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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.
2. Now this puts me in mind of another way clearly to demonstrate the inconsequence of Rivetus his argument thus. If it will follow that in case we are bound to such a proportion of time by virtue of this Commandment, therefore we are bound also to keep the seventh day: Then it will follow as well, that because we are bound to set apart some time for the service of God by virtue of this Commandment ⟨p. 76⟩(as all confess) therefore we are bound also to keep such a proportion of time as is here specified, and the seventh day also which is here particulated; For like as God doth not command such a proportion of time in special, but by commanding the observation of the seventh day; in like sort neither doth God Command a time in general to be set apart for his service, but by commanding of such a proportion of time in special, and such a Day in particular.
2. Now this puts me in minde of another way clearely to demonstrate the inconsequence of Rivetus his argument thus. If it will follow that in case wee are bound to such a proportion of time by vertue of this Commandement, therefore wee are bound also to keepe the seventh day: Then it will follow as well, that because wee are bound to set apart some time for the service of God by vertue of this Commandement ⟨p. 76⟩(as all confesse) therefore we are bound also to keepe such a proportion of time as is here specified, and the seventh day also which is here particulated; For like as God doth not command such a proportion of time in speciall, but by commanding the observation of the seventh day; in like sort neither doth God Command a time in generall to bee set apart for his service, but by commanding of such a proportion of time in speciall, and such a Day in particular.
12. His second argument runs thus: if the observation of every seventh day be moral it must be known by light of nature, but so it is not. Therefore it is not moral; and seeing it is not political, it must be ceremonial; and therefore doth not oblige by force of Law moral. To this I answer first.