A63997:268
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
THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH DELIVERED in the Act at Oxenford, Anno… › Section 8
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and this is all that I have to say unto thee (good Christian reader) in this present business. God give thee a right understanding in all things, and a good will to do thereafter.
and this is all that I have to say unto thee (good Christian reader) in this present businesse. God give thee a right understanding in all things, and a good will to doe thereafter.
1This Prefacer accounts the opinions opposite to his, to be fancies; D. Willet on the contrary, as we have heard, accounts this Prefacers opinion, maintained by M. Rogers, no better than fantasies, which shall vanish, however now for a time they flourish; Sure we are, every plant that our heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out. This Prefacer professeth, those whom he opposeth be opposite to the tendries of our Church; and indeed, the Author whom D. Willet intimateth, entitled his book audaciously enough, The Catholic doctrine of the Church of England; but D. Willet on the other side, wondered, that any professing the Gospel, should gain-say and impugn the positions maintained by D. Bound. And sure I am, Bishop Babington, Bishop Andrewes, Bishop Lake agreed with them: And it is well known to some, what the former Archbishop of Canterbury professed to the face of M. Broad, when he came to move for the printing of a second book concerning the Sabbath: What Bishop can our opposites name of this Church, whose praise is among the writers of these times, that hath manifested his opinion in opposition to these? As for the judgements of all kind of writers which he boasts of, I think never came a Divine to take pen in hand to vaunt so much, and perform so little. As for the unsafe condition of our Tenets which he suggests, excepting those monstrous and wild Tenets mentioned by M. Rogers, for which I know no better evidence than his word, and that in very odd manner delivered, I know nothing unsafe, nothing dangerous in any Tenet of ours, who now seem to walk as upon the pinnacles of the Temple, and indeed in this respect they are like to prove very dangerous to us; yet I would it were not more dangerous ⟨p. 171⟩