The Christian Sabbath defended against a crying evil in these times of the antisabitarians…

not so the observation of the seventh day to sanctify it, for ought this Author hath hitherto manifested, or throughout this preface of his doth manifest; and the sanctification of this day is apparently commanded in the moral law spoken from Mount Sinai. And those Christians who a long time kept this seventh day holy as well as the Lords day, had no opinion of any danger at all in this their observation. And it stood the ancient Fathers upon to oppose the observation of the law ceremonial. Yet what saith Austin against these heretics, to whom this Author in the first place referreth us? All that he delivers against the Cerinthians in reference to this particular is only this: They say that we ought to be circumcised, and that other like precepts of the Law are to be observed. I translate it for the benefit of the common people. Of the Ebionites thus, They observe the carnal commandments of the Law, to wit, Circumcision of the flesh and the rest, from whose burdens we are freed by the new Testament. Of Apollinaris and his sect this way, Austin hath just nothing: but Danaeus who collects out of other Authors also the heretical opinions of the Apollinarists in the last place writes thus of them: After the last resurrection (say they) Sabbaths, Circumcision, Jewish difference of meats, and all other legal ceremonies shall have place, yea also there shall be a Temple amongst us. And is not this wild stuff, in reference to the sanctification of the Lords day, now in question amongst us?

not so the observation of the seventh day to sanctifie it, for ought this Author hath hitherto manifested, or throughout this preface of his doth manifest; and the sanctification of this day is apparantly commanded in the moral law spoken from Mount Sinai. And those Christians who a long time kept this seventh day holy as well as the Lords day, had no opinion of any danger at all in this their observation. And it stood the ancient Fathers upon to oppose the observation of the law ceremoniall. Yet what saith Austin against these heretickes, to whom this Author in the first place referreth us? All that hee delivers against the Cerinthians in reference to this particular is onely this: They say that wee ought to bee circumcised, and that other like precepts of the Law are to bee observed. I translate it for the benefit of the common people. Of the Ebionites thus, They observe the carnall commandements of the Law, to wit, Circumcision of the flesh and the rest, from whose burthens wee are freed by the new Testament. Of Appollinaris and his sect this way, Austin hath just nothing: but Danaeus who collects out of other Authors also the hereticall opinions of the Apollinarists in the last place writes thus of them: After the last resurrection (say they) Sabbaths, Circumcision, Iewish difference of meates, and all other legall ceremonies shall have place, yea also there shall bee a Temple amongst us. And is not this wilde stuffe, in reference to the sanctification of the Lords day, now in question amongst us?