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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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Fourthly they reply: Objection. 4 1That the laws given by God before the fall, are not figures of benefits to be received in the Messiah, and that they do bind all mankind at all times: for then as at that time the promise concerning the Messiah was not yet given, and there was one & the same condition & estate of all mankind, the which was comprehended in our first parents: but the Sabbath of the seventh day was ordained of God, after the creation of the world was finished, before the fall of mankind: therefore it is universal and perpetual. Answer.
Fourthlie they replie: Obiectiō. 4 1That the lawes giuen by God before the fall, are not figures of benefits to be receiued in ye Messias, and that they do bind all mankinde at all times: for then as at that time the promise concerning the Messias was not yet giuen, and there was one & the same condition & estate of all mankind, ye which was comprehended in our first parents: but the Sabboth of the seuenth day was ordained of God, after the creation of the world was finished, before ye fall of mankinde: therefore it is vniuersall and perpetuall. Ansvvere.
- 1The Sabbath after the fall is made a figure.The Sabboth after the fall is made a figure.
We answer by distinguishing of the Major: the which is true concerning moral laws, the natural knowledges whereof were imprinted in the mind of man in the creation, but is not true as touching the ceremony or keeping of the seventh day, as which after the fall in the law of Moses was made a figure of the benefits to be received in the Messiah, and therefore like as other ceremonies, either then, or before ordained, was made subject unto change by the coming of the Messiah. ⟨image 12⟩