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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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But if it may appear otherwise, that the Lords ⟨p. 225⟩day by good authority is substituted in the place of the seventh to become our Christian Sabbath, such as our Saviour fore-prophesied of Matth. 24. 20. then from the fourth commandment, they may make bold to conclude, that it ought to be sanctified. And this Zanchy himself justifies in the place quoted Chap. 19, as before hath been showed. And our book of homilies expressly tell us, that now Sunday is become our Sabbath. But we keep not the seventh day, the rest on that day being ceremonial, and prefiguring the rest of Christ that day in his grave.
But if it may appeare otherwise, that the Lords ⟨p. 225⟩day by good authority is substituted in the place of the seventh to become our Christian Sabbath, such as our Saviour fore-prophecied of Matth. 24. 20. then from the fourth commandement, they may make bold to conclude, that it ought to be sanctified. And this Zanchy himselfe justifies in the place quoted Chap. 19, as before hath beene shewed. And our booke of homilies expresly tell us, that now Sunday is become our Sabbath. But we keepe not the seventh day, the rest on that day being ceremoniall, and prefiguring the rest of Christ that day in his grave.
And as for the authority whereby we have substituted the Lords Day in the place of the seventh, we answer, that we are not they that have substituted, but the Apostles have substituted it unto our hands; God having marked out that day unto them by a work nothing inferior to the work of Creation; to wit, the work of Christs Resurrection, such a work as brings with it a new Creation, and therewithal a new Sabbath, as Doctor Andrewes observes out of the ancients, and delivered as much in the Star Chamber. And whereas under the Law the Jewish Sabbath was called the Lords Day; Now under the Gospel the first day of the week is called the Lords Day in the language of the holy Ghost in the new Testament. And whereas our Saviour gives us plainly to understand, that we are to have a Sabbath under the Gospel