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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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5. But I must note in the beginning that he granteth the main cause which I plead for, acknowledging, Hist. Sab. l. 2. page 30. it thus; [So that the Religious observation of this day, beginning in the age of the Apostles, no doubt but with their Approbation and Authority, and since continuing in the same respect for so many ages, may be very well accounted amongst those Apostolical Traditions, which have been universally received in the Church of God.] And what need we more than the Religious Observation, in the Apostles time, by the Apostles Approbation and Authority, and this delivered to us by the universal Church, as an Apostolical Tradition.
But yet he saith that the Apostles made it not a Sabbath. Answ. Give us the Religious observation, and call it by what name you please. We are not fond of the name of the Sabbath.
6 And therefore we grant all that he laboriously proveth of the abolition of the Jewish Sabbath, and that the Ancients commonly consent, that by the abolished Sabbath, Col. 2. 16. is ⟨p. 28⟩meant inclusively the weekly Jewish Sabbath: Epiphan. l. 1. haeres. 33. n. 11. Ambros. in loc. Hieron. Epist. ad Algus. qu. 10. Chrysost. Hom. 13. in Haebr. 7. August. cont. Jud. cap. 2. & cont. Faust. Manich. l. 16. c. 28. I recite the places for them that doubt of it.