A63997:516
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.
If this be the Commentary upon Libera observatio (and if it be well inquired into, you will find that I do not mistake the meaning) then I prof sse I cannot like of such a Libera observatio.
If this be the Commentary upon Libera observatio (and if it be well inquired into, you will finde that I doe not mistake the meaning) then I prof sse I cannot like of such a Libera observatio.
For I am persuaded that if all Christendom should meet, and have never so plausible a ground, they cannot alter the day de jure, though de facto they may; but it is worse then peevishness so to do. And why? they cannot alter the first ground, Christs rising upon that day. Secondly, they cannot alter the uniform order that upon that undeniable ground was set down by the Apostles themselves, which were infallibly guided by the Holy Ghost.
For I am perswaded that if all Christendome should meete, and have never so plausible a ground, they cannot alter the day de jure, though de facto they may; but it is worse then previshnesse so to doe. And why? they cannot alter the first ground, Christs rising upon that day. Secondly, they cannot alter the uniforme order that upon that undenyable ground was set down by the Apostles themselves, which were infallibly guided by the Holy Ghost.
And out of these grounds I deduce, that the Law doth immediately bind their conscience.