The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

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.

Yet, forget not, that I am far from ascribing a certainty or a credibility to all humane History: Much more from equalling any with the credit of Divine History. But only I say, 1. That sense is more assuring, as to the subject, than any History whatever: 2. And that some History besides Divine is certain: 3. And that much History is credible: 4. And that this instance of the Day on which all Churches in the world assembled for holy Worship, is one of the most palpable for certainty that possibly could be imagined.