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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.
Also for the feast of Tabernacles: The fifteenth day of the fifth month ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord, seven days: ⟨image 14⟩on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eight day also shall be a Sabbath. In this sense and signification the name Sabbath agreeth also unto the days, in which in the new Testament the Church doth exercise the public worship of God.
Also for the feast of Tabernacles: The fiftéenth day of the fifth moneth ye shall kéepe a feast vnto the Lorde, seuen dayes: ⟨image 14⟩on the first daie shall be a Sabboth, and on the eight daie also shall be a Sabboth. In this sense and signification the name Sabboth agréeth also vnto the daies, in which in the new Testament the Church doth exercise the publike worship of God.
Thirdly, by a figure called Synecdoche, they also call a week of days a Sabbath, as Levit. 23. From the day in which ye offer a Gomer of lifting up, there shall be seven full weeks, Math. 28. On the last Sabbath, when as it dawned into the first day of the Sabbaths, that is to say, of the week. Mark. 16. Very early the first day of the Sabbaths, that is, of the week, they came unto the Sepulchre. And from hence, by a figure called Catachresis, it is taken also for a week of years. Levit. 25. Thou shalt number unto thee seven Sabbaths of years, that is to say, seven times seven years, the which days of seven Sabbaths of years will make 49 years.
Thirdlie, by a figure called Synechdoche, they also call a weeke of daies a Sabboth, as