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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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1He will have our families also and our children to cease from labours, for §1two causes: first and principally, that these also by their parents and masters may be brought up and instructed in the worship of God, and to be admitted • accustomed unto the exercise of the ministry of the church: for he will have these also reckoned among the members of his Church, and doth exhort them by the example of his rest unto the […] of the §2Sabbath Secondly, because he will have love and bountifulness towards our neighbours, to be exercised and seen in his Church, bo•h in our whole life, and also especially on the Sabbath. Therefore he reciteth this cause also of the outward rest, or sabbath, albeit it be accidental and a second came, […] rest from labours might be granted unto servant and our family, & by calling to remembrance the bondage in Egypt, he exho• teth the Jew•• to use c• rtesie toward ⟨image 18⟩their servants, the which they in bondage wished to be showed unto themselves. Deut. 5. That thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou: & remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee thence by a strong hand, and a stretched out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.
1He will haue our families also and our children to cease from labours, for §1two causes: first and principallie, that these also by their parents and masters maye bee brought vp and instructed in the worship of God, and to be admitted • accustomed vnto the exercise of the ministerie of the church: for he wil haue these also reckoned among the members of his Church, and doth exhort them by the example of his rest vnto the of the