A63997:352
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
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but that day of the week is called in Scripture the Lords Day, this maketh it evidently to savour of Divine institution, yet it is well that here it is acknowledged ⟨p. 239⟩to be expressly of traditions Apostolical. Beza addeth, & vere Divinae, on Revel. 1.10. I trust we shall ever give due respect, both to Law, and Gospel; and the better concurrence we find of them for the maintenance of any doctrine of ours, the more cause we shall have to rejoice therein without fear of censure for the mixing of them, or framing any Sabbatical Idol out of them. It is not the first time I have read of some such aspersion in Rogers his preface to his Analysis of the Articles of the Church of England; And the next year was printed D. Willet upon Genesis dedicated to King James, where on the 2. ch. 3. v. he concludes his discourse on this argument after this manner; But these allegations are here superfluous, seeing there is a learned treatise of the Sabbath already published of this argument (meaning D. Bounds discourse thereon) Which containeth a most sound doctrine of the Sabbath, 1as is laid down in the former positions, which shall be able to abide the trial of the Word of God; and stand warranted thereby, when other humane fantasies shall vanish: howsoever some in their heat and intemperance, are not afraid to call them Sabbatarian errors, yea heretical assertions, a new Jubilee, Saint Sabbath, more then either Jewish or Popish institution; much less do we fear the story of the Jew of Tewkesbury; Solomon hath taught us that the righteous spareth his beast, and in our Saviours days the Jews themselves though very superstitious in the observation of their Sabbath, yet showed mercy towards their beasts in leading to them to water, and helping them out of the ditch on their Sabbath day. But God can give men over into a mind void of all judgement, as to the destruction of their souls, so to the temporal destruction of their bodies also, and that as in the way of profaneness, whereof we have manifold experience, so in the way of superstition. Now such stories are pretty flourishes, and pleasing to the judicious, provided they are to purpose, and sound argument hath not been wanting to justify the doctrine they maintain:
but that day of the weeke is called in Scripture the Lords Day, this maketh it evidently to savour of Divine institution, yet it is well that here it is acknowledged