A63997:318
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.
1Morale est mandatum, quatenus praecipit ut è septem diebus unum consecremus cultui divino—& proinde quatenus tale mandatum est nunquam fuit abrogatum nec abrogari potest. The Commandement is moral as it commands us to consecrate one day in seven unto divine service. And so doth Dominicus Bannes 22. q. 44. art. 1. & Bellarmine de cultu Sanctorum lib. 3. cap. 11. And if no other be the opinion of Aquinas, if the schoolmen of what sect soever say the same, it followeth that they differ no more from us then Aquinas did; it may be they will be found to agree with us. For I do not think any schoolman, being put to it will deny but that by the very light of nature, not only some time, but a sufficient proportion of time must be set apart for Gods service. And albeit had we been left unto our selves without any indication of this proportion from God, we might well have been to seek in the setting forth of this convenient proportion Yet considering how God hath gone before us making the World in six days, and resting the seventh, and considering thereupon the division of time into septenaries of days, reason I should think with Tostatus, doth dictate that the proportion of one day in seven was more convenient then any other. Or if this were not sufficient for our direction herein; yet when God hath manifested unto us both after the Creation, and in the fourth Commandment what proportion of time he likes best for this (as it is in reason fit that the Master, especially such a Master should prescribe what proportion of time shall be set apart for his service) then with Chrysostom we have cause by the very light of nature ⟨p. 209⟩undoubtedly to conclude; that if in the beginning, and under the Law God required one day in seven to be consecrated to his service; we surely cannot allow unto him a worse proportion under the Gospel. And Jacobus de Valentia advers. Judae. q. 2.2 Praeceptum de Sabbato celebrando est partim morale propter primam conditionem. This first condition in respect whereof he saith it is moral, he professeth to be two fold. 1 in regard of the rest. 2. in regard of the sanctification of it, then he proves it saying, probatur, 3Nam primo Sabbatum fuit praeceptum ad requiem hominis, & sanctificationem Dei, ut homo cessaret ab omni negotio mundano, ut facilius posset Deo servire & latriam exhibere.