A69076:1005
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. But doth not the reason annexed (where the Lord is said in six days to make heaven and earth, and to rest the seventh, and therefore to hallow it), confirm so much?
Q. But doth not the reason annexed (where the Lord is said in sixe daies to make heauen and earth, and to rest the seuenth, and therefore to hallow it), confirme so much?
A. No, not necessarily: for it doth not thence follow, that we should rest the same day the Lord rested, but that we should rest from our works the seventh day, as he rested from his: which seventh, as under the Law he appointed to be Saturday; so nothing hindereth, but that by his special appointment, under the Gospel, it may be Sunday, and yet the substance of the Commandment nothing altered.
A. No, not necessarily: for it doth not thence follow, that we should rest the same day the Lord rested, but that wee should rest from our workes the seuenth day, as he rested from his: which seuenth, as vnder the Law hee appointed to bee Saturday; so nothing hindreth, but that by his speciall appointment, vnder the Gospell, it may bee Sunday, and yet the substance of the Commandement nothing altered.
Q. Why doth not the New Testament specially mention this change?