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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.
our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God undertook a great work to make peace for us, to redeem and save us; and when he had so done, and finished his work, even the erecting of the new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness, he entered into his Rest, and thereby made known unto us, that we should keep this Day as a day of an Holy Rest unto him; and as a pledge that we have again given unto us, an entrance into Rest with God.
our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God undertook a great work to make peace for us, to redeem and save us; and when he had so done, and finished his work, even the erecting of the new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness, he entred into his Rest, and thereby made known unto us, that we should keep this Day as a day of an Holy Rest unto him; and as a pledge that we have again given unto us, an entrance into Rest with God.
(6) We are then to Remember, that this Day is a pledge of our eternal Rest with God. This is that whereunto these things do tend. For therein will God glorify himself in the full accomplishment of his great design, in all his Works of Power and Grace. And this is that which ultimately we aim at. We do at best in this World but enter into the Rest of God; the full enjoyment of it is reserved for Eternity. Hence that is usually called our everlasting Sabbath; as that state wherein we shall always Rest with God, and always give Glory unto him. And this Day is a pledge hereof on sundry accounts;
(6) We are then to Remember, that this Day is a pledge of our eternal Rest with God. This is that whereunto these things do tend. For therein will God glorifie himself in the full accomplishment of his great design, in all his Works of Power and Grace. And this is that which ultimately we aim at. We do at best in this World but enter into the Rest of God; the full enjoyment of it is reserved for Eternity. Hence that is usually called our everlasting Sabbath; as that state wherein we shall alwayes Rest with God, and alwayes give Glory unto him. And this Day is a pledge hereof on sundry accounts;