A63997:518
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.
And out of these grounds I deduce, that the Law doth immediately bind their conscience.
And that it is to be observed, even where it may be transgressed without any scandal.
And that it is to be observed, even where it may be transgressed without any scandall.
Christ and the Apostles were not absolutely bound to lay such a foundation of the Lords Day, and so it was Liberae institutionis; but they having laid it, I deny that it is now Liberae Observationis; so that under God I know no power that can alter it.
Christ and the Apostles were not absolutely bound to lay such a foundation of the Lords Day, and so it was Liberae institutionis; but they having layd it, I deny that it is now Liberae Observationis; so that under God I know no power that can alter it.
1The Fathers speak of the Jewish Sabbath, and Allegorize that as it was carnally used by the Jews. But we shall wrong the Fathers, if we think they held that there was no Morality in the Letter of the Commandment.