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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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1Thus at length this Prefacer observes, that look upon what Scripture passages some did contend the Jewish Sabbath to be ceremonial, and accordingly to be abrogated by the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Upon the very same grounds others contended against the observation of all Holy days, even of the Lords day also, as if that were Jewish. This is the course of the Anabaptists, unto whom Wallaeus adds the Socinians; and Hospinian the Petrobrusians. By what authority the Lords day was introduced, Calvin disputes not. He saith, Dominicum diem veteres in locum Sabbati substituerunt; 2The Ancients brought the Lords day into the place of the Sabbath, and that the day the Apostle prescribed to the Corinthians, wherein they should lay apart something for the relieving of the Saints at Jerusalem, ⟨p. 33⟩was the day quo sacros conventus agebant, whereon they kept their holy meetings. 3And that which moved the Apostles to change the Sabbath to the Lords day, he shows both in his institutions thus; for seeing in the Lords Resurrection is (found) the end and fulfilling of the true rest, which the old Sabbath shadowed; by that very day, which set an end to those shadows, Christians are admonished not to stick to the shadowing ceremony; and upon the Epistle to the Corinthians in these words,4 Electus autem potissimum dies Dominicus, quod Resurrectio domini finem legis umbris attulit; The Lords Day was chiefly chosen, because the Lords Resurrection did set an end to the shadows of the Law. And in the words immediately preceding he expressly professeth that this change was made by the Apostles, though not so soon in his opinion, as Chrysostom thought; who interprets that, the first day of the week, of the Lords Day. And Cyril long ago upon consideration of our Saviours apparitions on that day, and then again the eighth day after, makes bold to conclude,5 that Jure igitur sanctae congregationes die octavo in Ecclesiis siunt, By right therefore holy assemblies on the eighth day are made in the Churches.