A63997:155
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.
1The Sabbath (saith he) had reference to the old Creation, but in Christ we are a new Creature, a new Creation, and so to have a new Sabbath. And again, It hath ever been the Churches doctrine that Christ made an end of all Sabbaths by his Sabbath in the Grave. That Sabbath was the last of them.— And that the Lords Day presently came in place of it. And for the confirmation hereof brings in that of Austin Ep. 119 ad Januarium: The Lords Day by Christs Resurrection hath been declared unto Christians, and from that time began to have its festivity. 2Doctor Lakes Bishop of Wells maintains the same Doctrine after the same manner in his Theses de Sabbato, thes. 27. Man having sinned, and so by sin abolished the first Creation De jure, though not de facto; God was pleased by Christ to make a new instauration of the World. 28. He (as the Scripture ⟨p. 89⟩speaks of Christs redemptions) made a new Heaven and a new Earth. Old things passed then away, and so all things were made new. 29. Yea every man in Christ is a new Creature, 30. As God then when he ended the first Creation, made a day of rest, and sanctified it: 31. So did Christ when he ended his work, made a day of rest, and sanctified it. 32. Not altering the proportion of time which is eternal, but taking the first day of seven for his portion, because sin had made the seventh alterable. But a man may easily perceive whither this Prefacer tends, and such as are of his Spirit. The Rhemists upon the first of the Revel. and 10. verse do observe that the Apostles, and the faithful abrogated the Sabbath which was the seventh day, and made holy day for it, the next day following, being the eighth day in compt from the Creation, and that without all Scriptures, and Commandments of Christ that we read of: yea (which is more) not only otherwise then was by the Law observed, but plainly otherwise than was prescribed by God himself in the second Commandment, yea otherwise than he ordained in the first Creation when he sanctified precisely the Sabbath day, and not the day following. Such great power did Christ leave to his Church, and for such causes gave he the Holy Ghost to be resident in it, to guide it into all truths, even such as in the Scripture are not expressed.