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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.
1. I begin with Ignatius, (though Dallaeus have said so much to prove the best Copy of him of latter date and spurious; because others think otherwise, and that Copy is by him thought to be written Cent. 3.) who saith [Let us not keep the Sabbath in a Jewish manner in sloth and idleness, but after a spiritual manner; not in bodily ease, but in the study of the Law; not eating meat dressed yesterday, or drinking warm drinks, and walking out a limited space, but in the contemplation of the works of God—And after the Sabbath let every one that loveth Christ keep the Lords day Festival, the Resurrection day, the Queen and Empress of all days, in which our life was raised again, and death was overcome by our Lord and Saviour.]
1. I begin with Ignatius, (though Dallaeus have said so much to prove the best Copy of him of latter date and spurious; because others think otherwise, and that Copy is by him thought to be written Cent. 3.) who saith [Let us not keep the Sabbath in a Jewish manner in sloth and idleness, but after a spiritual manner; not in bodily ease, but in the study of the Law; not eating meat drest yesterday, or drinking warm drinks, and walking out a limited space, but in the contemplation of the works of God—And after the Sabbath let every one that loveth Christ keep the Lords day Festival, the Resurrection day, the Queen and Empress of all daies, in which our life was raised again, and death was overcome by our Lord and Saviour.]
Either these Epist. of Ignatius (ad Philip. &c.) are genuine or spurious. If genuine, than note how clearly it is asserted that the Lords day was to be observed as the Queen of all days, by all that were lovers of Christ. And that the seventh day Sabbath was kept with it then and there (in Asia so near the Apostles days) no wonder; when it was but the honourable, gradual, receding from the Mosaical Ceremonies, with an avoiding the scandalous hinderance of the Jews Conversion. And Dr. Heylin well noteth, that it was ⟨p. 29⟩only the Eastern Churches next the Jews that for a time kept both days, but not the Western, who rather turned the Sabbath to a fast.