A63997:364
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.
1. GOD at first made us not only men, but also children of God.
2. Therefore we had a double being, or were fitted for a double Society 1. Civill. 2. Ecclesiastical.
2. Therefore wee had a double being, or were fitted for a double Societie 1. Civill. 2. Ecclesiasticall.
3. These states are inwrapped the one in the other; For the Ecclesiastical presupposeth the Civill, He that is a child of God is a man, and he must be of the Civill that is of the Ecclesiastical society.
3. These states are inwrapped the one in the other; For the Ecclesiasticall presuposeth the Civill, He that is a child of God is a man, and hee must be of the Civill that is of the Ecclesiasticall society.
4. And the Civill state must be seasoned with, and moderated by the Ecclesiastical; for a man in his Civill state must live as a child of God, and member of the Church.