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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.
1Forasmuch then as this is the sanctifying or hallowing of the Sabbath, it followeth that the things wherewith the Sabbath is profaned or broken, are contrary unto these works.
1Forasmuch then as this is the sanctifiing or hallowing of the Sabboth, it followeth that the thinges wherewith the Sabboth is prophaned or broken, are contrarie vnto these workes.
- 1Contraries & repugnant unto the works of the Sabbath.Cōtraries & repugnant vnto the vvorkes of the Sabboth.
Against the teaching of doctrine is set the leaving or forslowing of the duty of teaching,1 either privately or publicly. Esa. 56. All her watch-men are dumb dogs, which are not able to bark, sleeping, taking their ease, very diligent to sleep. And they are ravenous dogs, which know not when they are full, and the Shepherds themselves understand nothing, they have all gone aside after their own way, every one unto his covetousness in his place. Ezech. 34. Woe unto ⟨image 29⟩the Shepherds that have fed themselves: Do not shepherds feed their flock? Ye have eaten the fat, and do clothe your selves with the wool: ye have killed the fat, but have not fed the sheep: the weak have ye not comforted, and the sick have ye not healed, and the broken have ye not bound up, that that was cast down ye have not brought again, & that which was lost ye have not sought, but ye have reigned over them cruelly and tyrannously.