A63997:172
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.
A THIRD DIGRESSION CONTAINING A CONFERENCE With D. Walaeus about the Divine authority of the Lords Day.
I Come to consider somewhat in Walaeus, whose dissertation of the Sabbath, from the first hath liked me so well, and the spirit which it breathes throughout; that I do not affect to differ from him; but rather heartily desire there may be little or no difference between us, and I hope in the end there will be found little or no difference of importance between us, especially in this point of the institution of the Lord Day whether it be divine or humane, and as for the original institution of the Sabbath, namely as from the beginning of the World, and as touching the morality of one day in seven; therein I concur with him really and affectionately. And as touching the quality of the institution; I approve his learned pains in vindicating those three places of the new Testament, Acts 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. and Re. 1.10. from the interpretation that some give of them, to quash the evidence which they import for the observation of the first day of the week, commonly called the Lords Day, even in those primitive ⟨p. 108⟩and Apostolical days of the Christian Church. And I join with him, pag. 167. in admiring, that after so many accurate prejudices of the reformed Churches, concurring in the same translation & interpretation of those places which we embrace; yet some should be found to take so unhappy pains, as to quash the evidence of them which they seem to us plainly to import. A manifest argument in my judgement, that the observation of that day, as in place of the Jews Sabbath, in the very days of the Apostles, doth even convince their consciences, that it can savour of nothing less than Apostolical institution; which, because they do impugn, therefore they desire to impugn the use thereof as nothing so ancient as to be received of the Apostles themselves. For consider, I pray, how should the converted Jews come to change their Sabbath, if not by order from the Apostles themselves, whose doctrine it was that Christ came to set an end to all ceremonies? And as for the substitution of a day in the place of it, that all did jointly concur herein without any dependence of some upon the judgement of others; what strange strength of convicting evidence must there needs be in the resurrection of Christ, to draw them hereunto far beyond Almighty Gods resting on the seventh day from his work of creation?