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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 › Exam.
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2. Of any Sabbatarian speculation (as this Prefacer calleth it) that Fulco the French Priest lighted on, this Author gives no evidence. For as for Roger Hoveden, I do not find, that he attributes any such unto him. He writes much in his commendation, as that The Lord magnified him in the sight of Kings, 1and gave him power to give sight to the blind, to cure the lame, the blind, and others of their diseases. That Harlots and Usurers, ⟨p. 26⟩were by his preaching taken off from their lewd courses. That he foretold the Kings of France and England, that except they gave over their hostility the sooner, one of them should shortly dye of an evil death. But of any Sabbatarian speculation he was addicted unto I find no mention. It is true, King Richard sometime called him simply Hypocrite, not notable Hypocrite, as this Author expresseth it, affecting rather to speak with a full mouth, than according unto plain truth. And is it much if Kings take liberty to call men as they think good, especially when they are provoked by them, as King Richard was by this Priest, as appears by the story which is well worth the relating, to observe both the present wit of that King, and the liberty of Priests with Princes in telling them their faults in those days of yore. For on a day that Priest Fulco came to King Richard, and in very bold manner spake to him thus: I tell thee O King as from Almighty God, that thou make speed to bestow in marriage those three wretched daughters, that thou hast, lest some worse thing befall thee. Thou Hypocrite, quoth the King, thou lyest against thine own head, for I have no daughter at all. Truly I do not lye, quoth the Priest, for as I said, thou hast three wicked daughters, one of them is Pride, another Covetousness, the third Luxury. When the King heard this, he called his Earls and Barons that were about him, and said, Hear the admonition of this hypocrite, who saith I have three wicked daughters, and commands me to marry them. Therefore I bestow my Pride upon the proud Templars; my Covetousness upon the Monks of the Cistercian Order; and my Luxury upon the Prelates of the Churches. Who though they professed single life, yet as Mr. Moulin observes in a like case of popish Priests, did not profess continency, they might be luxurious enough, and that not only in ways natural, but in ways unnatural also.
2. Of any Sabbatarian speculation (as this Prefacer calleth it) that Fulco the French Priest lighted on, this Author gives no evidence. For as for Roger Hoveden, I doe not finde, that he attributes any such unto him. He writes much in his commendation, as that The Lord magnified him in the sight of Kings,