A63997:138
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. Neither doth it follow that because it is not moral nor political, therefore it is ceremonial; for some will say that it is positive as touching the defining of some particular necessarily required to the performance of a moral duty. As for example, not to go further then the matter in hand for instance; it is generally confessed, to be a moral duty by natural instinct, that some time is to be set apart for Gods service; but of our selves we are to seek of the proportion of time; it is fit for none so much as for God himself our Creator, and consequently our great Lord and master to define what proportion of time shall be allowed for his service; now this they call positively moral, as belonging to the execution ⟨p. 77⟩of a moral duty. Yet indeed not so much a circumstance thereof in proper speech as the specification of the general concerning the circumstance of time.
2. Neither doth it follow that because it is not morall nor politicall, therefore it is ceremoniall; for some will say that it is positive as touching the defining of some particular necessarily required to the performance of a morall duty. As for example, not to go further then the matter in hand for instance; it is generally confessed, to be a morall duty by naturall instinct, that some time is to bee set apart for Gods service; but of our selves wee are to seeke of the proportion of time; it is fit for none so much as for God himselfe our Creator, and consequently our great Lord and master to define what proportion of time shall be allowed for his service; now this they call positively morall, as belonging to the execution ⟨p. 77⟩of a morall duty. Yet indeed not so much a circumstance thereof in proper speech as the specification of the generall concerning the circumstance of time.
3. Yet to draw nearer to the morality of it; what?1