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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
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of power to abrogate this day left unto the Church he saith nothing, but to the contrary rather, that all they who desire the restoring of Christs Kingdom, ought to labour, that the religion of the Lords Day may be soundly called back and be of force. Yet (saith he) it is agreeable to our piety to sanctify other festivals also, to the commemoration of the Lords chief works, whereby he perfected our redemption as the day of his incarnation, nativity, the Epiphany, the passion, the resurrection, ascension and Pentecost. And the place which Doctor Rivet explic. decal. pag. 189. col. 2. allegeth out of Bucer in Mat. 10. ⟨p. 127⟩to prove that he maintained the day to be alterable, is nothing to the purpose, and as little do they make for it which he allegeth out of Musculus, To find out what Chemnitius saith hereupon, I turn to his Examen of the counsel of Trent, concerning festivals; There pag. 154. col. 2. he saith, that Christ, to show that he kept the Jews Sabbath freely, and not of necessity; against the opinion of necessity, touching the abrogation of the Mosaical Sabbath, he taught both by word and deed. By word, in saying, that the Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath; and by his deeds, as in healing on the Sabbath day, and defending his Disciples in plucking the ears of corn. Now, hereby I take it to be manifest, and acknowledged by Chemnitius that none hath power to abrogate the Sabbath, but he that is Lord of the Sabbath. And seeing even Christians were to have their Sabbath, as appeareth by those words of our Saviour, pray that your flight be not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath day, which is delivered of the time about the destruction of the Temple by Titus; at what time Paul had suffered martyrdom divers years before, by whose writings it doth appear that the Lords Day was kept in place of the Jews Sabbath, both by the practice of the Apostles, and the Churches of Galatia and Achaia, as Chemnitius acknowledgeth from the force of those places, Acts 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. and Apoc. 1.10. in the next column it followeth, that the Lords Day was the Christian Sabbath, and so to this day continueth, and consequently, that none hath power to alter it, but he that is Lord of the Sabbath, which is Christ himself, it being accordingly called the Lords Day.