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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.
25. The reserving of the seventh part I hold, to be by Gods Ordinance who is not variable in his choice, as everlasting as the World, because appointed before the fall.
26. And so should the hallowing of the seventh day from the Creation have been as lasting, had it not been for sin, for what could have altered it but a new Creation?
26. And so should the hallowing of the seventh day from the Creation have beene as lasting, had it not beene for sin, for what could have altered it but a new Creation?
27. But man having sinned, and so by sin abolished the first Creation de jure, though not de facto, God was pleased to make by Christian instauration of the World.
27. But man having sinned, and so by sin abolished the first Creation de jure, though not de facto, God was pleased to make by Christan instauration of the World.
28. He (as the Scripture speaks of Christs Redemption) made a new Heaven, and a new Earth; old things passed then away, and so all things were made new.
28. Hee (as the Scripture speakes of Christs Redemption) made a new Heaven, and a new Earth; old things passed then away, and so all things were made new.
29 Yea every man in Christ is a new Creature.
30 As God then when he ended the first Creation, made a day of rest, and sanctified it.
31 So did Christ, when he ended his work, make a day of rest and sanctified it.
31 So did Christ, when he ended his worke, make a day of rest and sanctified it.
32. Not altering the proportion of time which is eternal, but taking the first day of seven for his portion, because sin had made the seventh alterable, Therefore.
32. Not altering the proportion of time which is eternall, but taking the first day of seven for his portion, because sin had made the seventh alterable, Therefore.
33. This first day succeeded the seventh, and by that was this memorial abolished.
33. This first day succeeded the seventh, and by that was this memoriall abolished.
34 And although the Apostles were indulgent to the Jews in keeping the seventh as well as the first, when they conversed with them; until the destruction of the Temple.
34 And although the Apostles were indulgent to the Jewes in keeping the seventh as well as the first, when they conversed with them; untill the destruction of the Temple.
35 Yet would they not endure, that the Gentiles should be tied to the observation thereof.
36. This first day Christ sanctified not only by his resurrection, but also by sundry apparitions before his ascension, and after his ascension by sending thereon the Holy Ghost; this is clear in the Gospel and Acts.
36. This first day Christ sanctified not only by his resurrection, but also by sundry apparitions before his ascension, and after his ascension by sending thereon the Holy Ghost; this is cleare in the Gospell and Actes.
37 The Apostles directed by Christs not only example, but spirits also, observed the same; witness in the Acts S. Paul; S. John in the Revelation.
37 The Apostles directed by Christs not onely example, but spirits also, observed the same; witnesse in the Acts S. Paul; S. Iohn in the Revelation.
38 And from the Apostles the Catholic Church uniformly received it; witness all Ecclesiastical writers.
38 And from the Apostles the Catholike Church uniformly received it; witnesse all Ecclesiasticall writers.
39 And the Church hath received it not to be Liberae observationis, as if men might at their pleasure, accept or refuse it.
40 But to be perpetually observed to the Worlds end; for as God only hath power to apportion his time: so hath he power to set out the day that he will take for his portion, for he is Lord of the Sabbath.
40 But to be perpetually observed to the Worlds end; for as God only hath power to apportion his time: so hath he power to set out the day that hee will take for his portion, for hee is Lord of the Sabbath.