A53694:91
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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§. 8 Neither is the sense given by this Author and some others of that expression to sanctify, that is to declare or testify any Person or thing to be Holy, being spoken by God, and not of him objectively, usual or to be justified. In reference unto God, our sanctifying him or his Name, is indeed to testify or declare his Holiness, by our giving Honour and Glory to him, in our Holy Obedience. But as to men and things, to sanctify them is either really to sanctify them by making them internally holy, or to separate and dedicate them unto Holy Uses; the former peculiar to Persons, the latter common to them with other things made sacred, by an authoritative separation from profane or common Uses, unto a peculiar, sacred, or holy Use in the Worship of God. And the following words in our Author, that the Day is sanctified and made holy not in it self, but by the Holiness ⟨p. 60⟩of man, any more to the purpose. For as man was no more created on that Day than the Beasts of the Field, so that from his Holiness no colour can be taken to ascribe Holiness unto the Day; so it is not consistent with what was before asserted, that the sanctification intended is the Holiness of God himself as declared in his works; for now it is made the Holiness of Man.
§. 8 Neither is the sense given by this Author and some others of that expression to sanctifie, that is to declare or testifie any Person or thing to be Holy, being spoken by God, and not of him objectively, usual or to be justified. In reference unto God, our sanctifying him or his Name, is indeed to testifie or declare his Holiness, by our giving Honour and Glory to him, in our Holy Obedience. But as to men and things, to sanctifie them is either really to sanctifie them by making them internally holy, or to separate and dedicate them unto Holy Uses; the former peculiar to Persons, the latter common to them with other things made sacred, by an authoritative separation from prophane or common Uses, unto a peculiar, sacred, or holy Use in the Worship of God. And the following words in our Author, that the Day is sanctified and made holy not in it self, but by the Holiness ⟨p. 60⟩of man, any more to the purpose. For as man was no more created on that Day than the Beasts of the Field, so that from his Holiness no colour can be taken to ascribe Holiness unto the Day; so it is not consistent with what was before asserted, that the sanctification intended is the Holiness of God himself as declared in his works; for now it is made the Holiness of Man.