The Practice of Piety

He that would see the uniform consent of Antiquity and practise of the Primitive Church in this point, let him read Eusebius Ecclesiastical history Lib. 4. cap. 23. Tertullian, lib. de Idololatria, ¹cap. 14. Chrysost. Serm. 5. de resurrectione. Consti•••. Apost. lib. 7. cap. 37. Cyril in Johan. lib. 12. cap. 58.² Of this judgement are all the sound new writers: see Fox on the Apoc. 1.10. Bucer. in Mat 12.11. Gualt. in Malach. 3. hom. 23. Fulke on the Rhemish Test. Apo. 1.10 Chem. Exam. Conc. Trid. par. 4. de diebus festis. ⟨p. 542⟩Wolph. Chronol. lib. 2. cap. 1. ^*Armin Thes. in 4. precept. and innumerable others. Learned Junius shall speak for al. Quamobr•m cum dies dominicus, &c. Wherefore seeing the Lords day is both by the fact of Christ, viz. his (resurrection, and of often appearing to his Disciples upon that day) by the example and institution of the Apostles, and by the continual practise of the Ancient Church, and by the testimony of the Scripture, observed and substituted into the place of the Jewish Sabbath: Inepté faciunt, they do foolishly, who say that the observation of the Lords day is of Tradition, and not from the Scripture, that by this means they might establish the traditions of men. ⟨p. 543⟩And again, The cause of this change is the resurrection of Christ, and the benefit of the restoring of the Church by Christ, the remembrance of which benefit did succeed into the place of the memory of the creation, Non humana traditione, sed Christi ipsius obseruatione & instituto, not by the tradition of man, but by the observation and appointment of Christ, who both on the day of his resurrection, and on every eight day after unto his ascension into heaven did appear unto his Disciples, and came into their assemblies.