A27107:626
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › Meditations of the true manner of practising Piety on the Sabbath-day.
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.
And in the same Epistle, St. Paul protesteth, that he delivered them none other Ordinance,1 or Doctrine, but what he had received of the Lord. Insomuch that he cha•geth them,2 that if any man think himself to be a prophet or Spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you, are the commandments of the Lord. But he wrote unto them, and ordained among them, to keep their Sabbath on the first day of the Week: therefore to keep the Sabbath on that day, is the very commandment of the Lord. And how can he be either a true Prophet, or have any grace of God's Spirit in his heart, who seeing so clearly the Lord's day to have been i•••• tuted and ordained by the Apostles, will not acknowledge the keeping holy of the Lord's day, to be a Commandment of the Lord? The Jews confess this change of the Sabbath to have been made by the Apostles. Peter Alphon. in Dialog. contra Judae•s, tit. 12. They are therefore more blind and sottish than the Jews, who profanely deny it.
And in the same Epistle, St. Paul protesteth, that he d•livered them none other Ordinance,1 or Doctrine, but what he had received of the Lord. Insomuch that he cha•geth them,2 that if any man think himself to be a prophet or Spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you, are the commandments of the Lord. But he wrote unto them, and ordained among them, to keep their Sabbath on the first day of the Week: therefore to keep the Sabbath on that day, is the very commandment of the Lord. And how can he be either a true Prophet, or have any grace of God's Spirit in his heart, who seeing so clearly the Lord's day to have been i•••• tuted and ordained by the Apostles, will not acknowledge the keeping holy of the Lord's day, to be a Commendment of the Lord? The Jews confess this change of the Sabbath to have been made by the Apostles. Peter Alphon. in Dialog. contra Judaes, tit. 12. They are therefore more blind and sottish than the Jews, who prophanely deny it.