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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
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.
especially considering that the child conceived in the state of innocency should have been without sin. 8. The eighth reason is in effect the same with that of Broughtons; If Adam had not sinned the first day, the Lion had eaten Grass; this in my judgement is a most insipid reason. First, because God had ordained, that all beasts at the first should live by Grass Gen. 1.30. Secondly, In the ark of Noah, Lions must have eaten Grass or Hay, or else have starved, they had no power to prey upon their fellow passengers. Thirdly, if Lyons and Bears at first had lived by pray, even after Adams fall, what had become of the rest of Gods Creatures, Imbelles damae quid nisi praedae sumus? Lastly it is well known that in these days, in new England, Bears do live by Grass, and their flesh for mans meat is accounted better then Venison 9. Never any man on Earth, Christ only excepted, kept the Sabbath without sin: the Apostle saith, he that is entered into his rest hath also ceased from his own works, as God did from his, Hebr. 4.10. It is the rest only of Christ, where there shall be a cessation from all the works of sin. But that rest which Adam should have kept in paradise was not Christs rest: therefore he kept no rest there without sin, he fell then before the Sabbath. This argument I confess seems to be very ponderous and savoury, as built upon the Apostles ⟨p. 56⟩discourse Heb. 4. But the proposition is not sufficiently proved. For to cease from a mans own works (as they are taken from sins) is evidently competent to none but such as have formerly sinned, which cannot agree to Adam in the state of innocency. Yet it cannot be denied, but that Adam continued in innocency and without sin until his fall. And so long rested from sin, though not in Christ, save that to rest from sin supposeth the precedency of sin. But albeit this were granted, it followeth not that he fell before the Sabbath; for he might fall on the very Sabbath, which was the opinion of the author of the Jews Darash, mentioned by Rabbi David Kimchi on the 92. Psalm. 10. That place lastly makes to this purpose, Psalm 49.13