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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.
And 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2. [Greek or Hebrew] must needs have the same signification; And Mark 26. 9. compared with the other Evangelists so expounds them as Beza noteth; who also telleth us that in one old Copy he found added [the Lords day] and citeth Hierome adv. Vigilant. saying [Per unam Sabbati; hoc est, in die Dominico, &c.] And Dr. Hammond well noteth that it plainly relateth to the Christian assemblies, to which they were not to come empty, but to deposit what they brought into the treasury of the Church; or if it were in their private repositories, it doth not much difference the case. Calvins exception against Chrysostom here is groundless, as the reasons before evince. So that by this Text the custom of holding Church meetings on the Lords day, as a peculiar day, is intimated, though but on the by, as most Expositors agree.
And 1 Cor. 16. 1, 2. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 must needs have the same signification; And Mark 26. 9. compared with the other Evangelists so expounds them as Beza noteth; who also telleth us that in one old Copy he found added [the Lords day] and citeth Hierome adv. Vigilant. saying [Per unam Sabbati; hoc est, in die Dominico, &c.] And Dr. Hammond well noteth that it plainly relateth to the Christian assemblies, to which they were not to come empty, but to deposite what they brought into the treasury of the Church; or if it were in their private repositories, it doth not much difference the case. Calvins exception against Chrysostome here is groundless, as the reasons before evince. So that by this Text the custome of holding Church meetings on the Lords day, as a peculiar day, is intimated, though but on the by, as most Expositors agree.
And the denomination of the Lords day, Joh. 1. 10. being the same which the Christian Churches ever used of the First day, puts it yet further out of doubt. As for his conjecture who doubteth whether it may be meant of the Anniversary