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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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And as to his allegations of the Judgement of the Reformed, Lutheran and Roman Church, 1. We take none of them for our Rule (so impartial are we) But, 2. He himself citeth Beza, Mercer, Paraeus, Cuchlinus, Simler, Hospinian, Zanchius, &c. as holding that It was, an ⟨p. 24⟩Apostolical and Truly Divine Tradition, that the Apostles turned the Sabbath into the Lords day, that it was an Apostolical custom, or a custom received in the Apostles times, &c.
And as to his allegations of the Judgement of the Reformed, Lutheran and Roman Church, 1. We take none of them for our Rule (so impartial are we) But, 2. He himself citeth Beza, Mercer, Paraeus, Cuchlinus, Simler, Hospinian, Zanchius, &c. as holding that It was, an ⟨p. 24⟩Apostolical and Truly Divine Tradition, that the Apostles turned the Sabbath into the Lords day, that it was an Apostolical custome, or a custome received in the Apostles times, &c.
And whereas afterward he would persuade us that they spent but a little of the day in holy worship, he himself cited Mr. George Sandys Travels; saying of the Copts, that [On Saturday presently after midnight, they repair unto their Churches, where they remain well nigh till Sunday at noon (of the Evening he speaketh not, but of their first meeting) during which time they neither sit nor kneel, but support themselves on Crutches; And they sing over the most part of Davids Psalms at every meeting with divers parcels of the New Testament] (This is like the old way; And such a Liturgy we do not contradict nor scruple.)
And whereas afterward he would perswade us that they spent but a little of the day in holy worship, he himself cited Mr. George Sandys Travels; saying of the Copties, that [On Saturday presently after midnight, they repair unto their Churches, where they remain well nigh till Sunday at noon (of the Evening he speaketh not, but of their first meeting) during which time they neither sit nor kneel, but support themselves on Crutches; And they sing over the most part of Davids Psalms at every meeting with divers parcels of the New Testament] (This is like the old way; And such a Liturgie we do not contradict nor scruple.)