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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.
The sum therefore of the commandment is,1 that it establisheth the public worship of god, or ministry of the church, and the exercise and honour of the same. For this is the hallowing, or holy of use the Sabbath, that is to say, of the time appointed unto the ministry, when as on that day, holy works, the which God ⟨image 22⟩hath commanded at that time to be done, are exercised.2 Now the parts of this hallowing, or the works of the Sabbath, the which on the Sabbath ought to be done partly by the Ministers and partly by the Church, are these especially.
The summe therefore of the commanment is,1 that it establisheth the publike worship of god, or ministery of the church, and the exercise and honour of the same. For this is ye halowing, or holy of vse the Sabboth, that is to saye, of the time appoynted vnto the ministerie, when as on that day, holy workes, the which God ⟨image 22⟩hath commanded at that time to be done, are exercised.2 Now the partes of this halowing, or the workes of the Sabboth, the which on the Sabboth ought to bee done partly by the Ministers and partly by the Church, are these especially.
- 1The sum of the 4. commandment.The sum of the 4. commandement.
- 2The works of the Sabbath.The vvorks of the Sabboth.