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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 3 › Exam.
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Exam.
Thus at length this Prefacer observes, that look upon what Scripture passages some did contend the Jewish Sabbath to be ceremonial, and accordingly to be abrogated by the Death and Resurrection of Christ: Upon the very same grounds others contended against the observation of all Holy days, even of the Lords day also, as if that were Jewish. This is the course of the Anabaptists, unto whom Wallaeus adds the Socinians; and Hospinian the Petrobrusians. By what authority the Lords day was introduced, Calvin disputes not. He saith, Dominicum diem veteres in locum Sabbati substituerunt; The 1Ancients brought the Lords day into the place of the Sabbath, and that the day the Apostle prescribed to the Corinthians, wherein they 2should lay apart something for the relieving of the Saints at Jerusalem, ⟨p. 33⟩was the day quo sacros conventus agebant, whereon they kept their holy meetings. And that which moved the Apostles to change the Sabbath to the Lords day, he shows both in 3his institutions thus; for seeing in the Lords Resurrection is (found) the end and fulfilling of the true rest, which the old Sabbath shadowed; by that very day, which set an end to those shadows, Christians are admonished not to stick to the shadowing ceremony; and upon the Epistle to the Corinthians in these words, 4Electus autem potissimum dies Dominicus, quod Resurrectio domini finem legis umbris attulit; The Lords Day was chiefly chosen, because the Lords Resurrection did set an end to the shadows of the Law. And in the words immediately preceding he expressly professeth that this change was made by the Apostles, though not so soon in his opinion, as Chrysostom thought; who interprets that, the first day of the week, of the Lords Day. And Cyril long ago upon consideration of our Saviours apparitions on that day, and then again the eighth day after, makes bold to conclude, that Jure igitur sanctae congregationes die octavo in Ecclesiis fiunt, By right