The Practice of Piety

As therefore our Communion is termed the Lords Supper, because it was instituted of the Lord, for the remembrance of his death: so ⟨p. 487⟩the Christian Sabbath is called the ^gLords day, because it was ordained of the Lord, for the memorial of his Resurrection. And as the Name of the ^hLord honoureth the one, so doth it the other. And as the Lord of the Sabbath, by his royal prerogative, and transcendent authority could; so he had also reason to change the holy▪ Sabbath from the seventh day to this, whereon we keep it. For as concerning that seventh day, we followed the six days, wherein God finished the Creation; there was no such precise institution, or necessity of sanctifying it perpetually; but such, as by the same authority, or upon greater reason and occasion, ⟨p. 488⟩it might very well be changed and altered unto some other seventh day. For the Commandment doth ^*not say, Remember to keep holy the seventh day, next following the sixth day of the creation, or this, or that seventh day: but indefinitely remember that thou keep holy a seventh day. And to speak properly, as we take a day for the distinction of time, called either a day natural, consisting of 24. hours, or a day artificial, consisting of 12. hours, from Sun-rising, to Sun-setting: and withal consider the Sun standing still at noon,⁴ in Joshua's time, the space of a whole day: and the Sun going back ten degrees, viz. five hours, (almost ⟨p. 489⟩half an artificial day) in Hezekiah time: the Jews themselves could not keep their Sabbath upon that precise and just distinction of time, called at the first, the seventh day from the Creation.

As therefore our Communion is tearmed the Lords Supper, because it vvas instituted of the Lord, for the remembrance of his death: so