A63997:503
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.
14 What the Patriarchs did in point of religion,1 I think they did it by Divine direction. Ye know that [Greek or Hebrew] did never please God; wherefore the Mosaical Laws (other then those that had reference to the Church as national, and delivered out of the Egyptian bondage) are to be thought not introductory, but declaratory. Out of question those that concerned the substance of the service which stood in sacrifices, and I think concerning the circumstance of time, and place.
14 What the Patriarks did in point of religion,1 I thinke they did it by Divine direction. Yee know that 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 did never please God; wherefore the Mosaicall Lawes (other then those that had reference to the Church as nationall, and delivered out of the Egyptian bondage) are to be thought not introductory, but declaratory. Out of question those that concerned the substance of the service which stood in sacrifices, and I thinke concerning the circumstance of time, and place.
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The place; for there where God appeared, there did they erect their altars: yea, and in the story of Rebecca it is plain that she went to a set place to consult the Lord.1 And why shall not the time come under the same condition?
The place; for there where God appeared, there did they erect their altars: yea, and in the story of Rebecca it is plaine that shee went to a set place to consult the Lord.1