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A very profitable and necessary discourse concerning the observation and keeping of the Sabbath…A verie profitable and necessarie discourse concerning the obseruation and keeping of the Sabboth…
A very profitable and necessary discourse concerning the observation and keeping of the Sabbath day serving as well to confute the superstition of the Jews, which obstinately urge the strict keeping of the seventh day, as also to overthrow the vain and godless reasons of others, that stiffly at this day maintain, that Christians ought to keep no set or appointed time to worship and serve the Lord in, in his church and faithful congregation. Written in Latin by Zacharias Ursinus, sometimes reader of the divinity lecture in the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and very newly turned into English, by John Stockwood schoolmaster of Tunbridge.A verie profitable and necessarie discourse concerning the obseruation and keeping of the Sabboth day seruing as well to confute the superstition of the Iewes, which obstinately vrge the strict keeping of the seuenth day, as also to ouerthrowe the vaine and godlesse reasons of others, that stiffely at this day maintaine, that Christians ought to keepe no set or appoynted time to worship and serue the Lord in, in his church and faithfull congregation. Written in Latine by Zacharias Vrsinus, sometimes reader of the diuinitie lecture in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberg in Germanie, and very nevvly turned into English, by Iohn Stockvvood schoolemaster of Tunbridge.
London: printed by T. East? for John Harrison the younger, 1584London: printed by T. East? for Iohn Harrison the yonger, 1584
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These causes appertain not unto any one certain time, but unto all times of the Church and of the world. Therefore God will always have the ministry of his Church preserved, and the use and exercise thereof frequented, practised, & haunted:1 and therefore the kind of this commandment, or the moral part thereof, from the beginning of the world even unto the end, doth bind all men, namely that some Sabbath be kept, that is to say, that some time be appointed for sermons, & public prayers, and ministering of the sacraments. But contrariwise the seventh day was appointed by God unto the ministry even from the beginning of the world, to signify,2 that men after the example of God ought to rest from their works, that is to say, from their daily labours belonging unto this life, but especially from sin, & give them selves wholly unto the meditation and thinking upon, and unto the praising and setting forth of the works of God.
These causes appertaine not vnto any one certein time, but vnto al times of the Church and of the world. Therefore God wil alwaies haue the ministerie of his Church preserued, and the vse and exercise therof frequented, practised, & haunted:1 and therefore the kinde of this commandement, or the morall part therof, frō the beginning of the world euen vnto the end, doth binde al men, namely that some Sabboth be kept, yt is to say, yt some time be appointed for sermons, & publike praiers, and ministring of ye sacraments. But contrariwise ye seuenth day was appointed by God vnto the ministerie euen frō the beginning of ye world, to signifie,2 that men after the example of God ought to rest from their works, that is to say, from their daily labours belonging vnto this life, but especially from sinne, & giue them selues wholly vnto the meditation and thinking vpon, and vnto the praising and setting forth of the workes of God.
- 1The moral part of this commandment perpetual & everlasting.