, satisfaction, and reward in himself, according to the tenor of the Law of our Creation, and the Covenant of Works established ⟨p. 433⟩thereon. Hereof the seventh Day was a Token and Pledge. All this we must consider that we have lost by sin. God might justly have left us in a wandering condition, without either Rest, or any pledge of it. Our Reparation indeed is excellent and glorious; yet so, as that on our part the loss of our former estate was shameful, and in the Remembrance whereof we ought to be humbled. And hence we may know, that it is in vain for us to lay hold of the seventh Day again, which is but an Attempt to return into the Garden after we are shut out, and kept out by a Flaming Sword. For although it was made use of as a Type and shadow under the Law; yet to us who must live on the substance of things, or not at all, it cannot be possessed with robbery: and is of no use when attained. For, we are to remember,
(3). Remember, that we have lost our original Rest in God by sin. God made us upright, in his own Image, meet to take our Rest, satisfaction, and reward in himself, according to the tenor of the Law of our Creation, and the Covenant of Works established ⟨p. 433⟩thereon. Hereof the seventh Day was a Token and Pledge. All this we must consider that we have lost by sin. God might justly have left us in a wandring condition, without either Rest, or any pledge of it. Our Reparation indeed is excellent and glorious; yet so, as that on our part the loss of our former estate was shamefull, and in the Remembrance whereof we ought to be humbled. And hence we may know, that it is in vain for us to lay hold of the seventh Day again, which is but an Attempt to return into the Garden after we are shut out, and kept out by a Flaming Sword. For although it was made use of as a Type and shadow under the Law; yet to us who must live on the substance of things, or not at all, it cannot be possessed with robbery: and is of no use when attained. For, we are to remember,