A63997:337
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 as for the authority whereby we have substituted the Lords Day in the place of the seventh, we answer, that we are not they that have substituted, but the Apostles have substituted it unto our hands; God having marked out that day unto them by a work nothing inferior to the work of Creation; to wit, the work of Christs Resurrection, such a work as brings with it a new Creation, and therewithal a new Sabbath, as Doctor Andrewes observes out of the ancients, and delivered as much in the Star Chamber. And whereas under the Law the Jewish Sabbath was called the Lords Day; Now under the Gospel the first day of the week is called the Lords Day in the language of the holy Ghost in the new Testament. And whereas our Saviour gives us plainly to understand, that we are to have a Sabbath under the Gospel Math. 24.20. as the aforementioned Doctor Andrewes doth observe in his pattern of Catechetical doctrine, In common reason, and in the conscience of a Christian what day ought to be this our Sabbath rather then the Lords Day, so called in the language of the holy Ghost; especially considering that not that day of the year, but that day of the week is called the Lords Day, as by most general acknowledgement of all the ancients hath been supposed. And to urge one place more out of the old Testament, then here is in a violent manner obtruded upon us, Psal. 118 14. This is the day which the Lord hath made, let us rejoice, and be glad in it, is evidently spoken of that day wherein the stone which the builders refused was made the head of the corner: Now by that stone the holy Ghost chiefly understands the Lord Christ, Mat. ⟨p. 226⟩21.42. Marc. 12.10. Luc. 20.17. Acts 4.11. 1 Pet 2.7. and when was he made the head of the corner,1 but in the day of his Resurrection;