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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.
For the Determination of the Day in the Hebdomadal Revolution, was added in the Law Decalogical, to the Law of Nature. And this was with respect unto, and in the confirmation of that Ordinance which gave them the seventh Day Sabbath in a peculiar manner; that is the seventh Day after six days raining of Manna, Exod. 16. And in the other, the Promise annexed unto it of prolonging their Days, had peculiar respect unto the Land of Canaan. There is neither of these, but is a far more probable Reason of the annexing those words, as the Lord thy God commanded thee, unto those two Commandments, than that fixed on by the Talmudical Masters. Herein only I agree with them; that both these Commands were given alike in Mara; and one of them I suppose none will deny to be a principal Dictate of the Law of Nature. For the words mentioned, [Greek or Hebrew] an Ordinance and a Statute, the meaning of them is plainly expounded, v. 26. God then declared this unto them as his unchangeable Ordinance and Institution, that he would bless them on their Obedience, and punish ⟨p. 48⟩them upon their Unbelief and Rebellion, wherein they had Experience of his Faithfulness to their cost. The Reader may see this Fiction farther disproved in Tostatus on the place, though I confess some of his Reasons are inconstringent and frivolous.
For the Determination of the Day in the Hebdomadal Revolution, was added in the Law Decalogical, to the Law of Nature. And this was with respect unto, and in the confirmation of that Ordinance which gave them the seventh Day Sabbath in a peculiar manner; that is the seventh Day after six dayes raining of Manna, Exod. 16. And in the other, the Promise annexed unto it of prolonging their Dayes, had peculiar respect unto the Land of Canaan. There is neither of these, but is a far more probable Reason of the annexing those words, as the Lord thy God commanded thee, unto those two Commandments, than that fixed on by the Talmudical Masters. Herein only I agree with them; that both these Commands were given alike in Mara; and one of them I suppose none will deny to be a principal Dictate of the Law of Nature. For the words mentioned, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 an Ordinance and a Statute, the meaning of them is plainly expounded, v. 26. God then declared this unto them as his unchangeable Ordinance and Institution, that he would bless them on their Obedience, and punish