A53694:461
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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(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;
(1) Because thereon, God as it were calleth us aside out of the World, unto an immediate converse with himself. Israel never had a more dreadful Day, than when they were called out of their Tents, ⟨p. 437⟩from their occasions, and all worldly concerns, [Greek or Hebrew], in occursum Jehovae, to a meeting with the Lord, Exod. 19. God called them aside to meet and converse with him. But it was unto Mount Sinai that he called them; which was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended in fire, vers. 18. Hence although they had been preparing themselves for it sundry Days, they were not able to bear the terror of Gods approach unto them. But under the Gospel, we are this Day called out of the World, and off from our occasions, to converse with God, to meet him at Mount Zion,