A53694:84
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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as we shall see. Those who assert the former Opinion deny that the Precept, or rather Directions about the Observation of the Sabbath given unto the people of Israel in the Wilderness of Sin, Exod. 16. was its first Original Institution; but affirm that it was either a new Declaration of the Law, and usage of it unto them, who in their long Bondage had lost both its Doctrine and Practice, with a renewed reinforcement of it, by an especial circumstance of the Manna not falling on that Day; or rather a particular Application of a Catholic Moral Command unto the Economy of that Church, unto whose state the people were then under a Praeludium in the Occasional Institution of sundry particular Ordinances, as hath been declared in our former Exercitations. This is the plain state of the present Controversy about the Original of the Sabbath, as to Time and Place, wherein what is according unto Truth, is now to be enquired after.
as we shall see. Those who assert the former Opinion deny that the Precept, or rather Directions about the Observation of the Sabbath given unto the people of Israel in the Wilderness of Sin, Exod. 16. was its first Original Institution; but affirm that it was either a new Declaration of the Law, and usage of it unto them, who in their long Bondage had lost both its Doctrine and Practice, with a renewed reinforcement of it, by an especial circumstance of the Manna not falling on that Day; or rather a particular Application of a Catholick Moral Command unto the Oeconomy of that Church, unto whose state the people were then under a Praeludium in the Occasional Institution of sundry particular Ordinances, as hath been declared in our former Exercitations. This is the plain state of the present Controversie about the Original of the Sabbath, as to Time and Place, wherein what is according unto Truth, is now to be enquired after.
§. 7 The Opinion of the Institution of the Sabbath from the Beginning of the world, is founded principally on a double Testimony, one in the Old Testament, and the other in the New. And both of them seem to me of so uncontrollable an Evidence, that I have often wondered how ever any sober and Learned Persons undertook to evade their rce or Efficacy in this Cause. The first is that of