A63997:196
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.
Rom. 14. and was there ever work more marvellous in the eyes of Gods Servants, then the Resurrection of Christ, especially considering the disconsolate condition of his Disciples? Luke 24, 21. We trusted it had been he, that should have delivered Israel. The women departed from the Sepulchre though with fear, by reason of the consternation received from Angelical presence, their countenance being like lightning, yet with great joy by reason of the news they heard from them of Christs Resurrection; upon the noise whereof (for they were commanded to carry word of it to his Disciples,) the Apostles as it seems were gathered together; and in the evening after he had showed himself to his Disciples going to Emmaus, Christ presented himself in the midst of them. Eight days after they were met together, and Thomas with them who being absent the time before, gave out speeches of peremptory incredulity concerning his Resurrection; therefore then and not till then also the doors being shut, Christ came before them, and calls unto Thomas to see his hand. and to put his singer into his side. These apparitions of our Saviour twice on the first day of the week might well add somewhat to the confirmation of them in the festivity of this day; and howsoever between his ascension, and the day of Pentecost they had their meetings, yet how improbable is it they should put no difference; between such a festival and other days of the week. A second answer Walaeus gives, namely that others say, that from the day of Pentecost it was not necessary that the Lords Day should be observed: but that at the first the Apostles together with the Jews observed their Sabbath not as a ceremony of the Old Testament, but as a free circumstance of divine worship, as for a while they retained Circumcision and difference of meats; which they gave over, after the Jews were found obstinately to refuse the Gospel. So that in these mens judgements the Lords Day was no festival to the Apostles, till by occasion of the Jews obstinateness, a proper occasion for the institution of a new festival. And give me leave to differ from them in yoking ⟨p. 123⟩Circumcision and difference of meats with the Jews Sabbath, neither of them prefiguring Christ as to come, like as the Jews Sabbath did, prefiguring his rest that day in the grave;