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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
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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.
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 publick 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.
2. It is certain that they knew it before the Scriptures were written, which we now speak of: For it is not possible that for all those years time before any of the New Testament was written, the Christians who assembled to worship God, should not know on what day they used to assemble.
And if they knew it in the year 100. they must needs know it as well in the year 101. & 102. & 103. and so on. For those that were young Christians fifty years after Christ, would be aged at an hundred: And those that were young at an hundred, would be aged at an hundred and fifty, and so on. So that an age of people, not ending at the age of a single person, Congregations and societies are like Rivers, that keep the same channel, and name, while one part of water followeth another. Nay, some of the same men are there anno 100. who were there anno 50. some anno 150. who were there anno 100. and ⟨p. 16⟩so on. Ten thousand thousand men, women and children, can tell on what day the Congregations of England use to assemble; whereas if an Apostle were among us, and should write on what day we assemble; fewer would know it by that means; And they that knew it but by his writing, would know it less confidently, than they that knew it by sense and experience.