A63997:143
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.
Now whether Doctor Rivetus his answers to the arguments of Wallaeus, 1or his own arguments to the contrary be of any force to hold him to that opinion which he conceives to be Calvins in opposition to the Doctrine delivered by Wallaeus, I am con ent the indifferent may judge; as also whether the two causes mentioned by him for the observation of the Sabbath contained in the Commandment, doth not infer the third also which Rivetus opposeth, namely the proportion of one day in seven. And that this is as free from all colour of ceremoniality as any of the other two. The first was that some time is to be set apart for Gods Service; now this general is not commanded there but as contained in the special, to wit, the proportion of one day in seven. Both of them being equally contained in the particularity of the seventh day in that Commandment expressed. And as for the morality of rest to be allowed to servants after six days of labour; this doth clearly draw with it the confinement of the time appointed for Gods Service to the proportion of one day in seven; unless the day of rest for servants shall not be the day consecrated to the exercises of piety. And I much wonder that Doctor Rivetus a man of such judgement, and perspicacity doth not observe this. The only way to help this anomaly is in plain terms to profess that some rest is to be allowed to servants by their Masters, but in what proportion, that is not defined, but left at large to the pleasure of their Masters. And as for ceremoniality in the proportion of one day in seven, never any man devised any such thing more then in the setting apart of some time in general for Gods Service, all confessing this to be a duty known by the very light of nature. But I do not find that Calvin hath any other meaning then that we are not so tied to one day in seven, but that more time then this may be consecrated to Divine Service; which as I have disputed before, so now I am the more confirmed herein, Doctor Rivetus manifesting this to be his opinion also, as well as it was the opinion of Gomarus; For in this he rests, as may appear by his ⟨p. 80⟩answer to the first argument of Doctor Wallaeus. Neither is it true that Calvin did censure them who simply maintained, that the observation of one day in the week doth still remain as moral;
Now whether Doctor Rivetus his answers to the arguments of Wallaeus,