A53694:491
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.
3. Labour, or pains for the enjoyment of the benefit and advantage of the solemn Assemblies of the Church, and in them of the appointed Worship of God, is so far from entrenching on the Rest of this Day, that it belongs unto its due observation. A mere Bodily Rest is no part of Religious Worship in it self, nor doth it belong unto the Sanctification of this Day, any farther then as it is a means for the due performance of the other Duties belonging unto it. We have no bounds under the Gospel for a Sabbath-days journey, provided it be for Sabbath ends. In brief, all pains or labour, that our station and condition in this world, that our troubles which may befall us, or any thing else make necessary, as that without which we cannot enjoy the solemn Ends and Uses of this Holy Day of Rest, are no way inconsistent with the due observation of it. It may be the lot of one man to take so much pains, and to travel so far for and in the due celebration of the Lords day, as if another should do the like without his occasions and circumstances, it would be a profanation of it.
3. Labour, or pains for the enjoyment of the benefit and advantage of the solemn Assemblies of the Church, and in them of the appointed Worship of God, is so far from entrenching on the Rest of this Day, that it belongs unto its due observation. A mere Bodily Rest is no part of Religious Worship in it self, nor doth it belong unto the Sanctification of this Day, any farther then as it is a means for the due performance of the other Duties belonging unto it. We have no bounds under the Gospel for a Sabbath-dayes journey, provided it be for Sabbath ends. In brief, all pains or labour, that our station and condition in this world, that our troubles which may befall us, or any thing else make necessary, as that without which we cannot enjoy the solemn Ends and Uses of this Holy Day of Rest, are no way inconsistent with the due observation of it. It may be the lot of one man to take so much pains, and to travel so far for and in the due celebration of the Lords day, as if another should do the like without his occasions and circumstances, it would be a prophanation of it.
4. Labour in works of charity and necessity, such as are to visit the sick, to relieve the poor, to help the distressed, to relieve or assist Creatures ready to perish, to supply Cattle with necessary food, is allowed by all, and hath been by many spoken unto.