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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53694	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.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1671 (1671)	Wing O751; ESTC R25514	205,191	378

God provided in his services of old that he who was not able to offer a Bullock might offer a Dove with respect unto their outward condition in the world so here there is an allowance also for the natural temperaments and abilities of men Only whereas if Persons of old had pretended poverty to save their charge in the procuring of an offering it would not have been acceptable yea they would themselves have fallen under the curse of the Deceiver so no more will now a pretence of weakness or natural inability be any excuse unto any for neglect or profaneness Otherwise God requires of us and accepts from us according to what we have and not according to what we have not And we see it by experience that some mens natural spirits will carry them out unto a continuance in the outward observance of duties much beyond nay doubly perhaps unto what others are able who yet may observe an Holy Sabbath unto the Lord with acceptation And herein lyes the spring of the accommodation of these duties to the sick the aged the young the weak or Persons any way distempered God knoweth our frame and remembreth that we are dust as also that that dust is more discomposed and weakly compacted in some than others As thus the People gathered Manna of old some more some less 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every man according to his appetite yet he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack Exod. 16. 17 18. So is every one in sincerity according to his own ability to endeavour the sanctifying of the Name of God in the duties of this Day not being obliged by the examples or prescriptions of others according to their own measures § 9 Secondly Labour to observe this Day and to perform the duties required in it with a frame of mind becoming and answering the spirit freedom and liberty of the Gospel We are now to serve God in all things in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter Rom. 7. 6. with a spirit of peace delight joy liberty and a sound mind There were three Reasons of the bondage servile frame of spirit which was in the Judaical Church in their observance of the duties of the Law and consequently of the Sabbath First The dreadfull giving and promulgation of it on Mount Sinai which was not intended meerly to strike a terror into that Generation in the wilderness but through all Ages during that Dispensation to influence and awe the hearts of the People into a dread and terror of it Hence the Apostle tells us that Mount Sinai gendered unto bondage Gal. 4. 24. that is the Law as given thereon brought the People into a spiritually servile state wherein although secretly on the account of the Ends of the Covenant they were children and heirs yet they differed nothing from servants Chap. 4. 1 3. Secondly The renovation and re inforcement of the old Covenant with the promises and threatnings of it which was to be upon them during the continuance of that state and condition And although the Law had a new Use and End now given unto it yet they were so in the dark and the proposal of them attended with so great an obscurity that they could not clearly look into the comfort and liberty finally intended therein For the Law made nothing perfect and what was of Grace in the administration of it was so veiled with Types Ceremonies and shadows that they could not see into the End of the things that were to be done away 2 Cor. 3. 13. Thirdly The sanction of the Law by death encreased their bondage For as this in it self was a terror unto them in their services so it was expressive and a representation of the original curse of the whole Law Gal. 3. 13. And hereby were they greatly awed and terrified although some of them by especial Grace were enabled to delight themselves in God and his Ordinances And in these things was administred a spirit of bondage unto fear which by the Apostle is opposed to the spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Rom. 8. 15. Which where it is there is liberty where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 17. and there only And therefore although they boasted that they were the children of Abraham and on that reason free and never in bondage yet our Saviour lets them know that whatever they pretended they were not free untill the Son should make them so And from these things arose those innumerable anxious scrupulosities which were upon them in the observation of this Day accompanied with the severe nature of those Additions in its observation which were made unto the Law of it as appropriated unto them for a season Now all these things we are freed from under the Gospel For 1 We are not now brought to receive the Law from Mount Sinai but are come unto Mount Sion So the Apostle at large Heb. 12. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. For ye are not come unto the Mount that might be touched that is which naturally might be so by mens hands though morally the touching of it was forbidden and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest And the sound of a Trumpet and a voice of words which they that heard entreated that the Word should not be spoke unto them any more for they could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a Beast touch the Mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart And so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake which it seems were the words he used where it is on this occasion said of him And Moses spake but nothing is added of what he said Exod. 19 19. which things are insisted on by him to shew the Grounds of that bondage which the People were in under the Law whereunto he addes But you are come to Mount Sion unto the City of the living God the heavenly Hierusalem Hierusalem that is above which is free which is the mother of us all Gal. 4. 26. That is we receive the Law of our Obedience from Jesus Christ who speaks from Heaven to be observed with a spirit of liberty 2 The Old Covenant is now absolutely abolished nor is the remembrance of it any way revived Heb. 8. 13. It hath no influence into nor upon the minds of Believers They are taken into a Covenant full of Grace Joy and Peace For the Law was given by Moses but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ Joh. 1. 17. 3 In this Covenant they receive the Spirit of Christ or Adoption to serve God without legal fear Luk. 1. 74. Rom. 8. 15. Gal. 4. 6. And there is not any thing more insisted on in the Gospel as the principal priviledge thereof It is indeed nothing to have liberty in the Word and Rule unless we have it in the Spirit and Principle