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Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. But it seems here that Paul is against the necessary observation of the Lords day, when he is for esteeming all days alike.
Answ. If you understand the subject of the debate, you will understand his speech. It is only Jewish Holidays that was the matter in Question, and therefore of these only is he to be understood. As for the Lords day, its plain in the New Testament, that Christ did not only rise upon it, and appear to his Disciples on it, and send down the Holy Ghost upon it▪ but that the Disciples presently after Christs Resurrection, began their Religious Assemblies on it, and so continued them, by the guidance of the Holy Ghost; and so settled that day for the use of the Holy Assemblies of the Church, calling it the Lords day, Joh. 21.19, 26. Act. 2.1. & 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. Rev. 1.10. And it is past all ⟨p. 323⟩doubt in the History of the Church, that since the Apostles days till now, the Church hath constantly kept this day as thus established, by the name of the Lords day: which the Fathers called the Christian Sabbath, as they applied the name of an Altar to the Table, and of a Sacrifice to the Supper of the Lord: so that he that will reject the observation of the Lords day, must take on him to be wiser then the Holy Ghost in the Apostles, and then all the Catholic Church of Christ, from the beginning, till these contentious persons did arise.
Answ. If you understand the subject of the debate, you will understand his speech. It is only Jewish Holydays that was the matter in Question, and therefore of these only is he to be understood. As for the Lords day, its plain in the New Testament, that Christ did not only rise upon it, and appear to his Disciples on it, and send down the Holy Ghost upon it but that the Disciples presently after Christs Resurrection, began their Religious Assemblies on it, and so continued them, by the guidance of the Holy Ghost; and so setled that day for the use of the Holy Assemblies of the Church, calling it the Lords day,