A63997:303
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.
And it is well known that days of wrath have their course, and shall have their course, as long as this World lasteth as well as days of mercy: And we have cause to bless God that he hath inclined his Majesties heart to take notice of such days of wrath; and accordingly by Proclamation, to command a general humiliation throughout the Land, divers and sundry times. So ⟨p. 198⟩we read that the Jews observed a fast on the first month, (besides the fast of the seventh which God commanded) as we read Zach. 7.3.5. and it was observed on the tenth day of that month; that being the day whereon Nebuchadnezzar burnt the house of the Lord, as we read, Jer. 52.12, 13. Now thus far had they observed the 70 years of their captivity Zach. 7.5. they did not put off the observation of it till a thousand years after; it being most fit, then especially to mourn, when God calleth us thereunto, and not to put it off when he calleth us thereunto; the Lord sore complaining of such courses, and pronouncing an heavy judgement upon offenders in this kind, Isaiah 22.12, 13, 14. Now like as it becomes us to mourn, when first God calleth us thereunto, so it becometh us to rejoice in keeping a festival unto him, when he calleth us thereunto; lest otherwise it prove out of season, when it is begun a long time after, and utterly neglected upon the fresh memory thereof. We read that when the Ilienses, inhabitants of Ilium called anciently by the name of Troy, sent an Embassage to Tiberius, to condole the death of his Father Augustus; he considering the unseasonableness thereof, it being a long time after his death; requited them accordingly saying, that he was sorry for their heaviness also, having lost so renowned a Knight as Hector was, to wit, above a thousand years before, in the wars of Troy.
And it is well knowne that dayes of wrath have their course, and shall have their course, as long as this World lasteth as well as dayes of mercy: And wee have cause to blesse God that hee hath inclined his Majesties heart to take notice of such dayes of wrath; and accordingly by Proclamation, to command a generall humiliation throughout the Land, divers and sundry times. So ⟨p. 198⟩