A63997:511
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.
36 I say not that the Apostles imprinted any holiness upon the first day of the week; It was Christs resurrection that honoured that day, which (I say) the Apostles were to respect, not arbitrarily, but necessarily. You may perceive the reason in my Theses. You cannot observe from the beginning of the world any other inducement to the institution of feasts, but Gods work done on the day; If it were not a continued work, as the dwelling in Tabernacles.
36 I say not that the Apostles imprinted any holinesse upon the first day of the weeke; It was Christs resurrection that honoured that day, which (I say) the Apostles were to respect, not arbitrarily, but necessarily. You may perceive the reason in my Theses. You cannot observe from the beginning of the world any other inducement to the institution of feasts, but Gods worke done on the day; If it were not a continued worke, as the dwelling in Tabernacles.
But you think the Apostles did not prescribe the observation of that day; No? you confess they made choice of it, and were moved so to do by the reason which I allege, And were they not scattered over all the world? & where they came did they not all give the same order for the sacred assemblies? And shall we think that this could be done without an apostolical prescript?
But you thinke the Apostles did not prescribe the observation of that day; No? you confesse they made choice of it, and were moved so to doe by the reason which I alleage, And were they not scattered over all the world? & where they came did they not all give the same order for the sacred assemblies? And shall we thinke that this could be done without an apostolicall prescript?
37. & 43. I conjoin them, because one answer will clear both; Let us then first agree, what it is for a thing to be Liberae observationis. The Questionist in his interpretation, which commonly is received,