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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 3: The third Section.
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But to proceed.1 Immediately upon the Reformation of Religion in these Western parts, the Controversy brake out a fresh; though in another manner than before it did. For there were some, of whom Calvin speaks,2 who would have had all days alike, all equally to be regarded; (he means the Anabaptists, as I take it) and reckoned that the Lords day, as the Church continued it, was a Jewish ceremony. Affirming it to cross the doctrine of Saint Paul, who in the text before remembered, and in the fourteenth to the Romans did seem to them to cry down all such difference of days and times as the Church retained. To meet which vain and peccant humour, Calvin was fain to bend his forces, declaring how the Church might lawfully retain set times for Gods service, without infringing any of Saint Pauls commandments.
BUt to proceed.1 Immediately upon the Reformation of Religion in these Westerne parts, the Controversie brake out a fresh; though in another manner than before it did. For there were some, of whom Calvin speakes,2 who would have had all dayes alike, all equally to be regarded; (he means the Anabaptists, as I take it) and reckoned that the Lords day, as the Church continued it, was a Jewish ceremony. Affirming it to crosse the doctrine of Saint Paul, who in the text before remembred, and in the fourteenth to the Romans did seeme to them to cry downe all such difference of dayes and times as the Church retained. To meet which vaine and peccant humour, Calvin was faine to bend his forces, declaring how the Church might lawfully retaine set times for Gods service, without infringing any of Saint Pauls commandements.
- 1Preface.
- 2Instit. lib. 2. sect. 33.