A63997:499
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.
Defensio Thesium de Sabbato.
13 I Take notice of Tertull. Justin Martyr:] 1true; but they alter not my judgement: And why? I find in them only a bare assertion, and that of a thing so remote from their times, that they could not know it otherwise then by relation. From the Scripture they had none; happily they had it from some Jews. Galatinus allegeth some. But I oppose Jews to Jews. Philo Judaeus de opificio Mundi not only is of a contrary opinion, but holdeth also that it was a feast common to all Nations, [Greek or Hebrew]. And peradventure some such thing is meant by Hesiod his [Greek or Hebrew]. And it is not unlikely that God made the observation of the day a memorial of the Creation. But I will not enlarge that discourse. It shall suffice that Philo Judaeus, 2and Aben Ezra also and others think otherwise, whose judgement our Orthodox Divines do, if not all, yet for the most part follow. Read them upon the second of Genesis.
13 I Take notice of Tertull. Iustin Martyr:] 1true; but they alter not my judgement: And why? I finde in them onely a bare assertion, and that of a thing so remote from their times, that they could not know it otherwise then by relation. From the Scripture they had none; happily they had it from some Jewes. Galatinus alleadgeth some. But I oppose Jewes to Jewes. Philo Iudaeus de opificio Mundi not onely is of a contrary opinion, but holdeth also that it was a feast common to all Nations, . And peradventure some such thing is meant by Hesiod his . And it is not unlikely that God made the observation of the day a memoriall of the Creation. But I will not enlarge that discourse. It shall suffice that Philo Iudaeus,