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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
Doctor LAKE Bishop of BATH, and Wells, Theses de Sabbato. › Question 3.
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.
Question 3.
How shall it appear to be the Law of nature to sanctify one day every week?
How shall it appeare to be the Law of nature to sanctifie one day every weeke?
Surely here the Author of the questions makes a strange answer.
For he looseth himself in his distinction of the Moral Law and the Law of nature which he seemeth not to understand well.
For he looseth himselfe in his distinction of the Morall Law and the Law of nature which he seemeth not to understand well.
He would have the Law of nature to prescribe circumstances to actions, and not the moral Law, whereas the morality stands in observing the circumstance of actions, as the Ethics will teach, and this in the phrase medium rationis.