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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.
Aphoris. 18. It may be doubted concerning the Lords Day, whether it be appointed by God for his service in the New Testament. My opinion hereof is this; although we read no express Commandment concerning it, yet that such an institution may be gathered from the example of Christ and his Disciples. For on that day whereon the Lord rose from the dead (therefore called the Lords-Day) he showed himself alive to his Disciples, and spake to them of the Kingdom of God. And Paul on that day in an assembly of the faithful met together to celebrate the Lords Supper, preached to them on that day, Acts 20.7. and that the Christians ⟨p. 103⟩at Corinth were wont to meet on that day for public prayer, appears 1 Cor. 16.2. Now it cannot be doubted but Paul ordained that day amongst them, as also the manner of celebrating the Lords Supper, and that according to the Commandment of Christ, Math. 28. the last, Teach them (to wit, as many as receive the Gospel) to keep all those things which I have commanded unto you. On the Lords Day also John was in the spirit, and in the spirit saw and heard the Revelation concerning the state of the Church that was to come, Apoc. 1.10. whence we may gather, that even then he rested to holy meditations such as became the Lords Day. There is not a passage in all this but of great weight, and very considerable. 6. As for Doctor Fulk upon the Re. 1.10. I have represented him formerly at large; that for the prescription of this day before any other of the seven, they had without doubt ether the express Commandment of Christ before his Ascension when he gave them precepts concerning the Kingdom of God, and the ordering and government of the Church Acts 1.2. or else the certain direction of his spirit, that it was his will, and pleasure that it should so be, and that also according to the Scriptures. And observe how he falls upon the same reason that Athanasius, and the ancient Fathers insist upon; Seeing there is the same reason of sanctifying that day, in which our Saviour Christ accomplished our redemption, and the restitution of the World by his resurrection from death; that was of sanctifying the day, in which the Lord rested from the Creation of the World. 7. Doctor Andrewes in like manner Bishop of Winchester in his Star Chamber speech in the case of Traske;