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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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The proof is visible, 1. In the Writings themselves: 2. In that all the Churches were in the possession and use of all the things in question, long before: (For mutable Orders and Circumstances are none of the things in question.) It would be vain to write a history now, to tell English men of this present age, that the Lords day is used in England as a day set apart for public worship; or that persons are Baptized, or receive the Lords Supper in England. For seeing it is the common usage of all the Christians almost of the Land, it is needless to tell men among us by writing that it is so (unless it be to infer somewhat else from it.)
The proof is visible, 1. In the Writings themselves: 2. In that all the Churches were in the possession and use of all the things in question, long before: (For mutable Orders and Circumstances are none of the things in question.) It would be vain to write a history now, to tell English men of this present age, that the Lords day is used in England as a day set apart for publike worship; or that persons are Baptized, or receive the Lords Supper in England. For seeing it is the common usage of all the Christians almost of the Land, it is needless to tell men among us by writing that it is so (unless it be to inferr somewhat else from it.)
Prop. 8. Yet those holy Scriptures which were written to men of those times, were also intended for the instruction of all succeeding ages; And so the four Evangelists wrote the history of Christ, and Luke wrote the history of Paul till his coming to Rome and longer, and of some more of the Apostles; And on the by, in the Epistles extant, the Churches Customs of those times are much intimated, And all this together with the subordinate history and the universal tenure and practice of the Churches, is that history by which we must know ⟨p. 19⟩the matters of fact of those times; Nor is there any room left for a rational pretence of Rome or any other Church, to produce Divine Institutions, which were committed only to them, or entrusted to their particular keeping only, and were not delivered in Scripture, nor in Common to the whole Church.