A63997:182
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.
why might not Christ command the observation of that day, yet not as a part of his worship? I am not persuaded, that when God at the first sanctified the seventh day, he made the observation of that day a part of his worship. And it is strange that the circumstance of time should be an homogeneall part of Gods worship.
why might not Christ command the observation of that day, yet not as a part of his worship? I am not perswaded, that when God at the first sanctifyed the seventh day, hee made the observation of that day a part of his worship. And it is strange that the circumstance of time should bee an homogeneall part of Gods worship.
First, it is true, the rest on that day commanded afterwards might be, and was as a ceremony preaching something unto them. All that is to be considered in time pertaining to Gods Worship is the proportion of it; as whether one day in a week be most fit, or one day in a month be sufficient; and this is of momentous consideration, whether we consider the advancing GODS Glory thereby, or our own good, in a greater or lesser proportion; But the particularity of the day in seven whether ⟨p. 113⟩first or last or middlemost, this consideration in my judgement is of no moment. Only for the avoiding of dissension, & confusion we have need of authoritative specification, and that God did not define at the first without congruous reason, to still all motion tending to alteration; and if we have as fair evidence under the Gospel for our Sabbath, as the Jews had for theirs; we are by Gods goodness as much freed from dissension and confusion as they, and nothing the more engaged in superstition, as making the observation of the day a part of Divine worship; which never was but in the way of prefiguration of somewhat in Christ, which kind of pedagogy is now quite out of date, neither is there any place for it in the observation of the Lords day.
First, it is true, the rest on that day commanded afterwards might bee, and was as a ceremony preaching something unto them. All that is to bee considered in time pertaining to Gods Worship is the proportion of it; as whether one day in a weeke bee most fit, or one day in a moneth bee sufficient; and this is of momentous consideration, whether wee consider the advancing GODS Glory thereby, or our owne good, in a greater or lesser proportion; But the particularity of the day in seven whether