The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…

Christ hath instituted one day of each week to commemorate his Resurrection, as God the Creator instituted a weekly Sabbath (as I have proved in a peculiar Treatise.) Men may set apart one day in a year for special Thanksgivings, or Commemorations, and one day in a week, e. g. in a time of Plague and danger, to fast and pray, &c. But if any should make another weekly day of holy observance, to commemorate the same work of Christ's Resurrection, or our Redemption, which Christ did separate that day to commemorate, I think he would be both an unjust accuser of Christ's Law, as insufficient, and an unjust usurper of his Prerogative.

4. And it is considerable to me, that though Christ so extraordinarily Commissioned and Qualified his Apostles to record his Words and Acts in Scripture, and settle Church-Orders and Inferior Offices, and teach the Nations to observe all that he had Commanded them; yet even them did did he never Commission to make a new Sacrament of the Covenant of Grace; nor did they ever make one; but contrarily rebuked those that would but have kept up some of the old Ceremonies, Divine or Humane: And was not the Cross a stumbling and foolishness to the World in the Apostles Days? and yet they never made such a Sacrament. And who hath equal Power with them?

4. And it is considerable to me, that though Christ so extraordinarily Commissioned and Qualified his Apostles to record his Words and Acts in Scripture, and settle Church-Orders and Inferiour Offices, and teach the Nations to observe all that he had Commanded them; yet even them did did he never Commission to make a new Sacrament of the Covenant of Grace; nor did they ever make one; but contrarily rebuked those that would but have kept up some of the old Ceremonies, Divine or Humane: And was not the Cross a stumbling and foolishness to the World in the Apostles Days? and yet they never made such a Sacrament. And who hath equal Power with them?