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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
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.
And afterwards this commandment ⟨image 10⟩was rehearsed again in the law of Moses, 1and the ceremony of resting the seventh day was withal made a Sacrament, that is to say, a token of sanctification, whereby God did signify, that he was the sanctifier of the Church, that is, to forgive her her sins, to receive her into favour, to endue and govern her by the holy Ghost, to the beginning of a new and everlasting life in this life, and afterward to be perfected and finished for and by the promised Messiah. Exo. 31. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations, that ye may know that I am the Lord, which do sanctify you. Ezech. 20. And I have given unto them my Sabbaths, that they should be for a sign between me and them, that they should know that I am the Lord which do sanctify them.2
And afterwards this commandement ⟨image 10⟩was rehearsed again in the lawe of Moses, 1and the ceremonie of resting the seauenth daie was withall made a Sacrament, that is to saie, a token of sanctification, wherby God did signifie, that he was the sanctifier of the Church, that is, to forgiue her her sinnes, to receiue her into fauour, to endue and gouerne her by the holie Ghost, to the beginning of a new and euerlasting life in this life, and afterward to be perfected and finished for and by the promised Messias. Exo. 31. Ye shal keep my Sabboths: because it is a signe betweene me and you in your generations, that yee may know that I am the Lord, which doo sanctifie you. Ezech. 20. And I haue giuen vnto them my Sabboths, that they should be for a signe betweene me and them, that they shuld know that I am the Lord which doe sanctifie them.