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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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He mocks at the sacrifices, prayers, alms, and other good works, which the faithful that are living perform for the faithful that are departed, and maintains that they are nothing profitable to one that is dead. Now in all this I find nothing at all that savoureth of any Jewish opinion concerning the observation of the Sabbath. And more than that; when I consider the matter of these Articles for the most part, and the course of those times to make worse of their opinions (who spake or wrote against the superstitions of those times) then there was just cause, I begin to suspect that this Peter of Bruis might be an honest man, and more orthodox than they who procured his death. And is it not wondrous strange, that none of the Historians of those times should make any mention of him? And that may be the reason, why we find no mention at all made of him in the Book of Acts and Monuments. And Philip Mornay in his mysterium iniquitatis, 1makes an apology for this Peter de Bruis, as being a pious man, and thereupon hated, and finally martyred by the Papists.
He mocks at the sacrifices, prayers, almes, and other good workes, which the faithfull that are living performe for the faithfull that are departed, and maintaines that they are nothing profitable to one that is dead. Now in all this I find nothing at all that savoureth of any Jewish opinion concerning the observation of the Sabbath. And more than that; when I consider the matter of these Articles for the most part, and the course of those times to make worse of their opinions (who spake or wrote against the superstitions of those times) then there was just cause, I begin to suspect that this Peter of Bruis might be an honest man, and more orthodox than they who procured his death. And is it not wonderous strange, that none of the Historians of those times should make any mention of him? And that may be the reason, why we finde no mention at all made of him in the Booke of Acts and Monuments. And Philip Mornay in his mysterium iniquitatis, 1makes an apologie for this Peter de Bruis, as being a pious man, and thereupon hated, and finally martyred by the Papists.
- 1Pag. 309, 310.