The Practice of Piety

Quest. But why do not we Christians, under the new, keep the Sabbath on the same seventh day, whereon ⟨p. 482⟩it was kept under the Old Testament?

Quest. But why doe not we Christians, vnder the new, keepe the Sabbath on the same seauenth day, vvhereon ⟨p. 482⟩it was kept vnder the Old Testament?

I answer: because that our Lord Jesus, ¹who is the Lord of the Sabbath, and whom the Law it self commands us to hear, did alter it from that seventh day to this first day of the week, whereon we keep the Sabbath. For the holy Evangelist notes; that our Lord came into the middest of the holy assembly, on the two first days of the two weeks immediately following his Resurrection,² and then blessed the Church, breathed on the Apostles the holy Ghost, and gave them the ministerial Keys and power of binding and remitting sins. And so it is most probable ⟨p. 483⟩he did in a solemn manner, every first day of the week, during the forty days he continued on earth between his Resurrection and Ascension, (for the fiftieth day after, being the first of the week, the Apostles were assembled,) during which time he gave Commandments unto the Apostles, and ^*spake unto them those things which appertain to the Kingdom of God, that is, instructed them, how they should throughout the Churches (which were to be converted) change the Sabbath to the Lords day: the bodily sacrifices of beasts to the spiritual sacrifices of praise, prayer, and contrite hearts: the