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Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians…Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians…
Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians delivered by way of answer to the translator of Doctor Prideaux his lecture, concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath ... / written by William Twice ...Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians delivered by way of answer to the translator of Doctor Prideaux his lecture, concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath ... / written by William Twisse ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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So that this is not the opinion of Doctor Bound only, and of Master Perkins, but of Zanchy also, and Jacobus de Valentia advers. Judaeos qu. 2. conclus. 4. Christian Religion celebrates a true moral Sabbath on the Lords Day, as touching the ⟨p. 312⟩time, in as much as it celebrates it on the day, whereon it ought to be celebrated, and concludes, So the precept of the Sabbath as it is moral remains in the new time celebrated on the Lords day. So Dominicus Bannes formerly alleged distinguisheth the substance of the precept, from the particular determination of the day; and adds, that by a positive precept the seventh day was designed unto the Jews; but afterwards under the Law of grace 1was designed the day of the Lords Resurrection, So that always to Gods faithful people was designed one day in the week, for Divine Service. Whereas other festivities (saith he) are in course by the institution of the Church. And Doctor Andrewes also showeth out of Math. 24. 20. that there must needs be a Sabbath after Christs death, and adds, that Those which were ceremonies were abrogated: but those which were not ceremonies were changed; as the Ministry from the Levites to be chosen throughout the World. So here the day changed from the day of the Jews to the Lords Day, Revel. 1. 10. And accordingly interpreteth the fourth Commandment as belonging unto us Christians as bound to observe the Sabbath 1. in our judgment by a reverend esteeming of it, not as a day appointed by man. 2. in our use set down, Isaiah 58. 13. not following our own will, nor doing our own works. Hereupon a question is proposed thus. But is not the Sabbath a ceremony, and so abrogated by Christ? and the answer is this, Do as Christ did in the case of divorce, look whether it were so from the beginning; Now the beginning of the Sabbath was in Paradise before there was any sin, and so before there needed any Saviour, and if they say it prefigured the rest we shall have from our sins in Christ, We grant it, and therefore the day is changed, but no ceremony proved. The practise of piety is a book dedicated unto his Majesty that now is, when he was Prince Carls in the year 1626. which is now 15. years ago, came forth the 10th Edition of it; we have heard it highly commended by King James, and that it commended the author of the dedication to a Bishopric.