A63997:201
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.
Last of all, for the third, and last conclusion,1 that still the Church hath power to change the day our Doctor in the 7. Section, bringeth in Bullinger, Bucer, Brentius, Ursinus, and Chemnitius, aliisque nostris with divers others not named particularly, as they are which think no otherwise thereof then Calvin did, and shows by what distinction Suarez, though otherwise no friend unto the men, doth defend their Doctrine.
Last of all, for the third, and last conclusion,1 that still the Church hath power to change the day our Doctor in the 7. Section, bringeth in Bullinger, Bucer, Brentius, Ʋrsinus, and Chemnitius, aliisque nostris with divers others not named particularly, as they are which thinke no otherwise thereof then Calvin did, and shewes by what distinction Suarez, though otherwise no friend unto the men, doth defend their Doctrine.
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Now as the doctrine was, such also is the practise of those men and Churches, devoid of any the least superstitious rigour, esteeming it to be a day left arbitrary, and therefore open to all honest exercises and lawful recreations; by which the mind may be refreshed, and the spirits quickened. Even in Geneva it self according as it is related in the enlargement of Boterus by Robert Johnson, all honest exercises, shooting in pieces, long Bows, crossbows, &c. are used on the Sabbath Day, and that both in the morning, before and after Sermon; neither do the Ministers find fault therewithal, so that they hinder not from hearing of the word at the time appointed.
Now as the doctrine was, such also is the practise of those men and Churches, devoid of any the least superstitious rigour, esteeming it to bee a day left arbitrary, and therefore open to all honest exercises and lawfull recreations; by which the mind may bee refreshed, and the spirits quickened. Even in Geneva it selfe according as it is related in the enlargement of Boterus by Robert Johnson, all honest exercises, shooting in pieces, long Bowes, crossebowes, &c. are used on the Sabbath Day, and that both in the morning, before and after Sermon; neither doe the Ministers finde fault therewithall, so that they hinder not from hearing of the word at the time appointed.