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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.
3. And lastly whereas he grants (with Calvin) that after ⟨p. 71⟩so many days (to wit after six, for no other number was specified) rest must be granted to servants on the seventh; doth not this evidently convince that that day must be our Christian Sabbath? For what? shall the masters keep one, and the servants another? or shall the servants not give themselves to the service of God on the day of their rest, but rather on the day of their labour in the works of their proper callings? observe I pray how at every turn the light of Gods direction doth meet with us, to keep us in the good ways of the Lord, if we will not wilfully shut our eyes against it. Now let that seventh day which is our Christian Sabbath be well observed, first; and then let the states take what order they shall see good, for the observation of another day also. Yet we find by experience, that hardly are men able to maintain a poor living by labouring hardly six whole days in the week. I come to the second which Rivetus recapitulates in brief thus.
3. And lastly whereas he grants (with Calvin) that after ⟨p. 71⟩so many dayes (to wit after six, for no other number was specifyed) rest must bee granted to servants on the seventh; doth not this evidently convince that that day must bee our Christian Sabbath? For what? shall the masters keepe one, and the servants another? or shall the servants not give themselves to the service of God on the day of their rest, but rather on the day of their labour in the workes of their proper callings? observe I pray how at every turne the light of Gods direction doth meete with us, to keepe us in the good wayes of the Lord, if we will not wilfully shut our eyes against it. Now let that seventh day which is our Christian Sabbath be well observed, first; and then let the states take what order they shall see good, for the observation of another day also. Yet we finde by experience, that hardly are men able to maintaine a poore living by labouring hardly six whole dayes in the weeke. I come to the second which Rivetus recapitulates in briefe thus.