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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
THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH DELIVERED in the Act at Oxenford, Anno… › Section 2: The second Section.
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2. And possibly from the remainders of this doctrine, Fulco a French Priest, and a notable hypocrite, as our King Richard counted him, lighted upon a new Sabbatarian speculation, which afterwards Eustachius, one of his associates, dispersed in England. I call it new, as well I may. For whereas ⟨p. 22⟩Moses gave commandment to the Jews, that they should sanctify one day only in the week, viz. that seventh whereon God rested: They taught the people that the Christian Sabbath was to begin on Saturday at three of the clock, and to continue till Sun-rising upon the Monday morning: During which latitude of time, it was not lawful to do any kind of work what ever; no not so much as bake bread on Saturday for the Sundays eating; to wash or dry linen for the morrows wearing. Yea, they had miracles in store, pretended to to be wrought on such as had not yielded to their doctrine, thereby to countenance the superstitious, and confound the weak. And which was more than this, for the authority of their device, they had to show a letter sent from God himself, and left prodigiously over the Altar in Saint Simeons Church in Golgotha: wherein the Sabbatarian dream was imposed forsooth upon all the world, on pain of diverse plagues, and terrible comminations, if it were not punctually observed. The letter is at large reported by Roger Hoveden; 1and out of him, as I suppose, by Matthew Paris: who do withal repeat the miracles, whereby this doctrine was confirmed. I add no more but this, that could I either believe those miracles, which are there related: or saw I any now, like those to countenance the reviving of this strange opinion (for now it is received and published) I might perhaps persuade my self to entertain it.
2. And possibly from the remainders of this doctrine, Fulco a French Priest, and a notable hypocrite, as our King Richard compted him, lighted upon a new Sabbatarian speculation, which afterwards Eustachius, one of his associates, dispersed in England. I call it new, as well I may. For whereas ⟨p. 22⟩Moses gave commandement to the Jewes, that they should sanctifie one day only in the week, viz. that seventh whereon God rested: They taught the people that the Christian Sabbath was to begin on Saturday at three of the clocke, and to continue till Sun-rising upon the Munday morning: During which latitude of time, it was not lawfull to doe any kind of worke what ever; no not so much as bake bread on Saturday for the Sundayes eating; to wash or dry linnen for the morrowes wearing. Yea, they had miracles in store, pretended to to be wrought on such as had not yeelded to their doctrine, thereby to countenance the superstitious, and confound the weake. And which was more than this, for the authority of their device, they had to shew a letter sent from God himselfe, and left prodigiously over the Altar in Saint Simeons Church in Golgotha: wherin the Sabbatarian dream was imposed forsooth upon all the world, on paine of diverse plagues, and terrible comminations, if it were not punctually observed. The letter is at large reported by Roger Hoveden;