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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
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.
1The last reason of Master Perkins is this: God is Lord of times and seasons, and therefore in all equity, the altering and disposing thereof is in his hands, and belongs to him alone, Act. 1.10. Times and seasons the Father hath kept in his own hands. Again, Christ is called the Lord of the Sabbath. And Antiochus Epiphanes is condemned by the Holy Ghost, because he took upon him to alter times: 2Besides that, Daniel saith, it is God alone that changeth times and seasons, Dan. 2.4. Now, if it be proper unto God as to create, so to determine and dispose of times, then he hath not left the same to the power of any creature; And therefore, as the knowledge thereof, so the appointment and alteration of the same either in general or particular, belongs not to the Church, but is reserved to him. The Church then neither may nor can alter the Sabbath Day.
1The last reason of Master Perkins is this: God is Lord of times and seasons, and therefore in all equity, the altering and disposing thereof is in his hands, and belongs to him alone, Act. 1.10. Times and seasons the Father hath kept in his own hands. Againe, Christ is called the Lord of the Sabbath. And Antiochus Epiphanes is condemned by the Holy Ghost, because hee tooke upon him to alter times: 2Besides that, Daniel saith, it is God alone that changeth times and seasons, Dan. 2.4. Now, if it be proper unto God as to create, so to determine and dispose of times, then he hath not left the same to the power of any creature; And therefore, as the knowledge thereof, so the appointment and alteration of the same either in generall or particular, belongs not to the Church, but is reserved to him. The Church then neither may nor can alter the Sabbath Day.
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