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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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Secondly, that this rest of the seventh §2day might be a monument and token of the perfecting and fi• ishing of the creation by God, and of the continuing on that day of the perpetual preservation and governing of his works, unto his glory & benefit of his elect and chosen, and therefore might be a spur unto the consideration and setting forth of these works and benefits towards mankind, for whose ⟨image 21⟩sake all other things are made and preserved by God, that out of the same mankind, made and formed after his own image, he might gather and preserve a Church unto himself, the which in this life and for ever might praise him.
Secondly, that this rest of the seuenth §2day might be a monument and token of the perfecting and fi• ishing of the creation by God, and of the continuing on that day of the perpetual preseruation and gouerning of his workes, vnto his glorie & benefit of his elect and chosen, and therefore might be a spur vnto the consideration and setting forth of these works and benefites towardes mankinde, for whose ⟨image 21⟩sake all other things are made and preserued by God, that out of the same mankinde, made and formed after his owne image, he might gather and preserue a Church vnto himselfe, the which in this life and for euer might praise him.
1Now the imitation and following of his rest, unto the which by his own example he doth exhort us, is of two sorts: ceremonial, and signifying: and moral or spiritual, or signified. For the works, the which are called the works §1