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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.
this day of the week, and not this day of the year, (which is remarkable) being called by Saint John, The Lords Day, the day wherein Christ appeared unto him, and gave unto him the book of Revelation concerning the secrets of his providence to be fulfilled upon the world for the time to come, even till his second coming to destroy the world with fire, and to bless us with new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness; the metropolis of which new world, shall be new Jerusalem. And albeit Doctor Rivetus according to his pious ingenuity which crowns his ⟨p. 143⟩learning and cathedral sufficiencies, professeth, that what hitherto hath been spoken by him of the choice and possible change of that day; he hath not to any such end ventilated, as to favour their profaneness who on holy days and chiefly on that day, which by so universal a consent even from the beginning of Christianity hath been consecrated to such use, neglecting Gods Service, not only refuse to omit one day in prosecuting works tending to the use of life temporal: but also by unnecessary actions, as by pleasant sports, stage plays, by intemperance also and riot profane the day, not without reason dedicated to the Lord. Yet what just occasion hereby may be in all places and like enough is taken in most places by this doctrine of his who seeth not? For albeit public authority in some places hath by laws countenanced the solemnization of the Lords Day; for which we of this land have cause to bless God so as I think no Nation more; in consideration of many Laws one after another and by degrees made to restrain abuses on that day, as tending to the manifest profanation thereof; and by none more then by that act of Parliament in the first of King Charles, wherein all men are forbidden to come out of their Parishes upon that day about any sports and pastime, evidently manifesting hereby (as formerly hath been proved) that all sports and pastimes are profanations of our Christian Sabbath observed on that day, and that in the judgement of the whole Parliament consisting of the Kings Majesty the head thereof, with his Lords spiritual (all the Bishops of the Kingdom) and temporal, together with the House of Commons; yet if once it shall be received according to D.
this day of the weeke, and not this day of the yeere, (which is remarkable) being called by Saint Iohn, The Lords Day, the day wherein Christ appeared unto him, and gave unto him the booke of Revelation concerning the secrets of his providence to be fulfilled upon the world for the time to come, even till his second comming to destroy the world with fire, and to blesse us with new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousnesse; the metropolis of which new world, shall be new Jerusalem. And albeit Doctor Rivetus according to his pious ingenuity which crownes his