A63997:127
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. The third is drawn from the examples of the Apostles and the apostolical Church, who in place of the (Jews) Sabbath, observed the first day of the week without variation: therefore by force of the precept, one day in seven is to be observed still. Never any hath been found to change this; therefore that which hath been kept from the beginning of the World, and shall continue to the end, is to be taken for such as by the Analogy of Gods Commandment binds all men.
3. The third is drawne from the examples of the Apostles and the apostolicall Church, who in place of the (Iewes) Sabbath, observed the first day of the weeke without variation: therefore by force of the precept, one day in seven is to be observed still. Never any hath beene found to change this; therefore that which hath beene kept from the beginning of the VVorld, and shall continue to the end, is to bee taken for such as by the Analogy of Gods Commandement binds all men.
To this Rivetus answereth, that the consequence is not ⟨p. 73⟩firm; for as much as Christians observed the Lords Day not of necessity by reason of any binding precept, but of free choice. Yet was it wisely done of them, lest by a greater change they might offend the Jews. And that it might be a free monument of their maintaining the weekly remembrance of Christs Resurrection.
To this Rivetus answereth, that the consequence is not ⟨p. 73⟩firme; for as much as Christians observed the Lords Day not of necessity by reason of any binding praecept, but of free choise. Yet was it wisely done of them, lest by a greater change they might offend the Iewes. And that it might be a free monument of their maintaining the weekly remembrance of Christs Resurrection.