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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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Psal. 122. I rejoiced with them that said unto me, we will go into the house of the Lord. Also, For my brethren sake I will now speak peace of thee, because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good.
Psal. 122. I reioyced with them that sayd vnto me, we will goe into the house of the Lord. Also, For my bretheren sake I will now speake peace of thee, because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek thy good.
Thirdly, obedience in those things,1 which appertain unto the ministry. Hebr. 4. Obey your Rulers. Hitherto appertain the works of love towards God, and towards our neighbour, that is, the whole life of a Christian, which is the spiritual Sabbath For it is nothing else to keep a spiritual Sabbath,2 then in the ordering of our life to obey the voice of God sounding by the ministry of the Church. For God will have the doctrine learned to this end, that it may be obeyed. Jam. 1. Performe ye the word in deed, and be not hearers only, deceiving your selves: because if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared unto a man beholding the countenance of his birth in a glass, for he hath beheld himself, and went his way, and by and by forgetteth what manner one he was.
Thirdly, obedience in those thinges,1 which appertaine vnto the ministerie.