The Practice of Piety

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 ^aLevitical Priesthood of the Law, to the Christian ⟨p. 484⟩Ministry of the Gospel: the Jewish Temples and Synagogues, to Churches and Oratories: the old Sacraments of Circumcision and Passover, to Baptism and the Lords Supper, &c. as may appear by the like phrase, Acts 19.8. and Acts 28.23. Col. 4.11. put for the whole sum of Pauls doctrine, by which was wrought all these changes where it took effect. So that as Christ was forty days instructing Moses in Sinai, what he should teach, and how he should rule the Church under the Law: So he continued forty days teaching his Disciples in Zion what they should preach, and how they should govern the Church under