A53694:81
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.
He distinguisheth their Sacred Feasts into the Weekly Sabbath, and the New Moons, or those that depended [Greek or Hebrew] upon the Appearing of the New Moon. The first he calls [Greek or Hebrew]; Sabbath Bereschith, the Sabbath instituted ⟨p. 52⟩at the Creation; for so from the first of Genesis they often express technically the work of the Creation: This he says, was given to every man; for there is no more required to the due Observation of it in point of Time, but that a man be able to reckon six Days, and so rest on the seventh. But now for the Observation of the New Moons, all Feasts that depended on the variations of her Appearances, this was peculiar to themselves, and the Determination of it left unto the Sanhedrin. For they trusted not unto Astrological Computations merely, as to the Changes of the Moon, but sent Persons unto sundry high places to watch and observe her first Appearances, which if they answered the general established Rules, then they proclaimed the Beginning of the Feast to be. So Maimon. Ridush, Hackodesh, cap. 2.
He distinguisheth their Sacred Feasts into the Weekly Sabbath, and the New Moons, or those that depended 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 upon the Appearing of the New Moon. The first he calls 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; Sabbath Bereschith, the Sabbath instituted ⟨p. 52⟩at the Creation; for so from the first of Genesis they often express tecnically the work of the Creation: This he sayes, was given to every man; for there is no more required to the due Observation of it in point of Time, but that a man be able to reckon six Dayes, and so rest on the seventh. But now for the Observation of the New Moons, all Feasts that depended on the variations of her Appearances, this was peculiar to themselves, and the Determination of it left unto the Sanedrym. For they trusted not unto Astrological Computations meerly, as to the Changes of the Moon, but sent Persons unto sundry high places to watch and observe her first Appearances, which if they answered the general established Rules, then they proclaimed the Beginning of the Feast to be. So Maimon. Ridush, Hackodesh, cap. 2.