A53694:78
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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Moreover this Station of Mara, was on or about the twenty fourth Day of Nisan or April. And the first solemn Observation of the Sabbath in the Wilderness was upon the twenty second of Jar, the Month following; as may easily be evinced from Moses Journal. There were therefore twenty seven days between this Fictitious Institution of the Sabbath, and the first solemn Observation of it which was at their Station in Alush, as is generally supposed, certainly in the Wilderness of Sin, after they had left Mara and Elim, and the Coast of the Red Sea; whereunto they returned from Elim, Exod. 16. 1. Numb. 33. 8, 9, 10, 11. For they first began their journey out of Egypt on the fifteenth Day of Nisan; or the first Month, Exod. 12. 37. Numb. 33. 3. And they passed through the Sea into the Wilderness, about the nineteenth Day of that Month, as is evident from their journyings, Numb. 33. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. On the twenty-fourth of that Month they pitched in Mara; and it was the fifteenth day of Jar, or the second Month, before they entered the Wilderness of Sin, where is the first mention of their solemn Observation of the Sabbath, upon the occasion of the gathering of Manna. Between these two seasons three Sabbaths must needs intervene; and those immediately upon its first Institution, if this Fancy may be admitted. And yet the Rulers of the Congregation looked upon the peoples Preparation ⟨p. 49⟩for its Observation as an unusual thing, Exod. 16. 22. Which could not have fallen out, had it received so fresh an Institution.
Moreover this Station of Mara, was on or about the twenty fourth Day of Nisan or April. And the first solemn Observation of the Sabbath in the Wilderness was upon the twenty second of Jiar, the Month following; as may easily be evinced from Moses Journal. There were therefore twenty seven dayes between this Fictitious Institution of the Sabbath, and the first solemn Observation of it which was at their Station in Alush, as is generally supposed, certainly in the Wilderness of Sin, after they had left Mara and Elim, and the Coast of the Red Sea; whereunto they returned from Elim,