A05817:631
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
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.
8 Because that the whole Church, by an *universal consent, ever since the Apostles time, have still held the commandment of the Sabbath, to be the moral and perpetual Law of God, and the keeping of the Sabbath on the first day of the week, to be the institution of Christ and his Apostles.
8 Because that the whole Church, by an *vniuersall consent, euer since the Apostles time, haue still held the commandement of the Sabbath, to be the morall and perpetuall Law of God, and the keeping of the Sabbath on the first day of the weeke, to be the institution of Christ and his Apostles.
- *Si quid horū tota die per orbem frequentat Ecclesia. Nam hoc quin ita saciendum sit disputare: insolentissimae insaniae est. August. Ep. 118. ad Jan.Si quid horū tota die per orbem frequentat Ecclesia. Nam hoc quin ita saciendum sit disputare: insolentissimae insaniae est. August. Ep. 118. ad Ian.
1The Synod called Synodus Coloniensis saith, that the Lords day hath been famous in the Church ever since the Apostles time. 2Ignatius Bishop of Antioch, living in S. Johns time, saith, Let every one that loveth Christ, keep holy the Lords day, renowned by his Resurrection, 3which is the Queen of days, in which death is overcome, ⟨p. 539⟩and life is sprung up in Christ. Justine Martyr, who lived not long after him, showeth, how the Christians kept their Sabbath on the Lords day, as we do. Origen,