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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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And of this and such like acts two reasons are given. 1. Machab. 2. If we so do, as our brethren have done, that we fight not against the Gentiles for our life & religion, they will now on a sudden drive us out of the land. Therefore they appointed within themselves within with these words: what men so ever shall by battle set upon us on the Sabbath day, we will fight with them, least we all die, as our brethren are dead. For the defence of their life and religion, they say well, that they may sight even on the Sabbath day. With the same reasons Christ defendeth himself and his Disciples. Math. 12. rehearsing a saying out of the 6. Chapter of Oseas: But if ye had known, what this is, I will have mercy ⟨image 17⟩and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the innocents and guiltless. And Mark. 2. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, that is, the ceremonial works ought to give place unto the moral, that rather the ceremonies be omitted, then the works of love, the which either our own necessity, or of our neighbour doth require. And Math. 12. Have ye not read in the law, that on the Sabbath the Priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are without fault? And I say unto you, that one greater then the Temple is here. Also John. 7. On the Sabbath ye circumcise a man. If a man receive circumcision on the Sabbath, and yet the law of Moses is not broken, are ye offended with me, that I have cured an whole man on the Sabbath? In which words he teacheth that such works, as hinder not the exercise of the Sabbath, but rather set forth and confirm the same, such as are •he works pertaining unto the worship •f God, or unto holy ceremonies, or unto •he love of our neighbour, in such sort, ⟨image 18⟩that necessity will not suffer them to be put off until another time, do not break the Sabbath, but are especially required to the right observation and keeping of the same.