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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 2 › Quotation of preface
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But after in the darker times, as it is thought by some, Peter de Bruis, the founder of the Petrobrusians (he was burnt for heresy 1 126.) began to draw too deep on these lees of Judaism, which here our Doctor intimates in the seventh Section, where he joins the Petrobrusian with the Ebionites, who indeed were Jewish in this point.
BUt after in the darker times, as it is thought by some, Peter de Bruis, the founder of the Petrobrusians (he was burnt for heresie 1 126.) began to draw too deep on these lees of Judaisme, which here our Doctor intimates in the seventh Section, where he joynes the Petrobrusian with the Ebionites, who indeed were Jewish in this point.
2. And possibly from the remainders of this doctrine, Fulco a French Priest, and a notable hypocrite, as our King Richard counted him, lighted upon a new Sabbatarian speculation, which afterwards Eustachius, one of his associates, dispersed in England. I call it new, as well I may. For whereas ⟨p. 22⟩Moses gave commandment to the Jews, that they should sanctify one day only in the week, viz. that seventh whereon God rested: They taught the people that the Christian Sabbath was to begin on Saturday at three of the clock, and to continue till Sun-rising upon the Monday morning: During which latitude of time, it was not lawful to do any kind of work what ever; no not so much as bake bread on Saturday for the Sundays eating; to wash or dry linen for the morrows wearing. Yea, they had miracles in store, pretended to to be wrought on such as had not yielded to their doctrine, thereby to countenance the superstitious, and confound the weak. And which was more than this, for the authority of their device, they had to show a letter sent from God himself, and left prodigiously over the Altar in Saint Simeons Church in Golgotha: wherein the Sabbatarian dream was imposed forsooth upon all the world, on pain of diverse plagues, and terrible comminations, if it were not punctually observed. The letter is at large reported by Roger Hoveden; and out of him,