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The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…
The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
The Divine Appointment of the LORDS DAY, proved, as a separated Day… › Chapter 5
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.
1. For if Humane History be certain or credible in other cases, it is certain or credible in these. There being no reason why these things, or much of them, should not be as capable of a certain delivery to us by humane History as other matters. As that there were Christians in those times, may be known by what Tacitus, Suetonius, &c. say. And the ancient Writers oft appeal in many cases to the Heathens own History. And no man pretendeth as to the Civil matters mentioned in the Scriptures, that no other History of the same is credible or certain. As of the Government ⟨p. 15⟩of Augustus, Tiberius, Herod, Pilate, Felix, Festus, &c.
1. For if Humane History be certain or credible in other cases, it is certain or credible in these. There being no reason why these things, or much of them, should not be as capable of a certain delivery to us by humane History as other matters. As that there were Christians in those times, may be known by what Tacitus, Suetonius, &c. say. And the antient Writers oft appeal in many cases to the Heathens own History. And no man pretendeth as to the Civil matters mentioned in the Scriptures, that no other History of the same is credible or certain. As of the Government ⟨p. 15⟩of Augustus, Tiberius, Herod, Pilate, Foelix, Festus, &c.
2. There are other certain means known to us; of which I must refer the Reader to what I have written in my Reasons of the Christian Religion, Part 2. Cap. 7. specially pag. 335. to 340.
3. No man can doubt but that the Christians of that same age, (as till the year one hundred) might easily and certainly know such a matter of public fact, as whether the Lords day was constantly set apart and observed by all the Christian Churches for holy Worship: For 1. It is certain that they did know it by sight and sense, and therefore had no need of History.