TO THE HIGHEST AND MOST POWERFUL PRINCE, CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. A PREFACE To those who have erred, and deceived others in these new doctrines of the Sabbath. Next, where it is the foundation of all your edifices, that the commandment of the Sabbath is moral, natural, and perpetual; as.
Nor do I doubt that, by the grace of God, I should reduce some of you, at least, to such conformity to the practice of the Catholic Church; that even your hands may work for the advancement and furtherance of that full. First, concerning the Sabbath, I will show you that it was not instituted by the Lord in Paradise, nor was it naturally impressed upon the soul of man, nor was it ever kept by any of the ancient Fathers before the time of Moses: and this is not generally said. , and no more than that; but turned out to be special and. THE NATURE OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT: AND THAT THE SABBATH WAS NOT KEPT AMONG THE Gentiles.
TOUCHING THE RESERVATION OF THE SABBATH, UNTIL TIME, THE PEOPLE WERE PLACED IN TH. WHAT HAPPENS AROUND THE SABBATH, FROM THE MACCABEES TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.
THE SECOND BOOKE
IN WHICH ESTATE DID THE LORD DAY STAND, FROM THE DEATH OF THE APOSTLES, TO THE REIGN OF. THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE LORD'S DAY IN THE FIVE AND SIX CENTURIES, DOES NOT MAKE IT A SABBATH. THAT IN THE NEXT 600 YEARS, FROM POPE GREGORY FORWARD, THE LORD WILL NOT BE JUDGED DAY, IF.
What condition was the day of the Lord, as to the limitation of labor, during the Reformation. And also that the day of the Lord has no other ground to rest on than the authority of the Church. In what position does the Lord's day stand in the Eastern Churches: and that Saturday is kept by the Ethiopians, like the Lord's day.
IN WHAT POSSESSION HAS THE LORD'S DAY BEEN IN THIS BRITISH ISLE FROM THE FIRST PLANTATION OF THE FAITH UNTIL. In what state the Lord's day stood, both for doctrine and practice, in the beginning of the reign of the said King Henry.
THE FIRST BOOKE
That God did not command that the Sabbath should be sanctified in the beginning of the world, but that it was subsequently commanded by the law of Moses; when God publicly announced His will on Mount Sinai. The other, Doctor Ames, the first I take the one who sowed Bound's Sabbath doctrine in Holland. Here is an ordinance of God, an institution of the Lord, and this is related in the same way, by expectation, as the former was.
I will add, and this is the reason which induced Moses to make this mention of the Sabbath, even in the first beginning of the Book of God, and so long before the institution of the same. The command given by God to Adam was that he should not eat from the tree of knowledge. But for keeping the Sabbath, it did not come from nature, but from the law of Moses.
So, for Protestant writers, two of the greatest advocates of the Sabbath have decided accordingly. Thus Epiphanius also makes him one of those who lived according to the tendencies of the Christian faith.
CHAP. 3
THE NATURE OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT: AND THAT THE SABBATH WAS NOT KEPT AMONG THE GENTLEMEN. To continue then in the history of the Lord's own people, since they kept no sabbath when they were in Egypt;. On the seventh day all things are completed, the day of the birth of the world, the good, the greatest.
Juvenal also opposes the observance of the Sabbath by the Jewish nation. For the ceremony of these holidays, the presence of high priests was necessary both on one and on the other. The corporal works of the priest on the Sabbath day, as far as concerning the service of God, was considered lawful: The priests in the temple broke the Sabbath, and yet were blameless.
By Torniellus it is placed in the year 2548 of the Creation of the World;. which was about four years after the Law was given. More than this is not found in the Scriptures that touch upon the keeping of the Sabbath, the whole life of Moses. The daily sacrifice was two lambs, the excess on Saturdays was two more.
But as it was, our blessed Savior regarded these works of theirs as a public profanation of the Sabbath day. Athanas.de Sabb.& Circumcis; Austin, Que. 10) These were the offices of the priest on the Sabbath day; and. The author of the sermon, de Semente, who is attributed to Athanasius, solved it this way: *, “most likely that it was the Sabbath.
As to the Sabbath, their strictness was the same: but with some difference in the points in which their strictness consisted. Because the nation of the Jews has always been faithful to the Romans, etc.
THE SECOND BOOK
The resurrection of our Saviors on the first day of the week, and the apparitions on the same, make it not a Sabbath. Athanasius says as much of the peculiarity of the Lord's day, that it was taken from a voluntary use in the Church of God, without any. The Sabbath is said, *, to have been commanded to be kept: but of the Lord's day there is no commandment, only a * positive, an honor given voluntarily by the consent of men.
Where note, the synod calls it only a custom; and such a custom as was chiefly founded on the authority of the Church. It was a moving party, as it is to this day, as it changed and changed itself, according to the position of the party. Meanwhile we must go on in search of the Lord's day, and of the duties then performed: of which we can find nothing yet, at least by that name.
Paul did in Troas on the first day of the week: what happens a lot around this time comes in this place to be considered. sacrament of the Lord's Supper; and Paul's speech, which followed it, to be a sermon. But take it for the first day of the week, as the English read it: yet do S.
Add to this that some think that the Day of the Lord mentioned here should not be interpreted as the day of the Lord. These the apostles found in the Jewish Church, and approving of them, as they could not otherwise, they commended them to the care of the disciples; Yet, when he was in Rome, he did as they did there, submitting to the commands of the church in which he was.
But on the day of the Lord we do not bow the knee in sign of the Resurrection; by which, according to the Grace of Christ, we are freed from sin and from the powers of death." Because in one of his decrees, confirming the previous custom, it was forbidden to kneel in the remembered times. And then, in the time of Maximinus, who was one of the last great persecutors,
Nicomediae festivitatem celebrantes, succenso templo concremavit; "even on the day of the Lord's birth he had the Christians burned at Nicomedia, while they were busy celebrating this great festival in their temple." Savior rose, *, una sabbati, the first day of the week, as our English reads it.