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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.
But if Ignatius Ep. be spurious written Cent. 3. then as Dallaeus would prove, they were written by some heretical or heterodox person; And so it will be no wonder that holy days are pleaded for, when (as Dr. Heylin observeth) Cerinthus and his followers in the Apostles times, stood up for the Jewish Sabbath and Ceremonies, and so were for both days: But it will be our Confirmation that even the Heretics held with the universal Church for the Lords day.
But if Ignatius Ep. be spurious written Cent. 3. then as Dallaeus would prove, they were written by some heretical or heterodox person; And so it will be no wonder that holy dayes are pleaded for, when (as Dr. Heylin observeth) Cerinthus and his followers in the Apostles times, stood up for the Jewish Sabbath and Ceremonies, and so were for both daies: But it will be our Confirmation that even the Hereticks held with the universal Church for the Lords day.
2. The great Controversy about the Day of Easter, which spread so early through all the Churches is a full Confirmation of our matter of fact. For when the Western Churches were for the Passover day (the better to content the Jews saith Heylin) the Eastern thought it intolerable that it should not be kept on a Lords day, because that was the weekly day observed on the same account of the Resurrection: The Eastern Churches never questioned their supposition of the Lords day; And the Western (after Victors rash excommunicating the Asian Bishops) never rested till they brought them to keep it on the Lords day: Pius, Anicetus, Victor, &c. prosecuting the cause.
2. The great Controversie about the Day of Easter, which spread so early through all the Churches is a full Confirmation of our matter of fact. For when the Western Churches were for the Passover day (the better to content the Jews saith Heylin) the Eastern thought it intollerable that it should not be kept on a Lords day, because that was the weekly day observed on the same account of the Resurrection: The Eastern Churches never questioned their supposition of the Lords day; And the Western (after Victors rash excommunicating the Asian Bishops) never rested till they brought them to keep it on the Lords day: Pius, Anicetus, Victor, &c. prosecuting the cause.