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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
The Preface of the Translator to the Christian Reader. › Section 1 › Exam.
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If the antiquity of this controversy concerning the Sabbath, were any thing material; this Prefacer were foundered at the first: For what if the Sabbath be a part of the Law of Moses? Was not the law of sanctifying the name of God, the law forbidding images, the law commanding them to have no other Gods but him, that brought them out of the land of Egypt: the law commanding to honour parents, to abstain from murder, adultery, theft, were not all these the Law of Moses? Is not the law of sanctifying the Sabbath one of the ten Commandments delivered by God from Mount Sinai as well as the other nine? and was it not kept in the Ark as well as the rest? Circumcision was no law of Moses, and therefore albeit it be said Joh. 7. 22. That Moses gave unto them Circumcision, yet forth with it is added, not because it is of Moses, but of the Fathers: so that Moses rather confirmed it, then was the first giver of it. So that the Law of Moses in this place is to be understood of the ceremonial law, not of the moral law contained in the ⟨p. 9⟩Decalogue, and among these ten Commandments, that of the Sabbath is one, and commended unto them in that state as none so much, Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it; and not only before Moses, but before Abraham and Noah also, we read, that the seventh day God rested from all the works that 1he had made, and that therefore God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it.
If the antiquitie of this controversie concerning the Sabbath, were any thing materiall; this Praefacer were foundered at the first: For what if the Sabbath bee a part of the Law of Moses? Was not the law of sanctifying the name of God, the law forbidding images, the law commanding them to have no other Gods but him, that brought them out of the land of Aegypt: the law commanding to honour parents, to abstaine from murther, adultery, theft, were not all these the Law of Moses? Is not the law of sanctifying the Sabbath one of the tenne Commandements delivered by God from Mount Sinai as well as the other nine? and was it not kept in the Arke as well as the rest? Circumcision was no law of Moses, and therefore albeit it be said Ioh. 7. 22