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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.
Prop. 5. The first institution of Church Offices, and Orders, and so of the Lords day, was not by Scripture.
The proof is undeniable: Because the Old Testament did not contain the Institution, (e. g. of particular Churches, Sacraments, Presbyters, Deacons, Deaconesses, and the Lords day, &c.) And the New Testament was none of it written till anno 40. at soonest when some (as Bucholtzer, Bellarm, &c.) think Matthews Gospel was written, though others say many years after,) and it was not all written till an. 99. Now it is certain that the Church was not all these years without the Orders now in question, nor without a day to meet on for public Worship. Even as Baptism and the Lords Supper were instituted by Christ himself, long before the writing of any part of the New Testament, and the Church was in long possession of them, upon the bare verbal declaration of the Apostles.
The proof is undeniable: Because the Old Testament did not contain the Institution, (e. g. of particular Churches, Sacraments, Presbyters, Deacons, Deaconesses, and the Lords day, &c.) And the New Testament was none of it written till anno 40. at soonest when some (as Bucholtzer, Bellarm, &c.) think Matthews Gospel was written, though others say many years after,) and it was not all written till ann. 99. Now it is certain that the Church was not all these years without the Orders now in question, nor without a day to meet on for publick Worship. Even as Baptism and the Lords Supper were instituted by Christ himself, long before the writing of any part of the New Testament, and the Church was in long possession of them, upon the bare verbal declaration of the Apostles.
Prop. 6. Therefore it is certain that no part of the New Testament was written to any such end as to institute Sacraments, or Church Offices, or standing Orders; but to instruct men about those that were already instituted, (as to the use of those times.)