A63997:105
The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…
The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians of our age: wherein is showed that the morality of the fourth Commandment is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day. Written by that learned assertor of the truth, William Twice D.D. late prolocutor to the Assembly of Divines.The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians of our age: wherein is shewed that the morality of the fourth Commandement is still in force to bind Christians unto the sanctification of the Sabbath day. Written by that learned assertor of the truth, William Twisse D.D. late prolocutor to the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Thomas Pierrepont, 1652
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.
which some observe to have been spoken, not of the seventh day of the week, but of the seventh day of the month rather, wherein Apollo was borne (which yet is alleged by Clement and Eusebius as for the seventh day of the week) what is wanting herein, being so plentifully supplied other ways.) And whereas Gomarus being convicted of the evidence of this truth, betakes himself to a new course, as to say that this practise of Heathens was taken from the Jews, and not from the ancient Patriarchs; Doctor Rivetus brings a manifest place out of Josephus to refute that conceit of his; As who professeth that this custom of the Gentiles had been [Greek or Hebrew] long ago. And how unlikely is it, that either the Egyptians, or the Nations bordering upon the Jews should take this from the Jews, when we consider Solitum inter accolas odium, as Tacitus observes, the accustomed hatred between borderers; 1especially between the seed of the Woman, and the seed of the Serpent*; and how distasteful the things of God are unto natural men, even foolishness unto them, neither can they know them, because they are spiritually discerned. And Homer, and Linus, and Callimachus, fetch the seventh day from the very Creation, as whereon the making of all things was finished. I come at length to the fourth Argument.
which some observe to have beene spoken, not of the seventh day of the weeke, but of the seventh day of the moneth rather, wherein Apollo was borne (which yet is alleaged by Clement and Eusebius as for the seventh day of the weeke) what is wanting herein, being so plentifully supplyed other wayes.) And whereas Gomarus being convicted of the evidence of this truth, betakes himselfe to a new course, as to say that this practise of Heathens was taken from the Jewes, and not from the ancient Patriarchs; Doctor Rivetus brings a manifest place out of Iosephus to refute that conceite of his; As who professeth that this custome of the Gentiles had beene 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 long agoe. And how unlikely is it, that either the Egyptians, or the Nations bordering upon the Jewes should take this from the Jewes, when we consider Solitum inter accolas odium, as Tacitus observes, the accustomed hatred between borderers; 1