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.
John Owen (1616-1683)
Category
Books
Date
1671
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3162167
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 255, [1], 353-454, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 8vo. Running number: 3272. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece portrait. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: “M.” [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript inscription on second front fly-leaf: "Willm: Bly 1729 eleven". Wax seal marks on verso of initial blank leaf. Manuscript note on the Sabbath on rear fly-leaf. Manuscript Biblical references on inside rear board. Binding: seventeenth-century sheepskin; double blind fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; recessed cords; blind fillets on spine. Red and brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Owen (1616-1683) Robert White (London 1645 - London 1703)