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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 4 › Exam.
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Exam.
That Calvin hath any where so determined this Prefacer hath not proved, but shamefully dismembered him, thereby to make him to deliver something absolutely which he delivers only conditionally, and that in opposition unto Papists, who will have the Lords Day to be kept not only for order and policy sake but by reason of some mystery; and this Calvin professeth to be Jewish. Aquinas his words are these, Haber aliquod tempus deputatum ad vacandum Divinis, cadit sub praecepto morali: sed in quantum in hoc praecepto determinatur special tempus in signum creationis Mundi, sic est praeceptum ceremoniale. To have some time deputed (wherein) to rest for. things Divine, falls under the moral precept. But for as much as in this precept is determined a special time in sign of the Creation of the World, so it is a precept ceremonial. Where I do observe first, that this ceremoniality is apparently ascribed to the seventh day, and that considered as a sign of the Creation, and not to one day in seven. And this indeed may well be the concurrent opinion of School Divines. As for Abulensis, of what authority is he to preponderate any one of our Divines? nay, I appeal to every humane conscience, whether no more be moral in this precept, then to set some time apart for Gods service. For what? is it nothing material, whether we set apart for divine Service, one day in a week, or one day in a month, or one day in a year, or one day in twenty years, or one day throughout the whole course of a mans life? what conscience can be found so cauteriate as to justify this? If so, then let him proceed and say, it is nothing material whether we consecrate unto God one hour in a day, or one hour in a week, or one hour ⟨p. 45⟩in a month, or one hour in a year, or but one hour throughout the whole course of a mans life. So that I presume every sober man by the very light of nature, will be driven to confess that not only some time ought to be set apart for Gods worship (as the Schoolmen commonly teach) but that a convenient proportion of time ought to be destinated unto this. Now let reason itself judge, whether any more convenient proportion of time can be devised for this then the proportion of one day in seven.