A09365:1347
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
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To this some do answer, in the evening, and some in the morning. My answer is this, that the Sabbath of the new Testament amongst us, is to begin in the morning, and so to continue t•l the next morrow, & not in the evening, till the evening.
To this some doe answer, in the euening, and some in the morning. My answer is this, that the Sabboth of the new Testament amongst vs, is to beginne in the morning, and so to continue t•l the next morrow, & not in the euening, till the euening.
The reasons be these. 1. The Sabbath is to begin, when other ordinary days begin, according to the order and account of the Church wherein we live. 2. It was the practise of Christ and the Apostles. For Christ (as it hath been thought of ancient times) consecrated the Sabbath, in that he rose from the dead early in the morning, when the first day of the week began to dawn, Matth. 28. 1. and therefore it is fit that the Sabbath day should then begin when he rose, for as much as it is kept in remembrance of his resurrection. The same was the practise of the Apostles. For Act. 20. 7. the first day of the week the Jews came together at Troas in the morning, & there Paul preached from that time till midnight, being the next morning to depart, having staid there as is plain out of the 6. v. seven days. In that text I no•e two things. First, that the night there mentioned was a part of the seventh ⟨p. 466⟩day of Pauls abode at Troas. For if it were not so, then he had stayed at least a night longer, and so more then seven days, because he should have stayed part of another day. Secondly, that this night was a part of the Sabbath which they then kept. For the Apostle keeps it in manner of a Sabbath, in the exercises of piety and divine worship, and namely in Preaching. Yea further he continues there till the rest was fully ended: He communed with them till the dawning of the day, and so departed. vers. 11. Besides this text, David saith in his Psalm of the Sabbath, that he will declare Gods loving kindness in the morning, and his truth in the night,