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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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As for what he saith out of Justin, of returning to their labours, I can find no such word in him; nor do I believe there is any such to be found, unless of returning to their six days weekly labour, when the Religious work was ended with the day: And I imagine the Reader will find no more, if so much.
As for what he saith out of Justin, of returning to their labours, I can find no such word in him; nor do I believe there is any such to be found, unless of returning to their six dayes weekly labour, when the Religious work was ended with the day: And I imagine the Reader will find no more, if so much.
9. The next proof is universal, even the consent of all the Christian Churches without one contradicting Vote that ever I read of, that the ⟨p. 34⟩Lords days worship was to be performed standing, and that it was not allowed them to pray or worship kneeling, upon any Lords day in the year (or any week day between Easter and Whitsuntide): And the difficulty of these stations is expressed (see Albaspinaeus of it) which showeth that it was for a long time. Whatever they did in Hearing (its like they sate, for Justin saith, We rise to pray) but it is certain they stood in worshipping acts, as prayer and praise. This Justin Martyr hath before mentioned: Tertullian hath it expressly, and Heylin himself citeth him de Coron. Mil. & Basil l. de Spir. S. c. 27. & Hieron. advers. Luciferian. August. Epist. 118. Hilar. Praef. in Psal. Ambros. Serm. 62. To which he may add Epiphanius, and divers Councils, especially Nic. 1. & Trul. of which after. (I once pleaded this ancient custom with them that would have all excluded from the Sacrament that kneel not, to prove that kneeling at the Sacrament on the Lords days could not be in the Church of many hundred years after the Apostles, when the universal Church condemned kneeling on all Lords days worship.) And Dr. Heylin himself saith [What time this custom was laid by I can hardly say; but sure I am, it was not laid aside in a long time after; not till the time of Pope Alexander the third, who lived about the year 1160. &c.] Now from all this it is most evident that the Lords day was then observed.