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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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1Out of these significations of the word, the first and the second have place in this commandment as concerning the words, & the fifth by an allegory: This also doth the manner of the figures show, in the ordaining of the which God will always have their signification to be understood and observed. And Esayas, chapter 28. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, that thou do not thine own will on mine holy day, and call the Sabbath thy delight, that it be holy, honourable unto the Lord, and shalt honour it, that thou do not thine own ways, that thine own will be not found and that thou find not a word. And therefore with a vehemency he saith, as of a thing most straightly commanded: Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day, that is, that with great care and religion thou hallow it. And Exod. 31. He ⟨image 15⟩commandeth him to be put to death, which shall break the Sabbath. Also Ezech 20. and 22. When as he complaineth of the corruption of the whole worship of God: he saith that the Sabbath is broken: of which straightness in requiring of the keeping of the Sabbath, there are evidently apparent two causes especially: The one, for that the neglecting of the §1ministry of the Church doeth very easily corrupt and blot out the doctrine and worship of GOD: The other, §2for that by the straight requiring of the figurative Sabbath, GOD would declare the greatness and necessity of the thing signified, to wit, of the spiritual Sabbath. The same may be understood by the end of the ceremonial and moral commandment touching the Sabbath. For GOD will have the external or outward Sabbath to serve unto the beginning and finishing in us of the spiritual Sabbath. He will not therefore have that observed and kept without this. Finally, hereby this same is manifest, in that he commandeth the Sabbath to be hallowed, that is, not to be spent in lazy ⟨image 16⟩idleness, but to have sin to be avoided, and holy works to be done therein.2