Vindiciæ sabbathi, or, An answer to two treatises of Master Broads the one, concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day, the other, concerning the Lord's-day or first of the weeke : with a survey of all the rest which of late have written upon that subject / by George Abbot.
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- Vindiciæ sabbathi, or, An answer to two treatises of Master Broads the one, concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day, the other, concerning the Lord's-day or first of the weeke : with a survey of all the rest which of late have written upon that subject / by George Abbot.
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- Abbot, George, 1604-1649.
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- London :: Printed for I.D. for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his shop ...,
- 1641.
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- Broad, Thomas, 1577 or 8-1635.
- Sunday.
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"Vindiciæ sabbathi, or, An answer to two treatises of Master Broads the one, concerning the Sabbath or seaventh day, the other, concerning the Lord's-day or first of the weeke : with a survey of all the rest which of late have written upon that subject / by George Abbot." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26468.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2025.
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TO HIS MVCH HONORED FATHER IN LAW Mr. WILLIAM PUREFEY OF CALDE∣coate in Warwick∣shire, Esquire.
SIR.
THe times favoring truth it becomes eve∣ry one, now that God hath given o∣portunity, to bring out of his store both new and old as he is provided. This which I here present to you and the World is both, for it
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deals with our primitive English An∣tisabbatarians, Breerewood and Broad, but chiefely with the latter, because none else (that I know of) have undertaken him being not in print, and therefore knowne, but to a few as also with the whole cluster of our moderne Wri∣ters upon that subject, which are too many to name except with an &c. For the plot of the times ha••s beene against the power of Godlines, which could never been pulled downe whilest the Sabbath stood upright, and therefore our Patrons of impiety have rightly projected to take that out of the way which stood so much in theirs, and to remove that same holy interruption which God in his care and wisedome had put to our dayes and wayes of Worldly natures, that so they might bring all to a levell, by paring away Sabbath•• and Sermons, which was the onely way to mount them to the height of their designe of bringing Godlines to a forme, and all things
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(but Episcopacy) from ius Divinum to i••s Humanum, that they may bee all in all; but all this while they have kicked against the pricks for which they now smart, nor could they expect other then that they which opposed the rest of God should have their owne rest molested, for God will find a time to bring truth to light, though she wade through a long Eclipse, and to shut up errour in darknes, and her abetters in disgrace as now they are, for with the froward hee hath threatned to shew himselfe froward, and hee hath made it good, to the praise of the glory of his power.
Your ever obliged Son in Law GEORGE ABBOT.