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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And Doctor Rivet one of the four professors in Leiden, §3although he differs in the first, yet in the second, which doth most concern us Christians, they agree together: affirming also jointly that the appointing of the Lords Day for Gods public service, was neither done by God himself, nor by his Apostles, but by the authority of the Church? For seconds, Gomarus brings in Vatablus, and Wolfgangus Musculus; and Rivet voucheth the authority of our Doctor here. For so Gomarus, in the assertion and defence of the first opinion against this Rivet. De quibus etiam cl. & doctiss. Doctor Prideaux in oratione de Sabbato consensionem extare, codem judicio (by Rivets information) libenter intelleximus.
And Doctor Rivet one of the foure professors in Leyden, §3although he differs in the first, yet in the second, which doth most concerne us Christians, they agree together: affirming also joyntly that the appointing of the Lords Day for Gods publique service, was neither done by God himselfe, nor by his Apostles, but by the authority of the Church? For seconds, Gomarus brings in Vatablus, and Wolfgangus Musculus; and Rivet voucheth the authority of our Doctor here. For so Gomarus, in the assertion and defense of the first opinion against this Rivet. De quibus etiam cl. & doctiss. Doctor Prideaux in oratione de Sabbato consensionem extare, codem judicio (by Rivets information) libenter intelleximus.
I will add one thing only, which is briefly this. The §4Hollanders when they discovered Fretum le Morire An. 1615. though they observed a most exact account of their time at Sea; yet at their coming home they found, comparing their account with theirs in Holland, that they had lost a day; that which was Sunday to the one being Monday to the ⟨p. 44⟩other. Which of necessity must happen as it is calculated by Geographers, to those that compass the World from West to East, as contrary, they had got a day, had they sailed it Eastward. And what should these people do when they were returned? if they must sanctify precisely one day in seven, they must have sanctified a day a part from their to her Countrymen, and had a Sabbath by themselves; or to comply with with others must have broken the moral Law, which must for no respects be violated. See more hereof at large in Carpenters Geogr. p. 237.