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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 4: The fourth Section.
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The fourth Section.
1Neither was he the only one, that hath so determined. For, for the first, that to keep holy one day of seven, is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, our ⟨p. 39⟩Doctor hath delivered in the third section, that not Tostatus only, but even Aquinas, and with him all the schoolmen have decreed upon it. Nor was there any that opposed it in the schools of Rome, that I have met with, till Catarinus took up Arms against Tostatus: affirming, but with ill success, that the Commandment of the Sabbath was imposed on Adam in the first cradle of the World, there where the Lord is said to bless the seventh Day, and to sanctify it.
1NEither was hee the onely one, that hath so determined. For, for the first, that to keepe holy one day of seven, is not the morall part of the fourth Commandement, our ⟨p. 39⟩Doctor hath delivered in the third section, that not Tostatus onely, but even Aquinas, and with him all the schoolemen have decreed upon it. Nor was there any that opposed it in the schooles of Rome, that I have met with, till Catarinus tooke up Armes against Tostatus: affirming, but with ill successe, that the Commandement of the Sabbath was imposed on Adam in the first cradle of the World, there where the Lord is sayd to blesse the seventh Day, and to sanctifie it.
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