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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 hence forward in the fourth Century I am prevented from bringing in my most numerous witnesses, by Heylins Confession that now Emperors, Councils and all were for it. But yet let the Reader remember, 1. How few and small Records be left of the second Century, and not many of the third. 2. And that Historical copious Testimonies of the fourth Century, that is Emperors, Councils, and the most pious and ⟨p. 41⟩learned Fathers, attesting that the Universal Church received it from the Apostles, is not vain or a small Evidence; when as the fourth Century began but 200 years after St. Johns death, or within less than a year.
But hence forward in the fourth Century I am prevented from bringing in my most numerous witnesses, by Heylins Confession that now Emperours, Councils and all were for it. But yet let the Reader remember, 1. How few and small Records be left of the second Century, and not many of the third. 2. And that Historical copious Testimonies of the fourth Century, that is Emperours, Councils, and the most pious and ⟨p. 41⟩learned Fathers, attesting that the Universal Church received it from the Apostles, is not vain or a small Evidence; when as the fourth Century began but 200 years after St. Johns death, or within less than a year.
And that the first Christian Emperor finding all Christians unanimous in the possession of the day, should make a Law (as our Kings do) for the due observing of it; And that the first General Council should establish uniformity in the very Gesture of Worship on that day, are strong Confirmations of the matter of fact, that the Churches unanimously agreed in the holy use of it as a separated day even from and in the Apostles days.
And that the first Christian Emperour finding all Christians unanimous in the possession of the day, should make a Law (as our Kings do) for the due observing of it; And that the first General Council should establish uniformity in the very Gesture of Worship on that day, are strong Confirmations of the matter of fact, that the Churches unanimously agreed in the holy use of it as a separated day even from and in the Apostles dayes.