A53694:92
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.
The sense of the words is plain, and are but darkened by these circumlocutions. [Greek or Hebrew] The Jews do well express the general sense of the words when they say of the Day, that [Greek or Hebrew], it was divided or distinguished from the common nature of things in the world; namely, by having a new Sacred Relation added unto it. For that the Day it self is the subject spoken of, as the object of Gods blessing and sanctification, nothing but unallowable Prejudice will deny. And this to be the sense of the Expressions, both the words used to declare the Acts of God about it do declare.
The sense of the words is plain, and are but darkned by these circumlocutions. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 The Jews do well express the general sense of the words when they say of the Day, that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it was divided or distinguished from the common nature of things in the world; namely, by having a new Sacred Relation added unto it. For that the Day it self is the subject spoken of, as the object of Gods blessing and sanctification, nothing but unallowable Prejudice will deny. And this to be the sense of the Expressions, both the words used to declare the Acts of God about it do declare.
(1.) [Greek or Hebrew] he blessed it. Gods Blessing as the Jews say, and they say well therein, is [Greek or Hebrew] an Addition of Good. It relates to some thing that hath a real present Existence, to which it makes an Addition of some farther Good, than it was before partaker of. Hereof, as we said, the Day in this place was the Direct and immediate Object; God blessed it. Some peculiar Good was added unto it. Let this be inquired into what it was, and wherein it did consist, and the meaning of the words will be evident. It must be somewhat whereby it was preferred unto, or exalted above other days. When any thing of that nature is assigned, besides ⟨p. 61⟩a Relation given unto it to the Worship of God, it shall be considered. That this was it, is plain from the Nature of the thing it self, and from the actual separation and use of it to that purpose which did ensue.